Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1857-11-14

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u Democratic lawyer, that Chase would be
elected Governor of that State by Ave thou-
sand majority. lie wasn't; and tho lady
wont all the way from Toledo to Cincinnati
and discharged her liability.
DEAp.-The Tuscaloosa atonito, announces
the death of w. II, Terrell; a cllknown citi-
zen of Alabama, lie was one of the earliest
settlcrs of Tuscaloosa. For twenty years he
Represented tho county in the Legislature
His age was T3.
An BptrRRss TURNED AcrREss.-NIrs. t.
Virginia Smith, Mississippi lady, and for
merly cditress of the Southern Lady's Book,
at New Orleans, is playing" in Memphis
AcQUtrTED. Amos Smith, who killed Jno
Reilcy, at Charleston, few day since, has
boon tried and acquitted.
| DEcLISE-Thcre has been a very consiaer-
able decline in the price of both Sugar and
Molasses in New Orleans. The price must,
of course, go down everywhere,
GoLD AND SILyEk.-'rho products of the
! California mines, the last six years, are put
down at SAB, ,O9l, 900; those of Australia,
since their discovery, $29G, ,8l3, 900, or $780,
100000 in allan increase of about onc-third
according to the bcst statistical writer's, on
the value of precious metals in 1850. The
| total value of gold and silver, in the world at
the present time then is upwards of $1,000
100000.
A VALUABLE FowL.-A cook in the family
of citizen of Augusta, Ca, in cleaning a
fowl few days ago, found cone shaped
piece of gold valued at $5, in the gizzard
M'RAT NEXT ?-It is stated as fact, that
a daily paper is NOW published on one of the
steamers plying up and down on the Missis-
sippi river. An institution" of the same
kind is to be a fixture on the mammoth stconl-
ship Great Eastern. What next?
PoErRr.-IT Howard III, Caldwell, Esq, has
now in press another volume OF poetry. It
! is spoken of in tcrms Of the highest commen-
| dation.
A "TIME FOR ALL THINGs."-Of six hun
drcd and twelve young ladies who tainted
last year, more than half of them fell in the
arms of gentlemen, Only three had the mis-
fortune to fall on the floor
| DEATH OF A MEMBER OF CoNGREss.-Tho
Hon. George A. Simons, member of the
last Congress from the State of Now York
died at at'kcesyille on the 27th inst. Mr. Sim.
mons was Il gentleman of fine legal and lite
rary ahainments, much esteemed by his as
sociates. He was chairman of the Judicia-
ry Committee in the last House of Reprcscn-
tativcs.
! ALI Eternity has no gray hairsl"
Tho flowers fade, the heart withcrs, man
grows older and dies but Time writes no
wrinkles on tho brow of Eternity
COMING SoUTH.-Thc Savannah Gsorgian
announces the arrival in that city of George
v. SnodSrass, who was slightly ''mixcl up"
with the Cunninghan-Bur case in New
| York
SouTH HCARoLINIANs.-Wc sec it stated that
Parrott, the Free State delegate to Congress
from Kansas, is native of Edgc6 ~ District,
South Carolina. 1t is little stranar that
Fremont, the great national leader OF that
party, is also CaroTinian The Palmottos
sometimes degenerate sadly, when they get
far FROM home
~ LARGE DEBT.--The railroad debt of the
Union, (moncy borrowed to build them(
amounts to the large sum of $316, 482, 1907
Does not this heavy Indebtedness have some
thing to do With the present financial crisis
i SCIcIDE.-A lady in IIolmoscounty, Miss,
hung herself shol time since from mortifi,
cation, on account of her husband having
been caught playing cards with a negro.
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! DEArus.-IIon. Cbas Polk, who was twice
Governor of Delaware, died last week, aged
7oyears. The Kentucky papers record the
death of Judge Snodgrass.
! HUNG IIrNsELF.-.t man named Samuel
IIaniitoa, living in Bath KY, hung himself
a few days ago. Ire was 30 years of age
No cause known for this rash deed. This
makes the third suicide committed in. Bath
this year.
4 DEATn OF VIZ. IttLb.-This gentleman,
for the last forty-six years Secretary of State
4 in North Carolina, died recehtly at the adj
var red age Of eishty-fve years,
SuoRE GRor--In Oil yirginyp tho per.
siIpanonl crop is short. In these tdiggins''
theecropis abundant, with first rate beer
prospect to aynothing of fat 'i,ossun,sl
1 3 AtSRsAT LEAK.--Nothing can afford alta
1 glaece q clearer insight into the universal
4 nrovalanoa of 1,,yr.x, g.. a. = tIr..l..y 10, "a !