Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1857-06-13

| RISE IN REAL EsTATE.--Some years ago
Henry Clay purchased some land four miles
from st. Louis known as the aold orchard
tract" for sixty dollars an arpent (the ar.
/ pent is s5,loo of an acre.) 1t descended to
his son james b. Clay, aud the other day
45 arpents were sold at auction for 81, 900
per aIpeut. A large quantity yet remains
TO be sold. So much for railroads and pub
lie spirit.
CHICAGO, May 29.--Mr. John Plumb,
the original protector of railroad to the
Pacific, committed suicide this forenoon, at
Inc residence of his brother in this city
He was laboring under fit ofinsanity.
Cow MoRTALITY.--Cattle are dying in
great numbers in Troup county and in
Chambers county, Ga, one farmer has lost
many cattle, among which are some of his
finest COWS. Murrain is the disease of which.
they are dying.
THs EFFEcT OF COOP LucK.--The Sche-
ncctady Reflector says that man has been
picked up at Amsterdam raying maniac;
made so from having, unfortunately for him
made thousand dollars in one days spec
ulation.
DEArH FROM SLANDER.-A young lady
in Newport, Maine, lately destroyed her
self, having been driven to desperation by
cruel SANDER upon her character. The as
sassins of character are not less criminal
than those who attack tho lives of their
victims.
LOUISVILLE, May 3O.--The Vickshurg
papers contradict the report that $4,000
has been subscribed in Mississippi to buy
q plantation for ex- President Pierce. Moth
ing of the kind has bocn done.
MAINE LossEs.--According TO state
ment in the New York Courier, 342 YES.
sells have been lost Mt sea since the lst OF
January. They were valued at $6,4l3 900.
EMGaRANTs.- Twenty thousand eight
hundred and for,y-eight omigrants from
Europe arrived in New York during May
large increase over the arrivals of the cor
responding season last year. The arrivals
since Monday have becn 1896.
WAsnrNoroN, June 6.--Mr. Kinman,
who presented the Buckhorn chair to the
President, has received an appointment
worth about $500 per annum, to assist in
removing the Indians on the Pacific coast.
Hoors.-Latoly, as a lady was stepping
from The cars or tne -roTedo, Wabash ana
Western Railroad at Napoleon, her dress
caught on the steps, and, the cars being in
motion, she was drawn some thirty feet be-
fore her hoops gave way. She was not Sc
riousIy injured, though the hoops were bad
ly wrecked.
HARDLY PRonADLE.--The Rev. b. S.
Hobbs, Universalist Clergyman at Webster
N. Y, has stopped preaching because he
has on several occasions while in the pulpit
been seized by the mania or influence pop
ularly termed "Spiritualism," aud made to
utter sentiments utterly foreign to his own
views and convictions.
SANTA ANEA.-It is reported that Santa
Anna is making preparations to return to
Mexico and again revoluiionize that distract
ed country.
HARD Tines From the Knoxville Reg.
lister we learn that the cattle have been dy-
ing Lhere by thousands on account of the
scarcity of provender. Breadstuffs arc nc.
tually so scarce that some families cannot
have more than one meal,a day.
ELEcrED.-The thirteen members of
Congress, elected recently IRON Virginia,
are all democrats. Last congress one know
nothing held seat. The Legislature is
also largely democratic. -
THE SEAsoN.-A Rochester, N. Y, pa
per says the effect of, the last few days on
vegetation has beentruly wonderful through
out the State. In the agricultural world
the disphiting prospect that before pre-
vailed, has given place to one Of cheerful.
ness and high promise.
MURDER AND LYNCH LAw.-4The &,