Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1857-05-02
Readable Paragraphs.
We copy the foIowiRg paragraphs from
"Ilolier'S lSf,i,iEn Mo-, Ynrk. ~. n.

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"Porter's Sp,asH.of New York:
a NEw PRoJgcE- THERE'S a German IN
this cityswho is n professor. of the art oil
swimming, and he eproposes to cstablish n
school for thetcachng Of Ihatnecessary ac.
compishmeut 10 ladics and 10 gentlemen
The school is TO be located 10. the upper part
Of the city. Swimming is an art of, which
every man and every woman should have i
knowledge, as being one W hich may moi only
! prove of. use To- them, bnt also afford them
the means. Of healhfu recreation. Tom
Tatftail says that he has seen several very
handsome, ,lady.like women, who co1ldswim
easily a couple Of miles, and one saved 4
/ genileman's life at Glen Cove, a Few sum.
mer's ago, by her ability and cearagein in that
p'easurable aquatic exercise. Let the gi,ls
learn to swim IN tie summer, and in the
| winter the gymnasium could be.devoted to
tho exciting art Of skating. s
SuoRr PAssAcE-vThe clipper ship "Ro.
nance of the Sea-" Of Boston. Capt Henry,
arrived at Shanghae, China. Dec. %, from
San Francisco,tin the remarkable short time
of tA'rtyJom days, the shortest passage on
record.
SEEING THE ELEPHANT IN HIS OWN
HoME.--Andersen, the Swedish traveller,
whose travels in theinterior Of Africa have
been recently given in n work called Lake
Ngami, has been killed yam elephant, while
hunting in Africa
ONE Tom B, Walker, of Louisville, the
other day, bet that he could drink sixty
glasses of lager beer, between 6 O'clock
Am, and 10 O'clock, p. NJ; and he ;shed
sixty one glasses by So'clock winning the
the wager. An animate beer barrel!
Nor.ro BE SSEEzGD Ar.-We cut the
following item fronlan English paper: On
| Saturday, the 28th ul.. William Garner, Of
Leyland, Lancashire, undertook, for wager
Of &5, to walk four miles, and throw over
his head three tons o(56lb. weights, placed
upon the road at equi.dislant points, in one
hour. He walk ID the distance. and dispos
ed of the weights, 100 in number, in So
minutes!
F1eHT on THE MIssIssIPPL-Av very gal
liant fight, for $l00 side, came off onWed
nesday of last week, on OConnel's Island
situated about half way between the States
of Iowa and Illinois, between two of the gla-
dators of the West, named Lusk and Fargo
They fought twentYthree rounds in one
hour, when Fargo gas declared the victor
CocK:FtGuTINe IN TENNESSEE "A cor
respondent Mt Memphis informs us that n
m of cocks, twenty a side, will be para
ded in that locality on the 10Th of next
month. These birds are to fight for $500
on each single combat, and for $4,000 on
the last and main struggle The sports
will last for five days, and is the largest
cock fight that was ever got up in the Uni.
ted States,
A TUX ON RAILROADS. You advise
us to adopt your railroads." said profound
looking old Mussulmm 10 o recent traveller
IN CoAstantinoplc: 'you advise usto adopt
your railroads, and atcdesrous Of underta,
king the job of hui!dag them, aud at the
same time you send here and buy our cam.
els see how ii is {; YOU want to get rid
of your railroads, and put our camclsinther
places, and we should get the worst of the
bargain" The American did not attempt
to combat this idea, and SO left The Turk to
his conclusions.
TIE FALL OF THE BRIcK GnuBcn The
last daysof Lent, that solemn fast of all pro-
Tossing Christiana, witnessed the fall Of an
edifice which has stoodlbe shocks and chan.
ges OF this mutable city, for nearly centu.
ny. Beneath the nave, and around the
walls of the old Brick Church on Beck.nan.
street, thousands of thepicty and .respecta.
bility Of the olden time lay Emouldering 10
their graves and the pious hands who
placed them there never could have anlici.
pated that the day would come when their
tomhs and cere, tnts should be rudely des,
ecrared by the spades ofthe .money,nongers
of Wall street The fat went forth; and
we are Informed by the daily papers: that
grand sight was seen, when the workmen,
having placed wooden props, o support the
cepual tower, while they undermined the
east wHli, then set iretp the props, and sud
denly black line appeared on the surface
'of the tower, which kept wide ming andowi-
.dening, the whole fell with crash
As.great as whcn3a giant dies"
-ltis said to have been 'grand =, but.we
should say, as Macbeth said of his CORY
hands: " Is not this sorry sight % We
do not wish TO be either pathetic or lachry-
nose; but we beg leave to ask the nresen.
generation to calculate how few years may
elapse ere Greenwood Cemetery shares q
similar fate City lots will be in demand
by the B,ooklynites. for the marohof bricks
and mortar, before halfa century has. ex.
pired, at the rate we move
AN.ADMIRER OF "CAMco."--The editor
of the California Mountain Democrat 3 a
man after our heart In n recent number