Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1857-05-16


daughter in Kentucky about to be sold TO n
slave dealer, and, having very plausible let,
tcrs in his possession, succeeded in fleeing
his victims very considerably before the
imposturc was proven.
A MORMON ELpER's BoAsr.-Presidlen
Kimball, boasting of "what the Lord had
done for him. in an cxhortation, said he
bad 23 boys living, 10 dead, and lots of
girls.
COMET SrRucK.--A lady in Owen coun.
ty, Iowa, has become dcranged from dwell
ling with morbid apprehensions upon the
predicted collision with the comet.
New YoRK, May lo.--The jury in the
case of Mrs. Cunningham. astnight, brought
in verdic, acquitting her, after an absence
of half an hour.
ONWARD AND UPWARD !&Thc march of
civilization is onward A clergyman in u
Springfield Mass. church, last Sunday mar
ried a couple, substituting the words "gen-
tleman and lady" for imam and woman"
Outraged Benton Where are thy thun.
ders
BIG LUNA lump of gold was taken
out of the old /" Wheaton" claim, in ILol-
denis Garden, says California paper of the
9th inst, on Saturday last, worth one thou
sand dollars. This is the caimfrom which
thirty-ive pound lump was taken in the
fall OF 1851.
RAIN.--The heavy rains that fell here
about the first of May were general through
out the country; iu some places producing
frcshets, with loss of life and property.
YANKEE DooDLE.--Bayard Taylor was
surprised as well as delighted 10 hear Yam
kee Doodle played at his stopping place in
Lapland.
LAND SALE.-The Court of Equity of N.
O., has ordered the sale of the real estate
of Robert Love, deceased, amounting to
100000 acres, to wit: $4,000 acres at
jackson, 10th June 100000 acres in Hay
wood, 23d June; 100000 acres in Yancey,
goth July; and $4,000 acres in Madison
24ih July.
MoNEY.--Money goes, no one knows !;
where it goeth no one showeth; here and
there, everywhere, run, run, dun, dun,spend
spend, lend, lend, send, send, flush to-day.
short tomorrow, notes to pay, borrow, bor-
row. So it goes, no one knows, where it
goeth, no one showeth.
GARRouNc IN BosroN.--Cyrus Smith,
treasurer of the Piedmont Railroad, was
garrotcd in Brookline street, Boston, Mon
day night, by three men, and robbed of
$4,l0O.
CorToN.--Couon is now quoted in Char
lesion at IA cents per pound.
AUGUSTA, May There was n tremen-
ado"s storm of win.l and rain at Mobile on
FFriday and Saturday, Two feet of water
fell on "a level, and the city was inundated.
Several persons were, drowned. The sup
ply of water and gas was cut off.
OpposITIoN.--The last Rutherford, IN.
C) Democrat says, that a gentleman named
William j. Wilson, of Forks Of Pigeon, in
Haywood county, is out for Congress in the
| Sth district, in opposition to Mr.. Clingman
Hon. CALEB CUsHING.-It is stated that
the lawsuit in which Caleb Cushing's Min.
nesota estate was involved. was settled few
weeks ago, and leaves him proprietor o
one of the most promising towns of the
West.
SUIcIDEs.--The total number of suicide:
in Philadelphia for the last two years il
ninety iys-sixty nine men and twenty -si,
women.
FATREIELD.--hn animated contest is 90
| ing on in Fairfield District for the Stat,
Senatorship. The candidates are DIR, II
ii. Clarke and E. G.. Palmer, Esq. DIR
Clarke is now member of the House. MIR
Palmer was for several years the efficien
President of the Charlotte and South Caro-