Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1857-09-19
Ponnings and Clippings.

otstance, oU yards. Calhoun was shot
through the leg near the knee, aud Bowers
escaped with shot through the leg of his
pants. Cause, ballroom difficulty.
NATIVE SEGARs.-A joint stock segar man
ufacturing company has beon organized at
Westfcld, Connecticut, with cauitaI aIof$150.-
600, half of which was immediately pied red
"whereupon," says tho uartfod Times.
"the price of cabbage leaves immediately adj
vanccd."
A YANKEE SToRY.-A Boston correspon-
dent states that man tbereabout has invent
ed scarcecrow so utterlJ terrific and hidoous
that the crows are busily engaged in bringing
back the corn which they stole two years ago.
MURDER.-Benjamin Woods, living on
Fields Creek, in Kanawha county, Va, was
committed to Jail, last week, charged with
the murder of his wife. On Friday last, it
seems, being intoxicated, he gave her blow.
that caused her death
The SURpLus.-It is estimated that the
surplus in tho national treasury at the end
of the fiscal year will be fifty millions of dol
lars. What disposition is to be made of this
surplus now engages the attention of fnan-
cicrs and statesmen.
A Coop SuoT-A Miss Curtis. Of Hartford
Conn, gave good specimen of rifle practice
at shooting gallery, in Saratoga, last week
She fired at the distance of 65 feet, hitting
the bulls eye eleven times out of thirty-one
shots; every other ball she fred struck with
in two inches oil the mark.
RESIGNATION OF JUDGE CuRrIs-Tho res
ignation of Judge b. F. Curtis, ofthc Supreme
Court of the United States, has been placed
in the hands of the President
AMERICAN CAPIToL.-The American Capt.
tol, at Washington, when finished will have
cost $l0,000,000, and will be the finest build
ing in the world.
THE HUMAN BoDY.-Only onc-tcnth of the
human body is solid N er. A dead body
weighing 100 lbs, was dried in an oven till
all the moisture was expelled, and it's weight
was reduced to twelve pounds. Egyptian
mummies are bodies thoroughly dried. They
usually weigh about seven pounds.
RAILROAD FINIsmED.-The North Eastern
Railroad connecting Charleston with Che
raw, will be finished and in complete running
order by the first Of October next
TExAs.-The political complexion of the
Texas Legislature, on joint ballot, stands
thus: For Houston, l3 anti-Houston, no.
ttFshS'swcll, Samivi!
MARRYING IN IIAs1E."-A wedding took
place on the lightning express train of the
Michigan Central Railroad on the 9th ult.
The counting was done in the short space of
four or five hours, while riding at the rate of
about 81 miles an hour.
AccEPTED.-Mr. Beverly Tucker has, it is
said, made up his mind to accept the Liver
pool Consulate. Iti reported that he wrote
his letter declining it hastily and without the
advice of his friends, and it is even stated
that he did not write it all.
HERE 1T CoMEs.-It is said that the ne,s
Comet will shortly be visible to the nakedeye.
DEAD.-IIon. James Lockwood, member
of Congress elect from Pennsylvania, died at
Evansville, on the 8tirsinst o''A'
OrrIcIAL.-The Official majority for the
democrats at the late election in Kentucky
is 12,l14. EG
VERY GooD,--One of our cotemporaries
remarking upon the correspondence between
President Buchanan and Prof. Silliman, the
great New Haven geologist, says, 1.-The letter
of response is rather a c,ustaceous formation,
bat disintcresting
YELLOW BEAR.-A yellow bear is said to
have been seen lately in the Lake Superior
region. 1t is supposed to be a cross of the
polar and black bear.
ENoRNous.-To carry Collins steamer
from New York to Liverpool, requires eight
hundred tons of coal, enough to keep an ordi-
nary family forty years,
The Wheat CRoP IN IowA.--The most
glowing accounts are received daily from all
parts of tho State, says the Dubuque qowa)
Express, of the yield of tho wheat crop. 1t
is believed the average yield throughout the
State will be 25 bushels per acre.
MURDER--Mr. Henry Milford, farmer,
residing near East Hampton, Suffolk county,
N. Y, while on his way from Sag Harbbr to
his residence, on Tuesday night, was shot
dead by some person unknown. A colored
man wos arrested on suspicion.