Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1857-06-20
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4 LARGE lMpoRr.--on Monday, ] sth ult. !.
the Cotton arriyals,at Liverpool, many YES
sells having been previously detained byuo
! favorable weather, reached ss, 900 bales the
largest import for any day recorded.
+ CLBAR AS Gup. "A modern philosopher
has answered ;Ie important query,i" What
is the cause Of the potatoe rot 4" by declar-
ing it is TO be attributed to the "rot tater.y
Influence Of the EARTH" He has arrived at
this calculation after minute examination
of many common .taters.
PHGBUs! WHAT A NAME !--Vienna let
ters maintain that the Princess Sidonia of
Saxopy, and not the Princess of Hoheuzol
leFn Sigmaringen, is,the object of Prince
Napoleou's visit to Germany. The Prin-
cess Sidonia is the eldest daughter of the
King Of Saxouy, aud was born in 1884.
MORTALITY IN New YoRK.-There were
only a72 deaths in New York for the week
ending on Saturday, decrease of 5s on
the previous week.
How TO SuDDuE MoDs.--The Albany
Juorndl advoGa,es the employment Of FIRE
engines in qpeliag riots, in preference to the
use OF balls and bayouets. This plan, if
followed, would certainly "throw cold wa
ter, upon the rage of mob
s
PHYs1c1AN DEAp.--Dr. Thomas Y. Sim
ons, one of the most skillful and extensive
practitioners of medicine in Charleston, died
suddenly on Monday of last week.
MoDEsT.-Brigham Young, in recent
sermon to his Mormon deciplcs, remarked:
(" | really think that have great deal
more influence here than Moses had among
the children Of Israeli
NEGRO SrEALNG.---Y Young S. Bobo has
been lodged in orangeburg Jail for negro
stealing. His neck is good for a hempen
halter. "o
ELI IhArER.-Tbis gentleman, Who
some time since promulgated his plan for
aboltionizing Virginia, was in Parkersbup,
Va, last week. Hcrichly deserves eslick-
ingp'
THE OLDEST 1NHABIrAwT.-Th Abino-
don Vt'yinian understands That there is a
man by the name of jesse living in New
Garden, Rasseii Co., who is now 100 years
old. It's said that on the day he was 100
hundred years old, he made one hundred
rails. noubtful.
DEATH OF A VErEnAN,--Seth Ingram
died at Malagorda, on the l2,h ult., aged
sixty seven. His life, like those of most old
lexans, was full Of vicssitudes. He was a
volunteer in the last war between England
And the United States. and severely wound
ed in the battle of Lundy's Lane.
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LADIES WANTED.-La Ladies are wanted
out West. The recent census Of ST. Louis
shows disparity in The sexes of nearly
1000 in favor of males. BY she census Of
Iowa, the males arein majority by nearly
thirty-four thousand. Other S,ates nre al
so calling for renforcements of'the fais sex.
KILLED Two Englishmen had a wrest-
Ing match " a rum shop in Portsmonih, N.
H.' last Friday, and one of them, named
Flannegan, who owas intoxicated, was thrown
with such violence, his head Striking box,
that he died on the premises.
The New HAVEN ELEcrloN. The Dem
ocrats of Hartford fired salute of thirty.
one guns on Tuesday in honor of the Dem.
ocraiic victory in New Haven.
FaEE SoIL.--In Minnesota territory. a
large minority of the members elect of the
convention to form state constitution are
black republicans. Thus in the brief neriod
of year, we will have another free State In
the Union.
.DEAD.~AEx.Goy. Henry Hubbard. Of
New Hampshire. died in Charleston, on The
9th inst.
New Jon roa WALKeR.--Tbe Western
papers are suggesting Gen. Walker as
suitable person for Governor of Utah. They
think ho could stand his hand with the
morrnons.. Perhaps he MIGHT. thonab Z,