Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1857-05-23
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aye OH a!i matters connected with his office.
lNArGURArIoN.-The Common Council
of Boston have appointed committee to
prepare for the reception of the President,
Vice President, members of the Cabinet
and Gen. Scott, at the ceremony of the iu-
auguration of the statute of General War
rem, on the l7th of June, in that city.
DEAD.--Thos. G. Key, Esq, practising
lawyer at Edge6eId G. H., died there last
week. He was, for several years, editor Of
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| DEATH OF JAS. BoATwnIGHT- This ven
cradle citizen Of Columbia, aged more than
four score years, is dead He was an es-
timable citizen in all the relations of life.
Orr WEsr. Col Orr was in ST. Louis,
Missouri, on the 9th instant.
10 BE MARRIED.-A young lady Of six
teen, of distinguished b tn aud fortune, is
about to marry tho hero of the Crimea,
Marshal Peissier, who is sixty years OF
age 1t is said to be an affair of the most
romantic sentiment on tho part of The
youthful! bride.
a GERMAN CNIvEKsT Y IN AMERIcA.--I,
is designed to erect and endow German
University in Cincinnati. The funds are
10 be raised by subscription, and the chairs
to be filled by importatiops from Gottengen
and Halle. The projectors intend to pur-
chase college edtice already erected,
HIGH PRICE FOR NEaRoEs-At Marion,
Perry county, Alabama, on Monday, 4tl
inst, two negroes, well borers, were sold on
the block, and brought the snug sum of
four thousand and seventy five dollars.
ArrorNrED.--Hon. Fayette McMullen,
OF Va, has been appointed Governor Of
Washington territory, in place Of Anderson,
resigned.
HIeH PRICED SHAwLs.-A shawl was
lately sold in Philadelphia for one thousand
four hundred and twenty-five dollars. In
the same city women make shirts for six
cents each. Thus foolish extravaganza and
aud suffering females so hand in hand
AGRICULTURAL CoLLEeE.-A College Of.
Agriculture has been established in Michi.
gan on handsome farm of 700 acres II
has an endowment of $4,000, and in
the last two years the Legislature has given
it$20,ooO Students are admitted without
fee, but are obliged TO labor three hours
each day.
DEFALcATIoN.-The Mercantile Bank at
Hartford. Conn, has discovered a defalca,
tion of $500 in the accounts of the late
teller, Mr.. Dwight Ledgwick, who has r,ne
to California. The loss falls on the tcncr's
| bondsmen. q,
SNov.--A snow storm was in PROGRESS
at Buffalo, N. Y, on the flth instant. This
is what we call lsnowingin the LAP Of spring."
RscRUns.-h recruiting Office has been
opened in Charleston, by the Governor of
Florida. for volun GERS to engage in the In.
dian war in that State.
BAckINo Down. Mr. VIM. J. Wilson,
OF Haywood CO.. N. c., requests the Her
aid Of TruM TO say that he wtbdraws from
the canvass for Congress, in view of he call
which has been made for a Convention to
nominate candidate.
! BEArTIFUL SiGur The Sabbath,
School children Of Augusta united and had
their May celebration on Shulrz's Hill,
Wednesday last. The Chronicle says the
procession numbered over six hundred, and
including The invited guests there were scat
tered through The woods over one thousand
fairy forms fitting about like ei6n sprites." :"
FAMINE IN Texas. New Orleans papers
of the ed instant contain Galveston dates to
the 2Sth inst There was almost famine
for breadsiulfs in the counties above Bas-
trop, and So 90 was demanded for a bushel
Of corn.
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