Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1857-05-02
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'forter'S SpitiG Of New. York:
a New PRoJEcr- There'is German in
this city who isa professor. of thefnrt of
swimming, and lie proposes to cStubl;h a
school for the teaching of that necessary ac-
complishment TO ladies aud TO gentlemen.
The school is TO be located in, the upper part
of the city. Swimming is an art of, which
every man and every woman should have Il
knowledge. as being one which may moi only
| prove Of use to them, bnt also afford them
the means of, beautiful. recreation. Tom
/ Idtfiai says that he has seen several very
handsome, ,lady.lke women; who conidswim
easily couple Of miles. and one saved 4
! geplIeman's life at Glen Cove, "a few sum
mer's ago, by her ability and courage in That
| p'easuable aquatic exercise. Let the gils
learn 10 swim IN the summer, and in the
| winter the gymnasium could be.devoted to
the exciting art of skating. sn
SBoRT PAssAOE.-xThe clipper ship "Ro.
nance of the Sea-" Of Boston. Capt Henry,
arrived at Shanghae, China. Dec %, from
San Francisco,in the remarkable short time
of MirtyJoWr days, the shortest passage on
record.
SEEING THE ELEPHANT IN HIS OWN
HoME.--Andersen the Swedish traveller
whose travels in the interior Of Africa. have
! been recently given in p work called Lake
iNgaml has been killed bya an elephant, while
hunting in Africa. i. -
| ONE Tom B. Walker, of Louisville, the
other day, bet that he could drink sixty
glasses of lager beer. between 6 O'clock,
Ann, and 10 o'clock, p. NJ; and he flushed
sixty one glasses by s o'clock, winning the
The wager. An animate beer. baneIl
NorTo BE SNEEzED Ar.-We cut the
following item fronLan English paper; On
Saturday, the 28th ult. William Garner Of
Leyland, Lancashire, undertook for wager
of G5, TO walk four miles, and throw over
his head three tons of-56lb. weights, placed
upon the road at.equi-distant points, in one
hour. He walk 4 the distance, and dispos.
ed of the weights, 100 in number, in So
minutes
! FIeHr on THE MIssIsstPpI- "A verv gal
liant fight, for 81 100 side, came off ON Wed
nesdayr of last week, on O'Connels Island,
situated about half way between the Stntes
of Iowa and Illinois, between two of the gla-
dintors of the West, named Lusk and Fargo.
! They fought twenty,tbree rounds in one
iour, when Fargo was declared the victor
Cock ;FGouTINe IN TgNNEssEE.-A cor
respondent at Memphis informs us that n
main of cocks, twenty 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,v.
Turk ON RAnRoAps.-"Y You advise
us to adopt Your railroads." said profound
looking old Mussulmln 10 a recent traveller
in CoAstantinopc !: you advise usto adopt
your railroads, and are,desirous of underta,
king The job of building them, and at the
same time you send here and buy our cam.
els. | see how it is you want to get rid
OF your railroads, and put our camclsin their
places, and we should get the worst of the
bargain" The American dhi not attempt
to combat this idea, and SO left the Turk to
bis conclusions.
Tie FALL OF TUE BRIcK CHuBcn The
last day-of Lent, that solemn fast of all pro.
| Tossing Christians, witnessed the fall Of 40
edifiee which has stood the shocks and chan.
ges of this mutable city for nearly centu.
ry. Beneath the nave, and around Che
walls of the old dBrick Church on Beck.nan
| street, thousands of the picty and respecta.
bility Of the olden time lay Emodllering 10
their graves; and the pious hands who
| placeS them there never could have aniici.
| pated that the day would come when their
tombs and cerements Should be rudely des-
ecraIed BY the spades Of the .moneysnlongers
/ Of Wall street. The fat went forth; and
| we are Informed by the da0y papers, that
a grand sight was seen, wllentb be workmen,
having placed wooden props TO support The
central tower, while they undermined the
east wall, then set fire TO the props, aud sud
/ denly black line appeared on the surface
rof the tower, which kept widening and wi
/. .dening, the whole fell viii n crash
"A&great as whcnla giant dies"
.ltis said to have been 'grand = buewe
should say, as Macbeth said of his CORY
I hands: +" Is not this a sorry sight ?p We
:, do not wish TO be either pathetic or lachry-
NOSE but we beg leave to ask the present
generation to calculate how few years may
elapse ere Greenwood Cemetery shares a
similar fate. City lots will be in demand
by the b, B,ooklynites. for the maroh,of bricks
and mortar, before half century has, ex.
pred, at the rate we move.
AN'ADMRER OF "CAMco."--The editor
of the California Mountain Democrat Is a
man after our heart In recent number