Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1857-08-29

'uouSanl, lew! EnOWcQ Wcll enough tnat
your Southern hosses couldn't hold a can
die tew old Sleepy David"
DEATH IN LIFE-Thc following is from
an article by Oliver W. Holmes, in the last
number of the North American Review:
IF the reader of this paper live another
complete year, his sclf-conscious principle
will have migrated from its present tono
ment to another, the raw material even of
which are not as yet put together A por-
ton of that body of his which is to be, will
rlpen Ill the corn of the next harvest An
other portion of his future person he will
purchase, or others will purchase for him,
headed up in the form of certain barrels of
potatoes. a third fraction is yet to be
gathered in Southern rice-Geld. The
limbs with which he is then to walk will
be clad with flesh borrowed from the ten
ants of many stalls and pastures, now un-
conscious of their doom. The very organs
of speech with which he is to talk so wise
ly, plead SO eloquently, or preach so offec-
tlvcfy, must first serve his humber broth
rcn to blc0t, to below, and for all the va
ried utterances of bristlcd or fcathcred
barn yard life. His bones themselves are,
to great extent, IN pOSSee, and not In csse
GA bag of phospatc of lime which he
has ordered from Prof Mapes, for his
grounds, contains large part of what is to
be his next years skeleton And more
than all this, and by far the greater part OF
his body is nothing but water; the main
substance of his scattered members is to be
looked for in the reservoir, in the running
streams, at the bottom of the WE'LL in the
clouds that float over his head, or diifused
among them al"
A CooL AvENoER.- certain English
gentleman, who was regular frequcntcr of
the green room of Drury Lane Theatre in
the days of Lord Byrou's committee, and
who always stood quietly on the hearth rug
there with his back to the fire, was in his
usual place one night when narrative was
related by another gentleman, newly re-
turned from the continent, ofa barrier ncl
that had taken place in Paris. A Young
Englishman-a mere boy--had been des-
poiled in gambling house in the Palais
Royal, had charged a certain gaming Count
with cheating him, had gone out with the
Count, had wasted his fire, and had been
slain by the Count under the frightful cir
cumstances of the Counts walking up to
him, laying his hand on his heart, saying:
,"You are brave fellow--have YOU moth
err" and on his replying in the afirna-
tive, remarkingcoolB ~ am sorry for her.
aud blowing his victims brains out. The
gentleman on the hearth rug paused In ta-
hng pinch of snuff to hear the story, aud
observed with great plaeidity, az am afraid
must kill that rascal" A few nights
elapsed, diiringwhich thegrcen room hearth
rug was without lin, and then he reap
peared precisely as before, and only incl
dentally mentioned in the course of the
evening, "Gentlemon, killed that rascai!"
He had gone over to Paris on purpose, and
cracked the Coupt to the same gambling
house, had thrown a glass of vine in his
face in presence ofall the company assem.
blca there, had told him that he was come
to avenge his young compatriot---and had
done it by putting the Count out Of tho
world,,nnd coming back to the hearth rug
as if nothing had happened -Hoasedoga
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