Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1857-04-25

i"uy utHiSu hHu Ililnh lIeiJ uIeuSuHueii- A
ly on last Thursday night, in Richmond, /
Va, from the bite OF spider. She was
bitten on the right cheek The night before, !
and died the following evening from the eff
fects.
& MArRIMoNy IN NEw YoRR-The matr-
monA epidemic, says eorreSdondent, is
again fatally rnging in this city. sparing nei
thcr age, sex or condition. During the
present week several Of our fairest flowers
are going the way of all flesh. Orange
blossoms are at a premium.
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JAS. @, FuRMAN.--We are very much
gratifed to see, says the Greenville Patriot
that the degree of D. D. has bcen,conrcrrcd
on Rev, Jas. c. Furman, of,he Furman Un-
versiy, Greenville, by the Charleston Col.
lege Of South Carolina.
The LoGIc OF DoLLAHs.--The New Or.
leans Bulletin refers to the brilliant results
realized by the Illinois Central Railroad
Company from the grant by Congress of
nearly threo millions OF acres Of land. Af.
ter building the road The company will
have land enough to yield the sum of thir-
~ millions, and this the editor says is the
logic of dollars which every body can un.
derstan,l. The Pacific railroad through Tex
as, the same paper states, will be seven hun.
dred and eighty-thrce miles long, and has
n grant from the State Of 9,0l7OOO acres
~ ln IL MI To- ,,cS = H.. 4.
'"c he average price Of the Illinois lands
as basis, tnSSs 80. ,o;,l vi.jd tba p"r;Go
company the grand sum of over gI2 ,OUU..
600. The Bulletin thus brings TO view the
magnitude of the grant:
Eight million acres Of land is easily pro
nounced or written; but does the reader
comprehend the quantity represented It
is greater than the combined area of Rhode
Island, Delaware, and Connecticut. 1t is
nearly twice as great as Massachusetts, near
ly AS great as Massachusetts and New Jer-
sey together, greater than New Hampshire
or Vermont. The latter, the largest but
ono of the New England States, contains
but G,53568 acres. 1t is not strange that
'Ho stock, of this company is taken by thou
sand OF shares ut q cffP, as we learn is the
case"
Fearful LEAr.-One OF the most re.
markable escapes from instant death that
has ever come to our knowledge, occurred
yesterday morning at an carly hour. Ms the
Express train from Petersburg wss erossipo
the railroad bridge over James River II
seems That passenger, named VIM. II.
Sullivan. from Charleston, S. c., who had
gone out upon the platform of The rear pas
senger coach, when the train was about
midway between Manchester and Richmond,
deliberately leaped from the dizzy hei,bt to
the river below, distance of about seventy
feet. Immediately under the bridge, from
shore 10 shore, the river is thickly studded
wBh rugged rocks and small islands. but
fortunately at the very point from which
the desperate man made his fearful leap, a
rapid sluice ofsome depth runs between two
small tufts of bushes; and to this circnm.
stance alone, is the escape from instant de.
slruclion attributable AS il was, he came
very near drowning, and was twice seen to
disappear below the surface, by some per,
sons on the Manchester shore. After des.
pera'e struggle, however, he succeeded in
cIu'ching a bush, 10 which he clune for
nearly fifteen minutes, before relief came
He was finally saved by Mr.. Closby, of
Manchester, who, witnessing his struggles
in the water, jumped into a small boat, and
at the peril of his own life, succeeded in
reaching hlm whenhe was so much cxhaus-
ted, that he had to be dragged into The
boat, being wholly unable 10 make the
slightest, ,exeltion. All who witnessed the
scene, award great praise TO Mr.. Closby for
his humane aud extraordinary exeri;ons iD
behalf of the life Of a fellow creature.
Conductor Daniel, who had charge of The
train, as soon MS he beard of the crcum.
stance, hasened back TO the Manchester
side, received the unfortunate man, and had
him conveyedto the Mount Vernon House,
where Dr. r. W. Haxall, who had been sent
Tor, was promptly in attendance. Hisiniu.
ries are thought to be very serious, though
he was still alive when last heard from. His
body is terribly bruised in several places,
but as he complains of excruiaIing pains in
the back and sides, it is supposed that heis
seriously and perhaps fatally injured inter
nally.
We understand, that though scarcely able
to artlcalate, the man has given those around
him to understand, that he fell from the
platform, and rolled into The river This,
however is thought to be impossible, as the
cars are mover allowed to pass over the
bridge at a greater speed than man. can
walk, and such an acciden! has never before