Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1858-03-06

IhBGRAh.-The legislature of Texas has
voted 100000 to build a,university. 4e
A BoaUs LorrBRy.-The citizcns of New
| Orleans last week, found that they had boon
swindlcd out of abouv 500, 900 by man who
got up a tempting lottery, and after disposing
of the tickets, left for parts unknown before
the drawing.
HANDSOME SUM.-Thc proceeds of non.
Edward Eycrett's Washington Oration,"
delivered at Richmond, Va last week, a.
mounted to $1,000. 1t goes to swell the Monnt
| Vernon fund
HoRRmLE SUsrIoIoNs.--Chas. l.. Taylor
alias Sanders has boon arrested on the tcrri-
bio suspicion of being the cause Of the dread
| full disaster at the Pacific Hotel in st. Louis
lie is charged with firing the hotel after mur-
doring Ephram Doanc ono of tho inmates!
New ORLEANS, Feb. 26.-Tho Delta Of to-
day asserts that the South has already re-
! opened the slave trade, and thatt regular
depot is in Pearl River, Mississippi. Car
goes have arrived, been sold, and putto work
The vessels generally use tho Frcuch flag to
! prevent ucillSo Wy DElLlSn CTul3crS.
! FATALITY IN TUE CoUNTaY.-Typhoid fe-
yer is raging to an alarming extent in and
around Petcrstown, Monroe county, Va
Thero have been some twcuty-odd deaths,
and between thirty and forty cases yet re-
main.
LARGE AMoUNT.-It is stated that there are
about one million bushels of wheat in store,
and about sixty thousand barrels of -four at
Chicago, III. Wheat is selling ut SO a So cts.
KILLED.-On Thursday week, Mr.. Audrcw
Harrison, of Spartanburg District, was in
stantly killed by raftcr of n smoko-housc,
which he was building, falling upon hin"
PRAcTIcAb CHRfsTIANIry.-Tho young
Mems Christian Association OF Pittsburg has
distributed $4,000 bushels of coal to tho poor,
without any reference ofscct class or nation
1t supplied IN ono day, forty families with
fuel to keep them comfortable month Near
ily 5000 persons ha been kept comfortable
during the winter through the efforts of this
society. This is practical Christianity.
HORSE FLEsu.--A Paris correspondent of
the Courier des Etats Utis says that there are
already four butchcr-shops in Vienna, in
which horse flesh is sold; that there is already
ono of the sort in Dublin, and another in In
zcrdorff, and that the whole of Germany will
soon follow suit.
LorTERIEs.-It is stated that 0000 have
beon expended in Baltimore in attempts to
| suppress lotterica The business was started
ia 10 &c, ond thcro nrn on I;ao~aad- b 49,
policies. An attempt is now being made in
the State Legislature to abolish the supple
mentary lottery system, and in 1859 the en-
tire lottery systcm expires by constitutional
| law.
| The CURRENCY QUEsToN,-IIcnry G. Ca
roy has written his nineteenth lotter on ''cur-
rcncy" to the President, and seems not yet
to have exhausted himself tho osubjcct, or tho
President the latter, it is presumed, not hav
ing read one of them.
For THE LADIEs.-The basque, now so
= fashionable among the ladies, is going out
, offashion. The new jacket is to terminate
in points before and behind. Sleeves to be
full and long, and gathered into band at
the wrist.
DoGs,-Thc question of lcyying tax on
dogs i'll New York appears to be attracting
considerable attention. 1t is estimated that
there are half million dogs in that State,
which arc maintained at an expense of ivc'
millions of doliIrs
New ORLEANS, Feb 22.-Thc steamers
Virginia, Montauk, James Montgomery,
Sherman, and s. S. Prcntiss, were destroyed
by fire. opposite the city, this morning. Loss
$70,ooo~coyerod by insurance.
| CIxcINNArI, Feb. 20.--Tho Methodist Epis-
copaI Church in this city was greatly shatter-
cd last night by an explosion of gas from Il
defective metro. Thorc were fifteen persons
in the basement at the time, ten or twelve of
! whom were severely wounded, and two OF
three fatally
! READS HIN 0UT.-The New York Posi-
reads Senator Seward out of the Black Re-.
publican party, and accuses him Of the most
unprincipled log rolling" in his Senatorial
career The Post is in John p IIaie's train.
LYNcHED.--Joseph II. Harris, of Ky, was
murdered by one of his own negroes on tho
| 10Th ult The neighbors assembled and hung
the boy without trial.
YoRx,-Roturn day footed up Ave hundred
cases for York District!
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