Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1858-06-05
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came TO Mowers who was standing ut the
door, if Catharino Reed was in. She, SEQ
ing that he was excited, and imagining
that he was intoxicated, said she was not.
Reed uttered an outh; told Mrs. Mowers
she lied; and rushed into the inner room on
the lower floor where his wife was partially
uudressed and preparing to go to bed, with
n child Of. Mira. Mowers. a long converse
ton ensued between the parties, which Mrs!
Movers, who was III tile next rootn, did
not attend to, although she could hear The
voices quite plainly All atoncc she heard
scufilo, and rushing into the room saw
that Reed had. drawn dirk with blade
some i've inches in length and was ia the
act of dealing alternate blows with it upon
himseRmd wife Spccchless with horror,
she ran out and brought in her husband,
who was just entering the gate at the time,
On entering tie room, twas found that the
wrctchcd man had given himself seven
wounds, and was lying ina pool of his own
blood. In less than five minutes llc expir-
ed. 1'hewounds, either ono of which alone
would have produced death, were not Jag
gcd or rough, but the blade had been dri-
ven home every time, showing what deter
mined will the wrctcllcd suicide must have
possessed. ..-
Catharinc Reed, his victim, was found
TO have received nine distinct stabs, nearly
every one in a vital part of the neck, chest
and stomach. Tho.poor woman was raised
upon the bed, and in spite of her Wounds
was found to be alive, The .ueighbors were
aroused and physicians sept for, She lin-
gcred until midnight in great agony, when
death took place. -.
A THRiLLING ScENE. During an ex-
hibitioh Of Van Amburgh's Menagaric one
night last week in Columbus, Ohio, vio,
lent storm of wind and rain came on, which
prostratcd the canvass on the Imprisoned
snultita,le. The Capital City Fact thus
describes the scene that cnsucd:
The storm. came at last about O'clock,
tlie wi6d blowing a hurricane, and the rain
coming downiI sheets of water. The an
ihlals were noisy, the lions roaring, the cl-
ephant. extremely uneasy, swaying his huge
carcass to and fro and the monkeys chat.
teriug; the canvass initiating the elephant,
only a.little more so. At'length the wind
and water would not be deprived of their
triumph, aud with lcelurch down went
the grand pavilion, centre pole and all, up,
on the hats and bomcts OF the ucllcss null
titude beneatl, who found it imprqctiblc to
get out of the trap before it. fell Luckily
headsswere not broken as we'll as hats and
bophets, but ,crinolinc suffered in the melee
aud there wins n general concert .occasioned
by q, conminglemcnt of roars, screams and
curses, loud and deep. It. was soon called
out thatysome of the wagons had been up
set, and cages 'blownovcf. The alarm be-
came unspeakablc, and shrek followed
shrek in quick succession as the danger
was supposed to bemorc imminent Nor
was the apprehension allnycd, when The. cry
went out that thealion was loose, }and q largo
AcwtpundIaud dog pressed his way through
the crowd ia soareb6 of less con6pcd quarters;
knives were freely used in ripping the can
vass on all sides, and Hannibal played his
part, tearing iuto strips all around him
At length all were on the outside to meet a
dclugc from the, skies, and to make their
way lloncward through streets running like
rivers.
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