Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1858-10-23

my dcar To treat others as you would be
treated yourself and when things seem to be
going wrong again, stop, and think if the
tauk is not partly in yourself. If you in
dulgc III wrong thoughts and q wrong dspo-
sitlon, you will be apt to find everything
around you going wrong too. Remember,
that Gods eye is reading your inmost heart,
and strive to have nothing there which is not
puc'cnorSh for Him to SEQ "--LiM'e Pilgrim
a TERRIBLE ENCOUNTER WITH Bull
DoGs---Y esterday, Reed II. Young, the
well known pilot, was most terribly bitten
and laceratcd by two fierce bull dogs, the
property ofa milkman by the name of Rhine
hart we believe. 1t occurred in the Salt
River Lane in the lower part of the city.
Young was walking toward the Railroad
track. The dogs suddenly jumped on him
one scizing him by the calf of the leg, and
the other attempting to catch him by the
throat. He had presence of mind sufficient
to throw up his arm in defence of his throat
and the dog seized him by the arm, tear
ing away the clothes and flesh in terrible
manner. The other dog tore the flesh from
his leg, and severed an artery He then
caught Young by the top of his head with
his teeth, and literally tore off the scalp
The other dog fastened his fangs in his
breast, and they had so completely worried
and bitten him, that he was almost oxhaus.
ted and entirely oyerpowcrcd, and but for
the timely assistance ofa ncighbor, would
no doubt have been killed outright. The
man attacked chem with club, and had
much difficulty in getting them loose from
their prey
Great excitement created in the neigh
bOrbnO1 l,N fbn Of al l.
and crowd of people assembled to hunt
the dogs and kill them. They were shot
with bird shot, but got away before any
more effective weapons could be obtained.
a party, however, soon started in pursuit,
and they will certainly be killed as soon as
found. Mr., Young is tall, stout man,
and one of the Survivors ofthc terrible Penn
sylvana disaster We hope the wounds
inflicted by the dog will prove less danger
ous than represented, and that he will soon
be out again.
We learn that one of the dogs has been
killed, but the other escaped A boy was
the first one to interfere in behalf of Mr.
Young, by shooting at one oftho dogs with
a pistol, soaring the brute off The mus
clcs of both of Mr. Young AIMS are terri
bly torn, and he is also severely bitten on
the back.-LouiSrWe Courier.
EGYPTIAN WMIrE WINTER OArs.-A
new and extremely hardy variety of oats
has for several years been grown by our
Pomaria friends, which bids fair to super
scdc all others for Southern culture. 1t
is large, heavy, and withstands the sever
est cold. Ii sowa early in autumn, it af
tords fine grazing through the winter, and
in the spring rapidly shoots up and makes
fine crop. Col. Summer has an acre
which was sown five years since, which
produces good crop annually, without
other seeding. His plan is to let the oats
get over-ripe, and in harvesting it, enough
seed is left in the ground to make stand.
He Immediately ploughs in peas broadcast
and either grazes or gathers the pea vines
in autumn, and the oats spring up and
flourish finely. lie also sowcd III July
field with the last ploughing of cotton
1t was pastured till the middle of March,
and then made fair crop. Sown in this
way, it is, on good land, knee high by
Christmas. -Neudcrfy SIN.
LIVING FAIRIEs.-The Boston Advcr-
tiscr mentions having seen at gontlcman's
private residence in that city, two little
F, girls who presented in themselves singu-
lar physiological study. Their ages were
respectively nine and eleven years, while
they weighed but tthirteenandf fifteen pounds
and cheir height from crown to sole is but
twenty-nine and thirty-one inches respcc
lively, yet they are in all respects symmct-
rically made, healthy and happy children,
apie to tax, sing, dance aud play ike 9th
er children of their age, What is remark
able about these little fairies is the fact that
their father and mother are mortals of or
dnary size, and that they have Younger
brother and sister three and six years of
| age, who have attained the growth usual
to their ages. They are much greater
curiosity than the Aztecs," who made
so much cxcitemcnt here few years since.
for they were idiotic, while these little girls
are bright and intelligent as well us dimn-
utiye. They were born in one of the towns
| of Middlcsex county, Massachusetts,, of
genuine Yankee stock. They will not be
made public exhibition, but will live nat
nral lives, in privacy, with their relations.
They weighed three and half pounds each at
the time of their birth, and continued to
grow like other children until the age of
eighteen months, when the orret du devel-
opment began, They each of them wear
without difficulty rings which were put on
their fingers at the age oftwo years. They
arc oharmingly pretty children.
AN extraordinary case Of ooun torffeitin.s
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