Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1858-08-14
Letter Envelopes.
Posr OFFICE, CHARLESTON,

The undersigned would respectfully ask
for public attention to the following facts /:
Business letters are almost invariably
sent in envelopes, and in tracing out losses
or miscarriagcs it is always important to
ascertain the precise day of mailing at tho
point whore the letter was written. In
many cases he has found the letter itself to
have been carefully preserved, while the
envelope has been lost, and thus every cs-
scutial information is forever destroyed.
The undersigned would therefore su:.-
gcst that whenever letters arc of such ma
! ture as to be matters of preference" after
their reception, they had better be folded,
sealed and forwarded as formerly, without
envelopes, the original sheet bearing the
date within and the post mark or stamp
without. ALFRED IIUuER,
Postmaster, Charleston, S. G.
SuooTING ArFeAY.-Thc Laurcnsvillo Her
dtt says: AN unfortunate difficulty occur
rcd in this District on Friday last, in tho
neighborhood of Tumbling Shoals, in which
Mr.. Preston Jones and younger brother of
Mr.. Henley Maddox was shot by Mr.. j. A.
Sullivan. We understand that Mr. Jones
was dangerously wounded, hut Mr.. Maddox &
wounds arc but slight. OF the circumstances
connected with the difficulty we can giyc no
reliable account and as we understand tn,
whole afthir will undergo Judicial mycstiga-
tion, we forbcar publishing any of the re-
ports we have heard
FEDERAL CoURT.-T.ris Court was or
! .sanizcd by the Hon. a. G.. NIagrath yes
terday morning, and will probably continue
two weeks, as there is large amount of
business, we understand, transferred from
Charleston to this point His Honor is
kind and courteous to the members of the
bar, and the officers of the Court generally
are gentlcmanly and obliging There is
little business on the Criminal side of the
Court and the Grand Jury will probably
be discharged to-day.
We notice among the members of the
bar In attendance, Hon. j. l.. Orr and Col.
j. L. Reed of Anderson, Messrs. Summer
and Baxter of Ncwberry, Mr. Phillips of
Marion, and Col. Baskin, of Abbeyillc,
Hon. w. ID. Porter, Mcssrs. Evans and
Conner, of Charleston. n GreonuiUc Patriot
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PERsoNAL.-During several days of the
past week, Col. James ID. Blanding, of
Sumter District, South Carolina has been
in Knoxville. We take pleasure in noting
the fact of his presence in our midst, be,
cause he has from the earliest inception of
the Rabun Gap Rail Road enterprise, been
one OF its warmest and most earnest friends
as member of the South Carolina Legis-
lature. 1T will be remembered by many
of our citizens, that Col Blanding, the IA
ther of the subject of this notice, was a
jealous and untiring advocate of the Louis
vile, Cincinnati and Charleston Rail Road,
COL b., while here, had the satisfaction to
see that the work is going forward prosper
ously in this State, and he had opportuni-
ties to acquaint himself more fully with the
great advantages which will result to his
constituents upon the completion of the
road, in furnishing them, at lowerrates than
they perhaps have ever known, with flour,
bacon, beef-cattle, horses, mules, &C., &c.
1t vii! afford us pleasure to learn that his
constituents have at the ensuing October
election returned him again to the Lcgisla-
ture by larger vote than he has ever be-
fore received, for we are sure he is worthy
OF increasing honor. -KaorO2le Citizen.
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sense--moro accomplishment than learning
more charms Of person than grace Of
mind~-more admirers than fiends--more
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