Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1858-04-03
Pennings and Clippings.
ADVERTISEMENTS. Sec the now adycrtlse-
ments in our columns this week.

| LIE hEYlVAL.--Ih inc revival North is spread
ing and, likethe '',nohey panic is wepd,
ing its way West and South 5s5 .. d,
LIBEL .SUIr-The New York Herald saws Tvs
that ox-Mayor Wood is about to institute a
suit for libel against Horace Greely,& Co., Of
the Tribune, containing 750 counts.
SUICIDE Prussian named Nicholas Ty-
ler committed suicide in New Orleans on the
18th instant by jumping from third story
window of the Charity Hospital.
LIDERAL DONATION John Steele of
Alabama, has subscribed $4,000 for the ben
eft of the College at Lynchburg- --one-ffth of
which is payable next month, aud the bal
ance in annual instalmcnts of 81 900 each.
CorroN NOT K1No-rho charlottesville
(Ya.) Adoocate in view of certain dsunion
movements in some of the Southern States,
says that " Cotton is not KING, and Alabama
and Mississippi will have to be taught this.
truth by Virginia and Kentucky" -
CApirAL PUNIsuNEST AnoLrsnEo.- Tho
Legislature Of Louisiana has passed.a law,
abolishing capital punishment, and the sub
stituton of hard labor for life in the place
thereof
SoLirARY AND ALoNE.--The Boston Bee
claims to be the only paper in that city which
unqualiGcdly endorses" the removal of
Judge Loring. The fact is creditablc to the
other papers, but not to the Bee.
VERY PRorER,--The Washington star saws
it is said that james Gordon Bennett. of the
New York Herald, is a constant attendant at
the Chambers street prayer meetings.
MACHINE PoRTRY.-The wind it blew the
snow it flew; and raised particular thunder
with skirts and hoops, and chicken coops-
and all such kind of plunder.
An OLD CouPLE-Mr. James Jordan who
lived near Banberg, in this State, died on
the lth inst, aged ninety fivo years, and OH
the Goth his wife died, at the age of one hun
drcd and one
| The SAND TRADE.-A Yankee down east
proposes to the numerous "retired physi-
clans, )" whose sands of life have nearly run
out" to furnish them with any quantity of
nice sand at a reasonable price.
commit suicide in consequence of poverty, do
the deed carly in the morning, instead of late
at night, and you will save tho expense Of
| three meals.
TINES CHANGES -Thirty-fvc years ago,
| Hon. Edward Everett was II member of the
United States House of Representatives. and
now of the three hundred men in Congress
with him, ,onlyono occupies scat atthcCapitol
Gen. Houston, then Representative from Ten
nessee, now a Senator from Texas.
| REVIVAL IrEM.-It is stated as positive
fact that there is not an adult in one of the
several villages of Simsburg, Conn., who has
not been convicted during the prevailing re-
| ligous excitement.
| PAUPERIsM AND PRospERITy.- late
John Avery Parker, successful merchant
of New Bedford, was at one time warned"
to leave Westport. Mass under the old law
or custom of warning strangers who wero
| likely to become q public charge He died
worth 81, 100000.
| PHILADELPHIA GRApUATEs.--Tbo Medical
Graduates in the Phladelphia Colleges for
season just closed, number as follows: In
Jefferson College, SOL; in the University Of
Pennsylvania, 435 lin the Pennsylvania Col
lc9e, l4O; Homeopathic College, 6S; in the
Philadelphia College, ca; and in the College
of Pharmacy, 90 Total, 1928.
VARIETY THE SrIcE OF LIPE.-A Wiscon-
| sin correspondent of the Rochester Union
states that in going from Prairie du Chento
LaCrossc, a few days ago, singular scene
was presented on the steamboat. Atone end
OF the long saloon a clergyman was preaching
to small crowd gathered round him in the
middle, gambling was in busy progress; and
at tue other extremity of tho saloon there was
music and dancing,
NHE HAnO TiMes.- Chicago Press has
~ iS'tisomcnt, forty columns long, of lands
IN 1ha1 clty eIinquent for taxes. This is at
tr'Oated to the c''Yhing effect of the lato e.
ntncial panic.
DAMAGRs.--Mr. Thomas ~, ;th hro,, =. /. 49,.
against the city Of New York tl.ocovS3 srn
0o0 damages for tho loss of his da,.,bos e.
phia, a child of nino Yeas old, who 81 nd
through a hole in a diIaI Iidated pior and Wa
drowned last summer. ,rho Jury on We'd
nesday gave him $3.50
SMART YoUNc PgorLE IN MIcnrcAN - Two
couplcswcre married in New baltimore last
week, under pcculior circumstances. Twin
1 sisters married twin brothers, and tho mar