Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1858-11-20

'Y.A few years ago
10, KY, was accus-
Q negro was kill-
rrlson. About
kiled hY his broth.
and aWhalan him
by q man named
Millips has not been

INCREASE OF CnURcuEs-Gran Thorburn
says that in 1889 there we're only one hun
drcd and fifty churches and Chapcls in New
| York; and now, in 1858. there arc upwards
of three hundred.
MONUMENT TO QuITMAy.-The movement
in Mississippi in favorof the erection of a
monument to Quitman is succeeding adinra-
| bly, The monument is to be erected on the
! bluff at Natchcz, and is to cost not less than
twenty-five nor more than fifty thousand do
! lars.
DuELLING.-Attorney General Wharton
has decided that connection with duel eth
or rs principal or second, is no bar to elgi.
bility to Office, in Mississippi. except upon
indictment and conviction. The decision is
made in the case of Judge Hancock, of the
| 9th circuit
! WHAT'S IN NAME ?-Tlo names of the
/ election prccnctsin Schlcy county, Ga, are
! Pond Town, Lick Skillet, Bump Head. and
Nubbing Hill. A ccry cuphonious catalogue
7 truly.
! a TERMINATING PEopLE.-The Louisville
! (Ky.) DemocrGt says that the amount of to-
bacco chcwcd in the Circuit Court room in n
day, during the criminal term. is estimated
at 25 lbs The reader may believe this if he
chcws.
! DRowNED. Baltrell, son of Judge
! Baltrcll, of Tallahassee, Fla, was drowned ut
| Apalochicola, on the 30th ult., by leaping
from a steamer to rescue drowning child
The child was saved but the young man lost
his lifc
DRoLI. IDEA.-A Western cotcmporary
apologies forinscrting into his paper cut
of stove as large as life.
PnYsIctAN DEAp.-Tho Charleston papers
record the death of DR.. III. V. Toomcr, from
yellow fever.
| MORBID FRIENDsnIr.-An Indiana paper
refuses to publish culogues gratis, but adds
1--WE will publish the simple announcement
of the death of any of our friends with pleas
urc."
IIIonEsT AND LowEsT-The highest solp-
ry of a Governor of any State in tho Union,
is paid in California-$l0, ,000-and the low
est is in Ncrmont-S750.
VERY LloHT.-The lightest substance at
present known is hydrogen, which is sixteen
times lighter than air hence it is used to fill
! balloons.
SUPERSTITION IN ENGLAND.-A collier's
wife recently applied to the Sexon of Ruabon
Ii u1 cN, ,o:n &c
skull, which she wanted to CRATE, like gin
ger, and add to some nostrums to be taken
by her daughter as q remedy for fits, to
which she had been subject.
HEAVY DAMAGEs.-AIiss Iccbcnla L. Thorn
as, of Huron county, Ohio, has recovered
verdict of $4,000 from Curtis Simmons for
breach of promise, her father also obtained n
Judgment of S5, 900 against Simmons for the
seduction of his daughter
GooD NAME,-A young man in Cincinnati,
named Pike, having grown rich in the whs-
key trade, has just erected magnificent ope-
ra house. tho finest in all the West, and a was
wants to call it Pixies Alco-Hull"
SUGoEsTIoN.- of the bost ways to gct
rid ofSpanish quarters at their full value is,
to drop them into the collection plato as it
passes around in church tomorrow.
CLINGING TO THE WILLOWS. &c-An old
maid, speaking, Of marriage, saysi it is like
any other discase-whilc there's life there's
hope.
a GooD MoyE.-The Mayor of Portsmouth
Va, has determined to put stop to the hab-
it of swearing on the streets, for whichinde-
concy he has already fined great many per-
sons, without respect to rank or condition.
ERsKINE CoLLEGE.-The exercises in Frs
kline College, says the Telescope, opened on
Monday the lst inst, with Aattering projects
Thirty new students have been received
And there are still arrivals every day.
CnoosE WELL.--When you doubt between
words. choose the plainest, tho commonest
the most idiomatic. Eschew fine words as
you would rouge, love simple ones as you
would native roses on ourci.ccks.
From the South Casolinian.
Meeting Of State Agricultural Society.
COLUMBIA, November 10, 1858.-The
Society met at 8 o'clock, in the Hall of
the House of Representatives Secretary
read the minutes of the last meeting.
On motion of Mr.. w. r. Robertson, r.
w. Woodward and Col James Ducket, of
NeWberry were elected life melnhnra Dr