Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1858-05-22

widow OF II, (years, not husbands,O lovely
and rich, and her name is Princess Baraschin
Itwill be remembered that the happy BRIDE
groom is q. muletto the father of the elder
| Dsmas having been negro.
MORE Fatal THAN NCnoLERA.-Aboutt thirty
deaths have occurred in Peterstown, Giles
county, Va, from typhoid fever, during the
past winter and the disease is on the increase
The population of the place does not roach
800. Tho feverprevails in ether parts oftho
county, and in Montgomery county it is also
exceedingly fatal.
PARENTS READ.--Allow aboy to run at
large one year in Incidence, and you have
laid the foundation whcreon will be built his
ruin.
SOLDIERS FOR UTAu.--Thursday morning
over six hundred soldiers from Governors
Island, leftSJersey City on the New York
and Erie cars for Utah, via st. Louis.
AucUsaA, May 12.-Adams' Express Com
pany offer aremard of $25oO for information
leading to the recovery of a package of $lO,-
oOoin bills on the Planters and Mechnuics'
Bank of charleston, stolen on the 25th of
April, between Atlanta and Montgomery.
GROWING Far on TRouBLE.-Tho French
Emperor has clean and hungry look" bpt
grows stout upon the fears and anxietics
which are so pientifully attributed to him.
No fat and greasy citizen" thrves better
in the flesh than His Majesty Napoleon III,
whose figure on horseback has assumed ro-
tnndity of proportions altogether incompati-
BILE with any prctensions to the graceful or
elegant.
New IoRK, May l2-IIenry Dwight n
we'll known banker in Wall-strcet,is is charged
with frauds to the extent of million of dol
lars, connected with the Chicago, Alton and
St. Lbuis Rail Road Company. Others arc
implicated.
| TBE IsLAAp or CunA. There arc sixty
sca-ports in Cuba, and last year thore were
! 26S0 coostwise arrivals and 2G50 clcarances.
This will give an idea of the trade of this
beautiful island, which is not more than half
cultivated under the present regime.
SLAVERY IN KGNTUcKY-The Louisville
Courier says there is now an extraordinary
stampede ofthe slaves in that State by tho
way of the 'uuder ground railroad to n free
soil region. They go.oT one, two, three or
a dozen at time,
boNGEvIrY.-Mrs Sarah Benjamon died in
Georgia recently, at the extraordinary age of
lib years.
REVIVAL IN RoME.--Thc revival has extern
ded 70 the seat of the Papal power itself A
largo number of American and English tray
elers In Romc-ohicay women--ha,c become
powerfully affected by the teachings of the
Catholic faith
SUIcIDE.-Mr Thomas Reed, of Estill CO.,
kyr drowned himself OH Tuesday of last
week, by attaching apiece of pig iron to his
neck and jumping into creek.
AFFAIRS IN TExAs.-Alexander Cockrcl. OF
Dallas county Texas, was Killed on the Sd
ult., in conflict with constable. w. Fl
llarrei, of Washington, was also killed in q
fight on the 10th ult
JEWEL OF A GIRL-0neofo our exchan.
ges speaks of a beautiful girl who would prove
a capital speculation for fortune hunter of
tho right sort Her voice silvery, hcr hair
golden, her teeth pearly, her checks ofrnbies,
and her eyes of diamonds.
OLDEST Clock IN AMEsIcA.-The Oldest
clockin America is said to be one in the Phla
deiphie. Library, whichis nearly tw" centuries
old. 1t was made in London, keeps good time
and is said to have been owned by Oliver
Cromwell.
SLAVE LABoR.--It is stated that in three
years-185j, sc and '57-thc whole average
yield or production of the world iu. staple
tropical articles, was--by slave labor, $780,
72l,OOO; by othcr labor, $4,000. Such
facts MS these are beginning to play havoc
with the humanitarian idcas of France and
England, and hence African emigration and
Coolies.
FENCED IN WITH HAPriNEss.-A Young
poet out West in describing Heaven, says
" 1t is aworld Of bliss fenced in with girls.
Ifthat is true and we arc so fortunate as to
get there, we intend toask permission to sleep
In the fence corners
WASHINGTON, May l3.--Gen. Twiagshas
boon found guilty by the Court Martial but
the sentence has been remitted, and be has
been restored to his command in Texas.
e DotXG WELL.--TIe inc 10 of the Green
villc and Columbia Railroad for the past four
months, shows an increase of S5, 1891 90 over
the same period Of time last year. This is
doing well these hard tunes.