Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1858-08-21


that he would die on a certain day. The
day came, and the man died, us lie had pre-
dctcd. M
/ RIeur.-Cato' snys the best way to keep
good acts in memory is to refresh them with
new oncs." $3.50 i.. - s." is
BRUTAL-Thore are four men in the Chic
ago Jail awaiting trial for murdor-thrcc of
whom are charged with killing their wives.
A PLEA FOR WHITE BEARDs.-Plutarch
speaks of q long white beard of an old La
conian who being asked why he let it grow
to such lcngth, rcplied-"It is that having
my white beard continually before my eyes,
may do nothing unworthy of it's whiteness.
THE WAY THEY DO IN ARxANsAs.-In Ar
kansas, when n man desires to say that hc
would like drink, he declares that if he had
a glass Of whisky, he would throw himself
outside of it mighty quick,
To lie lIuNe.--Young Eldrcdge, the school
master who misled widow at Masscna
Springs, N. Y, and killed her by slow pois-
on while attending her on sick bed, has
been sentenced to be hanged on the second
day of September, the court having refused
to grant him anew trial
bGuTAL MURDER.-Gcorgc Ivoy, of Colum-
bus, Ga, murdered his wife in a brutal man
ncr on Sunday last He has escaped.
WiNDY.-The Washington Globe says the
average numbcrofw,rds spoken by Congress
in long session is 0,290,770.
BIsuor CApERs.-Tho life of Bishop Ca
pcrs, written by DR.. Wightman, has Just been
Published. 1t is for sale at tho Methodist
book agency, at Charleston.
YELLOW FEVER IN CnARLEsroN.- or
two deaths have resulted from yellow fever
in Charleston. The physicians say ithas not
yet assumed an epidemic form.
DOUBLE IIoNoRs--The Newborn IN. ca
Daily ProgyeSs ofthc 18th instant, says that
Hon John w. Ellis, our Governor elect, was
unitcd in marriage to Miss Mary Mckinley,
daughter of the late John p. Dawes, last even
ing, at Christ's church, in this place, Rev. II.
j. lIaughton ofhciating.
IL FAVOR OF l[r-MEN.-A lady, advcrtis-
ing for n husband, in particular to have it
understood, that "nonc need apply who are
under six feet" upon which tho editor re-
marks chat lady is strongly in favor of hy-
men,"
A LUCKY FoUNDLING.-Th Oxford, Miss,
Mercury, tells of an old bachelor in it's noiph-
borhOod, worth $i50,000, who recently found
ancw-born female babe hanging at his gate.
lie adopted it, and gave it the name of Gu
| rcka Gate"
New ORLEANS, August LITTLE latest ac,
counts from the Lake with reference to the
explosion of the steamer Virginia on Satur-
day last, report eight persons in all killed by
the disaster.
GEN. JAcKsoN,-Thc Yirginians claim at
this late day, that Gen. Andrew Jackson was
born in berkeley CO., Va, instead of this
State. We esupposc aprotcntivc claim is all
they can put up, and that is really much
moro than they can substantato. We never
before heard it doubted but that he was ma
tive of South Carolina.
UNITED STATES SENAToR.-Amonr tholate
nominations for United States Senator to sue
| NNNNt N''N i''O cuNSC IINt'lSi VIC notice the
names of Hon. r. B. Rhett Sr., Hon. James
L. Pctigru, Col. John Cunningham, and Ex-
Coy. j. III. Means.
| FACE ExHIBlrioN.-ThcY hang people in
public in Virginia, and Judge Thompson, of
Wheeling, has ordered Burns, the murderer
of his mistress, to be hung on q hill, where
about 100000 people could get good vicw
YELLow FEyER.-The British bark Pcnc-
lope, from Matanzas, bound to Queenstown,
has arrived at quarantine, below Charleston,
with the yellow fever on board. The captain,
mate and several mon had died, and the pres
ent commander Captain Seats, was procured
/ from ship Mt sea.
AFFAIR OF IIoNoR.-A duel took place at
Fair Bluff, on Sunday, between Charles La.
than and Mr.. Tclfair, of Washington, N. C.
No injury was sustained by either party.
| LIBERAL-The whole amount ofmoney for
charitable purposes given away during his
| lifetime by the late Amos Lawrence, of Mas
sachusetts, is said to be six hundred and thir-
ty-nine thousand dollars fact which rests ON
the most positive evidence.
TEXAS Z. S. SExAroR.-Thc Tyler (Texas)
Reporter, of the 2lst ult., says that Governor
Runncls has appointed Col. Matt Ward, of
| CnsS, United States Senator to Fl II tho yooon