Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1858-05-15
VARIETY /.

After had taken my seat one morning
Mt Paddington, in an empty carriage, I was
joined Just as the train was moving of, by
strange looking young man, with remark /.
ably long flowing hair. lie was, of course,
a little fiurried, but he seemed besides to
be disturbed, andwild, so that I was quite
alarmed for lcm his not being right in
his mind nor did mis- subsequent conduct
at all repssure me. Our train was an cx
press, and he inquired eagerly, ut once, /,
which was the first station whereat we were
advertised to stop. | consulted my Brad
shaw, and furnished him with the desired
information Itwas Reading The young
man looked at his watch {" Madame"
said he, Il have but half an hour between
me, and 1T may be ruin. Excuse, there
fore, my abruptncss. You have, | per
cciyc, pairof cissors in your work bag.
Obllge me- if you please, by cutting of my
hair" "Sir, said i, '''it is impossible"
Madame" he urged, and look of Sc
we're determination crossed his features
8 | am u desperate man. Beware how YOU
refuse nat | ask Cut my hair off-short,
close to the ts--immediately, and there
is a newspaper to hold theambrosinl .curls."
| thought he was mad of course; and be-
hevlng that it Would be dangerous to thwart
him, L cut off all his hair to the last lock
Now, madame said he, unlocking a
small portmantcau, 'you will further oblgc
me by looking out of the window as [ am
about to change my clothes ~ OF course
looked out of the window for a very CON
siderable time, and when he observed, "T
need no longer put you to any nconyoni-
eence," did not recognize the young man
IN the least
Instead of his. former gay costume, he
was attired i'll black, and wore a GRAY VIC
and silver spcctaclcs he looked like re-
spectacle divine of the Church of England,
of about siXty-four years. TO complete that
character he had volume of scrnlons in
his hands, which.-thcy appeared so to alb
sorb him-might have been his OWL. at
do not wish to threaten you, young lady"
he resumed "and / think, besides, / can
trust your kind face. VIII you promise
me not to reveal this metamorphosis untiL
your journeys end 2" "I will" said |.
'most certainly" At Reading, the guard
and person in plain clothes looked into
our carriage " You have the ticket, NV
love-" said the young man, blandly, and
looking at me as though'he were my father.
w ii'IbuJ Sil VIC UOu uMUlU InCfn,
sad the Official, as he Withdrew his COZ,
panon " shall now leave you madame;T
observed my fellow traveller, as. soon. as the
coast was clear ''byyon kind and coura-
geous conduct you have saved my life, and
perhaps even your own"
In another minute he was gone, and the
train was in motion. Not till the next
morning did learu from the Times news
paper that the gentleman Oh whom / had
operated as hair-cutter had committed a
heavy forgery to an enormous amount in
London few hours before / had met him
and that he had been tracked into an ex
press train from Paddington, but that-al-
though the telegraph had been put in mo-
ton and described him accurately-at
Reading, when the train was searched, he
was nowhere to be found.
Hoase4o1ds lords.
MENAoGNG PosIT IN OF FRANcE.LTh
London correspondence of the New York
Commercial, writing under date of April
10th, says: '"Phat which was plainly stat
ed to the readers of the Commercial &dver-
tiscr two months ago, is now becoming a
recognized conviction on all sides. A war
forced upon us by France is admitted by al
most all to be possible, and.by many to- be
probable The extent to which this con-
clusion has gained ground was best illus
trated three nights since in discussion in
the House of Commons on tho navy esti.
mates The House was unanimous on the
necessity for vigorously sustaining our de-
fences, and however guarded each speaker
might endcayor to be, it was rendered ap
pareAt thatonc thought was predommantin in
every mind, namely, that the gigantic prep
arations across the channel arc. beyond all
precedent, and can have but a single object.
Of course the members of tire Cabinet en-
dcavored as far as possible, to disguise their
belief that the Emperor has anyiIl designs,
by suggesting that however much we might
place reliance on his good faith, we had no
guaranteethat his rule would be permanent.
and that this was tue reason why weshould
be on our guard they.all admitted that the
signsof danger from France we're too palpa-
bleto be disowned or neglected.
"PA, I know what fllibustcr is.''.
Well Johnny, what is a 1fllibuster?" tItI
isgrccn clover ''Grccn what?" "Green
clover, cause when uncle Jacks little
iilly fonndered herself, he said, a Ettle more.
ofthe green clover would busted her
and eff it had, wouldn't tia bccna fly
sesser~ "Go to bed, child go 10 bed"