Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1858-02-13
Pennings aud Clippings.

umns this week. 81
4 REsUNiNG.-Tho banks of Philadelphia
arc resuming specie payments, and il is
thought all the banks ia Pennsylvania win
do likewise in short time.
f RIsINo.-Cotton is looking up iu Charles
ton. On Monday last, it was selling at 9 to
10 cents per pound.
SENTENcED.- Winnsboro' Register saws
that VIM. Sanders, FREQ person of color, has
been sentenced to be hanged on Friday tho
2Sth May for negro stealing. Anappealh has
been taken.
ANorHER MAIL RonBERY.-T frequency
of arrests for mail robbery is one of the sig-
ntcant signsof the depravity of the times
a young man, respectfully connected nam.
/ cd IL. W. Young, Jr,, employed in the Wash
/ mgton Post Office, has been detected in ON
bczzling money and other yaluables from The
mails. The sum distracted was Sc. 600 of
which 81, 900 was recovered.
| WHAT THEY Do.--Rail roads and steam.
boats annihilatc space and time, not to mem
ton y multitude of passengers.
4 CuTOtiIlUn
nounccs the death of Kcnon Brazcale, of that
district, aged l06 years
FoUR LIVES Losr.-Late reports state that
four persons were burned to death at the fire
at Ashtabula Infrmary, Kingsvillc, Ohio, on
Tuesday night.
PIcEPocKETs. These gents are quite nu-
merous and doing thriving business in
Charleston. On the 9th one gentleman had
his pocket picked of $40 in money and So 900
in notes.
] FIRE-A destructive fire occurred at Rome
Ga, on the both ult Stores, dwellings and
offices with their contents, were DESTROYED.
Loss, about 100000!
WHAT NExr?-A firm in Newark, N. j..
have received patent for machine for
backing boots and shoes.
Snow STORM IN V1RGISIA.-rhc Grccnbri-
er (Na.l Era says: eve were visited by an
old fashioned snow storm on Thursday last
which compared unfnvorable with tho very
pleasant weather we have enjoyed durina
the past mouth"
SINGULAR Academia gentleman by the
name of Belose, of Fayctte CO., Tenn. while
standing on the steps of gin house, near his
residence afcw days since, accidentally lost
his footing and fell to the ground, on the
blade of knife which he held open in hand.
The knife entered his breast, killing him in
stantly.
FASHIONABLE WoMEN.-" Read the bioc.
. nnr
men," says an exchange; "not one of thcm
had a fashionable mother. They nearly all
sprung from plain, strong minded women,
who had about as little to do with fashions
as with the changing clouds"
CoNvENrs IN PRussrA. According to a re-
cent statistical return, there exists in the
Catholic provinces Of Prussia sixty-nine CON
vents and religious communities, COMPRISING
nne hundred and sevcny-six members, Of
whom about three ffths are females Tbev
are principally ursulines and Sisters of Char
| ity.
/. DEATH BY CnLoRoFoRM.-J McChesncy,
lumber and coal merchant of Toronto, Cana
da' died suddenly Monday morning in the
1 dentists chair, after taking chloroform for
the purpose of having his teeth extracted.
4 HARTFORD, Feb. John W. Seymour.
Esq, Secretary of the Hartford County Sa-
wings Association, has absconded He is
doianlter to the amount of 100000.
PIcKPocKErs.-The Baltimore market pla-
ces are very much infested with female nick
pockets--thc majority of them beino yonno
girls of pretty faces and gentecl appearance.
SCARLET TFEYER.-Scarlct fever is very pre-
valent all over the Now England States. IT.
is not so fatal in its effects this season as it
has been.
APPEALING ToTHE PEoULg. .-Ex-Gov STAN
ton, OF Kansas, i'll aii address 10 the people of
the United States, defends his Kansas policy.
opposes the Lccompton constitution and com
plains generally.
i AT STANDsTILL.- Spartanburg and
Union railroad, as we learn from the Union-
vile Jom7mt, is in n deplorable condition. -
! The creditors of tho road refuse to give ,lp
their lien to the State, unless which is done
she recent appropriation by the Legislature
will be unavailable
GEN. CALnoUN.--Gen. John Calhoun, Pres
idcnt OF the Loeompton constitutional conven
tlon, is native of Massachusetts. sr
NOVEL IDEA or IIEAvBN.-An Indian was
lately hung in Texas, for the murder of a
child. When on the scaffold, he said he was
poinp IN Arkansas onJ ,v;sLo1 4i, ~ ~