Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1858-12-04
Pennings and Clippings.

PenningS and Clippings.
ELEcTEp.-IIon. Thomas l.. Clingman has
been elected to the United States Senate,
from North Carolina, for the short term, aud
Gov. Bragg for the long form. -.
CoRN.-The corn crops has turned out
we'll in Tennessee, and is selling at Knoxville
for 33j cents, per bushcl.
lNprANApoLIs Nov. 2G.-Thc House this
afternoon passed vote of fifty-one to forty
five upon the joint resolution of the State
Senate, declaring tho election of the IT, s.
Senators Bright and Fitch illegal, unconsti-
tutional and void.
ITUNG BY MoD.-A man named Myers
was wantonly stabbed and killed at IIanni-
bal, ILL.,, a few days ago, by desperate
named Adams. The citizens Immediately
assembled, seized Adams, and strung him up
to the first convenient tree, whore he hung
until life was extinct. -
GEORGIA PRospERITY.-Th Macon (Ga.)
IclcDaph states that there are now 1900
miles of railroad in that State, all clear of
debt, and paying II per cent of yearly div
dcnds to the stockholders. The cotton crop
of the present year will bring $2l,O00,OCO,
and factories and machine shops are multiply
ing with great apidity.
DEATH OF MADAME IDA PrE1rrER.-
lady died in Vienna on the 9th of October,
of an illness contracted during her late visit
to Madagascar. Her travels and adventures
have been made familiar to the reading pub
lie BY many interesting volumes.
AFRICAN SLAVE TRADE-Thc Savannah
Republican says, "the bill which has been
pending in the Georgia Senate for some time
for the repeal of that clause of the Constitu-
ton of this State prohibiting tho African
slave trade, came up as the special order
Tuesday last, and was lost.
VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY. Y.-There are ten moro
students mntricuatod at the University of
Virginia, this season, than ever were matric-
ul"tc'; o" the corresponding day Of any nre-
vlouS session.
Costly SNUFF BoxEs.-The cost of Cable
Enthusiasm" is not yet over. TIE gold box
cs to Cyrus Field and others hG just been
finished the bill costing New York city ST.
500.
MIssIoNARY.-The General Missionary
Committee of the Methodist Episcopal Church
was in session in New York fow days since,
and determined to send six additional Mis-
sionares to India to increase the work in
China, and to form mission in Salt Lake
City. The entire appropriation for the year
1859 are 26lj46, distributed as follows =
Foreign missions l3l AGO = contingent fund.
10000; Office expenses 5000; liquidation Of
100000
Ma. Ten BRoEcK.-Mr. Richard Ten Bro
eek has returned home after long soiourn
in England. 1t is Mr.. Ten Broeck's nten-
ton to return to England in tho spring, and
to take with him some fresh American horses
to test their qualities again on the English
turf.
STEYsTowN, Pa, Nov. 21.-Twenty inches
of snow have fallen on the mountains West
of this place. The stages have been stopped
and sleighs have been brought into requisi-
tion. The snowis four inches deop here, and
it is still falling
THE United States Economist estimates
the consumption of boots and shoes in the
United States at seventy-six millions pairs
per year, valued at eight million of, dollars.
About twelve million pairs are made ihl
Massachusetts,, one-half of thesd in Lynn,
MARRIAGE OF Kn,DREp.~-A bill has
passed the House of Representatives, by.a
vote of So to 81, prohibiting the intermafs
riage of first COUSINS, under q severe pen
atty, and cutting OFF the Inheritance Of is.
sue. The preamble to the bill asserts that
many dcformations of mind and body are Of
cohgcnital origin, from the practice ofnear
kindred intcrmarrying with each other.
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