Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1858-05-01


Will not object to take swig,
Whom you are down he-cider.
And if she thus indulges,
You may then have to guide her;
But she will say its owingto
The stuff which is in-cider
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Dad Morton's Best-A Story Of VarmAnt.
a correspondent of the Post is responsible
! for the following statement of amost remark
able event. 1t bears on its face indisputable
evidence Of its truth:
Uncle Morton, bettcr known at ITyde's, in
Sudbury, Vermont, as "Dad,"is q story tel
lcr, in both senses OF the word, for ho not
only tells many, bat they are generally ofthe
most MunchauseniSh kind. In fact, he has
drawn so long bow in the way of romance,
that, being nearly ninety years Of age, he now
repeats his fictions as indisputable facts
The following is too good to be lost, and I
give itverbatim. l wish could give the
matter of fact, on oath mannerin which he
impressoS its truth. IlIad been talking With
the old man on the sensible manners and Gus
toms of our forofathers, and their success in
doing the business of life, when he broke out:
tell ye, them ancestors of ourn didn' do
| nothin half way. But there is an awful fall
ing off since them times. Why in my time,
when | was n boy, things wento on more econ
!
was to take care of tho hens and chickings,
| Dad is famous for his handling of the alpha
bet, and will tell yer how raised them.-
You know Use q very thinking child, always
q thinking 'copt when am asleep Well, it
como on me one night to raise n big lot of
chickings from one hen and III tell We how
| didit. 1 took an old whisky barrel and
filled It with fresh eggs, and then put it on
the south side of the barn, with somo horse
manure around it, and then set the hen on
the bung hole. The old critter kept her sit
tin, and in three weeks / heard little peep.
Then putmy ear to the spiggot, when the
peeping growed like swarm of bees [ did
not say anything to the folks about the hatch
ing, for they'd all the time told me was a
| fool, but the next morning / knocked the
head out of the barrel, and covered the barn
| floor two feet deep all over with little chick
inngs. Now you may laugh as much as you
! please butt true" -
When hear better story, will give it
to you.
SOME HAIL.-Kendall writes to the
Picayune from New Brauufcls, Texas,
about some tall hail they have had in that
quarter.
"Sincc March set in we have had sever
| al copious showers, and one hail storm which
beat everything in that line l haye ever
witnessed. Why, the hail came down in
chunks as big as your fist and many per-
sons, caught out in the midst of it, were
terribly frightened and badly hurt, | have
even heard that young colts and calves
were in some instances killed outright
Some of the hail stones are said to have
weighed pound and half, and the win
dows on the windward side of some of the
houses in New Braunfels, look as though
they had been exposed to the thickest of a
three days revelation in Paris According
to Shakespeare, Lear was caught out in a
tolerably severe tempest; the old King
could not have .withstood the "pelting Of
such ptilcss storm" MS ours a single mo-
ment. The only people benefited by the
shower of ice were the GLACIERS; they have
had their hands full of work"
Now.-DIr. Emerson, in his lecture on
"Works and Days" said many things wor-
thy to be repeated thousand times
Among the numerous striking passages that
lodge in our memory is the following -
The days are Gods best gifts to man, but
like many other gifts, pass by UNDECIDED
and unappreciated. we ask friend
what are you doing now? and are answer,
ed, have been doing thus and so, and am
going to commence some other work soon,
but just now am not doing anything
And yet we complain that we have no time
An Indian chief of the Six Nations. once
said wiser thing than any philosopher
A white man remarked in his hearing thai
he had not time enough Well, replied
Red Jacket, gruffiy, / suppose you have all
there is He is the wisest and best man
who can crowd the most good actions into
nOfc.
EDITORIAL COURTESY IN KANSAS
The editor of the C6aslit,ttionalist, pub
lished at Doniphan, X: T., pitches into the
editor of Black Republican sheet after
the following manner,
"The editor of the chief wishes us tc
bring him into notice, but we do not wish
to pollute our columns With such trash, uH
less forced to do SO. We would gently
hint to the cross-eycd, crank.sided, peaked
and long razor-nosed, blue-mouthod, piggel
Tipped, white-eyed, soft headed, long-eared
crane,nccked, blubber-lipped, empty-head
ed, filthy-mouthcd, squeaky.voiced, snag.
gle-toothed, box-ankled, pigcon-toed, reel
footed, goggle-eyed, hammer-hearted, cat.
hammed, bump -shoulderod, bandyshanked
splaw.footeds ignoble Black Republican
abolition editor; to attend to his own affairs
or we will pitch into him In earnest
Coz. FREMoNr BEATEN. .---The Supreme
! Court of California has decided the case n.