Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1858-06-26

L. Jones the opposition candidates Ton Cor
grcss in the Buncombc district of North
Carolina, Mr.. Coleman has retired from tho
field, -r no o.on 3,,o3 D.
GoLp IN OnE6oN. The new goldrogion in
Oregon and the Hudson's Bay Company tor
ritory is rapid peopling those countries. En-
igrants are aocking to the diggngst to endure
the same kind of privations and sulferings as
were experienced in California ut the first
breaking out ofthc gold fever.
BRITIsm PHILANTIRoPY.-The Baltimore
Ercbdnye says, referring to the capture of
slavers by the British: Not one negro who
is captured by British cruiser ever gets
back to his homo in Africa, but he becomes
an apprentice in the British colonies.
TnE DlrFERENcE.-Plu says, in his
life of Alexander, that the Babylonions used,
during the dog days, to sleep on skins filled
with water. Tho Boston Times adds that in
these days men sleep on skins filled with Ii
quor.
TuE LONDON TIMEs,z7Wo see it stated that
the profits of the London Times are estimated
at $240,000 year. We have reason to Ie-
licvc that for tho year ending last December,
they were COG, 900, or $4SO,OO0
FIRST CorToS BLooM.-Thc Bayou Sara
Phonir Le'lgcr says: We had sent to us, on
the 20th ultmo Il red cotton bloom, from the
Ambrosia plantaton," the property of Col
c. G, S. Farrar. This blossom developed il
self on the 25th of May, which is about twelve
days earlier than the average period at which
the cotton plant first begins to show its flow
erS.
~ GooD IDEA-Tho postmaster of New
York city, dcsirous of accomdating the ladies
who visit the post Office in that city, has ar-
pointed lady to attend the window where
they apply for letters.
The REvENuE.--In nothing is the pressure
of last year more strikiugly illustrated than
in tho dlnIlnution or imports. The revenue
for eleven months of the last fiscal year re-
ceivcd at this port reached $4l l,50l, 1888; for
the same period of the present fiscal year
S25.74S,004. The Secretary of the Treasury
in his estimates for the present year calcula-
ted upon revenue from customs Of SO ,000,-
900. twill not reach 40,Q00,000. But the
expenses ofthc government do not diminish
with the revenue.
New WHEAT.-Wc see from thc st. Louis
pApors that two lots Of new wheat have been
received there. One lot from Tennessee, and
TIC other from Mississippi They brought
50. 10 and 1926 per bushel. The receipts
are nearly four weeks earlier than last year.
To BE ExEcUTED.-A young man named
Radford j. Crockett, is to be hung at Atlanta,
Geo., on Friday next. The same day young
man named Powers, is to be executed at
Washington, d. G..
FEMALE ADMINISTRATIONS are 10000
women employed in watch making in Switz-
crland.
The FIRsT.-J. G. Hope, Esq, of Licking
ton district, sends the editor of the Columbia
Guardian cotton bloom which appcered in
his field on the 14th inst.
LARGE 4tMoUNT.-Thc aggregate amount
of appropriations made by Congress is beliey-
Ell to be SSO,O00,000!
A NOBLE DoG.-A little girl, five or six
+, years of age, fell into the water few days
ago from the Battery at Charleston, and
w'uid-me%itobB Have drowned but for the
assistance of noble dog, which, seeing tho
struggling child, leapod in ofcr it, and lam
ded it in safety on the shore.
FiRE.-A destructive fire at Boston has re-
Gently destroyed S20o.000 of property.
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