Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1858-12-18

sation in Lowell, Mass, is chiropodist who
rides about the city in a team drawn by two
Newfoundland dogs.
ANOTHER CADLE.-A new submarine cable
is still talked of in England. This is an age
of enterprise, and one failure in work of
such magnitude should not intimidatc
MARRIED FoRTUNB.-Mr. Charles p.
ll'laIerro and Miss Caroline Fortune, of
Brownsville, Tenn, were united in marriage
OH the 2ith of November.
DESTRUCTIVE FIRE.--A fire at Woodyillc,
Miss, on the lst inst, destroyed nine large
stores and other property to the value of
100000. The insurance was very small.
MONUMENT TO GEN. QurrMAN-In the
Mississippi Senate, on Monday, resolution
was unanimously adopted appropriating
thirty thousand dollars to croct u monument
to the late Gen. Quitman, at Natchez. The
resolution was rejected by tho House.
The CHARLESTON MARKET. Cotton was
quoted in Charleston, on the 18th, at III Ia
to III 7-S cents per H.
GUBERNAToRIAL IIoNoRs.-In this duy of
contest for gubcrnatorial honors, the couun-
drum following may be consoling: In what
State ought cycry man to be GovcrnorH
In the State of Motrimony
DEATH OF AN AGED MAN.-Mr. Reubin
Gray, aged o. years, died ut Brooksvillc,
Maine, last Tuesday. lie was the first male
white child born on the Peninsular of Cas-
tine. lie voted for Cen Washington and
for every Democratic candidate for President
up to the present day
A WEALTHY SrATE.-Thcre are said to be
$1,000, 900 worth ofhogs in Ohio; 5000 900
worth of sheep; $2l 00000 worth of cat
tie; SiS5,O00 worth of mules and asses, and
100000 horses, worth SIS 100000 The to-
tai annual value of its agricultural products
reaches $l53,OOO,0Oo.
MoRMoNrsM IN New JrRsEY.-The Mon
mouth (N J) Democ,W says, that man. call
ing himself Brigham Young, jr, has cstah-
lished himself in Ocean county, and called
his place "Ncw Utah, or Little Salt Lake"
lie has also induced three silly women to
join him, as starting point in his stock of
wives.
GOLD IN NORTH CARoMNA-A new and
valuable gold mine is said to have been re-
Gently discovered in Montgomery county, n
q, from which the owner, at an expense of
5000, secured 1000 worth of Gold in three
months.
Now WnAT.-Scnator Douglas has left
New Orleans on the Black Warrior for New
York via Havana on his way to Washington.
lie was honorcd by an escort of citizens and
officers, headed by the Mayor, and with a
parting salute of ono hundred guns. The
whole of his visit was IN occasion of great
| popular enthusiasm.
MORE TROUBLE BREwING.-The steamer
Washington has been boarded by the officers
Of the British ship leopard The ships pas
sonGcr list were examined The Washing
ton was supposed to be taking ont flibuster-
ing cmigrants to Nicaragua 1t matters
not, however, what she was engaged in, the
British vessel had no business to again in
sist oil. the fright of search" and outrage
the flag of our country.
LITERARY-Ex-Senator Jerc Clemens, of
Alabama, is writing an interesting story for
the Huntsville Independent, entitled The
! Rivals; tale of the times of Aaron Burr
and Alexander Hamilton"
! fRENcu SroKTswoMEN.-Th Empress Eu-,
-rD;c is known to be an accurate markswo-
ie in hand. In the Department du
Nord, several of the leading lady fashonn-
| blcs have taken out shooting warrant, and
fill their rcctculcs with rcd-lcgged par
| tridgcs.
"Lo! TIE Poor N."-George Cop
way, the Indian, is giving entertainments
musical, oratorical, &c.--at Lowell, Mass.
ELECTION REsULTs.-The journal of
Commerce figures up in table an absolute
and relative gain by the Democratic party
in the late elections in the different States,
compared with the last Presidential election;
even in the free States the Democrats have
gained slightly upon the Republican, and
upon the aggregate Opposition vote i'm
mcnsely. 1t makes the total Opposition
vote (Republican and Amerioan) at the
Presidential election, in 1856, ] 1871
total Opposition vote at the recent elections,
1881 ,946; total decrease of Opposition
votes, 295,G70; increase of Democratic
votes, as calculated, 10,996; Democratic
relative gain since 1856, 306, 666.
MoBILE, December THE schooner
Susan Harvey, Moury master, sailed on
sunday without Custom House clearance,