Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1858-09-04
Pennings and Clippings.


uablc tract of land, is Andcrson's Mill, S. C.
CorPER.-Thc editor of tho Ashville, n.
c. News, has received avery pretty specimen
of Native Copper found in shaft on Cherry
Ficld Creek, in Henderson county: it was OBJ
tanned at tho depth of nine or ten feet-thc
indications are that there is much moro of
1T in the same vicinity.
LOTTERY SwINDLING.-A New Yorker has
drawn an eighth of $32, 900 in one of the lot
tcrcs ut the South and cannot get the CON
Germ to pay up. The New York papers con
grntulatc their readers on the result. as they
think this species of gambling will soon be
played out when prizes prove blanks.
DERIyED-Robcrt Dale Owen, the Amcri-
can Minister at Naples, has published de-
NAL of the report that he had become n Cath
oic Withoutbclonging to any religious body,
he holds to the Unitarian doctrine, and is
prcparinga work on the subject of religion
which will disclose his religious views
EARTHoUAKE.-Th houses in Iuldornoss
n. H., were shook by an earthquake, on the
24th ult' No damage was done.
CoNvENTIoN.-Prcparations are making in
New York for a National convention of Ger
mans to be composed of delegates from the
various emigration societies throughout the
Union-the leading object of which will be
the better protection of cmigrants. The con e.
ycntion is to assemble Oh the 1st of October
LoNGEvITY.-Thcre is very remarkable
case of longevity in one family in Nelson
county, Va. There are five married sisters
whose aggregate ages amount to 434 years ::
on the first of january last the eldest was O3;
the second o. the third 98, the fourth 81,
| and the fifth so.
EDcErIELD,-Tho Adcetiscr publishes the
returns of the Commissioners of Free Schools
for Edgcficld district, for the year 1857, b,
which it appears that there arc scvcnty-ninc
schools in tho district, requiring the services
OF eighty-two teachers, at an expense of
S3009.SO. Nine hundred and fourteen schol-
ars attended school during that year.
SpREADlNG.-T disease commonly call
cd the black tongue, which made its appear
ancc in Florida somc months since, then in
Alabama, has at length reached Bay St.
Louis (La.) and is sweeping away cattle and
deer with sad mortality. 1t has also at
tackled horses in some sections Of the country.
DUEL BETWEEN BoYs.-The Marsvillc LA
Organ says that duel was recently fought
between two boys II years of age in that vii
lagc. They fired three times at each other
with pistols ut ten PAGES
PLEASANT ArFEcrIoN.-Thc best lip salvo
in creation is a sweet kiss. The remedy
should be used with great care, however. as
it is apt to bring on an affection of the heoi t.
WRANcLERs.- persons spend so much
time in critising and disputing about the Cos
pei that they have none left for practicing it.
As if two sick men should qnorrJl about the
phrascolosy ofthcir physicianss prescription
and forget to take the medicine.
NOMINATED AGAIx.--" Seaboard," cor
respondent of the Charleston Courier, NOM
nltcs Gen. Harrison of Anderson, again for
Governor of the State.
Tue CnANGE.-Our exchanges from every
sccton-North, South, East and Wcst-mon-
ton tho sudden change of weather which oc-
CURED on Sunday the Dist ult
An EXTENSIVE JUo OF rWHIsKY.-The court
OF Burksyilc, Kyp recently gave verdict
against the owner of distillory for the val
ue OF Il slave, for having sold the black Jug
of whisky, on which the slave became intoxi-
Gated. and was, in consequence, drowned in
attempting to swim on horseback swollen
creek 1t is only n pity that every similar
jug of liquor is not equally expensive.
KILLED.-James Grccn killed man nam
ed Danor, of Mobile, at Warrenton Springs
on the night of the Odd, with a bowie knife,
in arencontrc- The same parties were re-
Gently arrested in Washington, and prevon-
ted trcm fighting duel. Both are young
men. Green is in custody.
| BIRDS or FEATHER, &c.--It is stated that
Lola Montcz has been engaged by Mons.
Rcvire the "Gal!ant Zuave," 10 deliver Sc
ries of lectures Oil morals, early in the conf
ing Fall. The subject, in such hands, will
doubtless receive its full need ofjusticei
ENORMOUS MELoNs.- Tho editor of the Ra-
leigh Christian Adeocate has received two
enormous water melons. One is from Dup
lin county, weighing 45i pounds; the other
from Craven county. and weighs 81 pounds.
CARRIED AT LAsT,--The democrats of Lit
| tlo Rock, Ark, carried that CITY ut the Into