Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1858-08-21

yelled and whooped like gang of wolves.
Finally, one of'cm ses, don't make fun
of the unfortunate; he's hardly got over
bcin' blowcd up yet. Lets make up
puss for him." Then they all throwed in,
and made up five dollars. AS tho spokes-
man handed me the change, he asked me,
Z" Whar did you find yourself fafter the 'spo-
osin 2"
In fiat boat" ses I.
How far from the Franklin ?" scs he
"Why," ses 1, {" never seen her, but
as nigh as can guess, it must have been,
from what they tci me, nigh on to three
hundred and scvonty-Gvc miles, You
ouShtcr seen that gang scatter. AS they
left, says one, otis the ugly man of all !"
Knocking round the place, came up
on one of these fellcrs that grinds noise
out'n mahogany case. He had a little
monkey alongNthe pcartest, least bit of
crittcr you ever seed We'll, bein' fond Of
music and varmints, | gets pretty close to
the mashccn, and darned eff twon't hard to
tell which got the most praise, me or the
monkey. lIowsoevcr, at last got close up
and the darnd thing kctchcd sight of
me and squallcd Itjumpcd OFF the box
in fright, and hanged itsolf by it's chain.
The grinder histed it up agin, but it squall'd
morn ever, and jcrked aud twisted and run
over the keeper, and jumped oh'n his back
and hanged itself agn. The sight of INC
had run it distracted At last the grin
der hiltit to his bosom, and scs he
"Go ways, oagloy man-maunkcc fraid
much oaglcyw
"Scs, l, Go to tho devil, you old hcathcn'
you sec he was some sort Of a Dutch chap
or anothcr-"if you compare me to your dir
ty monkey agin, III throw it hcll'ards, and
split your old box over your hcad!" And
scs he right offogain-
"Maunkeo is pcttor ash dat oagloy man."
" Scs, |, gentlemen, you hear this crttcr
compar me, free Amarakin. to his darncd
that fetched the monkey sailing that sent
him q whirlin' about sixty-fvc yards, over
brick wall, and tho next mint the Dutchman
and his box was the most mixed pile of rags
and splintcrs you ever seen in ono mud hole.
About that time, too, thar was rs pretty up
country runnin' on top o them cussed bricks
as you'll commonly see. lay up two or
three days. and at last made my passage up
to Wctumky, in the cabin"
:" How was that?" asked
San old lady that was long, lowed it was
dangerous for me to stay on deck, as | might
scare the masheenory out o joint. SO they
reckon / was treated nigh on to hundred
times atoro we got TO Wetumky."
THAT'S not the way you told it tho last
time" remarked Mrs. Wallis.
Thunder. squire, did you ever hear such
wimmin folks-l'vc hardly had chance to
edge in a word tonight. Well my last tx
pcricncc was about n ycargo. | got kctch-
cd in q hurricane; it was blowin' like the
devil, and the thunder and the lightnin was
tremcnjus---so | gifts under big red oak,
and thar sot till tho lightnin' struck it! [
was lcann' agin the tree when the bolt come
down, shiverin' and splintcrin' all before it.
1t htmc right herc-and then
Good heavens! did lightnin' disfgurc
your face so?"
"Disfguro thunder! No! Tho ightnn'
struck me right here, as | was sayin' and
then it glanced"
Good Lord look DOWN. calculated Mrs.
Wallis.
DURING the Summer of '46, says the
KnichcrJocher, corn being scarce in the
upper country, and one of the citizens being
hard pressed for bread, having worn thread
bare the hospitality of his generous neigh
bors BY his extreme lazincss, they thought
it an act of charity to bury him. Accord
ingly, he was carried towards the place of
intcrmcnt, and being met by one of the cit
izens, the following conversation took place:
wIallo what have you therc" "Poor old
s." "Whatarc you going to do with him?"
"Bury him" "NYhat is he dead? | had
not heard of his DEATH" "No ho isn't dead,
but he might as well be, for he has no corn
onI ha 10 law fn III
"This is too cruel for civilized people,
I'll give two bushels of corn for myself ra-
thcr than sec him buried alive" Mr. s.
raised the cover, and asked in his dragging
tone: "I-si-t s-h-c-l-l-c-d" <" No, but
you can shell it" "D-r-i-v-e ON boys" "
MAxIMs AND RULES or LIFE-Rcmcmbc
that every person, however low, has rights
and feelings. In all contentious let peace
be rather your object than triumph Value
triumph only as the means ofpoacc. Do not
attempt to frighten children and interiors by
passion it does more harm to your own char
actcr than it does good TO them; the samc
thingi better done by frmness and persua-
sion. Find fault, when you must find fault,
in private, if possible; and some time after
the offence, rather than at the time. The
blamed are less inclined to resist, when they
are blamed without witnesses; both parties
arc calmer, and the accused party is struck
with the forbearance of the accuser, who has
seen the fault and watched for private and
proper time for mentioning it.-Sidney Smtth.
On no occasion do people seem more
prone to commit blunders than at we'd
ding. The following funny incident actu-
ally happened in ncighboring town, in the
i. II a II