Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1858-01-09
pennings and Clippings.

ter, accepting Coy. Walkers resignation
lie depreoetes the practice of the 9oFer~rnent
arguing with its officers, but denies TINT the
President has changed bis policy as to Kan
sas. ~
Sorry TO HEAR IT-IIon, III. S. fCompyo-
nise) Foote, late of Mississippi, but now of
California, intends to settle in Memphis.
Tenn.
Tne AUTuoR.-Thc rich Sut Loyengood
Sketches" are written by Captain George w.
Harris, the quiet, sedate, and universally
popular postmaster at Knoxville, in Tenn.
EXCITING TopIcs-N Nicaragua, Kansas and
Utah, bid fair to furnish plenty of exciting
materials for some time to come The old
year passes away amid fllibustoring, civil
war, rebellion aud polYgomy. So wego!
LARGE BEoUEsTs.-Th late D. Watk;nson,
Esq, of Hartford CT, has left S30O,000 to
thirty nephews and neices, 100000 for q
free library, $50 900 for juvenile asyldtn, and
farm school, $4,000 to tho Hartford asylum,
$4,000 for indigent orphan children, and
various other sums, ranging from 5000 to
500 for benevolent purposes.
FOUND DEAD.SJohn Soscbee, says tho
SPartanburg Cypress, was found dead in that
district a few days ago. A Coroner's jury
agreed that whiskey was the cause.
LOVE LADoR--Ifyo want it not 70. !, Il,
| you may for physic.
THE New IALL.-In the new CO pitol at
Washington, q splendid Representative Hall
has been completed, and the members are
now occupying it. 1t is the finest represen-
tative hall in the world.
| RECEIPTS OF GRAIN AT CHICAGo.-The total
receipts of grain at Chicago thus far in the
present season are 320388 barrels of -four,
9,414,333 bushels of wheat, 6,125 300 bush
els of corn, and 1,l3S, ,O04 bushels of ats, or
n total equivalent to 1892, ,lI6 bushels of
grain.
APPALLING.-The N. Y. Tribune says: -
We are prepared to state on the best author
ity, that since the crisis began, there has
been an addition of fifteen hundred prost-
tutes to the grand army of the God-forsaken
and broken-hearted in this city.
CHRISTMAS DAY.-The day seems to have
been generally observed everywhere, BY
some as day of great religious interest, and
by still larger class as holiday and day of
dissipation In many places the effects of
hard times were apparent There wero less
than the usual manifestation of outdoor life
and gayety.
The "LEviATHAN" London Tones
says $35O,000 have been expended in the eff
fort TO Launch the Leyiathan steamship and
nobody knows how much more it will cost.
EARTuoUAKE.-Thc shock of an earthquake
was felt in Maine on the 23d ult Brick were
thrown from the tops of ohimneys with force,
doors opened, and articles precipitated from
mantles.
MAN KILLED BY A WoMAN.--In New York
Monday, Henry Simmons and George Beck
ter, while snow balling got into fight du-
ring which the wife of Simmons struck Beck
ter on the head with club, killing him in
stantly.
DEATH OF DR.. BAKRR.-Rev. Daniel Ba-
kcr, President of Austin College, Texas. died
recently in his sixtieth year. He was great
revivaliSt. s., ,t = q
SNow.-Christma Day was signalized by
snow storm throughout North Carolina,
Virginia and Maryland. In some parts of
Virginia it fell to depth of twelve and fif-
teen inches. In Maryland it was only three
inches in depth. The storm was travelling
in northeasterly direction.
FREsHETs AT THE SoUTH.--Our exchanges
from almost every part of the South complain
fhcavy rains and serious freshets. All along
the line of the Memphis and Charleston rail-
road immense damage has been done, and
the road greatly injured.
DREADrUL.-At Oak Hill, near Pottsville,
Pa, on Saturday, James Holland, aged 10,
killed his own mother by kicking her. He
was drunk. Since the murder he has dsap-
peared.
VEToEp-Governor Brown vetoed the bill
legalizing the suspension Of the Bank, but
the Legislature passed the bill over the veto,
by a two-thirds vote. Suspension vas thus
| legalized.
DEAD.--Gov. II. G. Runnels, of Texas, died
on the I7th ult. He was native of Missis-
sippi, and had been Governor of that State
PRorITABLE.--It is said that Gen. Conohn
has made over FIVE millions of dollars within
the last FIVE years, as his per centago from the
sale of cargos of slaves thnt he allowed Ia
land.