Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1858-09-18
A Short Patent Sermon,
by DOW, JR,


find de bug"
My Hearers: Tam Informed that Il dark
complexiUned preacher, i'm Columbus, Ohio,
once took the above for his text, and proved
from ii that our first parents fell ort 0f an an.
| plc-trco into Il niud-holc, which caused their
first born to be as hlack rs Your ha:. | am
afraid tha' my cDored co-aboror bus made
much moro out OF it than can. for turn it
over, set ii upon end, lay ii down and sprawl
il opcu--aHer all this old rooster don't fnda
great deal to pick at.
In the first place, my byelncr. | will pro
pound Il pious conuudrnm. Why are men
! like watches? because YOU must lock inside
! ui thcm f2i their good qualities and Judge of
them Gy their works"
Well. my brethren, tho work of mon and
women in general consists, for the most part.
in scratching. and tie prospect of bag is the
| incentive. You may notice, brethren, that
whenever Il hen makes II scratch, she always
| gives peek; but whether she gets bug Mt
every dip, is very uncertain imagine not.
| Nevertheless. where she scratches there she
| expects to find bug.
| Expecting is one thing. you know, my
! friends, and finding another You may turn
over many stone in this prccarious world,
and find no bug, after all. Phrcnologically
speaking the human lead is one vast bump
| of GX'ecntion. and nothing else.
n,
in this buggy sphere. There arc big bugs,
little bugs, tumble bugs, straddlc bugs. hum,
bugs, and ug-bcars But You needn't scratch
about much to find any Of these, for they arc
everywhere thicker than shippers in seven
year old cheese.
To find the bug you SO earnestly desire. re-
! quircS diligent scratching; and if in so doing
yon don't happen t" catch it, ycu can comfort
yourself with the reflection that you put in
the lic&s for it, and it ought to have lccn
| yours. If young man takes girl about to
see the shows, feeds her with titbiis, and luys
her pretty calcoeS his title to kiss is clear
and dndiSputable-for where the hen scratch
es, there she expects to hud u bug"
| The bug thnt you are all after, my breth-
| rcn, is the gold d+bug but, alack-a-tl day. how
many of you scratch in vain vet it is found
in manure heaps, as we'll as in auriierous
places. The farmer turns itup with u plow
and the gardner with his spade; and vet
thousands keep scratching here and there
without finding no bug.
few years ago hundreds of you fell to
scratching at Kern river, expecting to find
mighty big bug Well, you scratched, aud
scratched and scratched; and what did you
| turn up at last ? a monstrous humbug. Got
| frightened and scrambled for home, n vast
| sight more buggy than you went-fDr where
the hen scratches. there she expects to find
lug.
And now you all want to go to the Frazer
kircr country; but there arc so many differ
| ent ways to get there, you are in II quandary
which to choose. 1t is like getting to lIcay-
en-. The Catholics insist upon going straight
through PurgStory Baptists 90 n round
about way, but keep where there is plenty of
wafer. as they belong to the class known ns
amphibe-thc Prcsbytcrians think their road
| the safest although rather hot-the Univer-
sAlsts declare theirs to he tho most pleasant
while the McthodiSts shout +" IIaIlelujnh,"
and scare up rabbits, as they journey upon
the good old Jordan route. But when you
are once there lat the diggings | mcan--fur
am not sure thnt you will ever reach the
other place. one stands Just as good chance
rs anothcr--and don't know but little bet
ter You all have about an equal amount of
| hope if not pluck, and each will probably
pitch in and dig with all the energy of II ter
rier at gopher-hoIc--for "whcre the hen
scratches, there she expects to find bug"
Let me make Gcanothcr applications OF The text,
my brethren. Beware Of an oily-tomgucd.
sycophantic fricnd--who is ever too ready
to do you n small fayor-who processes n
willingness to serve you ut all times---who
! praises you as the fox did the crow; for, while
! good "races, he has II sly eye upon your
pursc-yoursclf forgetting for the momeul,
that where tie hen scratches, there She eX-
poets to find a bug"
My irculs--hnw uneasy il the immortal
mind in it's pcnt-up pri,, N of clay How il
seems TO cXul, in It's licciom while winging
it's WAY e. yen azure fields OF light ard glory
or wandering aud the grcon old bowcrs OF
the past, wi.e,c none bur itself is permitted
u roam. What, thcn, must be as delight
When :nrcycr released from It's thraldom of
| flesh. uud uo iuuwy. GepcudcnU up. bread.
becr aud potatoes. The day will como
when liberty, such as moitas have never
yet known will be bliSafully realized in an
eternal sphere, -whero--whcrc
the hen scratches, there she expects to find
q bug. 81 mote it be.
A RICI EsTATE.-,rhe estate of John
Lawrence, of Watertown, England, is of
immense value, consisting of millions OF
dollars, in the Keeping of the English gov
ernmcnt. Notice has been given to the
heirs to come forward and prove their idon-
tity, and we learn that the claimants as
heirs-at-law, are John III. Highton, Thorn
us Branc Highton, Mchitable Edwards, and
Mary Cone, all of this State We arc also
informed that our indomitable and cner
getic citizen, Levi S. Russell, Esq, has al
ready gone on, with evidences proving the
hcirship OF the above parties, to this vast
estate. The evidence was taken before the
Ordinary of Bullock county, in conformity
to the Amendatory Statute of England and
an original record connected with the case
was made in the year 1904 We learn that