Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1858-10-23
Something Entirely New.


Something Entirely New.
The naval steamship built by the NIcssrs.
Winans, OF Baltimore, to cross the ocean in
six days, is being launched. The process
is slow one, the vessel being launched
sideways, and is moyed'dow her ways by
the force of two large screws, at the rate of
about five feet per hour. Monday after
noon she had reached the edge of the wharf
or about twenty-five feet from her original
position. She was then about sixty or soy
cnty feet from The end of the WAYS. This
queer looking cl,sft sttracts great deal of
notice The Baltimore Sun describes the
propelling machinery as follows:
Take plain fiat ring off your finger and
run it on to the middle of a cigar, upon
which it is to revoyc freely by power ap-
Piled inside, which in the vessel consists of
iour steam engines placed amidships-
Now to this ring attach, at equal distances
all around 1t, iIangcs set at an angle adapt
cd to act upon the water as propcllers,
striking the water by the swift and power
tu revolution of the wheel around the BODY
OF the vessel, This wheel is covered all
around by a belt of iron, broad enough to
enclose the wheel and extend four feet ON
each side beyond it; this belt is supported
by plates of iron, standing cdgewise from
the surface of the vessel, to which thcy are
rivctcd. These plates of iron divide the
space under the belt, on each side of the
wheel, into compartments and these COM
partmcnts, above the water line. are aonin
closed at the side next the wheel, shutting
1T entirely from view. Below the water line
they are OF course open to admit the free
action of the wheel upon the water"
ST4TIsTIcs OF ODD FELLowsuIp.-Th fol-
lowing statistics in relation to the Indcpcn-
dcntOrder of Odd Fellows in the United States
have been carefully revised from official sour
ces, and, showing as they do, the work of the
great fraternity for the year ending Jurc 30.
1888. will doubtles5 command attention. cs,
pec!aIly on the part of members of the Order:
Number of Lodges within the jurisdiction
OF the Order which includes all the States and
territories ofthe Union, the District Of CO.
lumbia, Nova Scotia, Canada West. Sand
wich Islands, &C., $500; number Of initia-
TONS, l6.540; number deaths, 1889; num-
bcr OF members, lI6,T00; number af fsnem-
bcrS relieved, 23,l5l widowed fani6eg re-
llcved, ZOO; amount paid for the rclief of
members S294, 4,092.92: amount paid for the
for the education Of orphans, ST., ,2S7. .O6; n
mount paid for the burial of dead, SGT .364.
~; amount of annual receipts, $223 ,G85 %
me sum total appropriations for members,
widows and orphans, is $440, ,25922. Stats
ties OF Encampmcnts, the higher branch of
the Order: Number of Encampments G5l :;
number of limitations. 1855; number ofdcaths
22O; number of members. 23.319; number
OF pahiarchs relieved, 1902; number of wild
ows relieved, 93: amount paid for the relief
OF patrlarchs, S2S, lilo; amount paid for
the relief of widowed families, $3ll1.G0; !;
amount paid for the burial of the doad, So
377.24; amount of annual receipts. $li0'-
1864. Gross amount paid for tho relief of
members. tincluding patriarchs,) widows, or
phans, education and funerals, the munifi-
cent sum of fS476,955.l6.
"LoyEAT FIRST SOMA case of Glove
at first sight" is recorded by the London
Court Ctrcuiar in n story of man "who is
now in st. Lukc's mnd-houso, and has been
detained there ever since the occurrence took
place, which consigned him to its walls.--
Lady ----- was SO exquisitcly fair. 80 singu-
larly graceful, that it was difficult for the
the eye of man to behold her with without
prelorrlng her to any other of her sex. a
porter was sent from railway terminus to
this lady by her brother; this man, the pres
ent occupant ofSt Luke's got to the doorin
Paris Lame just as the beauty alightcd out of
her carriage from an airing in Hyde park
The man. who had never seen Lady - ns
she was then, tripping up stairs, asked a SER
want for the lady to whom the letter was d-
rectcd. and was answered he might give the
lotter to him for his lady. On The por fell
lows refusal, as he was ordered to deliver it
into hor own hanfL he was shown into her
apartment. The man, being with tho lady
alone, while she was employed reading the
letter, fixed his eyes on her intentIy, 9s if
lost IN thought; but before she had done
reading it, he violently, and with transport
flow into her arms, and gave her numbcrless
devourng kisses. Lady - was SO surpris
cd that she lost the power of crying out but
in the struggle with sucl, sudden and
strange lover, she caught hold of tho strine
of the bell rang it violently. and n servant
appeared From that moment the unhappy
man lost his reason, and was committed to
the mad-honse. 1t is due to Lady ---- to
state the fact, that the maniac lover is fire.
qpsntly visited and wholly supported by her"
MUTE MARRIAGE SERVICE IN THE
EPISCOPAL CHURcH.--It is seldom we.
have witnessed so beautiful ceremony as
the marriage of Miss Ellen L., of Bos.
ton, to Mr.. Trist of Philadelphia, SON of
the we'll known ncgotiator of the Treaty of
Guadaioupe Hidalgo, which took place ON
Tuesday morning, in the pretty PARISH
church mt New Brighton, j.. i. The bri.
dial couple were both mutes--deaG and
dumb from infancy. The Rev, Mr.. Irving
very slowly and cmphatically read the ser
vice, which MT. Gallaudot transhted by
signs as they were indicated by their clor-,