Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1859-06-25


joHN RANDorr AND J. G. CAinuuN.- An.
amusing reconciliation john Rundolph patch
cd up with Mr. Calhoun when the former bc,
lievcd that he was OH his death bed. /" They
were rival Southern statesmen, and the for
mrr being the senior, as well ns the stioagcr
of the two, had the most marked position
Mr.. Randolph, pending this controversy md
toward the latter part Of his Congressional
life. was taken ill. He Was considered sick
oven unto death. All hope of his recovery
wns given up, and tile friends Of Mr.. Calhoun
being 'dc$iruus tiiut a reconciliation should
take place before Randolph &ied. arranged
o meeting between the two. Mr. Calhoun
repaired to the bedside of Mr.. Randolph.
He found him Iccblc. though able to converse
freely, Mutual explanations took place.
Mr.. Calhoun sin@,cly forgave his PROSTATE
antagonist every severe thing he had ever ut
tered against him, and Mr.. Randolph rccip-
rOcnted. Thus were the kindcst relations
(ostcnsibly) restored, Rat to tho astunish-
mcnt Of Calhoun as lie wns about talking
his leave, Randolph called him back, and
ibis shriii, sbnrp voice cxe'amcd: =
Now, remember Mr.. Culhoun--if | get
well, all this goes for nothing" lie did yet get
well, and true to his well settled hatred, lie
never spoke to Calhoun afterwards"
SHORT MEMORY. -" Who made you %
inquired lady teacher of lubbcrly 10y,
who had lately joined her class
".I dtu'tknow," said lie.
"Don't know? You ought to be asham,
cd of yourself-a boy fourteen years old
There is little Dick Fulton, he is only three
and he can tell, [ dare say. Come here,
Dick who made you ?"
Good lisped the infant prodigy.
knew he would remember"
Well, he oughtcr," said the stupid
boy, it amt but a little while ago since
he WAS made"
THERE is man in Windsor so habitu
ally sleepy that his curiosity cannot be
awakened.
SAY, Mr.. Pilot, amt you going to start.
soon ?" said cockncy to steamer lying
to during II fog. " As soon as the fog
clears up" replied the captain "WclI,
it starlghtnow overhead said the cock
ncy. Oh! yes, but We re not going that
way said the captain.
a SENSIBLE MAN.-What the world
calls avaricc is oftcntimcs no more than
compulsory economy; and even wilrul
pcauriousncss is better thm wasteful cx-
trayHgancc. y just man, being reproach-
ed with parSnony, said that he would ra-
thcr enrich his enemies after his death than
borrow of lis friends in his lifetime
PRIDE REBUKED.-A gentleman who
had lately built II house was showing it to
a friend, and witt, great pride was pointing
out its various Accommodations. "My dear
sir" interrupted the other, "have you
made the staircase wide enough to bring
down your own coffin p
MEDICAL ADVICE" Doctor, said Fred
crick Reynolds, the dramatist, to Dr. Bail
lie, the celebrated physician, F" don't you
think that | write too much for my her
vons system p =" No, DON'T" said DIR.
l5ail'ic; "but [ think you write too much
for your reputation"
POVERTY is only misfortune when wish
cs keep the pursc-strngs. Poverty is the
normal condition of man; ncither banks,
! stocks, dividends, houses, rents were drca-
med of in Eden. Adam was happy, and
never law 4 check book in his life
A LEARNED antiquarian has discovered
that tout different persons have been known
since the nineteenth century came in, to
| return borrowed umbrellas Out of this
small number, three were afterwards found
to be hopelcssly dcranged, and the other
was proved to be SO abstractcd, that he
picked his teeth with n.boot Jack!
y FELLOW in North Carolina had been i'm
prisoncd for having thirteen wives. and broke
Jail. a gentleman recognized him, and in
vitcd him to dinner, thinking to get the re-
ward that was offered FOR his apprehension
After dinner the gentleman slipped out for q
constable, and came back to find that the
cnprit had abscondcd with his own wife.
FEMALE PCmTY All the influence
which women enjoy in socicty--thcir right
to the exercise of that maternal care which
forms the first and most indclibie species
of education the wholesale restraint which
they possess over the passions of mankind {;
their power of protecting us when young
and cheering us when old, depend so en-,
tircly upon their personal purity, and the
charm which it casts around them, that to
inslnuatc doubt of its real yaluc is will
fully to remove the broadest corner stone
on which civil society rests with all its ben
Gifts and aH its comforts.
RIPE PEAcnEs.-Who will believe it /! yet
wchave before us n box of tho Identical fruit,
| ripe and luscious, Just received by express,
from our attentive Friend Henry W. Jones,
of Burke county. Many thanks to him for
the delicious present Mr.. j. writes us that
he gathered the first ripe one on the Sd inst.
which we believe is earlier than was ever
known bcforc.--Sacaanah Repubiican, Gh.
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