Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1859-10-15


Canada, passed through Cleveland on their
way back to slavery They had become
heartily disgusted with Canadian freedom.
| VICE PRESIDENT BREcKENR Ken
tucky correspondent of the New Orleans
Dcita says that 'on the territorial question
Mr. Breckenridge has always been. and now
Is, opposed to tho views expressed by Mr..
Douglass, and his sentiments arc such as can
safely be endorsed by every true friend of
the Union"
FLOUR 1910 4 BARREL.-At the last nc
counts flour was selling on the Island of
llayti at two hundred and forty dollars per
barrel! That looks like high price--but
the money was lInyticn currency, which is
like our old continental money About $40
| of it is worth one silver dollar
SulcIDE.-Mara Van Rensselaer,, commit
ted suicide at Charleston, on the lst Instant,
by taking poison. She was native of All
bany, N. Y.
TnANKSGIvING.-The Governor and Coun-
Gil of New Hampshire havo appointed Thurs.
day, Nov. 81. as thanksgiving day in that
State This is the first State that has dosig-
mated day for Thanksgiving this year.
MILITARY MEN.--The reporter of tho Ian
caster Penn, Express" has been to the
State Fair, where he saw several hundred
Lancaster people he never heard of bcrnrc
lie states that he shook hands with four hun
drcd and ffty-ninc Coopcs, Majors, Gcner.
ais, Editors, Legislators and high Privatcs.
a SAD CAsE.--The widow of the late Mr..
Harris. who was killed by tho locomotive en-
plosion at Cameron, says the Wheeling In.
tciiycncer, has not touched food or scnt
since the unfortunate death of her husband.
Her friends fear that she may evidently lose
her reason
SMALL PATTERN.-MiSs Dolle Dutton, the
smallest girl in the world of her agc being
years old and 2G inches high. and weigh
only l3 pounds, is giving lcvccs in Provi-
dcncc, II. l.
A BIG Pile. "A big pile of silver, ten
tons, is at FL Paso from Arizona, waiting
shipment. We would be satisfied with n
"dug-out" .fMl
VIOLENT BLow.-A gust Of wind which
t5rc down chimncys, unroofcd houses, and
damaged property to the extent of about
$4,000. passed over s. Louis, Me-, on Fri
day. Part of the Lucus market was also
blown down.
For PREsIDENT.-Gcn. Sam HOUSTON has
been nominated for President, in Texas, with
Robert C. Winthrop, of Mass, for Vice Pres
ideht.
DEAD.-James w. A. Henderson. prac,i-
cal printer, and one of the veterans of the
Palmetto Regiment, died in Charleston on
the Dist ult.
CoNE AT LAsT,-Gcn. Jackson'e old Horse
is dead at last, at tho age of forty-one. For
several years he has been unable to mast
cate, aud fed with bran, &c.
RAILRoADs.-T Theodore Hook says of Rail
roads and Steamboats,: They annihilate
space and time, not to mention multitude
of passengers.
THREADING NEEDLEs.--An implement for
l-threading needles has been invented. Ii is
made with two blades, which hold the nee.
die with its eye opposite little funnol.shar-
cd opening into which it is perfectly easy
for person of weak sight to pass the thread,
and the thread inevitably passes through tho
eye.
AWFUL TRAGEDY The Geor Sia Citi-
zen of the 3lst, has the following: 4 hor.
riblc occurrence took place, yesterday, in
Jones county, few miles above Macon,
which resulted in the death of two broth
ers, of the name of Jack and Gus Roberts,
each by the hand of the other Between
those two brothers fDud had, for some
time previous, existed, about a piece of
land, and when they met yesterday, for the
purpose, with others, of working on the
public road, an alteration arose and one of
them drew pistol and shot the other,
when the latter, in the act of falling dead,
fired Mt the former and shot him in the
breast, killing him instantlyl
FATAL DUEL IN THE ROCKY Noun
TAINs.-The Rocky Mountain Gold Re.
porter contains the particulars of the du
el fought on the 1st of September, on the
Colorado, 450 miles from Denver city, be-
tween Geo. w. Harrison, of Virginia, and
Col Warren, of Indiana, resulting in the
death of the latter. The difficulty grew
out Of the election of Harrison over War
rem as a Justice of the Peace. They
fought with rcvolvers, at fifteen paccs.-
Harrison first received the ball Of his an
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