Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1859-10-01
Pennings and Clippings.


TuE SrARTANBuRG RAILRoAD.-LWe nrc
pleased to learn from tho Spartan that the
! Spartanburg and Union Railroad will be
completed by the first of December next.
present Senator from Darnwell. is nominated
tor Governor in the Grecnvile Patriot.
ToDAcoo.-Thc Virginia planters state that
the tobacco crop now standing has been al.
most entirely exempt from the ravugcs Of
the horn-worm, and unless an early frost
shall hasten the cuttings, ar average yield
of the fine grades will be produced.
SLAVERY IN .MIssoURt-Finy slaves ar
rived at st. Louis last Friday, from the into
rior of Missouri, bound South. Itis stated
that upward of four hundred are leaving
weekly. Slave property in Missouri, it would
seem, must be very insecure.
DEATH OF GEN. WHEELER The Charles
ton Courier announces the death Of Cen +.
b. Wheeler, of Marion District. IIo has
filed the Office Of Clerk of the Court with
fidelity, for nearly forty years.
| KILLED BY a BRooMsT!CK.-The broomstick
in the hands of an enragcd wife, is a stand.
ing jest, but there are exceptions. On the
Eth instant, Jamos Shaw, resident of
Nicksburg, Mississippi, was struck by his
wife with broomstick, and, staggering into
the yard, fell dead. The murderess was ar
rested.
The POSTAL DErICIENcY.-Th returns of
the Post Office Department to June 30th
have been revised, and the deficiency to be
provided for by Congress is $l.2Sl 900. This
is more than 100000 less than the drGcion-
cy of last year.
DEAD.-J. NJ. Smith, a member of the Pal
mctto Regiment, died in the Asy ylum,l at Co
lumbia on the Odd ult.
! BREADsTUFrs BEGINNING TO MovE.-A lot
of 500 barrcls.of flour were engaged in New
York on Friday, for export to Liverpool
This is the first shipment of brcadstuffs of
any consequence from that port to England
in many weeks.
lLnoPs.-We notice in one of our New York
exchanges, the arrival of great big ship
load-seven hundred tons burthen-of hoops.
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to spread themselves
MADE TO DIsGoRcE.-Dr w. w. Rich.
mond, spiritual healing medium, who for
some time has been operating in Memphis
Tenn, was made to refund $50 fec, in open
court, on Saturday. The people thereabouts
don't believe in "sprits"
HEAVY Snow SroRM-A severe snow storm
prevailed at Lancaster, n. H., on the 18th of
September, and the thermometer fell to 10
degrees.
PEAnLs.-Lopc de Yoga in describing an
afflicted sheperdess weeping by the soa side
says that the sea joyfully advanced to gather
her tears, and that, after having enclosed
them in shells, converted them into pearls.
CLOSE WoRK.-An error of thirteen votes
in the returns of Cumberland county, Ky
for Congressman, defeated the Democratic
candidate, Mr.. Chrisman. A correction of
the error gives him majority of ten votes
over Mr.. Anderson, the opposition candidate.
GHOSTS IN SELMA.-The Selma (4Ala,) Sen
hnet says that the citizens in the eastern part
OF the city have been thrown into ,apitc an
excitement for tho last week or two byj it is
said, the appearance of what is said to be
ghosts, in or near the spot where man was
killed, some months since.
TAXING A FRESH START.--The President
of the great National American Convention
in 1854, '5 and e, James w. Barker, has
commenced the world anew, and has become
q dry goods merchant in Philadelphia.
The REMAININa ELECTIONS THIS FALL.-
The election in California for State officers
and members of Congress took place ON the
first of September. In October, elections will
occur in Pennsylvania, Ohio, Minnesota
Mississippi, Georgia, Iowa and Kansas. In
the early part of November. the following
States will vote New York, New Jersey,
Louisiana, Maryland, Massachusetts, and
Wisconsin.
IITGn OsFER.-rhe Wilmington Herald
states that gentleman of Warren CO., n. c.,
has been offered one Thousand dollars per
head for ono hundred negroes
ARREsrED.-James IIuggins, who in con-
nection with Samuel Taylor. murdered an
old man named Stevens, in Horny district
on the I'd of August last was arrested and
lodged in the Marion district Jail last week.
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