Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1859-09-10
Pennings and Clippings.
CoTroH,--Sales of cotton have been made
in Charleston'at IL ceuts per pound.

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IRON General Walker concerning another
emigration to Nicaragua in few weeks.---
Parties wishing to go, must be in Now Or.
leans by the 18th of September. y" 7'ror,
RECoLLEcr IT.-The water that flows from
q spring does not CONCEAL in winter. And
those sentiments of friendship which Aow
from the heart cannot be frozen in adversitys
RAscALLy.-A candidate for Congress. in
Mississippi, recently shot an editor. They
differed in politics This was-a naughty act
Of the candidate. Editors arc too scarce and
precious to bo filled with holes in amy such
way
NEW YORK misunderstanding to the
annual report of the State Engineer, the total
amount of stock paid in on New York rail
roads is S74,G3 4.95G-76, and the total debt
hanging over the property, funded and float
ing is SS4,G27.3j5 65. making total of
$40, ,2G23l0 81 invested in railroad proper.
| ty This is rather more than l0por cent. of
the total assessed valuation of the State.
HIS CHRISTIAN NAME.--.John Wesley, sd
/
it has just been discovered, was christoncd
John Benjamin Wesley"
LARGE TRANSACTION IN CoRS.-Tbc Mem
phis 1ppeaI says: AS an Indication of the
feeling in the corn market in the Mississippi
valley, we have heard of the purchase, re-
Gently. by Mr.. Popham. of breckenridge
county, of two or three crops embracing one
hundred thousand bushels. at thirty five cents
per bushcl, to he delivered at the river bank
below the city.
SMELT BRIMSroNE.- editor of the Kit
taning Free Press states that many persons
were badly frightened on Sunday night by
the aurorcal display. S>me imagined that
the world was about to end, aud declared that
they smell brimstone.
DEcLINEs.-Fice President Breckenridge
declines TO allow his name to DO uaed in con-
| nccticn with the Presidency.
| EDITORIAL REcIpRocITIEs.-Th Editor of
the New York Tribune nomnates the Editor
of the Now York Herald for the Mayoralty
of that city. In the fullnoss of his gratitude
Mr.. Bennett says that he once nominated
Mr.. Grccly for the New York Gubcrnatorial
chair.
PosT OFFICE RoBBER AaREsTED.-Pctcr
kefauvre has been arrested at Carlisle, Penn,
by special mail agent Moore, on the charge
of rifiing the letters ut the Centreville Post
Office, i'll Cumberland county, of money. A
hearing of the case will DO had on the 9TH of
September. '
! DRATu OF AN FIX, Ex,CoNGREssMAN- lion. n.
! III. Claiborne died very suddenly Mt his resi-,
dcncc. in Franklin county, Va, on the morn,
ing of the 18th Of August, in his SD gear.
lie served that State many years in Congress,
and was loved and respected by all who knew
/ him.
!, SrIcrDE.--Mrs. Bird Fitzpatrick commit
tel suicide at Union Springs, Alabama, Oh
the Goth ult,, by hanging herself She rose
before daylight from the side of her husband,
and going into tho yard in her night dross,
hung herself to the limb of tree She was
dead when discovered
TnE BEGiNNING And THE END.-Thc first
thing man takes to in life is milk-the last
is his beer.
Az OLD SAW NOT SHARr.--" A rolling
stone gathers no moss" very doubtful
adage We have just seen, in q country pa
| per, the marriage Of Peleg Rowlinstone to
Miss Ophclin Morse. -
| NOVEL Scene At A CAMp MEETING.-Threc
children we're born at n recent camp meeting
| at the Vineyard, Mass. They are literally
children Of the woods"
New IUEA--A convict, recently in the
Massachusetts prison, has brought uitagainst
one of its wardens for opening letter ad.
| dressed to him.
! RAILRoADS.-Thc number of miles Of rail-
way in tue United States is $4,000. Roads
are bnilt cheaper and pay better in the South
than elsewhere in the Union.
QUEER TRIcK.--A woman in Baltimore
mortgagcd negro boy to n mcrchantin that
city. To save the lad she pretended he was
dead and dressed him in girls clothes. The
merchant, however, suspected something, and
police officers soon justified his suspicious by
exposing the deception.
The Y1RGINIA SrRiS0s.-There arc 1900
visitors at the Grcenbrier White Sulphur 700
at the Montgomery White, 500 at the Old
Sweet, 800 at the lsockbridgc Alum. 900 at
the Red Sweet, 200 at the Salt, 800 at the
Orkney. and $50 at the Rawley.