Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1859-05-14
Legal Advice.

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plication
Barnes, l have come to get your advice
Ia case that has given me somo trou-
bic"
"Well, what's the mattcr?"
"Supposc, now," said the client, "that
n man had one spring of water on his land,
and his neighbor living below him should
build dam across creek running through
both their farms aud it was to back the
water up into the other mans $ spring, what
ought to be done ?"
g Sue him, sir, sue him by all means"
said the lawyer, vino always became excl
Ted in proportion to the aggravation of his
clients. "Gou can recover heavy DANA
ges, sir, aud the law will make him pay
we'll for it. Just give me the case, and
! III bring the money from him; and if he
hasn' t a great deal of property, it will break
him up sir"
8, But stop, Barnes" cried the terrified
applicant for legal advice, " It's | that
built the dam, and it's ncishbor Jones that
owns the spring, and he has threatened to
sue me"
The keen lawyer llcstatcl moment be-
fore he tackled his ship and kept on.
" All, well sir, you say you built dam
across that creek. What sort of dam
! WAS that, sir?"
" 1t was mill dam"
A mill dam forgrinding grain, was it ?"
! e" Yes, it was Just that"
1" Aud it isa good neiyhborhood mill, is
it?"
Soft is, sir and YOU may we'll say So"
And all your neighborS bring their
grain TO be ground, do they
Yes, sill" all but Jones"
Then it is u great public convenience,
is it not p
To be sure it is, would not have
built it but for that 1t is 50 far 10 any
other mill, sir"
"And now" said tho old lawyer, "you
tell ne that man, Jones, is complaining
Just because the water from YOUR dam
happens to put back into his littlc spring,
and he is threatening to sue, and he'll
rue tho day, as sure as my name is Bar
ncs F"
TALL WALHrNG We copied. few davs
since. a paragraph attrbuting tho origin of
'Bnc%ct letters to David |. Holt of Middle
Gcorgia. he having written series of letters,
over the signature of Edward Bucket" to
the President of the United States. John O.
ADAMS. The Montgomery Mail copics Tie
same paragraph and adds
David |. Holt went with Col. rnnnin's
Georgia Battalion to Texas in lS3j. and was
one of the prisoners who escaped the mnsSa-
ere of the Alamo in the spring of 1856, du
ring the Texas Revolution. In tcling some
of his old friends in Georgia. about his Us
cape, ono of them asked him if he run (So
the story gocs.) Holt was Il brave man, and
did not like to acknowledge that he ran. even
though he was rctrcnting from an impcnd
ing death, without the shadow Of Il chance
to defend himself and he replied "Wcll,
boys, did not exactly run, but done some
ID tail waking"
Fall walking" was the substitute r,r the
word run about Macon and Millcdrcyjllc
F.; ior many years afterwards
NEW ZANE" Fool is game cztrav-
aSan,ly 'n"u'gcM IN at Buiialo. The game
- !""!r" on p''i'nrd tahIc, with twenty or
,niI'y o"!'S' cach pall numbered, :hc num-
"erS running from ono up. dozen ormorc
e e.n ,'''' III 'le. game. ~ certain number IL
% nNrn "P'n' "'' me payer who shall first
i"oMe. enough Dn,'S whose Numbers will a
n'"u''' i'n 10 1T wins the Piic' which is made up
ny INC payers StaN'hS certain amount each
no,"'c '"o os'llnecoh'menceS' Previous to the
cco'''''chce'heht; caeh player draws marble
n".l, r"n '1T IN" puts IL out OF sight IN his
pocket. ihcse marbles arc all numbered to
player, after receiving his marble, rccollects
tne number and his game is to pocket balls
o", oF ,he i .ng huinoGts M Oh which added to that
numLor which ; n;n m'1 i"pEt| ;in VIII MAKE the
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