Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1859-02-12
Pennings and CLIPPINGS.

In A NrTsuELL.-As shrewetl business man
who takes little interest in politics. is renor.
ted to have remarked, that the proposition to
BUY Cuba seemed to him "like an offer to
give money that we had not got, for thing
we didn't, want to nation that wouldn't
sell !" "''
cAMPuENE MuRDERs.-E. Meriam's record
shows that the use of camphcuc. burning
hnld, and kindred preparations for the pur-
poseof illumination last year caused the
death OF iity-four persons. and resulted in
serious injury to ninoty-thrcc others, eleven
OF whom were not expected to recover; he
SIDES which fires involving u loss of SIS, ,9l5
arose from the same cause.
PAssEp.-Thc CoalGclds Railroad bill has
passed the North Carolina Legislature, and
is now law.
LorS OF SnAvING.-ln the Umitc,la States
there arc six thousand brokers and six thou
sand barbcrs-and what lots of shaving they
both do.
~ MONSTER HOG AT PnILADELrmIA.- There
is now ON exhibition, at Waddclps Avonuo
Drove Yard in the Twenty fourth Ward, n
monster hog, which weighs twelve hundred
and thrty-tive pounds. 1t was fed and rails
ed by Mr. Bishop, of Lancaster county
SnocHING PARRIclDE--Wm. Moody. an
old citizen of Oxford, Ky, was killed on the
night of the 9th ult., by blow from club
in the hands ofhis son, Joseph Moody. The
murderer, who was crazy from liquor at the
time, was arrested
PArRIoTIc LADlEs.-The .adics ofWinns.
boro have contributed $3i9 to the Calhoun
monument fund.
COUNTERFEIT NorEs.-Bils of tho dcnon,i.
nation of $50, countcrfcits of the Bank of
hamburg, are in circulation in Virginia and
elsewhere.
BAD.-Our Minister to Central America
is is disSracing himself by drinking too much
liquor, He is also compromising the honor
OF his own country.
The LIVE YANKEE.-IIc's n driyin, b;s
keows to pastcrallovcr the Continent: keep,
in school in Australia; pcddIm' Cherry
Pectoral i'll China playn' yankee Doc.
die in gapan; openin' a land Office in A&,
'"na; kissin' queens everywhere: and ma.
KIN himself at home generally, without invi-
tation.
BrRNTNc.-A little daughter of A. r.
Wright, of Savannah, Ca, was burned to
death on tho 18th ut. This should be n
warning to careless people
HARD TIMEs.-At the sale of the pronortv
of the late Capt Foster, says tho Asheville
On. C.) Ncws of the 3d inst, near this nlocc
last week, eighteen negroes, old and young
bigan little, sold for $lS,G5O-or an aycr.
ase of more than $1,000 Young men sold
for from fifteen to sixteen hundred dollars
Mules ranged from $3.50 to 5000 Bacon IL
and 10 cents. Corn from 10 to rs cents n
bushcI, and everything else in the same way
AFRICAN WooL.-Fivc million pounds Of
wool were shipped last year to England from
AlSoa Bay, South Africa. Its value amount
cl to 81 100000
NUMBER OF IIuMAN BoNEs.--Tt is a fac.
which, apparently, is not generally known,
that there are thirty-two bones, neither more
nor less, in all the divisions of the human
body Thus. there are thirty-two teeth, tLir-
ty-swo spinal functions, and so on.
DIED.-The Charleston papers announce
the death of Mr.. James Chapman former-
~ "most successful merchant in that city.
FOR {,pyrpNnp
brother of Col. Orr, the accomplished Sneak.
er OF the House of Representatives, is nron.
lncnt candidate for Governor of Mississinpi
He is native of Anderson district.
MAxIMs.-lt is impossible for a man who
is false to his friends and ncighbors should
be true to the public.
ELEcTEp.-AIr. Charles p. Petty. Of Snor.
tanburg District, q graduate of Wofford Col.
lese' has been ell ,cted to profcssorship in
the Spartanburg Female College, to fill the
vacancy occasioned by the resignation of Prof
G. b. lIancs.
BTC lIoc:-Geh.t Jda d. Ncttlos, saws the
Darlington Rug, few days ago killed n
hog that weighed five hundred and fifty lbs
Inc hog was thirty months old
EXTENSIVE CoNLAGRArIoN-New Haven.
Jan. 3l.-fhe extensive boltworks of Plants
manufacturing company, in Southineton.
was burnt this morning Loss 800. 1000,
with an insurance of$65, 900. 1t is believed
to haze been the work of an incendiarv
two hundred men are thrown out of omnlov-
mont.
WHEAT.-Tho Clovclona f'po,,, D.