Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1859-04-30

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mini since the Institution WAS founded is ZIG;
of these 80 have died and II are foreign mis-
sionarics. Thirteen of the f3 students are
from Oglethorpe College. n. g. Is OF tho AZ
students, Is are from South Carolina, 0 from
North Carolina, s from Alabama, 8 from
Georgia, and the remainder from other Statos.
EAELY.--A subscriber, residing in Marion
county, Florida, has sent to the editor Of the
Savannah Repabticm. a number of squares,
blooms and young bolls, taken from stalk
of cotton that has lived and fourishcd in that
county throughout tho winter. They are
tho product of the present year.
| REpJRTgD ArosrAcY.-It is reported that
Mr. kimball, eldest son of IIcbor G. and .Jo-
seph Young. son of Brigham, has apostatised
and about leaving for the United States with
their first wives, and leaving their '.spiritu-
ala behind. At least fvc thousand amos.
tate Mormons will leave Utah for California
early in tho spring.
INrRorrNe.~-A Yicksburg paper says that
card playing among steamboat travellers in
the West has diminished fully one.half with
in the past year, and its place has been sup
| piled with chess.
DISAPPOINTED LovE.-Try plain whiskcy.
Ifthat fails tho style is to write letters ." to
the press" +" and take poison Don't try to
blow out your brains -4that can't be did.
DEATH FROM EArING MArcuEs.--A little
colored boy, about i years old. belonging to
Mr. Jonathan Pitts of Scottsvlle, Alhemarlc
county, Va, dieL on Thursday night l ith)
from the effects of eating tho poisonous sub
stance which compose the ordinary friction
matches.
BoLD GIRIs.--'rwo girls, agci about twon-
ty, have started for Pike Peak, from Bureau
county, ILL.,, with an OK team. They arc as
bold as tho young laly from Pennsylvania,
who, being met alone on the roa,l at night,
in New Jersey, said she "was not afraid
for she always carried a pistol"
The LATEST FAsuIoN. The latcststylc
of hoop-skirt is tho grand, self-aljustins
double back-action hustle, etruscan lace ex-
pansion, spiral Piccolomini attachment, Cos
samcr indostructiblc. 1t is love of Il
thing"
| DIED SUpDENLy.--Threc mon died sudden
ly last week, in Chambcrsburg. Pa, viz P.
S"llenberger, of apoplcxy; John Findley,
found dead near his residence; and Robert
Cunningham, found dead in his store.
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The ANTI Rent CASES DgclpED.--The
Court of Appeals in New York State have
decided the cases Involving the Van Rcnsse-
l"er claim to rents from lands conveyed in
: foe The decision is adverse to the tenants.
! The patrous title was sustained unanimous.
/ ly.
WHAT NExT.-A bill to prohibit tho mar.
ri"ge of white and black persons has passed
the Wisconsin Legislature The opposcrs of
the bill were republicans twenty-five Of
that pnrty voting against it.
I FiRE.-A destructive fire occurred in St,
Louis on the 10th instant involving loss
of $4,000, Of which $52, 900 was covered by
Insurance.
RENoNINATED.--llon. James B. Clay, son
of tho late Henry Clay, hos been rcnomina-
ted tor Congress by the Democrats of Frank
lin county Kentucky. in spite of his prcyi-
Gus dcclmaton.
SouruERN CoNvENTIoN.-Gov MELVILLE.
of Mississippi has appointed delegation of
three hundred and seven to represent that
State in the convention which assemblies at
sicksburg on tke 9Th of May. ~
AIR LINE RABRoAp.- -The Atlanta .iueyi-
can, OF Tuesday, learns from Mr. John II.
Blunt, Chief Engineer of the Georgia Air.
Limo Hailroad, that fourteen miles of the
road has been let this side of Gainesville. aud
that the contractors commenced operations
that ground was broken last "Wednesday.
DGAD.-Col. Thomcs o. Elliott of Charles
ton and prominent lawyer, die,l in that city
on Friday.
/ WORTHY or IMITATION. The Legislature
ofCalifornip yopassed an act appropriatina
one thousand dollars annually to the Wash
ington Monument in tho city of Washing
! ton.
! SasGE Pox IN ALABANA.-The Eufauln
Express.says,thata n report had reached that
place of the cxistcnce Of small pox, or some
disease resembling it at OF Gcar Columbia
Henry county. Some fifteen eases had ,oc
Cured at hast accounts.
DgAp.--fIoh. TiIghiman Tucker, ex-Goy,
ernor of Mississippi, diel at the residence Oh
his father in Marion county, &labanra. onthe
! Sd instant, aged abuut Gu vears. Uc was