Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1859-05-21

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Of Tax Collector of Laurcns district
C.RE rok BYpRophoBia, "a correspondent
of the Providence Jotnal recommends as
parasus as care for hydrophobia in any
stage of canine mhdncss. The directions arc:
/ "Eat tho green shoots of asparagus raw,
sleep and perspiration will be induced, and
the disease can thus be cured" This rcmo
dy proved cfcctuSl toa man in Greece after
the paroSysas h&G cora ramenceS.
iSoG CHOLERA CrkEp.-Thc Atlanta Imc
rican learns that DR.. james 6. Whatley, of
Upson County. Ga, VINO host thirty head Of
hogs last and scvcnty-scvcn this year, pen
ned eleven sick ones in q dry lot, and kept
! them without water for three weeks Thoy
all recovered, and tho disease has disappear
cd
TAG MgANEsr YET.-Tbo Cincinnati Ga-
zette tells ola manufactures in that city, who
enjoys municipal position of honor and res.
possibility and is one of the leaders in Ger.
tain religious movements who, tn, ether day
deducted ten cents from tho dxiiy wages Of
one Of his employees, because said employee
was detained few minutes from his work
by calling physician to see his sick wife.
On! DEAR, Mrs. Partington thinks that
| Mothor Ocean is no bother than she ought to
be, or else she would not allow tho Atlantic
/ cable to lay in her bosom.
y DoMEsrrc WoxAS>--Tho Vevay Und>)
NcGcs, gives an account of lady who visited
that town for the first time on Thursday last,
though she has boon living within four miles
OF it 4j years nor has sho ever visited any
other town, city or village.
ph,Ae OF tIoHr-A remarkable pillar of
light, resembling tho tail of n large comet,
swept from northeast to northwest over the
city of New York on the 26th ult.
GREAT DEMONSTRATION South Amer
.ca. we learn thaton the 22d March, the city
Of Quito was almost destroyed ry an earth
quake. Five thousand rorSons were killed.
OoMMUrED.--Thc Newberry Cvnscrratist
says that Gov. Gist HAS commuted the penalty
imposcd by tho Court Of Common Pleas, on
Col. S. 4. Agncw, for sending n challenge
and posting tho party not accepting.
Mock MoDEsTr.-A young lady tainted Mt
tho dinner table latoly, ON hearing sea cap
thin remark to n lady beside him, that he
had ofton been rocked on the bosom Of the
ocean.
To BE IfuSo.-aSamuel Simmons. convicted
OF the murder of Nathan Simmons, q relative,
has been sentenced to be hung on tAc 9th OF
May, at Wilmington. y, G.
INCAPABLE pH S4Lr-GovERNMENT.--M -Mcxf
co, since its estabishm rent as arcpnlAic which
is thirty-sovon years ago, has had ffty-six
Presidents, an average one rDd half Pres
idents annually.
SUICIDE. * girl named Cnrley, living III
Middlctown, Orange county, Now York, on
Friday last, committed suicide by takinSarsct
mic, beiag iavolvvd in family diihGNlty,
DEAp.--Thc death of NJ, dc Tocquevillc,
already moro than oacc r.rmatWrely announ-
ced, is now unlApply n fact only too well cs,
! tablishcd. Tho author of La Democratic en-
Amcriquo died at Cannes, on tho 10th ult,
at the age of 5l years.
AGED.--Mrs. Anne Pope, ofSpcnccr, Mass,
| reached her one hundred and Gfh year in
December last She retains her faculties to
a remarkable degree, nArrating to those who
visit hcr in tho most vivid AMI animating
manner, incidents during the Revolution, and
for several years prior to that period
1i&NDLfNG BANK NoTEs-Petcrson' De-
tcctor warns persons Who AFRO compelled to
handle bank notes not to wet their thumbs
while counting the bills. 1t remarks that if
he thumb COMES in contact with the tongue
after handling n noto from the rocket of a
man infected with the sInall-pox the infcc.
ton Is as sure to take effect as the inocula-
ton of d child.
The WASDxRER's ArRtcAxs.-Some OF the
Wanderers Africans have been taken to Mem.
phis. Three of them were sold and brought
respectively $3.50, $40 and $545. They were
also on exhibition in that city.
SAD.-In New York, on Thursday last,
young lady hamcd Matilda Sawyer, was
burnt to death by the explosion of cam
phano lamp, %hilU she was sewing on the
clothes in which she was to bH married in n
few days.
FoH thk FAsf.-Fast mon, like fast rv-
ers, arc generally tho shallowrst
HAfnER DEscRIrrIyE.-A man out Wcst
who had n brother hung informed his friends
in the East that his brother On d recent oc.
casion, addressed largt public meeting,ond