Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1859-10-22

that three young men,, sons of Mr.. William
Wyman. of Belgrade. Maine, were drowned
on Saturday afternoon last in pond in that
town. 10y upscttng of a boat.
BIBLE PROMISES They are like the beams
Of the SUM- which shine as freely in at the
window of poor mans cottage as the rich
mans palace.
"ONE OF THE "GREEN MoUNrAIN BOYS"
Asa NJ. Wyman, q revolutionary veteran,
is still living in Wyndham county, Vermont,
at the extraordinary age of LOG years. His
mental faculties are still sound
| UNION OF TuE OrpoSITIoN.-The Richmond
| Jpaig is still clamorng for a union of the
Opposition in 1860. 1t tells the Northern
black republicans to let Seward slide and
come down on tho Virginia platform a
Unon Opposition National Convention will
meet at Richmond in December
GEoRGrA.--Thc Augusta CoasiiS,ttionalist
publishes returns from | Is counties, which
give Brown majority for Governor of IL ,40S
votes.
ALL FOR LovE.-A negro man, slave of
Levin Benton, Esq of Sharpsburg, Mary
land. hung himself on apple tree, on
Tuesday. Cuusc-unrcquited love.
New TgLE0RArn,-The following slandcr-
ous paragraph goes unrebuked A wag has
invented q new telegraph. He proposes to
place a line of women fifty steps apart, and
commit the news to the first of them as n
secret.
BENNETT on LECTuRiNG.-Thc Literary
Association uf Princeton, y. j., has offered
Mr.. james Gordon Bonnett 500 for a Ice
turc. He refuses, saying that the time is
worth $4,000 to him, and that lccturing is
the business of none but literary loatcrs.
WHAT DRAws.--A fine woman, says the
| New York Post like locomotive, draws n
train after her, scuttcrs the sparks aud trans
parts the mails.
CoNvicTED.-Dr. Rutland has been con-
victed Mt ClarkSville, Tenn, of killing his
wife. and sentenced to three years in the
State prison.
PREsBYTERTANIsM Prcsbvtc-
rinnism is rapidly advancing in North Caro-
lima. There are now 1903 Prcsbytcrians
in the State being an increase Of over three
'nouS''hu III 'hree years.
wv,
;.;I ''. /, -, ""' ""' " W"'n hr tue Amer
,r,n '.;,I '"'.G - uM''I upo'' "hn we may add,
~; NH ~. 80, ';, ou'' W, we ,"Th at tne iarmcr
,n ,,'e ru. ma" ,,' passing away where he r""med
ncS ,hon , m"s, "r ,In - e',S' vi 1n' A''eSha-
Rocky Mountains, and, we mnys,;III I add west '"t
of those mountains d, we behold the onward
progress of tho farmer. telling the forests aud
tossing the soil up and over for the purpo>e
"l '''', sowing lne various seeds or grain t" bc
th;. nnn ~ ,ha nIm h AN" p'"s' ana men, after
mcr's hnrycst-whot h,r"es, ~ ,r;i h a' if
we faint not. bnt work wisely and ;nI;r;o,..
ly. Brother farmers, we may then sing with
the poet:
How blcst the rarmcr's simple life,
:, Hoy pure the .ipyss tyiclds,
free from the worlds tempcStuous strife
| Then, farmers, are we not the foundation.
the prop the stay OF all othcr pursuits. Tie
mvrenni'i '',", ,'m ane mecnan'c' the lawyer DC"
life. Fellow fnrmrr, thon%h onT;U 0r,,'tS non
may sometimes oyertake ms. let 'I us nnt Ts'pe be
discouraged, but perseverc. and with the
early. spring which is Just at hand. be early
ia bringing out of theirwnter''s resting place
tno plnw' harrow and hoes and with strong
Jotar"r",;"n , " mr""S 'h m,"u :" i,'n wun the