Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1859-08-13
Psnnings and Clippings.

cents per pound. '
| RgvoEvISu BtPLEs.--ren thousand lovolv-
| ing rifles are now manufacturing at Col.
Colts armory. in Connecticut. for the British
Government. These are sufficient to arm six
regiments.
WARN WoRK.-A desperate fight came off
several weeks since in Oregon: between IL no
ted trappcr named Arocau. and an Indian
"brnvc." They fnught with knives. and
they were both terribly cutup. The trnppcr
at last Sraprlcd with and threw his ontago-
mist, and then cut his throat from car t. car.
ATTEMPTED SUIcIDE.-A frail girl named
Eliza Magcc, attempted, unsucccSsfuly, to-
commit suicide III Baltimore, Wednesday.
Cause, loving, mot wisely, but two we'll"
GoING To ARxANsAs.-'rhc IIclana ( Ark
Democrat says that the free ncsros of Arknm-
sas who arc required by law to leave the
State before 1860, seem generally 10 have
selected Kansas as their future home, and
intend removing thcrc at an carly day.
OtD POINT, Va, Aug. 4.--Ninc guns of
the rltled ordnance. on trial at Fortress Mon
roc. have been put to very serious test, and
found much superior to the smooth burc.-
Fhe'!mtentces. Messrs. Sigiourncy and Saw
yer, we're present
Turned To SroNE,-rhc Oxford (AIiss)
.Har"ry says The body of a young man,
named Scarcy, who was buried four wears
ago on hurricane Creek, TShemingo county.
Miss, was examined the other day and found
To be partially pctrifcd. The hands, arms,
legs and thighs had turned to solid stone.
| ANOTHER INSTALNENr.-Th Federal Union
of the 2nd inst, says $4,000 have been paid
into the State Treasury as nett earnings Of
i the Western and Atlantic Railroad for the
month of July.
| Hoors.-A New York corrcspondcc ,uys
that Ten millions of honpcd skirts arc .J;,,u-
tactured in that city per year. House .. re
make more than three thousand per ln and
still cannot fill their orders. In the na.nc of
lost pins where can such world OF enpti-
ness go!
| GREAT AND SMALL NiRTvES.-Do ~ lie
troubled because you haze not great ,rtres
/
he made bat one tree. The earth is fringcd
aud carpctcd, not with forests, but with grass
cs. Only have enough of little virtues and
common fidclitics, and you need not mourn
because you arc neither n hcrctic nor n saint
| BEDfoRD, August 1.-The President, ac-
companicd by Mrs. Secretary Thompson,
Miss Lane, Judge Bcwlar, Augustus Schcll,
! ahd Mr.. Thomson, with judge Duughcrtv
and Major Watson. of Bedford left this
morning for Cumberland.
| DEAD.-IIoracc Mann. an eminent man,
devoted to the advancement of oducati .,. and
President of Anliochi College, dici nn the
Pad instant.
TnRlLLING.-At thc>battlc of Mny:a.., an
ensign of the Austro-Italian rcgime ,isis-
mund, attempted to desert To the enc With
the flag of the regiment, but the CON p-dcr
Of one of the battalions galopcd ar i,im
cut him down, and returned in triumph with
the precious bit of silk
/ DISTRESSING AccIDENr.-Wm. L. Fnirchild
ot Kinds CO., Miss, was returning from tile
house of n ncighbor, on the 18th ult., with
his wife and child in Il buggy, when tree
fell on them, causing instant death to the
three persons.
I BOYS TAKE WAaNi&c.-Boys should look
before they leap, when diving y boy in
Brooklyn, n. Y, named Brown, made dive
on Friday, and buried his head So deeply in
mud that he was unable to cxtricate himself
and consequently died from sufiacation.
PHILADELPHIA, August 1.-The morning
papers contain the announcements of the
death of the late Hon. Richard Rush, and
accompany the announcement with eulogics
on the life and public services of the deccuscd
| CURIOUS ScANDAL.-Thc Rev. Mr.. Bartlett
of Brooklyn, n. Y, appeared in his pulpit, a
Sunday or two since, in white coat white
/ pants, and white vest A number of his
whitc-chokercd hearers made great fuss
about it, calling it +" scandal"
Snug INCoME.-Elias Howe Jr., who
has purchased p. L. Barnum's famous place
in Bridgeport, Conn, is the inventor of the
sowing machine needle, which, we are in
formed, yields the patentee the snug income
of one thousand dollars per day.
TuE PREsENr.-Look upon every day MS
the whole of life, not merely rs n section, and
enjoy the present, without wishing through
haste, to spring to another section now lying
beturp thce 2"