Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1859-01-08

ucVeaSeo was h'Shty fI Spected, and had been
" member of the Legislature, Treasurer of
the Lower Division, Ordinary of Charleston,
and had held othor important public trusts,
and discharged his duty to the satisfaction
of the many.
ThE NoRTnwgsr.-Sevcn States, Ohio, IL
linois, Indiana, Michigan, Wisconsin, Iowa,
and Minnesota. pollod l,263, 900 votes, or one
hundred thousand more than the fifteen South
ern States three times as many as New Eng
laud and nearly a third of the whole vote of
the Union
A WnoPrER.-A bear has been killed in
Madison (Va.) county, weighing 062 pounds.
Either the story or the bear is whopper!
CoNNUNDRuM.-Why are little folks on
Christmas morning like iircmen at work.
Because they arc very busy with their hose.
AGAY WtDow.--A dangerous young wild
ow of30, in Ludlow, Mass, with four dead
or discarded husbands, has torn a young lad
of Is from his afflicted parents in the same
town, and taken him to bel and board at No.
5. The pareats locked up the boy. but the
widow was too smart forthome got him out,
and fled with him to Palmer where they were
married. She's clearly one of the widows.
MORE FREE STATES.-A scheme is said to
bo on foot among several northern capitalists,
to make Arizona and Sonora free States
The mines, it is said, will pay bountifully,
and are admirably adapted to stimulate Yam
kHo enterprise, and to repay patience, per-
severance, and industry.
DISEASE AMONG pouLTRY.-A letter from
King William county, Va, says singular
disease has recently broken out among the
pultry iii that section. In some respects it
resembles the mysterious black tongue; but
CoUNrERrEIT.-Th are counterfeit fifty
d)llar bills on the State Bank of South
Carolina" in circulation,
SNow.-Largo quantities of snow have fall
len in the Northern and Eastern States
more than foot deep generally V'a
Doas.--Tho Mayor of New York, in his es,
Inmates of expenses for his Office during 1859
has this item: "For contingencies killing
doss-$l,500." This may throw some light
upon the prospects of the sausage trade in
the metropolis.
VERY SIcErY PLAcE.-'rhc town agent
at Hartford, CT, sold 1888 gallons of liquor
last year to citizens, under law which for
bids all sales, except to the sick.
ANOTHER CAsg.-Gov. Allston, before re-
siguing his gubcrnatoral honors, commutcd
the sentence passed on John Partan, and
which condemned him to be hung, to whip
ping and longer Imprisonment.
GEN. JAMES GADsDES.-This gentleman
died in Charleston last week. lie held sew
e.1l prominent Offices daring his career as a
public man, distinguishing himself as our
Minister to Mexico.
SUTclDE.-Jud5c john A. Tucker, Of Gcor-
gia, committed suicide recently. "Strong
drink" was the cause. II3 was II most prom
ising man.
Hon, ALBERT PiEE.-Thc Memphis Bul-
tstia says: We notice that some of our Eas-
tern exchanges are again Publishing the
death ofthis gentleman. All n mistake, 50
far rs their Information is concerned; the
Colonel, only few days since, having sc
out from Fort Smith on buffalo hunt. This
is the third time Nh, Pike has boen killed"
by the newspapers within the past year.
ExecUTIoNs AT CoLUMDUs.--0n Friday. the
l7th inst, as we learn from the Times and
S!miasI, of Columbus, Ga, two mcn--lIinci
and Dozcr--wero hung in that city.
DEAD-The Hon. Timothy Pillsbury dicl
mt his residence near Danvillc, Texas, on the
evening Of the 23l November, in the 60th
year of his age.
MoRE EXpUNaING.-We have already no.
UIced that the South Carolina anu North Car
DINA Conferences have cxpungcd the offcn-
sive clause in the Methodist Discipline
Georgia has just done the same, and other
Southern Conferences have taken like action
ST. ANDREWS PARlsu.-At an election
held on Monday, the 18th December, 1858,
in st. Andrews Parish for Senator, the fol-
lowing was the result: G. IL. Rivers 40 votes,
j. p. Clement35. Majority for Rivers 5.
LOTTERIES IN New YoRK.-The authori-
ties of New York, says the Savannah RspuJ-
Acan, have arrested six. Of the agents of tho
Swan Lottery Co., and issued warrants for
the arrest of six editors who published their
advertisements Il rcquisition has been sent
to this State for Samuel Swan himself, which
Gov. Brown will probably homo, as he is
known to be death on Lotteries.