Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1859-03-12

for ls 5eturn here for trial
+ TWELVE MiLEs9aN IfoGk on S1lTE$!E2&TIe
Catskill IN. W Eramiaer, says that small
party of residents of Cotskill lately skated
from that place to Newburg in fvchours and
five minutes n distant of sixty miles.
| JuDcMENT AGAINST Cob BEHToN.-The
Treasury Department. has notified the exc
cutors of the late Col. Benton of II Judgment
against the deceased. rendered in 1897, in
favor of the United States, for 81, 900. Ap-
| plication has been made to Congress to re-
| ieye the estate from this claim. Itis stated
that it will swallow up the entire property
loft by the deceased, 1t will thus be seen
that Mr Benton died poor. y''" vi
FURTHER FROM CURA.-So much do the au-
thoritios dread revolution that all the for
| eign white laborerS on the Island Of Cuba
have been ordered to leave when their en-
gagements expire, and the Captain General
will not permit any more to be employed,-
Washington's birth day was celebrated by
the American shipmastors in port
FAREwELL SrEEcu.-Gen. Houston ad-
dressed the United States Senate on Mon
day last, in what he termed his farewell
speech at the close of tho forty-sixth year of
his public life, in which he reviewed at some
| length the attempts to defame his character,
and reciting, in rcfutation to them, his mill
tary career in defence sS the State of Texas
CHANcED.-Tituroy post office, in Greon.
vile District has been changed to that of
| Marietta.
Double LuCK.--Mr. Wood of the New
Orleans True DeIt0 Office recently married
a wife and before the expiration of tho honey
moon drew quarter of the $4,000 prize in
the Havana lottery,
SoUTnERN NoMlNATioN ron THE PREsIDEN-
cv.-The Savannah Republican of Saturday
last nominatcs Hon. James III. Hammond, of
South Carolina, for President and Hon. Ru-
fns Choate, of Massachusetts,, for Vice Pres.
] idont.
/ Accommodations negroes, the property of
Gen. O. Singletary, of Pitt Co., N. c., were
| killed on the 23d, by tho caving of mari
pit, wherein they we're at work.
Mr.. CuLLoM ExoNgRATED.-Th Commit
tee to investigate the charges against Mr..
Cullom, late clerk of the U. S. House of Rep
I rcsentatives, has made a report of exonern
ting him from all charges of malfeasancc in
Office
FAST AGE.-A man in Orange n. j., was
married on the 9th inst, became father on
the 10th, and advertised his wifc on the lIth,
INF bo, 10,
Itrnstng her on hisaccount. This is pro-
gressivc age.
T., COSTLY CHURcu.-The Rev. Dr. Springs
/ tPresby Church, at New York has just
received its finishing touch. The building
has cost S230,000.
No WoNDER!-A Japanese nobeman, up
on being shown fashion plato in an Amcri-
cnn Magazine, was startled, and cxclaimed
How very fat your women arcl'
MARINE Losses FOR FEBRUARY.-The month
ly table of Marine Losses for the past month
shows an aggregate of 80 vessels, of which s
| were ships 0 were barks, III were briggs, l3
were schooners, and a steamship. The to
tai value of the property lost was $500, 800.
New SoAP.--We see itIstated that n Yam
keo soap pedicr' was recently caught at sea
during violent storm, and saved his life by
taking cake of of his own soap and washing
himself ashore. This soap was doubtless
made from strong LIE.
TIE FrRsT.-South Carolina has the honor
of establishing the first Agricultural Society
ever incorporated in this country.
Foolish MAN.-An oyster dealer in Roch.
ester, N. Y. gave $25 for the first seat sold
for the Piccolomini concert in that city. lie
must have been softshell."
Mrs. CUNNINGHAM BuRDELL-Thc Ere
ening Past has n curious story about the fii-
nous Mrs. Cunningham Burdell, the upshot
of which is that she recently applied to the
matrimonial Office in that city in search of
husband, and was introduced to C. F. Fitz-
gerald, of ST. Louis who was after wife,
but they did not moke,9py iarrangement$
+ EAEIY.--A ng as large as the thumb, and
a peach having considerable form have been
pluckcd in Charleston.
PUBLIC DISNER.--A correspondent of the
Pcndlcton Messenger suggests that n public
dinner should be tcndered by the citizens of
Anderson and Pickens Districts to Hon. b,
r. Perry, for his ardent support and uncom-
promising advocacy of the Blue Ridge Rail.
road.
A BLACK DoCroR. Professor Yelpeau,
Chief Surgeon of the Hospital of Charity,
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