Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1859-01-22

ms discourse, impressivcly remarked,
And now, ifa little negro boy, with tin
horn, on the top of II pine bush, can make
YOU feel So how will you feel when that day
does Gomez"
A SMAHT WoMAN.-AThc Chattanooga
Advertiser relates the following:
A nice, respected lady, not a thoGsand
miles away, had long noticed, to her dis
may, that her "worser half was growing
foolshly suspicious and jealous of her.
She resolved to teach him lesson. Some
evenings since, as he was leaving, she told
him Ire need not hurry back--shc would
not be lionel y-shc wished her dacky to
enjoy himself, &c, &c Benedict smclt
Verltable mice" under that pocrisy, and
resolved to be avenged. About eight
O'Clock, can individual" about his size
might have been seen cautiously creeping
alone TO the door and noiselcssly. Bene-
dict nccpcd in. Just as lie cxpeced-
There they werc---a pair of boots-l-a coat
on the back of a chair, and hat on the ta-
bic. Benedict shivered like an aspen leaf
as he stood, pulled off his boots, ard drew
apistol from his coat pocket. With re-
solution flashing from his eye" he made
tracks for the bedroom There he was,
Inoolng at the bedside, coat and vest off,
and his head on the pillow Miserable
ylllain-his time had come. Say your
prayers, vilain-your time is short and
a fash and report told that the bullet had
speed on its fatal mission. "IIelp muir
der! wutch!-oh is Ehaf yov? and Madame
popped her little head up from the foot of
the bed. Benedict seized the body, and
it was-a miscellaneous collection of old
coats, vests, pillows, handkerchicfs, and
the like, made npfor the eccasien al say,
dear, what does all this mean% exclaimed
the husband, with a blank, shccpish look
"Wcll, dear, replied the wife, +" did get
lonely after all, and just amused myself by
dressing up that pUppet, and making be-
licvc you were at home. I'm slreI didn't
think you'd suspect There, there, )" said
the chagrincd husband, "say nomorc about
it; | thought it was robbcr dear creature,
I'm so glad it ddPt hit you" Benedict
repeated "Now lay me-" &C., and wehS
to bed, resolved not to watch any moro at
present.
DrEELING fN PARIS. A4-The of the FTg-
arc, in Paris, under whose employ Nj. dc
PENE was not long ago made the victim of
two brutal military ducls, has himself recon
tly had a brace of those interesting affairs
on hand. These latter affairs howe or,
were confined entirely to literary and artistic
men. The first of these affairs, resulted in
NJ. dc Villcmcssant, of the Figaro, being
wouncdi in thc breast with n small sword,
by NJ. Maquct, thc editor of The PayS-
\ Paris corrcspondcntrcmarks upon this un
expected result that NJ. MAQUET having
pinkcd the heretofore unappaoachablc
editor of the Figo,o,may now rank as the
champion of Paris. A proycrb is now
grwmg up in Francc-"Ile fights as well
as al editor '"
An ISTEKEsrGNG REvoLtTroNNRY
! RELlC.-Wc were one of small social re-
union, recently, at which the high honor
was awarded US ofsupping off q table cloth
captured from the tent of Col Ferguson at
the Kings Mountain. 1t is in the pos
session Of the venerable Mrs Chinoe III.
Smith, of this city, and was presented to
her on her wedding day sixty years ago, by
her brother-in-law, Col. Isaac Shelby, one
of the heroic victors in that glorious rcpub-
lican triumph ovor royal yalor. The cloth
is of finely teXtured linen, and is in that
wonderful state representation which speaks
the religious vcneMtion with which il has
been treasured by daughter of the stall
wart men who dug out and laid the found
atoms ofthe Republic -ncmphis Bulletin
8th.
"THEY SAY. There is decision in
the last volume of Guys Massachusetts,
/ Reports which is,at once sound morals and
good law a woman sued for SANDER, de
Tended on the ground that she only repeat
ed, and without malice, what was current
I ly reported Tho oonrt held that tn re-
1 peat Ssory, which is false and slandcrous.
no matter how widely it may have been
/ circulated is at the peril of the tale bear
cr Slandcr cannot always be traced to its
origin. It's power of mischief is derived
from repetition, even if disbelief of the
story accompanies its rclltion Indeed,
this half doubtful way of imparting slandcr
is often the surcst method resortcd to by
the sandcrer to give currency to his tale.
HINTS AND HONE THoUGHTs.-"G Good
breeding never forgcts that self-love is uni
vcrsal; :" and again; +" Sin-has many tools,
but a lie is handle that fits them all. -
] suppose you know that truth may have
its fanatics aswell as error. "Prccopt is
instruction written upon the sand; the tide
flows over it, and the record is gone. Ex-
ample is cngraven on the rock, and the
| lesson is not soon lost" Fate is less ca
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