Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1859-07-09
pennings and Clippings.

SubMARINE TELEGRArms.-Th act of sink
ing submarine cables seems to be q very diff
icuit one, or its execution is often intrustcd
to incompetent hands. The pcrsin brings
news that tho Red Sea cable broke and was
lost sixty miles from Cape Sidcro.
CAUGHT AT LAsT.-Chas Blanchard n
young man who, two or three years ago.
while employed as bookkeeper in Now Or
leans, cmbcHzled $4,000 and absconded to
Havana, recently returned, was found out
aud is now i'll prison.
AN OLD MrNIsrER.-The oldest minister
in Philadclp phiais Rev George Chandler. who,
III the course of his ministry, has married
3,lGO couples. and performed funeral scryi-
ccS over the remains of five thousand persons
ONE OF THE WouNDED.-Among the woun.
dcd in the personal staff alongside the Empc-
ror Napoleon is Edgar Ncy son of the great
Marshal 800
CoNGREssIoNAL.(R (R l) HhEcTioN.-At the
election in Providence for member of Con.
gross from this District, Christopher Robin.
son, the American Republican candidate,
was elected. lie received about . 200 votes
ThoS Davis the Straight Republican cand-
date supported also by portion of the Dem.
ocrats received about $500 votes
ForND.-Thc large amount Of money late
~ found in Cohocksink creek, near Phla-
dclphia is believed to have been stolen from
the Union Bank, at Jackson, Tcnn., when
the clcrb, George Miller, was murdered, on
the night Of the 2d of February last. OF the
money taken, 100000 was in notes of the
Bank, said to be of the character and dcnom-
nation of those found
TnE Hoe CuoLLRA-This disease is again
rcviving i'll many sections of the Western
country. and has appeared with great viru-
lcncc III Tennessee. 1t has assumed the
character of a destructive epidemic in some
portions of the State Of New York At Au-
burn some 80 to 200 hogs, belonging to a
distllcry near that city, have died Of it,
They were recently imported from the West.
n GOOD LINCUIsr.-rhc Emperor of Aus
tria is one of the best linguists in the empirc-
1t is said that he speaks thirteen languages
perfectly, and that he is in the Imperial
Council the only man who understands all
the languages of Ills vast domains.
MAMMoTu CAGnAGE.-Thc editors nf the
Lynchburg Rcpu6iican have bccn presented
with monster cabbage grown near that city
which weighed % pounds, and measured .
feet i'll circumference.
LARGE SrEALING.-Thcy thicvc by the
wholesale at Syracuse, n. Y. First, n canal
! boat is stolcn-thcn two story frame house
! NOW n flock of sheep is missing, and last
Sunday Sabbath school was taken. Some
| years age the Salt Pointers threatened to
steal the State Capitol. It looks as though
they were practicing for that exploit.
GoNE OVER TO THE MEXrcANs.-rhc Buff
inlo Ecpress says that Gcnral j. Hobart
Ward, late commSsary general of that State,
| has received colUncl's commission in the
Mexican army" aud will soon leave this
country for that service. 1t adds that Gen.
Ward married Mexican lady ut the close
of the Mexican war, and has strong afintics
for that country.
ErucATioNAL-'rhcrc are four million
scholars and one hundred and fifty thousand
teachers in fhis country. There is one
scholar for every five free persons. In grcat
Britain there is one scholar to every eigh,
persons IN Franco one to every ten.
a QUEEN CONSOLES AN EMrRESs. Tho
Nord, Of Brussels, ailirms that the Empress
Eagcnic has received an autograph letter
from Queen Victoria, in which the sovereign
Of Great Britain gives expression to the SYM
pathetic feelings she cntcrtars towards her
Majesty ~ regent charged by the Empc.
ror with high and responsible functions, and
as IL wife whose husband is running the
risks of battle.
UMBRELLA BoRRowISG.-& learned anti
quoran has discovered that four different
persons isavc been known since tho nine.
tcenth century came in, to return borrowed
umbrellas. Out of this small number, tIroc
were found to be hopclcssly dcrnngcd, and
the other was proved to be SO distracted that
he picked his teeth with Iootjack.
SuIclpE.--John Hogan. an Irishman,
committed suicide at Waltcrboro,' in this
State, last week. He was labOrng under
excitement produced by an undue use of in.
toNicating liquors.
THESE TmNGs ARE ~ ALLEGoRY.-Wc
read the following in North country paper
Curious Story of Cat."--in the village of
Tottington, near Bury, Mt the house of Mr.
Adam Brooks, sexton. may be witnessed q
courious instance of feline attachment. a
cat. which frs a kitten three weeks old, about
n week ago cOught n mouse, but instead Of