Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1859-02-26
gave notice 'thatlhe would move its re.con!
sideration at an early day. &

are estimated, in the European States ot
more than ninety.nine hundred mud o;nht,'
millions of dollars-$9, $50, 1878, ,768. Tbs
most deeply indebted nations arc Croat
britain, $8,S76, 6,563,47O, France. 81 COG
3oo ,493 Austria, 81 ,209 ,42O 900 Rms
sia, 81, ,O41 ,414, 1913 Spain, S732 2O5 54S.
Holland, $3.50, ,295, ,887, and Prussia o0'y1@' por
.ugai, Sardinia, Belgium and Denmark, sew.
mi uraiiy owe more than one hundred millions.
Inc Central and South American States
owe S30o, ,696, OLA of'swhich Mexico is set
down Tor Sl33, 526, 242; Brazil. S73 pr.
a9o; puru, $46, 45l, 3S7; Vcnczuela'
20, 500, $40, and the other various sums,
from one quarter ofa million to fifteen mil.
lions of dollars. ''
CALlFoRN1A.-What remarkable conn
try is California The Sacramento REQ On
nounccs the discovery of a magnificent val
icy iylngin the Sierra Nevada, and about
nrty m'cs north of Honey Lake Valley
It's soil is fertile, grasses mxuriant; It is
wcit nmbercd and watered- there bcino
several running streams flowing through It
at distance of from one to three miles
apart The banks of these streams are
1ringcd witlrtrccs, and the land between is
open prairie; .; rabbits, deer, antelopcs, bears.
and prairie chickens abound there II has
been called Rabbit Valley" because of
the great number of those animals with
which it.abounds
A Girls WoRD BErTER THAN rur
BiDLE,-Thc Warren (O,) CH,oniclc chron
lclGs funny case y youthful pair, John
ana Susan, wercdctermincd to get married
Iarants refuscdconscnt The family re.
cord IN the Bible said Susan was not cigh-
teen. Susan told John that the Bible was
not true, she was eightccn John believed
Susan, and sworc before the Probate Clerk
that Susan was eighteen. The father of
Susan had John arrested for perjury
Trial was had. Father and mother testi-
ned that Susan was not eighteen, and the
mother said she was there when Susan was
born and she knew, all about it,. 1t looked
ssqually for John Penitcntiary yawncd
Tor the victim. Susan stepped up and tes-
tined that she told John she was eighteen
Court discharged john, and Susan Jumped
up and kissed him before the people.
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CUNNING ADuLTERATIoN OF GoIp
CoIN.-An Italian woman was taken into
custody in this city last week, for passing
gold COINS that had been adulterated in
the following ingenious manners Genuine
half-eaglc (S5) pieces were sawed through
the middle on the edges, about one dollars
worth of gold taken from each, and its place
filled up with base metal The two halves
OF the coins were then united together
again, and the edges rcmilled so skillfully
that 1T was impossible to detect the forgery
by mere inspection, as tho faces not only
bore the impress of the genuine articles.
but were really such.-- Scientific IN. K)
-1merjcdn.
FRENCH TRoops FROZEN TO DEArH.-
n Paris correspondent writes as follows:
We have bad news from Algeria. 1t
has showed there with great Violence, and
several regiments were surprised by snow
storms; one regiment lost 30 men. frozen
to death, and it has sixty men in the hos
pital. The typhus fever is ii maxi Q
some rayages among them.
Too LATE FOR CHURcH-An old ne
groin Connecticut, who had always been
constant in attending church, and prided
himself Furthermore in being the first
. there, happened to be detained far beyond
the usual hour one morning.
"John," said Cuffee, as lie stood card
ing his wool for the occasion, "hab dc
Kindness to tell inc what o'clock him be 2"
NJ" Can't tell you. tCuffec, the clock hab
stopped. / should tink it an, pretty con-
siderable late"
g. Isc wouldn't be exposed if 'twar half
an hour top o dat" returned Cuffec, and
hurried to church as fast as his handy legs
would carry him. He entered toward the
end of the sermon just as the parson was
rcitcratihg the text for the last time:
The last shall be first, and the first
shall be last" CGfae tura1d upon biz
heel, aud went out exolaimine -" Dat
means me--I come last, but Ise out russer
anyhow; de next time dis nigga goes late
to mectin, hc no 90 at all.
CULTIvArE ENERer,E Many of the physi-
cal evils--the want of vigor, the naction, of
the systciis, lapgnor, and hystcrical affections
which arc so prevalent among the delicate
young women of the present day, may be
traced to q want of wcll-traiucd mental pow
CIR, and well-exorciscd scifcontroE, and 20
an absence Of fxel habits Of employment.
Real cultivation Of the intellect, earnest OK
ereisc ofthe moral powers, the enlargement
of the mind, bg the aeqnitement of knowl-
edge and the strengthening ofits capabilities
for effort, the frmness for endurance of inc
Sitablo OWLS, aud for energy ia combating
tsuotsaS may DO overcome, ara the ends which
education has tn attain weakness, if met by
indulgence will not only remain weakness,
but become infifmity. The power of the