Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1859-02-26
pennings and Clippings.


last heard of in Macon, Ga. lie registered
his name as " Col. G. Pinckncy, Charleston" :"
In Augusta, he took the honored name of
Alston.
INDIAN MURpER.-Two men have been
murdered by the Indians in Arizona, aud
their families captured and carried off,
HUNc.-Friday last, says the Barnwcll
Scnft"et, 25th instant, was the day set apart
for the execution of Clayton and Carter for
negro stealing.
GETTING SENsIBLE.-Thc message of Gov.
Banks OF Massachusetts delivered to the Log
lslaturo of that State, on Friday, is direct,
practical, busincss-like paper, confined sole
ly to the affairs of the Commonwealth. 1t
avoids, throughout, any alluson to national
politics, or the slavery question.
FREE ScuooLs.-The number of children
that received benefit from the free school
fund of Georgia during last year, was 81,
753
Lo. THE PooR INDIAN.-The number of In
dans within the limits of the United States
is three hundred and fifty thousand. More
than three hundred and ninety treaties have
been ratified with the Indians since the adop-
ton of the constitution, by which the gov
crnmcnt has acquired five hundred and cigh-
ty-onc million one hundred and sixty-thrce
thousand one hundred and eighty eight acres
of land.
a WEALruY FUGIrIvE.-The IIayticn fu-
gtive Soulouquc, though driven from his
empire, has managed. during his reign, to
lay an anchor to windward. 1t is estimated
that he has f500, 200, securely invested in
Europe, and owns more than hundred hou-
ses in lIayti, besides having large sum of
money and valuables with him.
IomcIDE.-On Sunday evening last, says
the Montgomery Gala Mail, VIC learn that
Mr. j. S. Graves was killed at Dublin, in
this county, by n man by the name of Doug
las, who is now in Jail in this city.
~ llEARTLEss TnIEr.-Diamonds worth ST.
900 and upwards were stolen by man from
his brothcr-in-law in New York on Saturday.
lie borrowed them on pretence of knowing q
purchaser, stepped on board tho Kangaroo
steamer and sailed Tor Europe, taking the
jewels and abandoning a wife in delicate
situation.
TnIRTY-TnREE STATEs.-Thc American liag,
with thirty-thrcc stars, was thrown to the
breeze, for the first time in the United States,
on Monday, from the top ofthe Senate Cham
Der. 1t had been prepared in anticipation
by Mr.. G. S. Jones, Doorkeeper of the Sem
ate, and it was hoistcd simultaneously with
the announcement of the singing of the Ore
gon Bill b. The President.
SALuTATIoNs-Di Different nations have diff
tercnt modes of salutation. For instance,
the climate of Egypt is fcverish, and porspi-
ration is necessary to health; hence the
Egyptian meeting you ask, GLOW do you
persprc ?"
PAINFUL OccURRENcE.-Sar b. Noble,
a girl of l5 years, who went to the National
Circus in Philadelphia Friday evening to
get an engagement as n fairy in Cinderella,
was carcssing one of the tigers in n cage,
when he seized her arm and lacerated it so
badly that it had to be amputated.
GAME IN THE WEsT.-In the early part of
the winter, a single firm in Chicago arc said
to have contracted 10 send one hundred thou
sand pounds of quail and prairie chicken to
the East, and that they exceeded the order
by several thousand pounds. This is pret-
ty good illustration of the abundance of game
in the West.
FEMALES ScARcE.--lt is said that the pop
ulation along the Platte and tributaries
amount to one thousand men aud only f1l
white women. We suppose balls and par
ties are rather rare in that region, and court.
ing an obsolete idea
BIG ANIMALS AT PmILADELpmIA.-A large
Kansas Ok was exhibited at Wardelrs drove
yard Monday, weighing 4,600 pounds. Also
an enormous wild hog, from Mexico weigh
ing 1000 pounds, and q large South Amcri-
can sheep, which weighed four hundred
pounds.
NIGHT CAPs.--A divorce case is now on
the legal tapis in Cincinnati between two
parties, both of whom are young, and mar
ricd but three years, whose disagreement
arises out of a night-cap, which the wife IN
sisted upon wearing in spite of hor hus-
bands wishes, petitions, tears, threats, oaths,
and commands.
MoUNT YERNoN.-Miss Ann Pamela Gun
ningham. announces in behalf OF the Mount
Vernon Ladies Association of which she is
Regent, that the sum $1l7, 900 has been rails
cd towards the purchase of Mount Vernon.