Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1859-06-11

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iiEwARD.-The Bank OF Charleston offers
reward of $1,000 for n package of SIS 900,
missing from the mail between Charleston
and Abbevillo. This is tho package noted
as lost in the Mcctry OF May l6.
DErRgpATioN OF LocUsTs.-Tho Mcmnb;s
Tenn. >Acolanchc, of the 23d says: "wc
hear of extensive depredations committed by
the swarms Of locusts which noy infest the
country. In somo instances these insects
have attacked gardens and growing crops
and almost entirely destroyed them"
The ScoTcn IRISH.-Thcro is a stream of
Scotch Irish beginning in Pennsylvania run
ning through Western Virginia, and the
two Carolinas down into Texas. Wherever
you strike this stream you will find virtue,
intelligence, and many things that are fair
and lovely, and of good report among men.
New HAMPSHIRE Legislature of New
Hampshire assembled on Wednesday last.
Jos. y. Gilmore was elected President of the
Senate, and N. B. Bryant, Speaker of the
House. The presiding officers, as we'll as
the other officers of both branches, are all
Republicans.
Coop AND BAD.-Threc staple productions
of tho bott" NJ lands of the Missouri are, corn.
pork, and ever and ague.
New COLLEGE IIALL--Thc Philomotbean
Society of Erskinc College, Due West, propose
to erect new hall on the College campus for
their purposes. The dimensions decided up.
on arc fprty-six feet by thirty. four feet and
two stories in height.
The WHEAT CRoP.-Adviccs from Tenncs-
sec say that new wheat will be ready for
market, in many parts Of that State, by the
first OF the present MONTH and that the crop
gives indications of tn" greatest abundance.
CELEBRATIoNs.-The Masonic Lodges of
Anderson and Grcenyille will celebrate ST.
johns day (24th Junc) by addresses, with
dinners to follow
Ok IfEADs.-Each head itappcars, has one
hundred and forty thousand iuhabitants--
this bcing the average number of hairs in the
head, as counted by a German naturalist
Blonde heads have tho greatest number, how
cYer-brown next, negro next, ond red heads
the least of all
ChARIrABtE.-The Order of Odd Fellows
now numbers about 100000 members in the
United States, and paid out last year $780,
OOO for the relief of the sick and $l2, 900 for
the education of orphans.
PRoFITABLE.-W. w. Ives an entorpris-
ing farmer, residing near Norfolk, Va, las
realized $4,000 on his last cabbage crop. 1t
has been shipped to the North
CALHOUN AsSoCIATIoN.-Th mott proceeds
OF the recent fair Of the Ladies Calhoun AS
sociation, in Charleston, amounted To $6. .O5O
EARLY.-On the 18th ult. "cotton squares"
were taken from the plantation of Mrs. NJ
G. Riggs, back of Milliken's bend, La.
DlEp.-Mrs. Wilkes one of the parties
poisoned in Newberry, died recently from
effects of the poison so administered.
REvIvING BLUE LAVA bill is before
the Connecticut House of Representatives to
prohibit all theatrical exhibitions, Ethiopian
concerts, menagerics and other matters of
kindred character, in the State, unless the
same shall be of a strictly moral character,
under penalty of 500.
The AMERICAN TRACT SociE4Y.-Iton. r.
Q, Winthrop declines to be candidate for
reelection to the ce-presidency of the Bos-
ton Tract Society. for reason that it favors the
publication of anti-slavery tracts. thing
with which it rightfully should have nothing
TO DO.
UNoALLANr The British papers say that
the present Tuscan Government has refused
- let the Grand Duchess have her dresses,
but her linon has been sent to her. That is
decidedly shabby-not the linen, bat the
policy which refused the poor lady her dres-
scs. Ha!iantry seems 70 ha7S aod Floroncc.
A LARGE BIRD.-Chnrles Kutz, landlord
of the Washington Hotel, at Kutztown, Berks
county. Pa, has in his possession live vul.
ture--,. rare bird in this regon--.wliich mea-
sureo, across the wings from tip to tip, soven
feet.
HEMP FEVER EPIDEMIc.-There arc scvcn
executions to take place in Canada in the
course of next month--one in Toronto, ono
at Merrittsville. throe at Brantford, ono at
Coburg, and ono at Bellevile.
EscAPED.-Three prisoners escaped from
our Jail, says the EdscRcld Adccrtiser. dur
ing Saturday night last They were the two
Virginia Jonescs. imprisoned for horse steal.
ing, and Jnsper Paris
RESUMED HIS SwAY.--A gentleman rode
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