Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1859-07-30

on the amount of sales and sometimes on t
lNsrRED.-Mr. Choatc's life was insured
for S25, 900, as follows $4,000 in the New
England Mutual Company, and S5, 900 each
in Massachusetts, Charter Oak and Connect
icut Offices.
WlrE-wHIPPER WHIrrED.-A man named
Fisher was tied to post and publicly horse
whipped in the streets Of Chaumont, on Sat
urday evening last for maltreatng and mis-
using his wife.
DEcREAsING.--Tho census takor of Abbc-
vile reports the census of that district to be
ll,2lO; slaves, 10000; showing decrease
of the former, from the last census, of /, ,4S3.
LATEST IANKEEIsM.-Th rigid Sabbatari-
ans in Massachusetts have gone so far as to
recommend that funerals be not held on the
Sabbath! Their next move will bc to pro-
hibt persons from dying on Sunday.
MENrnls, July 1o-Thc t6BSado of Sun
day night at Decatur, destroyed eight spans
of the railroad bridge. Loss, sl5o,OOo.
BEDFORD, Penn, July l9.ANTr Buchanan,
and his accomplished niece, Miss Harriet
Lane, arrived this evening.
IIrMENIAL.-The following announcement
Bgnf }fs REV. John ytys JIG nMAaprqHH qH
James Buchanan to Knndah, alias Ann Lii
beria Jcffs, both liberated Africans of tho
company by the United States steamship
Niagara.
TOMATO WiNE.-Superior wine is said to
be made from the tomato, with no other in
gradients than the pure juice of the tomato
and sugar, which very much resembles cham
pagnc, and has II light transparent color, with
n pleasant brisk flavor.
EMIGRATIoN.-We learn from the Journal
of Commerce that the number of emigrants
arrived Mt New York for the week ending
the 18th inst, was 2,175. making 42,778
since the commencement of the year, against
4o,5Gl for corresponding period in 1858.
OLD HoRAcE.-That veteran abolitionist
and free lover, Horace Greedy, is about to Wis
it Salt-Lake City. We know of no place
where Greedy will be likely to enjoy himself
more.
For CONGRESS- -Rogor A. Pryor, ESD, an.
announces himself candidate for Congress
from Virginia.
GIVE AID.-From the cradle to tho grave,
mankind need the aid of their fellows; we
cannot exist without thigh or low, rich or
poor. 1t is n condition of our being; all who
need aid have right to ask it; none who
arc able to give it can refuse without danger.
IIooPs AND INDEPESDENcE DAY.-The gal
liant Buffalonians. IN. Y.,) on the 4th, had a
piece Of fireworks, representing tho beauties
of crinoline. When first illuminated, it was
glorious in expanded founces and flowers
a little later, and nothing but the skeleton
hoops appeared. Unique, that
WoMAS.-The star of infancy, the day
star of manhood, and the evening star of
old age.
DEATH to the seducer, is and should be
the unwritten law, higher and more Ger
tain than written codes The poisonous
reptile, the rabid dog, the stcalthy assassin,
do no more merit swift destruction than the
william who corrupts and defles the purity
of woman, and blasts the hopes and happi-
ness of the home circle.
- -
SOME one was telling an Irislman that
someone had eaten ten saucers of ice-c cream,
whereupon Pat shook his head. $50 YOU
don't believe it?" With q shrewd nod,
Pat answered, "I behave in the cream, but
not in the saucers."
l.. THE words "out of are the worst in
the language when one is out of patience
and out of money; when his wife tells him
she is out of sugar one day, out of coffee
the next, out of tea the next, out of -four
the next, and finally out of spirits, The
words arc very good when one is out of
debt, out of trouble, and om Of 5aa. If a
man has smoky house, and a scolding
wife, out of doors is No bad place.