Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1860-10-13
Pennings and Clippings.

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| TnE LoNCEST--The up freight train from Ro.
chester for Buffalo on Sunday morning consist.
cd of one hundred and forty cars, being over
mile and quarter in length. The train was
drawn BY five locomotives
ELECTIONS IN MICnIcAN-D -DETRoIr October .
An election for Legislative and local officers i'm
the Upper Peninsula was held on tho 25th of
ScDtcmher and resulted in the election of the
entire Democratic tickets in Mackinac Chppo.
wa, lioughton, WahoaShton and Marquette
counties. Joseph Coulter was elected State
Scnator-a Democratic gain.
Terrible TR,GEDy-Mr. Stovall. rezpeeto.
bic citizen of Fostervillc, Rutherlard County,
Tennessee, while laboring under insanity tho
result of financial cmbarrassments murdered
his wife and four childrcn. on Saturday night
last, by cutting their throats, and, after cutting
ms own throat Ieaped intoa deep spring, where
his body was found.
FAST YoUNG MAN-IIsn. john Young
Brown, of kentucky who was eectcl TO Con.
gross year before he was oligibl., has last
married the daughter of Ex-Senntor Dixon, nr
that State she being his sec6nd wife, and %,
years old
CANNIniLIsM-A correspondent of tho Lynch.
burg IUYi"iaR says that Waller r Staples, Esq.
of Montgomery devourcd the Hon. Faycttc
| McMullen in a political discussion at Wyihc-
vile, on Friday night last.
ANOTHER CURE FOR RuGuMArisM--Bathct the
parts affected in water in which potatoes with
their skins on have hcen boiled. as hot us can
be borne, just before going to bed.
TIE LARGE ClrEs-Thcro arc Grty-sevcn cit
| les in the world which contain from 100000 to
| 100000 inhabitants, twcuty-thrcc fran 200 900
to 500 000, and twelve which contain above 500,
900. Let us be thankful thnt there are SO few
large towns.
TnANEsGIyING-Th Governor of New York
has appointed Thursday. the 2oth of November
to be observed as day of thanksgiving by the
people of that State.
YANKEE TRIcX-An American traveller run a
largo invoice of valuable cigars into England
| by putting thom in box, under false bottom
with rottlesnakes on top. Tho custom officials
did not wish to investigate.
VERY LIxELv-It is said that the Prince Of
Wales was more aStonshnd at his hotel bill in
Cincinnati than at anything else brought to his
notice lie gave 500 to the walters
GoNE TO JOIN GARIrALpI-Thc Nashville Pc.
f1of SAYS that young man from that city
named Frank Nancy, cadet has resigned his
scholarship at West Point, and gone to Join the
forces of the great libcrator.
HEALTH OF CHARLEsToN-T bill of mortal
lty for the week ending September %, rcnoptS
forty deaths, SIX OF which were from yellow lc-
! vcr
DEScRIrING NlAoARA -Bnyari Taylor says,
| thtt "nc w1 looks r.sli:Ey npon it measures its
| features, anal Yves the mprcssion and writes
! with the conscientious cndeavor to represent
| what ne has seen, can give IT'S good description
| oi Niagara ~ he could Of crab.tree in bios
som, and a much better one than it would be
| ~ bf .I,,
he loves
TIE VorE OF New YoaH CrrY-The popular
majority against Fremont in Mew York city in
1896, was upwards Of 4i,O0O The New York
Ieratd says it will he larger this year against
Lincoln, and names GOO00 aS the probable fig.
ure.
) IL RIoN ESq-We mentioned the other day
that this gentle lenlan had been elected President
of the Planters Bank OF Fairfield. The
Winnsboro Register informs us, that arrange.
ments have been made to transfer n portion of
his dntic. as President that Mr.. Rions prac-
tico as :. lawyer will not be interfer. cd with
SToRM-A destructive storm of wind passed
over the town of Ava, N. Y, on Tuesday last,
sweeping down trees and fences in its path =
The house of Nicholas Reed was crn.hed by n
tree falling across it, and three of his children
were instantly killed. -"
New ORLEANS. Oct i-Thcre was very Sc.
we're storm on Tuesday. Fifty coal boats we're
swamped, and eleven miles of the Jackson Rail.
road was swept away. A great many houses
and lives were lost; and sugar mills and crops
were destroyed.
SABBATH ScHooL--It is now authentically sta
ted that the first Sabbath School in the United
states was established by some Dutch nanufac.
lures for their employees in Boston, april 20,
1901.
CiNclNNATr Oct 5-Gov. Willard, of Inli-
anna. died last night at st. Paul, Minnesota, Of
consumption.
GoLD-Gold dust, from the Kansas mines is
coming in more freely. Ninety-fve hundred
dollars worth was shipped East from Omaha,
Kansas Territory. on Thursday last, by tho
United Statos Express. Bankers at Omaha are
purchasing an average of 800 600 per day from
the returning miners. besides which large
amountsnre received daily by the merchants G9f
dry goods. s'In"I
THE NUMBER OF BoDfEs FoUND-The total
number of dead bodies recovered from the Lady
| E!gin disaster now reaches one hundred and ffg
ty-tbree There are doubtless over hundred
more yet to be recovered, many of which will
, probably never be reclaimed
WASHINGTON, October 3--The Owners of the
Isabel have been awarded tho contract for car.
rying the Havana mails at $40, ,0O0 per annum. I
New York, Oct 2-rhe Havana Diaris con-.
talns an account Of Walkers execution. Ho
died with fortitude, protesting the Roman Cath
Ollie religion, and saying his war on Hondurns
was wrong. lie said he alone was to blame
hn fa1 1ao y