Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1860-09-01
Pennings and Clippings.

predicts that the vote of New York will be
cast against Abraham Lincoln.
7 HAVE YOU SEEN THE ELErIANr?-Uc Is said
tohave been 'rownd lnel v, and is described thus:
Elephants live for two hundred, three hundred,
and even four hundred years. a healthy. full
grown elephant consumes thirty pounds of grain
| per day
Crowd AT CAMP MEErrNc-Thc camp
meeting mt Camden, DEL was attended, last
sunday, 1t is stated, by from 10000 to $1,000
! persons.
| BosToN, August GA prize fight took nlacc
this morning, on Island Pond, Vermont be.
tween Australian Kelly and Dan Kerrigan.-
Twenty rounds were fought in forty five min.
utcs, when Kelly struck foul blow, and Kerri-
gan was declared tho victor.
DETROIT August lQ-Calcb G. Woodbury.,
Postmaster Mt White Pigeon, who. was lately
arrested for robbing the mail, and held in $1,000
bal, failing t" find securities for the amount,
killed himself yesterday, to escape committed 10
/ prison
| New ORLEANS. August oO-.A collision oc
Cured ON the Carolina Railroad last night, by
which, two persons were killed and several
wounded.
| PAYING llIGu For PnorAHiTY-IaSt Friday. a
drunken wretch was taken before an alderman
of PittSburg, Pa, and sworc ronndlv. urnp
which the magistrate fined the fellow $:}8. SO for
curSlnS and swearing ifty.cght prulnne caths
IN default ol payment the alderman committed
him for So days!
Esd OF THE WuELD"-Thc Mllcritcs com
menced their religious services, it is claimed III
| North Wilbraham, Mass. This sect now mum.
bers 10000 in the United States and the Cam.
das, and they gather in camp.mecing from
nearly every State in the Union A prr.ion of
the brethren look for the Millennium before the
| last OF March, ISUl others are confident that
| uill Incl 4
longer, while others still predict universal
| overthrow in about sixteen weeks. Look out.
SEVERE AND FArM SroRM-A thunder stit,h
ot unusual severity passed over Newark, Now
Jersey, Saturday afternoon. a farmer named
Mr. Cory, of Orange township willie moving
hay IN the lower part of the city, was struck by
| Lightning and instantly killed. Young man
named Stephen Mckcon was olso killed in "a
house in the Sixth Ward. Six others wcrc
stunned, and an old lady badly injured
How TRuE-Evcry desire bears its death in
Its very qualification. Curiosity lnnguishc> IN
der repeated stimulauts and novelties cease to
excite surprise, until ut length VIC cannot even
wonder at II miracle.
Census OF ANDrnSox-Thc population Of An.
dersoniS 22,GG0, of which number S43G are
slaves. TheSpopulation of Anderson village is
| l,I36; Pendlo 'un. Sol Williumstun G33 Bel.
ton. 2l3; lionea Path. l9i.
WHAT IA 4 M;T2? ?--rhc mite of commerce. n
small coin formerly current. WAS equal to one.
third of a tirthnS The mite of Scrp,afn'
was the quarter of 1cnarious, and worth
seven tarthnSs, or about three and :-hulf fceuts
TnE SpRiNcs-Tl c.c are 700 visitors at Old
| Sweet. 400 Mt Red Sweet, 1900 at the Green
bricr White. 500 at the Montgomery White, 600
at the Red Sulphur, 400 at the Salt Sulphur.
GOVERNOR or MASsAcnUsrTTs-Thc Ncwbu.
ryp"rt Hc,Wid is told that Marshal p. Wilder
will hc the leading candidate, and possibly
tie only candidate for Governor against n p.
Banks. it thinks that Mr.. Wilder woald re.
ccvc some support not otherwise to be had
against the Republicans from the agriculiuri>ts
and he would also rally very considerable
porto" from the old American party
| AUGUSTA CoNvENTioN-The Charleston C6u.
'icr of Yesterday SAYS: 1t affords us very crcn,
pleasure to announce the fact, that the rcsrrc-
tons heretofore imposed uron the Georgia and
South Carolina Rail Roads by the. CITY Of Au-
glsia, respecting the transit of freight thr a.sh
Its corporate Limits. have been, by the recent
! unanimous action Of the City Council entirely
removed and hereafter the cars of each Cumpn-
ny arc to be allowed to pass through without
| breaking bulk at ALL
SUGGEsTroN-E one into whose hand this
sheet may fall, having control of either field or
garden, ought now to plant something that suits
nv "'''''.' A'"N W. tHIIllpS chDDHSc, anti1NIl
sorts Of things that will grow and make food for
man or least If everybody will attend 60 Ii;s
suggestion. it may turn ont that we will have
to pay much less money for Western corn than
is now supposed -A"1"sta True Democrat.
ArLAvrA-Thc population Of Atlanta, (Ga.)
is llOOO, and still growing.
MuRDER-At PikevilIc Ala, on The 17th
ult, William Lii tie murder cd two brothers jno
NJ, and Andrew Altman. 4 reward of 81 900
is offered for Little
TuE UNIVERSITY or TIE SoUrm.-Thc grand
enterprise of the Episcopal Church in he
| South begins already to assume tangible form
1t is only few years back that tic project was
started, and now over 5000 600 have been sub.
scrbed and paid in, ten thousand acres togefb,
er have been purchased at Sawanee Mountain.
| Tennessee, and ten Dioceses are represented in
| the corporation. One wing of the building is
to be constructed gallery of art, the lower
| story OF which is to be used as an Academy Of
| Design. Designs are invited from architects
in all parts of the United States.
TnE Basis OF REPRESENTATIONS N-From 1910
to 1880 the basis of Congressional representa-
ton was about 71,000. From 1850 to 1860 it
has been very nearly $4,000. There are 237
Representatives in tho present census, the ba-
sis will probably be established 80 that this
number shall not be increased. 1t is estima
ted that tho entire population will be 33. .000-
600. On this population, u basis of 1877 500
would carry ll0 Representatives into the next
/ Congress, and most of the old States would
lose some of their members, whilst the West