Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1860-08-11
From the Richmond Dispatch.
q Romantic Story.

gentleman of this city, who has been
mtGy years engaged in the prosecution of
military claims, fell in accidentally with II
case in which both man and his wife rccci-
we'd pensions for revolutionary services The
singuIarity of the circumstance struck him
so forcibly that he instituted an inquiry, and
elected from an old lady, the sole surviving
descendant, the following facts. (NVc state
them substantially, but our informant not be-
ing present, it is possible that we may be in
correct in some insignlcant particulurs.)
Fairly in the Revolutionary war, Il man ma
med Lane Owe thinl) enlisted in company
raised in the ucghhOrhood of Manchester, to
serve three years. He went, with his rcgi-
mcnt, to the north, and there Joined Wash
ngton's army, Taking part in all the pre-
viouS battles lie was severely wounded at
Brandywinc or Germantown and during the
battle, and after, WAS taken care of by a
brother soldier to whom he had become great
ly attached and who belonged to the same
company with himself The term OF service
having expired, these two soldiers were dis
charged, and returned home, devoted and in
scparabic friends In the meantime, the
tide of war rolled TO the South, and the couple
had scarcely reached their destination, when
they again enlisted to serve in General Lin
coins army, at that time engaged in the sicgo
of Savannah, Our readers well know That
Lincoln WAS aftcrward coopcd up in Charles
ton, and compelled to surrender, aftor long
siege, to the royal forces, under the command
of Sir Henry Clinton.
Th:ouEhout this siege, Lane and his friend
stood tc ther posts like horoes, and did
their du,y bravcly At last, lanes comrade
was wourdcd in turn, and was carried off the
field in the arms of his devoted friend
What must have been the amnzcmept Of I.ere,
on discovering that the brave comrnde who
had so long fought by his side, and had nur-
scd him so tcndcry when he was wounded,
through tho report of the attending surgeon,
was Il woman 1t appears that she had acci-
dcntally fallen in with him somewhere, and
had formed a strong attachment to him. At
the same time, from some cause or other,
she had made so little impression upon him,
that he did not recognize her in the least
when he aftcrward met her disguised as a sol.
dier. She was in despair whom Jane enlist
cd and, under the influence of that feeling,
she fled from her parents home, donned the
Continental uniform, and followed him to the
wars What followed, was proper finale to
such q romance. The wounded woman recov-
cred, and as soon as the twain were released
from captivity, they became one They lived
many years happily together, and left several
children.
Incidents of this disguised dam
sells following their lovers to the wars in the
capacity of pages-wore great favoritos with
all the old romance writer's. The readers of
Shakespeare will rccolect that one of his plays
turns upon something of the same sort. New
ertheless, VIC feel assured Tint the tale we
have recorded is true in al its essential par
ticulars At any rate, both the maD and
his wife received pensions for services render
cd as soldiers, until the days of their deuths,
respectively.
NEAT REToRT.-An Tsraclite lady, sit
ting in the same box Mt on opera with French
physician, and was much troubled with en-
nui, happened to cape.
Excuse me, madam" said the doctor, T"
am glad you did not swallow mo-
"Giyc yourself no uneasness," replied the
lady, +" am Jcwess, and never cat pork" !"
The census takers find great difficulty in
asccrtainng the ages Of girls, large majori-
ty of them being only sixteen In one fami-
ly in neighboring State, there were found
ten between ten and sixteen years of age
WEIGH right, if you sell dear.