Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1860-04-07
w estern isms.

its people and paragraphs are peculiar. In
looking Owe our exchange papers, for the last
half hour, We have seen four mentions of the
West Which we will copy as conlrmatoryof
our remark:
First-" y gambler known as Mountain
Jack, performed an extraordinary feat of phv.
steal strength, few nights ago, in the bar.
room of the st. Charles Hotel, in New Or.
leans whore a large number of the carnival
jewellers had assembled. A drunken fellow,
dressed i'll Indian costume, rode n horse into
the bar-room and dismountcd to take drink,
and while at the bar, another drunken fellow
climbed into thesaddle Mountain Jack as
his name indicates, is giant in size, six feet
seven inches high, finely proportioncd, and
possessed of enormous strength, even bevond
his colossal proportions He was at the time
on spree, and fancy seizing him at the
moment, he stopped over the horse, placed his
right arm around his belly Just behind the
forelegs, and lifted the animal oft his leos
rider and all, aud threw them heavily upon
the floor, with shock that Jared the whole
house. On finding himself down. the horse
refused to get up, and the giant again laid
hold of him and set him upon his pins in or
der to release the bruised and helpless rider.
who had fallen partly under the beast. and
who considered himself lucky to escape with
out broken bones Later in the day, Jack got
to throwing tumblers promiscuousiy, and was
arrested by the united efforts of about twenty
men"
Second. =" a loving couple in Memphis,
Tennessee, were last week married under the
following singular circumstances. They were
taking carriage ride in one of the principal
streets in that city, when they Glanced to
meet Judge Hill, who was riding loisucly
along upon lavorte donkey They mt once
accosted him, and requested him to unite them
IN the holy bonds of wedlocll He acccdcd
to the proposition, and, without dismountng,
performed the ceremony, making the occupants
of the vehicle one, and having for witnesses
the mule and two OF three persons who were
passing at the time"
Third.-ihe Prairie Farmer thus gives MS
a bit of L" Personal" 3" fashionable intelligence
{" There comes Isaac Funk, the cattle king of
Mclean county. lie owns nearly forty thou
sand acres of land. But short time since
he could describe each purchase, giving range,
section and township from his memory
Himself and boys manage it. 1t is a great
deal of land for a single man to control. A
few days and small fraction of it will afford
resting place for his body Wonder if he
thinks of that"
Fourth "A western correspondent of the
Boston Post, writing from st. Louis saws
+" Western friendship means friendship. If
Spaniard grandioqucntly offers to bcstow
upon you his gold snutf.bok or his horse, and
you accept the compliment by proceeding to
reduce the said chattles into your actual moss.
esson, you will stand a good chance Of be.
ing murdered for your matter of-fact-ness. -
Buff westerner should invite you to come
and spend year with him, you may safely
do it, and bring your wife aud children, too. .
a COUNTRY editor says he has received the
following: "stop my paper" "Dear Sir; I
looked carefully over your paper for six
mouths for the death of some individual that
was acquainted with, but as yet not sin
gle soul care anything about has dropped off (;
you will please have my name crased.b
"I wIsH,p said a beautiful wife to her stu.
dious husband Z" [ wish | was a book" {" /
wish you were an almanac" replied her lord,
"and then could gcta new one every year. .
just then the crinoline rustlcd. The husband
was cruel wretch.
| WHAT lovely woman !" was the ex-
clamatcn of Lord Chancellor Eldon, upon
pnssing beauty, when pacing up and down
Westminster Hall, with his friend the Mas.
ter OF the Rolls previous to the opening of
their respective courts. F" What an excellent
judge y said the lady, when her sensitive
ear caught the hattcring decree of the Lord
High Chancellor of England. ..e at1
a YOUNG and pretty lady recently made
her husband present, but it only cost three
PENCE, and yet was the source of wonderful
amount of happiness, and drew, pcrliaps tic
domestic bond little tighter. @Throe
ponec'P' We hear it said and, of course, la.
DIES minds turn to solve the enigma in some.
thing of the baby.uscful kind-lzH socks9,4a4- :
fhis wont do, because, according to. our ideas.
1t %boid only buy one sock, and babies are
not born with wooden legs. Thethree. pennv
article was choice Havana cigar; and. OF
c1'"rse, meant ",Henccforth, my lovo. You
ma, snG,!to at home, and pced not go to the
club" ~ ~
NEVER be cast a, wn by triAcs If aspi-
der breaks his web twenty times twenty times
will he mend it. Make up your minds to do
thing, and You will do it. Fear not if trou-
Bile comes upon you: keep up your spirtts
though the day may be dark, one. e
THuTIT A STRAS SJasass 20 Jack Is eeo.i
fellow, but Twill not tell d lie fopah9 man. -,
| leye my friend, but I love truth still moro. q
+" My dear said q bysstauder, sbeoosidcr
nov Why should you prefers atgshgar;to