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

Western isms.
"rhe West" certainly has character 1f
its own. Its incidents of every day life and
its people and paragraphs are peculiar In
looking over our exchange papers, for the last
half hour, we have seen four mentions of the
West which We will copy as conlrnatow of
our remark:
First" \ gambler known as Mountain
Jack, performed an extraordinary feat of ply
steal strength, a 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 in Indian costume, rode II horse into
the bar-room and dismountcd to take drink,
and while at the bar, another drunken fellow
climbed into the saddle. Mountain Jack, as
his name indicates, is giant in size six feet
seven inches high, finely proportoncd, and
possessed of enormous strength, even beyond
his colossal proportions lie was at the time
on Il spree, and Il fancy sczng him at the
moment, he stopped over the horse placed his
right arm around his belly just behind the
forelcgs, and lifted the animal Oft his Ices,
rider and all, and 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 promiscuously, and was
arrested by the united efforts of about twenty
men"
Second. -" 4 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 lcisurclv
along upon fovoritc donkey They at once
accostcd him, and requested him to unite them
i'll the holy bonds Of wedlock lie 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 or three persons who were
passing at the time"
Third.-Thc Prairie Farmer thus gives us
a bit of " Personal" fashionable intelligence
4" "Thcrc comes Isaac Funk, the cattle king of
Mclean county. He 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 great
deal of land for single man to control. A
few days and a small fraction of it will afford
n resting place for his body. Wonder if he
thinks Of that
Fourth A western correspondent of the
Boston Post writing from St Louis, says ::
Western friendship means friendship If
Spaniard grandilo1ucntly offers to bcstow
upon you his gold snuff box or his horse and
you accept the compliment by proceeding to
reduce the said chattlcs into your actual poss.
cssiOn, you will stand Il good chance of be-
ing murdered for your matter of-fact-ness -
Buff wcstcrncr should invite you to come
and spend year with him, you may safely
do it, and bring your wife and Children too -
\ COUNTRY editor says he has received the
following "stop my paper" Dear Sir
looked carefully over your paper for six
! months 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 erased"
"I WISH said a beautiful wife to her stu
dious husband " wish [ was book" "
wish You were an almanac" replied her lord
:" and then | could gcta new one every year y
just then the crinolnc rustcd The husband
was cruel wretch.
"WLtT n lovely woman !" was the OK.
clamation of Lord Chancellor Edon upon
| passing a 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. What an excellent
judge p said the lady, when her sensitive
ear caught the flattcring decree of the lord
High Chancellor of England.
YOUNG and pretty lady recently made
her husband present, but it only cost three
pence, and yet was the source of a wonderful
amount of happiness, and drew, perhaps, the
domestic bond ittlc tighter. "Tbroc
pcnccP' We hear it said and, of course, In
dies minds turn to solve the enigma in some
thing of the baby-uscful kind" socks."--
! Ihis wont do, because, according to our ideas
it would only buy one sock, and babies arc
not born with wooden legs. The three penn,
article was choice Havana cigar; and. oJ
! c,'"rsc, meant, " "Henccforth, my love, yo,
mn, smCGto at home, and need not 90 to tho
club"
NEVER be cas-, a, wn by triAcs If a spi
der breaks his web twenty times, twenty times
will he mend it. Make up your minds to dc
n thing, and you will do it. Fear not if trou
bic comes upon you keep up your spirits
though the day may be dark one
TRUTH a STRANaER.---" Jack Is q good
fellow, but | will not tell lie fopany map.--
love my friend, but I love truth still more. q
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