Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1860-10-20

S0nC'E slccP' nc wealth OF brotherly love
the New Yorker bestowed upon his dying sis
ter, won my rcgad, and when, few months
atterWord, he asked me my hand in mar
rage, became his-my fourth husband
-Four months after our union, he received n
letter from the home of his youth, stating that
his mother was at the point of death, and
wished to see him, her OILY SON was desi.
rous of accompanying him. but he would not
+, conseut for to risk the winter of the North.
a few days attcrward, read in the list of the
unfortunate victims of the steamer Henry
] Clay the name OF my husband Again was /
/ a widow. Ecach Of my husbands had left an
addition to my estate, and |, if anything, less
capable OF managing it, In the summer after
the death OF my last husband, | left my es-
tate IN the hands ofan overscer and visited a
Watering place in Alabama One morning I
received letter from neighbour, informing
me that my ovcrscer had whipped to death a
iavourIte negro girl, and running riot with
everything. The letter fell from my hand
and | burst into tears. My companion, a
sweet girl Miss T, sympathized with me
deeply, and tried every way to sooth me. |
told her my situation, and that | did not lr w
what to do. She said her brother would take
a pleasure in aiding nc in amy manner |
told her could not think of askinm such u
thing of him. She, nevertheless, spoke with
him, and the same day he came and politely
offered to so to my estate and put my dis.
turbcd rights in order | consented after
much pcrsuasion and he left with power of
attorney to adjust matters at my home. lie
was gone some wcoks-wrotc almost daily. and
fully OF his transactions | vas truly graft
fled and greatly pleased at his business like
management: ! rcmancl but short time at
the Springs after his return not before he had
offered me his heart and hand, however.
rather JeStngiy told him | should have to re-
turn home and see if he was capable, from
"nat ne had already done, to manage my es-
tate and me, too. III came to sec me and |
became lis wife He was my fifth husband.
After our marriage | accompanied him to his
faith house in t county, Alabama.
We remained there some weeks when he left
to make flying visit to our home. On his
way back he was passenger of the i'll fatcl
Tuscaloosa, which exploded her boiler ON the
Warrior River. My husband was, as fate
would have it, of the number OF the lost.
My sixth husband met two years AGO under
the following circumstances | was in New
Orleans, and was riding in an open carriage
with Mr.. D., my commission merchant and
friend, when mob Gives the day of the mu
nlclpal clection) seized Mr. ID. and dragged
him from the vehicle. 4 hugh Irishman
made an attemptto seize upon me, but Young
lieutenant OF the army, whose company was
on Its way to the city on its way to the from
tiers ofTeXas, flung him aside, and, with
Colts repeater in his hand, bid the mob to
stand back" The lightning fash of his
eye had its effect, and he escorted me to NV
hotel III safety. | was week in the CITY and
the dtShing man Of war was my constant GAL
liant lie was noble fellow, and when hc
proposed to me, | regretted to tell him that
was the widow Of five husbands, and if |
should become his wife, he would certainly
be killed by the Camauchcs He was impor
tunate, Notwithstanding. aud | became his
bride. We were but few weeks together
when lie was summoned to rcioin his compa.
ny, who had gone on. As | had feared he
ard nearly his whole command were butchercd
by the Indians.
Thus, Mrs I., have been fated to be-
come the widow Of six husbands-cach and
all OF them meeting with II violent death.
would not be accounted supcrstitious, vet
can but believe in the truth of a furtune. tel.
lcr, who once told me ! should be the wife of
seven huSbands-that | would survive six of
them, but that the seventh would survive nc
You have noticed the handsome, dark wills.
kcrcd, intelligent gcn'lcman who hgs been
my usual companion during the tyia We'll,
he is the seventh, and shall be c,ntented in
believing that shall not again BE- left wi
dow
She was right. She marrad the seventh"
! and died two years after
WoRDs.-Do cur ljttlc readers know how
words come into existence? They are the
children of the mind Some of them have
an easy birth, and others struggle hard to
live. Many of the words in common use have
a very curious origin, and you would do well
to study them. Sincere is one of them.
! Would you believe it, the honey bee cave us
this word? How, you say In this way
me bee gives us honey, put. snugly away in
cells OF wax And the word sincere is from
two words "sine cera," without wax. 4
sincere man is as clear and pure as the honey
without any wax in it, and also as sweet j.;
not sincere pretty word? 1t has such a
good parentagc, and it represents a most ex-
celont thing Children be sincere.
Shall tell you something about kin. Your
kin and mine, and every ones kin. Itcomes
from that pretty word " kind" from which
we have kindness. We speak OF Kind +"
person. Nova kind person is a "kinned y
person, one of our ownkin, And somanknd,
is man kinncd As we arc all of one race,
and all OF one kin, a man or boy who i,
kind, shows that he loves his race. whom he
regards as of one family
! Then there is the word "husbond -
! This from house Hband" ITo ia tba ohoin