Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1866-01-13
Dogs I!

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favor our readers with what Josh Billing. has
to say on the subject. Josh says dogs in the
lump are useful, but they are not always profit
able The Ncwfoundling dog is useful to save
children from drowning, bat you have got to
have pond of water and children running
about careless, or else the dog ain't profitable
There amt nothing made boarding Nufound-
lin dog Rat terriers are useful to ketch rats,
but the rats amt profitable after you have
ketchcd them The shepherd dog is useful
tew drive sheep but if you have to 50 and buy
flock of sheep aud pay more than they are
wuth, jest to keep the dog buzy, the dog amt
profitabe-not much. Lap dogs are very
useful; but if you don't hold them in your
Imp awl the time they amt profitable at ALL
The coach dog is one of the most useful Of
dogs know nv; but you have got to have
coach, (and that ain't always plcasant.) or you
cant realize from the dog Thus we see that,
while dogs are genneraIiy useful, there are
times when they amt generally profitable.
Ass- The freedmen, black and coloreG, eel
ebrated on the first of January, in Charleston,
the, emancipation act of the United States
Government, says the g Carolinian" They
turned out at all early hour in procession,
had barbecue on the race course, whore
speeches were made by Generals Saxton and
Devins, and other parties, white and black.
'Thapfocession contained soime hftech hundred
persons, including the colored school children.
1t was headed BY three companies Of fircmen,
viz: the Coyet, United and Ashley, each
bearing banner with its name There we're
other banners, as for example, the "St Joints
Evangelical Society" "Union Wide Awake"
/" Mechanics Association" and one with q
portrait of Lincoln, surrounded by smaller.
portraits Of United States officers slain in bat
tle-the motto "our fallen great" The mar
shals were mounted and decorated with the
! colors red and ',lue. When halted, after .s
progress from King into Meeting and down TO-
the Battery, the line, two abreast, stretched
from the corner of Tradd and Meeting to the
Battery in front Of hiceting street The eel
ebration throughout the day was quite orderly
Of the speeches We have heard that one of
them, made by a white man, was somewhat
objectionable and calculated to excite hostile
feeling towards the white population.
1sa5- 1t is estimated that the war has re-
duced the number Of horses in the United
States fully one million in number. The av-
erage destruction in the Federal army alone
has not been less than 500 per day. The av-
eragc use of horses in the various departments,
taken collectively, is about one horse for every
two men.
NATIONAL CURRENCY The Official state
mcnt of the Treasury Department of late
date shows the National Bank circulation to
be S223, ,735,000. An increase of upward OF
81 100000 has been issued during the past
week.
Asg~ The Methodist Church was founded
in America in October, 1T66.
a0~ A poor woman, in Nashville, Tenn.
was turned out Of her tenement on Thanks.
giving day. Having no shelter, she was found
dead in the streets on the. following morning
among the debris of her household goods.
Ey- Five men were suffocatcd at the l}re-
mon House, Chicago, on Saturday night, by