Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1866-09-01


followed When she recovered it was to con-
template an altered and lonely future. Her
mistress was dead, and her tryst with James
would be held in heaven, never on the earth.
10 that sho must look forward, and faithful
to the one idea of happiness at last, she pur-
sued useful aud contentcd life on earth,
cheering those around with kindness and sym
pathy, doing good to the small circle in Which
she lived, but never giving up her heart to
another, (though many II one beat warmly
when her name was spoken for it was wholly
wrapped up in the great love she Ind borne
for James on earth, and as fully belonged to
him in Heaven.
Never to her latest day did she forget that
fatal evening. though as years passed on She
learned to look back upon it with calmncss,
and Mt length regarded it, as indeed it was, AZ
a coincidence rather than cause.
The TERMINr OF THE ATLANTIC CABLE
= Hearts Content, where the Atlantic Cable
is working on this side of the world. is small
bay or cove, projecting from the cast side of
Trinity Bay on the Island of Newfoundland,
latitude 80 degrees 80 minutes, longitude 81
degrees 20 minutes. The settlement, notw;th-
standing its romantic name, is only small
collection Of Gshing huts, as are two adjacent
settlements. knownas Hearts Easeand Hearts
| Delight. The settlers who named these places
must have been not only Of romantic turn of
mind, but contented and unnmbitous persons
The Island of Hslentia, tie Irish terminus
Of tho Atlantic cable, is about 6.000 acres in
extent 1t has three proprictnrs of whom
the Knight of Kerry is the chief the others
being Trinity College, Dublin, and Col Hcr.
bert Of Muokro-s. The population is abou,
1000, but although the Knight is a staunch
| Prot NJ IL. 4
more than $50. The harmony Of this little
community is, however undsturbcl by reli.
gious di.cord The old priest, who is now
between eighty and uip"ty years of age, has
had charge of the parish for more than half
century, and his watchword has always been
| {" Peace "
BAD News FROM GEonarA-.Tt il painfu
to read the accounts in our Georgia OK
changes from North Of Atlanta in regard to
the almost entire failure of the crops in that
region, in consequence Of protractcd drought
Ii is stated that in many counties there had
been no rain for several weeks, and under
blazing sun and the high temperature of the
present summer the last hope OF corn Drop
had disappeared. I'he g Rome Courier" Of
last week says: "l'he drought continues.
with no immediate prospect of abatement. -
| ~ ""hJ F'"CSo Vtc carly COcn Is r0(npu.-
Through this and the aajoining counties It
now seeDs impossible that there will bo half
q crop raised. The cotton crop is also OBJ
| liged to be short, and apprehensions are now
being felt that it will bc almost entirely cut
! off"
THE Confederate dead who fell Mt the bat
tic OF Beech Grove and IIoovcr's Gap. in Cof-
fee County, Tennessee, have been taken up
| rIa bu Of
/ tend to erect monument to their memory.
| PROSPERITY IN NORTU CAROLINA.-Of the
| 1000 blacks in the State only 3,204 draw
ratons. There are 10 schools now in opc
ration, with 1875 teachers and an average at
tendance Of 0,034 The destitution in some
psrts OF the State is being gradually relieved
| A YoUTH VINO NEv FIR SAW WOMAN
| Meadows history Of the Chinese, lately pub.
llshed in London, in chapter on love, has
the following story:
Z" Chinese who had been disappointed in
marriage, and had gricvously suffered through
women in many other ways, retired with his
infant son to the peaks of mountain range
IN kwechoo, to a spot quite inaccessible to
| little footed Chinese women. lie trannd his
boy to worship the Coos and stand in awe and
adherence of the devils; but he never men.
toned woman to him, always descending the
mountains alone to buy food. Atlength, how
ever, the infrmitie, Of age compelled BIN to
let the boy carry the heavy bag of rice As
they were leaving the market town together,
the son eudaenly stopped short, and pointing
to three approaching objects, cried. "Father,
what are these things? Look look what
arc they? Z" The father Instantly answered
with n peremptory order, "Turn away your
head they are devils y The son, in some
alarm turned away, noticing that the evil
things were gazing at him from behind their
fans He walked to tho mountain in silence.
ate no supper and from TINT day lost his An.