Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1867-11-02
lFrom tho Charleston Courier
The Japan Lucerne sespsdeza striata-A
New Forage Grass.

has sprung up in almost every part of this
otate, espeolaliy1a,sng the line of the railroads
and .i'" ID several 4Aa q s Gaarsiia a..l Ma..,,
Carolina, and Ibt%c heardsof itas far West
as EmiauIa, Ala:E.eseems to be spreading very
rapidly throughrthc whole of the Southern
States. a grass adapted to pnxturagc has
long been a dnsdcratum in orr Sontbnrn
country This5spccics, which Providence has
kindly sent us,fsccns to be ;dmirbly a,anicd
to our prcsent@'sns. Cattle are said to be
very fond OF it,. 1t grows in almost every
KIND OF soil, and hourishes under shade trees
and roots out the nut grass, Joint and Bcrmu
da grasses. tits said, like clover, to saliyatr
horses, but TO fat.cn other cattle.
1t is represented as growing On the poorest
E'nd or land Ihc top dies down in winter
but the root IS perennial A friend, (Mr.
James w. Wattsyof Laurcns District } writes.
There are inthis vicinity very dense pinc
thickcts, underHhich nothing ever was known
to grow before, That would now rival in beautv
the finest lawisTn the best cultivated YARDS
have not tin,eIY quote all the Favorable rep
rcSrntations Tede Of this grass
for the nhH:fHTc are indebted to Mr.. GRAY
OF boston, WHO Sad been written to by gen
t'c'nan OF Aiken signing himself H. w. r.,
""o is no do II Mr. Henry w. Ravcncl
aiS''n%uIShed 3tanist, who in printed cir
c"ar issued SrfSS the Aiken press, gives the
name ana description of the plant. In what
manner II waIs2vonght to this country aud
~ 'he causes OF lfs sudden and rapid spread
amfouShont .,m tif5Ahad is as yet incxpicahc -
nc name OeSTSideza expresses no character
.s'ic OF me grn3S; 1t was given Ly Michaux
~ ~, ho"or OF SeSpcdez, Governor Of Florida |
mere arc as h3ny as seven or eight species {
a.. described az naSiycs Of our Southern States.
nc hhgiiSh iamc have proposed is Ja.
pa" l'ucerhe' }haShuch as 1t AZ pears to have
more of the characteristics of iuccruc tL.,n
of Glover
would adYIe th"t planters in the country
Wnere TINS ,grahEexists, should NOW it when
u IS ripe. dnrlnEthe present month. and have
the Sscds Tor sibh and distributed throun hout
our low country | have not seen it growing.
send adt;,5 ,i$ sknS;SHmen, received through eitc
aS 'A's t'0' sssssss Please Icy iy.nain
RICHMOND, October 2+.-Thc returns at
Gen Sichofeld's headquarters show conclu
sivcly that the State vote, in favor of con
vcntion. 1t is also certain that the convcn-
ton will be radical by fifteen majority. This
city elects the following radicals, after three
days contest: IIunnicutt, Judge Underwood,
Morisscy, and three cocrcd men, The radi
Cal ticket did not receive fifty white, nor the
conservative ticket fifty colorrd, voters in the
city. The negroes voting the conservative
ticket were again chased from the polls by
negro mob. Iiunncutts son was arrested for
tearing up conservative tickets in tho hands
of negroes, at the Monroe Ward polls, and
sent to the Libby, but was subsequently re-
leased.
Judge Chase writes Underwood that he will
be in Richmond Mt the opening of the court,
and, ii the defence desire, lie will try Mr.. Da-
Wis at once. Chase will not remain in Rich
mond after the opening of the Superior Court
here in December.
REmARKABLE DlsCoyERY-W were yes
tcrday invited, with number of others, to
view an interesting collection of fossils and
relics of former age, discovered in the post
pieioccne beds of ST. Andrews Parish, ten
miles from this city. The first Of these spec.
linens were cxhunch from their rocky tomb
as long ago rs the year 1914, by Professor
Holmes, of the College OF Charleston, who
was then assisting Professor Iuomcy, the late
Geological Surveyor of South Carolina At
that time these specimens were supposed to
be accidental occupants of that stratum, but
since then Professor Holmes has discovered
quite number Of others, and is now fully
satisfied that many more Of the same kind will
yet be found. They correspond in II marked
degree with the descriptions of similar ones
lately discovered in the Somme Valley in
France and in the ancient lake dwellings of
Switzerland Among them are bones Of the
extinct Mastodon. Magatllcrium, Mylodon
and Taper; also of tho native American deer,
raccoon, opossunl, beaver and elk, besides
those of the horse, COW, sheep, dog and hog,
and most marvellous to relate, stone hatchcts,
arrow and spear heads, and fragments of pot,
terry, all evidently the workmanship of man.
Ono of the hatchcts is made apparently out
of tooth, supposed to be that of the sperm
whale, and Professor Holmes informs ,,s that
he has obtained from the same deposit two al
most perfect teeth Of the sperm whale,
EDaHy Ncws.
THE newspapers, says the " New York Day
Book are full of gossip about Mrs. 1.incoln's
threats of "rctl,uss." We should rather say
that, from tho dilgcnt manner in which she
advcrtscss hor clothes for sale, that her threats
are rather to nnaress Judge Davis, the adj
minstrator Of 30 estate of Lincoln, makes
out that he left $4,000. Congress voted his
widow $4,000; she sold the furniture she
took from the White House for $4,000 /;
total, $l24,000. Lincoln has been dead two
years, and his poor widow has already come
| to want ~. u