Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1867-08-31

states that the funds for the payment of the
speakers arises from regular voluntary sub
seriptons at tho North and West for that pur-
pose. Already between sixty aud seventy
Union Leagues, numbering some Is, 900 mem
bers, have been established in this State"
LARGE YIELD. The yield Of wheat on
fourteen acre field, near Winchester, va, was
five hundred and twenty.one bushels, over
thirty-scven bushels to the acre. This is what
we call profitable farming
i /. Et9- Samuel Motifs colorcd man residing
in Syracuse, one hundred and seven years old,
is about returning to his old home in Win
chester, Virginia, whore he was formerly a
slave. IIo wants to ay down his bones on
"dc ole plantation"
ES Many persons fancy themselves friend
lyswhcn they arc only of1icous They coun-
sci, not so much that you should become wise,
as that they should be recognized as teachers
.of wisdom.
ES- a convict in Auburn prison had him
self boxed up as case of brogans, and but
for an unlucliy mistake in marking the box,
would have been expressed away to freedom.
Asi happened, his attempt, like the box,
.was bootlcss.
IHE ENGLISH REFORM BILL.-The Eng.
lish Reform Bill has received the assent of
the Queen, and is now the law Of the lnnd.-
Thus the masses Of the English people sec
themselves, for tho first time in the history of
their country endowed with the right of suf
tfage, and admitted to great share in Paria-
nentary Government, The result of the next
assten e1 will be looked forward to with intense
Es~ We learn, from our country cxchang.
es, that General Pope issued an order closing
the' University of Georgia, and converting the
buildings into quarters for United Statcs
troops. Upon earnest entrcaty he was in
duced to modify his order so as to direct the
withholding Of tho annual State appropriation
Of So 300. The cause of this singular order
s snld to DC that one Of the Sophomore class
made rather ultra Southern speech 1T tho
recent commencement
i, Eay The Louisville Journal" saws that
. fence in that city is ornamcntcd by two pla.
cards; which somo wag has connected tocctl.
Or by writing the word and " between them,
90 as to make them read: "Usc HooAand's
German Bittcrs, and Order your collins from
Hoist & Co."
Ryr an influential New York journal
thinks it strange that it does not hear of OK
tensve investments, powerful companies and
great schemes for the introduction of manu-
tacturing establishments in the Southern
States, from cotton and WOODEN factories. from
IRON and steel, to leather, boots and shoes and
FARMING implements. 1t says that the South
mas not only the finest region in the world for
cotton culture, but the best facilities and the
greatest advantages for cotton manufactures
70 any extent All this is true enough.
/ Es- when counterfeit is presented at
the Bank of England, the gold is instantly
paid for it. If it comes from some known
person, he is only asked whore he got it. If
Prom stranger, the caslior signals to.his de.
'tectlve, always in waiting, and the officer fol-
flows secretly. Before many hours tho banl,
ls IN possession Of the strangers biopranbv
The offender, onoe arrested, is likely to he
tried, convicted, and sentenced within two
DAYS wherefore Great Britain is not an inyi.
ting field for that branch of industry
s, WINDFALI.--Letters have recently baon
received in this city announcing that William
Budd.. recently of London, has deceased, with.
out relatives, in England, and bequcathing to
his next kin in this country fifty million Of
pounds sterling. Among the lucky recinients
Of this stupendous fortune, We are hapnv to
learn, are Mr.. Robert G. Glchrist pron;. ry
nent member Of the Charleston Bar, and thot
estimable gentleman, Captain Z. S. Budd Of
tho firm of Budd a. Blake, of our city
Charleston Courier
a YOUNG WIDOW, Of Quincy, Illinois, met
? stranger on tho street and asked him Tho
w,ay; he asked her if she was not a widow :.
she y, aald she was; he said he was widower
doctor from Palmyra, Missouri, and nro'
posed mntrimony on tho spot; she blushed
and' an 'hesitated-wouldn't he come home and
see her friends about it; the interview y wos
the marriage was arrangea aT"S f"r
aext morning, tho widows cash (forty dollarsl
BOT into the doctors pocket, he went to pet
shayedI and has never returned. He eyen
left her standing id the public sanare ah;is /
ne just run over to the karhor,s. q Tberes
90 ,auch doetor3in Palmyra. S.a