Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1867-06-29
MERE MENTION.


Tho Court of Equity, for Pickcus District,
will be in session Monday next During
the month of May $4,000 foreign Immigrants
arrived in Now York.-A canary bird has
bcen sold in Dansvilc, New York, for $75.
THE Russian Empcroris b, .cvcd to spend
about $780, 900 day in Paris Augusta,
Ga., is arranging fora !" baby show"
Grain Spectators arc beginning to "acknowl-
edge the corn" and wheat crops. ps.--Thc re.
cent frcshet carried off Duntam's bridge an
Salu,la. There were 3Sl deaths in New
York city last week, - Cholera has appeared
in New York .-Locusts arc dcvouring veg
citation aud crops Of all kinds in Spain,
Tho burning Of. the Carpet factories in Hart
ford, Conn, has causcd.a loss Of S1,500,00o.
--rhc best friends arc those that stimulate
each other to good - Diamonds of the very
first water have been found in Hall County,
Ga--C II. Wolfe, of Charleston, commit
ted suicide by taking hudanum. .--Thc Mas
sachusctts contribution to the Southern Re-
licf Fund is 70, ,035, 1.-Two frightful deaths
from hy'lrophohia tonk place in New Orleans
last week - TX, Gov. Henry S. Fooc has
begun to practice law in Nashville and to ad-
vocatc female suffrage. .-Quininc brings
$685.. an ounce at Cape Town. New Or
leans drinks three thousand kegs of "lagcr Z"
daily. New Jersey has abolished corporal
punishment in her schools. - &C No cake +"
is appended to marriage notices in Kansas.
- Almiral Semmcs, principal editor of the
Memphis Bulletin" declares in favor of fe-
III lie suffrage. .--Thcre are only 400 900
taxable incomes in the United States. -
Jefferson Davis was born in Todd county,
Kentucky, aud was sixty years old on the 3rd
day of June c.--Sncc the PRONUNCIATION of
General Orders, No. 32," "irn," have
largely increased in numbcr.-A mortgage
was recorded in Ncwbrrry recently, the stamps
on which were worth 3 500.
lSy" The I" Raleigh Sentinel" says that
the Grand Jury Of the Circuit Court of Wake
County, on Friday last, presented d. II. Star
buck, Esq.. U. S. District Attorney, for per-
jury, i'll having taken the iron clad cath of
ollrc-AIr. Starbuck having been Il member
Of the State Convention of 1861, though sub
scqucnt to tho passage of the secession ori.
nance 1t the request of. Mr.. s., the Chief.
Justice appointed counsel to conduct an invcs-
t'gation in the matter. Col Thos. Rufin.
being first designated, declined, for private
reasons, to act, when b, t. Moore, Esq, re-
lucta'itly consented to serve The .Srnti.
mel says it is understood that several other
officials were presented for the same offence,
but innsmuch as the names have not vet pub.
licly transpired, rcfrans from giving them.
icEs- y radical. candidate in Georgia prom
Uses forty acres of land to every negro wEo
"'i'iiF 'ute ior lln. 'lnc uevil once iuauc
equally brilliant promises, but, MS in the Gpor.
g'a case, the "old boy didn't own foot of
land i'll the universe
Gy" knowledge is tho true alchemy that
turns everything it touches into gold 1t
gives us dominion over nature, unlocks tho
storchousc of creation, and opens to us the
treasures of the universe
NS nc hatlOnal debt amounts to more
than Sloo to each man, woman aud child, in
the United States, black and white
EV" The Congressional Union Republican
Committee have engaged the Rev. John V.
Given the eloquent colorcd speaker Of Char.
lesion, ). g., to canvass the South and nd
dress the people. He will also organize Tn.
ion leagues and Republican clubs
WASHINGTON, Juno 22-The following
order was issued to day:
WAR DEPARTMENT,
ADJUTANTGENERAL's OFFICE,
Washington, June 90 1867.
Whereas several commanders of military
districts, created by the Acts of Congress
known as the Reconstruction Acts, have cx.
pressed doubts as to the proper construction
thereof and in rpsnprt tn anno of tl,o ,,nu,,,