Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1869-08-27
VOL. IY,""""NO 46.


fie was famous among Western pioneers
FOR his strength and irtrepidity. He served
IN the war of 1872, was a member OF tho
otaeo Senate, and an intimate personal and
partisan friend Of Henry Clay. He yas for
many years a Mississippi steam boat captain.
Inc incidents of his force of will and power
OF command would fill q volume. On one
in New Orleans, he had a personal
with the pirate LATTE, and, un.
armed, whipped him, and elected him from a
Dali room. On another, while landing .at
Natchoz,.a passenger of his boat was robbed
oy the gang which then infested the portion
OF tho town bordering on the river, and known
as "Natchez under the HILL" BY surround.
ing with his crew the house in which tho
robbers took refuge, he passed a cable around
IT. and under threat of pulling it, with its iu-
mates, in tho river, no compelled restitution
OF the money, and made himself terror to
the thieves and gamblers who then infested
the river towns. Of his great strength, per.
sons who knew him only in his later years.
when cnfceblcd by age, would have had but
little conception, though when in his prime
1t was known from Pittsburg to New Orleans
he had lifted a shaft weighing l,647 pounds,
and that he had carried entirely across the
deck of the boat an anchor of 1,242 pounds
weight.
IHR LOCAL PArER-The following trib.
ute to the local paper, from the "Chicago
Republican" contains so much truth that we
transfer it to our columns and commend it to
the careful consideration Of our business mon
and those interested in our town:
"What tells us so readily the standard Of
a town or city as the appearance of its paper2
And its youth or its age can as we'll be de.
fined by the observing as by p~crsousl notice.
The enterprise of its citizens is depicted by
its advertisements, their liberality by tho
looks ofthe paper. Some papers show a good,
solid, healthy foundation, plethoric purses,
and well to do appearance generally; others
show a striving to contend with the g~raspine
thousands around them. An occasional me.
teoric display in its columns of tclcgraphic or
local, or of editorial, show what it can do if it
had the means, but it can't continue in the
expensive work. until support comes which
ought to be readily granted. Take your home
paper, it gives you moro news of immediate
interest than New York or other papers ; 1t
talks tor you when other localities belle you;
1t stands up for your rights you always have
q champion in your homo paper; and those
who stand up Tor you should certainly be
we'll sustained. Your interest are kindred
and equal, aud you must rise or fall togethor.s
Therefore, it rs to your interest to support
your home paper, not grudgiugly, but in d
liberal spirit as q pleasure, not as q dis.
agreeable duty; but as an Investment that
will amply pay the expenditure.
Two Irishmen stopping at the island
House, Toledo, last week, lit their gas and,
With windows open, sat down to enjoy a chat.
Tbsa hungriest Of Toledo mosquitoes soon
jAoeked in and drove them desperate. The
CLERK, who vas Summoned to devise some de-,
fence against Them, told them to close tho
~windowsand put out tho gas. Thoy acted
on the suggestion and placed themselves be-
tween the sheets. just as they baaan I'd
doze a lightning bug, which had stfaycd fasD
tho room, caught the eye of one ofsthc travefS%
ers. lie reused his companion with 4 panoh.#
: 'amie, Jamie, it's no use IIera.s 5
the craturs s%arclin' for us wid sanscFa
LEAVING THn SINKING SAIp.-The az,
.angeburge News, by far the ablest Radical
paper in the State, announces in its last issue
a change Of ownership-Mr. r. g. Andrews.
the principal proprietor, having transferred
his interest to Mfs..W. A. Edwards. The
leader in this weeks issue Of the paper de.
clares that its proprietors arc thorouehlysdis ala.
gusted with the corruption existing In the
Radical organization, and asows tho detcrmi.t
nation Of tho Orangeburg News to support
henceforfh any INDEPENDENT organization. that
itself to universal suffrage and uniycra
sal amnesty Charleston Mews.s II
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"AnMs AND THE MAN i SINass-It ias
stated, on good authority, thataho Adiotants
General of this commonwealth hanS Succeeded
in securing ten thousand baecot ,ioadiug
Spingfeld rifles and bayonew III tho Unitod
States army pattern. These, with tlss throas
Thousand Winohaster riGea sfras 4. fs.<sfs.xxS