Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1869-01-15

= Boss Liter and in his way, is curiosity.
nc Is unAer the happy delusion that he owns
the asylum a;d all the lands attached and
that DR. Chiplcy aha his assistants arc merely
so many accommodating gentlemen, who have
taken the management upon themselves to re-.
l'ere him of the responsibility He is great
trader and puts at every visitor WHO comes to
buy eight or ten millions worth of p,aner.y
just as pastime. Ho amuses himself bv
driving wagon, and in this way is very USE
ful. Hc astonshed DR.. Chipley one day by
buying drove of mules from man passing
along the road, and had them turned into the
grounds, whore they ran loose for some hours
||Beefore the owner could collect them. In pol-
rs, Boss is q Clay Whg, and has never vo-
|3d any other way. He is terribly down on
#he Abolitionists for stealing some four or Eve
thousand negroes from him, as he thinks. but
shc claims forty or fifty negro patients who are
in the asylum as SO many restored 70 him.
and Is under tho impression that he will get
them all back. Boss is a respectable farmer
looking parsonage, and oonycrses very intelli-
gently on many subjects. His only cause Of
ssunhappiness is the immense quantities of pro-
vision which it requires to subsist his large
family, but thinks that the State will roim-
burse him in time for his present outlay.
LcriAgton Gazette.
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a TouGH SToRY.-T There is place in
Maine so Rocky that when the natives plant
corn they look for crcviccs in the rocks. and
shoot theigrains in with amuskct; thcy can't
raise ducks there no how, for the stones arc so
thick that the ducks can't get their bills be-
tween them to pick out the grass -hoppcrs, and
the only way tho sheep can get at the sprips
of grass is by grinding their noses on grind
stone.
But this ain'ta circumstance to place in
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES the land is so poor that il
takes two kildeers to cry " kildccr," and on
clear day you can sec the grass hoppcrs climb
up mullin stalk, and look with tears over
fifty acre field and the bumblebecs have to
60 down on their knees to get at the grass all
the mosquitoes died Of starvation and the
buzzards were obliged to emigrato. But there
is country in Virginia which can beat that
there the land is so sterile when the wind
IS north west they have to tic the children to
keep EN- from being blown away-thcrc it
takes six frogs to raise one croak, and when
the dogs bark they have to lean against tho
fences-the horses are 80 thin that it takes
twelve OF them to make shadow, and whom
they kill beef they have to hold him up to
knock him down
DEMOCRATIC CowARDIcE- Now chat
Grant 10 elected President, (says the .New
York Democrat" "Brick" Pomeroy's paper)
1t is humliating to know that hore and there
in all parts of tho country are mon who have
profcssed to be Democrats, plotting and plan
ming for place or position under him in any
capacity They wish to be postmastcrs, clerks.
agents, consuls, collectors, anything to hold
some office. And they say they were original
Grant men, or they did nothing to make
Democratic votes, or they influenced Demo.
Gratis to stay from the polls, or TO 7oto for
Grant.
"fhe Democrat who would apply for office
under Grant, or during his administration.
oo'o' 'S' '"eh'J H'ohInS III plilOry, and hun
dred lashes a month. We are disgusted with
such political dead.beats. Grant is to be
President. He has little job on hand Let
him succeed if he can-lct him try, and when
he gives up, as he will, cut loose from the
destructionists, openly proclaim himself a
Democrat, and fall back to constitutional Dem
ocratic principlcs-th will be time enough
for Democrats to offer their services IfGrans
appoints Democrats to office, lie deserves
hanging in eligy by" tho Republicans who
elected him" @
The GREAT RAILROAD CAsE-Thc South
Carolina vs. the Columbia and Augusta--has
at last been concluded According to tho
order of Judge Plat, jury was summoned
in Edgeficd County, which, after carefully
examining the matter, and proceeding over
the disputed points of the road, at late bonr
on Saturday night rendered verdict Of s11o
rs the amount Of damage sustained by tho .
South Carolina Railroad Tho MONEY. wo
are assured by President Johnston, psa
promptly paid. 'i,f
A life insurance agent applied to Texan
to take out policy;" but tho Texan re.