Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1869-02-05
WksrsnN AsndooTE.--Iu s0mos places,

where's preacher gets q FOOTING, " Is some
times easier 20 sgetsa 9 ,n,eetin' house" full
shan to got wherowish to support the laborer,
who is nowhere moro q worthy Of his hire"
A preacher IN a frontier settlement had been
collecting money for some church object
There wore still some twenty dollars wanting,
and after vain efforts to make up h ede6cien.
cy, he plainly intimatcd, MS he locked the
church door one day after service, that hc IN
tended to have that said twenty dollars before
any ono loft the house. At the samo time
he set the example by tossing five dollars on
the table. Another put down a dollar, an.
other a quarter Of q dollar, a fourth half u dol.
lar, and so on. The parson read out every
now and then the state of the funds: "Thar's
seven and a halt, my friends" Thar's nine
and a quarter" "Tcn and six bits arc all
that are in tile hat, friends aud Christian
brethren" Slowly it mounted up. Twelve
and q half" "Fourtcen." I" Fiftecn."-
" Sixteen and three bits" and so on until it
stuck at nineteen dollars and q half. cit
only wants fifty cents, friends, to make up tho
amount. Will nobody make it upT Eve.
rybody had subscribed, and not cent moro
was, forthcoming. Silence reigncd, and hog
long it might have lasted it was difficult to
say, had not Q half dollar been tossed through
the open window, and q rough explanatory
voice shouted, " Here, parson, thar's yer
money; let out my gal. I'm about tired
waitin' for her"
A YANKEE REMINIscENcE,-We take the
following from a Yankee publication, and
think with the narrator, that General Sher-
man was outfanked for once:
When General Sherman vas in command
OF Benton Barracks, st. Louis, he was in the
habit Of visiting every part Of that institu-
ton and making himself familiar with every
thing that was going on. He wore all old
brown coat and = "s.ove Pipe hat aud was
not generally recognized by the minor officials
or the soldiers. One day while walking
through the grounds ho met with a soldier
who was numerically beating q mule
"Stop pounding that mule!" said the
General.
"Git eout - said the soldier, in blissful
ignorance OF the person to whom he was
speaking.
al tell you to stop" reiterated the Gene
raj.
"You mind your business and | will mind
minc," replied the soldier, continuing his
flank movement on the mule.
" 1 tell you, again to stop!' said General
8. edo you know who I am? / am Gene.
raj Sherman !"
"That's played out" said the soldier
T" Every man who comes along here with an
old brown coat and stovc.pipe hat on claims
TO be General Sherman"
It is presumed that for once General Sher-
man considered himself outlankcd.
GETrIua TIE BErrER IN MANNERs.-
The most characteristic instance of carrying
politcncss to an extronle, came of, not long
since, at a Hiberniau Ball. AS related to us
by one Of the sous of Erin, who kecnly up.
p~rcciatcs a good thing, it seems that one gay
Lothario in crossing the room to reques
Bridget's hand in the next reel. stumbled ovel
the out-strctched foot Of Mr.. Tcrrene O'Gra.
dy, who promptly arose, and in the polites'
manner said {:
81 beg your pardon, sir"
Ono efince, no ofincc, sir, at ALL" res
pended the other.
"But it was my fault"
II beg your pardon, cir, it was intircly my
fault" was the response, accompanied with
graceful bend of tho body, and wave of TIT
hand.
"No SIR answered Misthcr O'Toolc, 'yc'
iatirely in the wrong, sir, I tell ye, it wa
altogether my fault"
" | tell ye it war not, sir" responded Mis-
Their O'Grady; edo ye mauo to say I'd b
afthcr telling a lie, sir
"Bad luck to yc, sir, dye name to say r.
t1s afther telling 70 a lie, sir, whin I tell 70 i
wasn't yer FAULT" tshvnderod o'Toole quit
wroth.
Dad luck to yor brading, 70 ignorant pol
throon do you think ye'd 30 . getting tn
bother Nv me In manners 2" shouted Mi
ther O'Grady, as with atip aud q blow h
laid the unfortunate O'Toole as fat as q ear
cake.
The latter rallied, and q rough and tumbl
ensued, which ended in the expulsion Of bot
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