Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1869-06-11

byterians may be united in a great organiza-
ton, that shall cover our whole land.
MEMPHIS, May 81.--Tho Supreme Court
at Brownsville dccidcs unanimously that the
right to vote was secured to citizens under tho
Constitutional declaration and bill Of rights
that the elective frapchiso stands equally high
with tho right to hold proporty-which
once vested canuot be withdrawn without due
process of law; and that the p ?9SMSo.n Ono -
0y the eHS Regulation was illegal, and the
Governors action in the matter was null.
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GH Tn number Of deaths by wounds
and camp diseases in time of war, it is assert
ed, falls far below the deaths by tho epidemic
diseases produced among tho inhabitants
dwelling i'll the territories where tho militarv
operations are carried on. The Austrian Sta.
t~istical Commission has recently been publish
ing tables showing tho mortality attendant
upon the war in 1866 between Prussia and
Austria, from which it appears that the loss
cs in the Austrian army amounted to 81, 053
souls, of whom only ii, 900 died in battle or
from tho effeots of wounds. In Austria and
Hungary $4,000 persons died of oholora and
othor cpldcmics. In Eve provinces north of
the river Lcytha, tho increase of doaths in
1866 over 1865 amounted to 205, 575, and in
the Bukoyina one person out of every thir-
teen died.
"MAMMA," said a beautiful girl, who had
suffered affectation to obscure the little intel.
lcct she possessed, 'what is that long grccn
thing lying on the dish before you"
"a cucumber, my beloved Gcorgiana," re-
piled the mamma, with a bland smilo Of ap.
probation on her darling's commcndablc GU.
riosity.
"a cucumber Gracious goodness, how
traordinary ! I always imagined until this mo-
mcnt that they grew in slices p
A wiso old gentleman, who knew all about
it, on retiring from business gave the follow
ing sage advice to his son and successor
Common sonso, my son, is valuable in all
kinds of busincss-cxccpt love making
paddy says a joker, 'why don't you get
your ears croppcd-thcy arc entirely too long
for a man.
And yours : replied Pat fought to be
cngthcncd-thcy arc entirely too short for
an ass
aas" The fare from Omaha to San Francis.
GO on tho Railroad is fixed at 1926, or over
seven conts a mile. This is not SO exorbitant,
considering tho great expenses attending tho
running of that road, and tho fact that there
will be vory little way traffic compared with
that Of Eastern roads.
Mrs. J. NJ. SMITH, writing in the Now
York ObscrOar, a leading religious journal,
on tho su bjcct Of dancing, says:
"a man we'll known in society, who could
not dance, was sitting Mt a party near a young
lady, watching tho mazcs ola German Ho
turned to her, knowing hor vol, and said
81 wish you would let mo put my arm
around your waist"
Of course she looked at him in amazcment.
"Oh," said he, ''you know T can't dance,
but [ don't sec tho difference. All these
young men have their arms about the girls
waist, and why Shouldn't have the same pri.
vilcgc though I sit still 2"
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YEARS ago, q Pennsylvania farmer stabbed
his young wife in a fit Of drunken insanity
and hcd to tho West, supposing himself a
murderer. Tho woman recovered, and after
five years of solitary life, married again. Her
second husband died in q few months, and
she also went West. Thcro she met a pros.
porous and wealthy merchant, was woocd and
welded and upon disrobing in the bridal
chamber tho bridegroom saw upon her neck
tho soar Of tho wound ho himself had mado.
and recognized his vito of years before.
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AN old author quantity remarks "Avoid
argument with the ladies'. Tn spinning yarns
among silks and s%atins, a man is sure to be
worsted and twisted ho may consider him.
solf wound up"
1as' The Horny Is. o. Nows says IA
correspondents writing us an account of a trip
to Wilmington BY way Of private conveyance,
says that he stayed ono, aight at tho house Of
q gentleman, whose wife, only forty,two years
Of ago, had hor twenty second child ia her