Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1870-10-14
A Texnn's Dream.

teachings of my youth, It appeared that man
klhd were not to bo Judged individually, bu
Sy governments, by nationalities, and b,
otates. The first government called to judg
ment was that of England, and as soon as tho
name of England was sounded the immortal
burke rose from his grave, and declared that
no had lived q d died in England that he
knew her people to be loyal alike to God and
their country, and on his Recommendation
England passed into tho celestial city
"Ihe next xtgovernment called to account wos
the United States of America, and when the
name of Amerioa sounded Mount Vernon
trembied as the immortal Washington arose
from his grave and prayed that his Govern.
ment should not be tried as England had
been as consolidated despotism, but as free,
sovereign and independent States.
"The first State called to account was old
Virginia, and Us soon as the name Of T;ra;n;a
{ was sounded the immortal Henry arose to his
feet, and declared that he had lived aud died
in Virginia; that he knew her people to be
loyal alike to God and their country, and on
his Recommendation Virginia passed into tho
city.
"iho next State called to judgment was
South Carolina, and as soon as the name of
South Carolina sounded, John g. Calhoun
arose from his grave and declared that with
all her. faults he knew her people to be loya
alike to God and the country; and on his re-.
commentator South Carolina passed into tho
celestiul city
The third State called to account was the
State of Louisiana and as soon as the name
OF Louisiana sounded, Henry Watkins Allen,
bursting asundor his beautiful fl)wer deoked
tomb, arose and proclaimed that he had lived
and governed in Louisiana, but died in exile !;
that he knew her people to be loyal to God
and the Southern Confederacy and on his
recommendation Louisiana passed into the &C.
iestial city amid the rejoicing songs Of the
heavenly host.
"Ihe noxt State called to judgment was the
Lone Star State of Texas and as soon as the
name OF Texas was sounded, the immortal
Houston rose from his tomb, clothed in the
habiiaments of the soldier, spoke Of the bat
tic OF San Jacinto, and declared that he knew
her people to be loyal alike to God and the
country; and just as the Lone Star State was
about to pass through the gates into the city,
that scalawag, Jack Hamilton, sprung to his
feet, and swore that he represented the COW.
pens of tho Lone Star State; that he knew
her people to be disloyal alike to God and the
country, and on his ipse dixit, Texas went to
~ Shreveport Bulletin.
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ACKNOWLEDGING THE Corn "A traveller
fatigued with the monotony of long ride
through sparscly settled region of the coun.
try, rode up to boy busily engaged in trim.
ming and dressing out sickly looking field
OF corn, and relieved the oppression Of his
spirits thus:
"My young friend, it seems to me your co, n
is rather small"
"les, daddy planted the small kind
An, but it apprars rather yellow, too"
"Yes, daddy planted the yaller kind"
"from appearances, my lad, you won't get
more than half crop"
"Just half, stranger duddy planted it on
halves"
The horscman proceeded on his way and
has not been known to speak to boy since.
lie considers them borcs.
Why He WENT HoME-Tn Indiana. q
husband, after spree, was led home by one
OF his friends, who after posing him safely
on his doorstep, rang the bell, and rctreatcd
somewhat OBVIOUSLY to the opposite side of
the street, to see if it would be answered.
Promptly the "porte" was converted, and
the fond spouse, who had waited for her tru.
ant, beheld him in all his toddiness. "Why.
Walter, is this you?" ''Ycs, my dear 7'
"What in the world has kept you SO p "Been
out on little turn with the boys, my dar-
ling !" "Why, Walter, you arc intoxicated I"
"Y.y es dear, | estimate that's So" "What
on earth made you come home to me in this
dreadful state 2" "Becausc, my darling, all
th'other places r shut up!'
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EY" A man named Hotchkiss, over in New
Market, the other night thought he would
have some fun soaring his wife by dropping
q loose brick down the chimney into the fire
place of her room. So he orept softly out of
bed, and with nothing on but his shirt, sneak
cd up stairs and got out on the roof Mr..
Hotchkiss dropped nineteen bricks down tho
chimney, each one with vigorous slam, but
his wife never screamed solitary time. So
then Mr.. Hotchkiss gave it up, and thought
he would go down stairs; but he found that
Mrs. H[otchkiss had had her head out of the
trap door watching him all the time, and
when he had finished she had shut the trap
and fastened in on the inside It may be as
we'll to state that Mr.. IIotchkiss spent the
rest of the night sitting on the sharp peak Of
tho roof, with his trailing garments of the
night fluttering in the evening breeze, singing
"Tm Lonely To Night" Mrs. Hotchkiss
iptimated to her confidential friends that she
thought she had him. m.-Newark Courier.
Ey The efficacy of camp meetings on tho
colorcd mind is put beyond the shadow of a