Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1870-06-10


city.
HORRIBLE CALAM About four
o o'clock yesterday afternoon our entire commu
nifty was started by tho report that n building
on King street had fallen and buried several
persons beneath it ruins. Nearly all the
male citizens crowded to- the spot iud;cused
by the report, to find that they were partially
true, and to be gratilicd that the damage TO
life and limb was not as great as the reports
had induced them to believe.
Several months ago the store on tho west
side Of King, and fourth door south of Beau.
fain street, was destroyed by fire, only the
walls and some charrcd raftcrs remaining
a short time since laborcrs commenced the
work of rebuilding, and were rapidly progress
sing. About four o'clock yesterday afternoon,
the walls tumblcd in with crash, aud almost
buried in the mass of timbcrs and bricks
Lewis Perkins, colored, Patrick ard Joseph
Calleton and Jacob Nelson badly wounded,
receiving bruises and cuts in all portions of
their bodies Mr.. Patrick Culcton was only
slightly Injured. Others of the workmcn
were also slightly wounded. 1t seems mat.
ter of imposibilty that any of the workmcn
employed about the building could have cs.
capped, and for long time the impression pre-
vailed that there were several of them dead
in the ruins.
There were numerous reports regarding tho
cause Of the accident, and by many criminal
sarclcssncss was imputed to those connected
with the work. Tho coroner, with his jury,
will give the .nattcra thorough investigation,
and place the blame, if such there was where
it rightfully belongs. - Charleston Nc,os, lst.
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TIE COMING CENsUs-Thc census Of
1870 will commence today, and by the first
Of November the enumeration, not only Of
persons but of industries and social statistics,
will be complete in the office of the depart.
ment at Was angton. I'm the slow process of
governments VIC will then know, when ycar
or eighteen months is passed, how great Tic
nation has grown within the past ten years
The machinery Of tho census is very exten
siyc, requiring q personal visit Of M "assis
tant marshall to each dwelling house, and
every family, every farm, mill, shop and mine
and tho individual Interrogation Of millions
each of whom probably thinks it bore, but
over whose head fino Of thirty dollars hangs
in cnse ofany squcamishncss about answering
1t is matter Of two cents head to the man
he has taken an oath to get those two cents
and not to speculate for more, by putting
down names which have no existence or local
habitaticn.- Southern Guarditm.
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TURNING TIE TABIEs.-Thc British mis-.
sionarics have been industriousy engaged in
India for many years in endeavorng to con.
vert tho Hindoos to Christianity, and must
have been quito unprcparcd to sec mission.
airy of Brahma come to London for the pur.
pose of converting the English to the
Brahminical religion. Strange to say, this
man, who is now preaching to crowded con.
gregations, is making an unusual stir in rolig.
ious circles. He is man of decided cloqpenee
and talent, and is not only we'll educated but
speaks and breaches in English, Tho very
novelty of the thing, together with his pow.
crful arguments and cogont logic, have in.
duccd many to attach serious Importance to
his teachings. If he is followed by number
of others, there will be tho extraordinary
spectacle witnessed Of the East endeavorine
to impress its religion, morals and ethics upon
tho West, and vtce versa.- Courier-Jonrnal
EH- Don'tspeak i'll of old maids. They
are the true angels, who have refused to make
men miserable by marrying them.