Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1870-02-18

is quito certain that bloodshed is easily for.
gotten personal outrage with the greatest,
| difficulty. The Hungarian mobiles appear to
have forgiven the Emperor Francis Joseph
for his Wholesale execution of their brethren;
but nobody can fail to see, that the s'irrccon-,
oiability" of some Of tho most imminent of
French politicians is greatly due to the recol-
lcctions of the personal dishonor to which
they were subjected on the memorable morn
ing of the coup dctat. At the present mo-
mopt VIC arc well aware that nothing seems
less important to tho great majority Of the
Northern people tllan that'tho experiment
which they are trying in the South causcs
excessive discomfort to a parcel Of conquered
rebels; but they will probably hereafter view
this experiment with other eyes when there
comes the inevitable waking to sympathy
and pity, and when, much about tho same
time, it appears that the negroes, who are the
instruments of punishment, have become not
only a. Southern, but Northern power,
weighing heavily in the scale whenever a. ma
tonal decision lias to be taken a tra
A LITTLE BIT OF yRoMANcR.--Although,
SO far this ~ihtcr the skies have been un-
usually compassionate in not aggravating
with continuous, intense cold the hunger and
rags of poverty, yet an occasional bleak shaft
from the North transfxes a houseless wan
derer at the cruel corner of some of our
streets. el'NE.a" 5ii 3gads nt0f%
| Early on Friday morning a poor young
waif, apparentlyof the past night, with ,her
delicate finger sculptured rolentlessly through
a thin cotton Dress was found, almost fam.
ishcd, leaning against a lampp in a street
leading into one of our principal thorough.
fares. Her condition having been recognized
by kipdly house maid who had been dusting
mats aS neighboring door, the wretched
sufferer was hunancly led into the bascnont,
where, after some time, she was restored to
life and animation.
f, "Take her up tenderly.p 81 gp.l,
| Subsequent inquiries revealed the fact that
she was the daughter Of once respectable and
wealthy parents who had lost everything
pride, virtue and fortunc---in the wine-cup,
and who, recently dying p:hpers, had left
her on that bitter Friday morning without a
home, a hope ora crust in the world. When
discovered she was blindly cropping her way
toward the river to end her miseries rather
than cntcr dpon career Of shame. a'
Her souching and painful story rcaching
the car of the lady Of the house, she was SUN.
noned to her presence, when, strange to tell,
it was ascertaiued beyond shadow, of doubt,
that she was tho only child of once dear
friend, who had been lost sight of for years,
but who, through strange intcrposition of
Providence, was now restored in the person
of her daughter-M r. Post.
HABIT. ---"I trust everything, under God"
said Lord Brougham, "to habit, upon which,
in all ages, the hwgivor, as we'll as the school
master, has mainly placed his relanoe ha.
bit, which makes everything easy, and casts
all difficulties upon the deviation from a won
ted course. Make sobriety habit, and in
temperance will be hateful; mako prudence
a habit and reckless prohigaoy will be as
contrary to the child grown or adult, as the
most atrocious crimes arc to any Of your lord.
ships. Give child the habit Of yqcrcdiy re-
gardiing truth, Of carefully respecting the pro-
perty Of Others of scrupulously abstaiping
from all acts ofimprovdence which oan in-
yolyo him in distress, and lie will just as like.
ly think Of rushing into an element in which
he cannot breathe asaflying, OF cheating or
stealing" .ffaLnI "a ensaaAaft ~~Sssa
H., Z d.
aea. Married women III South Carolina Viii
soon acquire control Of Their own owsnn''pr propscrrty.
The Legislature has Ijnst passed q bill whioh
provides that no real Or, personal Z property
held by woman at tho tmo Of her hmaorrItiage
shall be subject toolovy or sale for iierlhus.
band's debts, bit shalTbe hdr, seperate prop
'orty, and that she may .idahage and jdisposeof
the sarneih all RESPECTS DIS though she wbrs
man. 8 g, 0tts ,iA1 ;di roli s,aeo Isl
aO- A distinguished physician who died
soHs yearst sipqein ri nPParis, declared ~ be.
less that during the tyyeshtytsix years hayo
pgaalicsa my profession M in .bis pity, twsnty
thaqsand The children hare bessps soarEied to the
cemeteries, sacrifice to tha bee absard custom
exposing the arms and logs nakod.o' '''0 ''
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tauYp JHFIepplpsss i ,npt cottage hog
palsss nqri IN tfhss nor ip psoSysIty nor
lsarning nor, in ig,pqorance, nor passive life
tin doing right from right motives, ags \
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