Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1870-05-06

gray coated battlers for their homes took DOS.
session Of Winchester. ~
But the story Of The lighting, the battles,
and the changing of hands hero would oeou.
py page after page, so we will not endeavor
to relate further. Just ia front Of us is a
pile of bricks and stones thrown into cellar |;
iweSds growing here and thero, marking tho
spot where once was the abode Of wealth.
This was "Selula," nova place OF ruins
Looking down upon this,pile of debris, rain.
washed and storm beaten, one would hardly
imagine that but a few years ago hero was the
finest residence in this part Of the country
That here stood magnificent mansion where
night after night wealth and fashion did
congregate lamps illuminating parlor, draw
ing room, and library, as the wit, wealth, and
worth of the plaoe here assembled, enjoying
themselves at whist parties, listening to mu-
sio, or tripping their feet as do merry, light.
hearted dancers. .lg
You have oil Heard Of Slidell aud Mason,
the Southern Senators, who went abroad du-
ring tho war. Well, this is where Mason
lived. When the Northern troops took pos
session and learned that this was Mason's
house; that that was his ice.house; that his
kitchen was just ovor there, and that his
carriage.house was just over yonder, they
made short work OF '.selma." They entered
into and took possession at once. What was
worth stealing they stole. What was worth
sending home they sent; and to take revenge
upon Southern men they loft not 30 much as
one foot Of wall upon the other. We found
here few old boots aud old boot.soles, warp
ed, twisted, and dried from exposure pieces
Of glass, china-ware, and few necks and
bottoms of champagne bottles; and kicking
among the rubbish we found an old spoon,
indicating, GO matter who might have been
here, Butler was not
TIE POETRY OF DIRr.-A writer in Good
Heath says: Old DR.. Cooper, of South Caro-.
lima, used to say to his students, "Don't, be
afraid Of little dirt, young gentlomen.-
What is dirt2 Why, nothing at all offensive,
when chemically viewed. Rub little alkali
upon that dirty grease spot on your coat
and it undcrgoes chemical change, and be-
comes soap. Now, rub it with little water,
and it disappears; it is neither grease, soap,
water, nor dirt. That is not very odorous
pile Of dirt you observe there. Well, scat.
ter little gypsum over it, and it is no longer
dirt. Everything you call dirt is worthy of
notice, us students of chemistry. Analyve
it! 1t will separate into very clean elemoAts
Dirt makes corn, corn makes bread and
meat, and they make n very sweet young lady
that saw one Of you kissing last night
So, after all, you were kissing dirt, particu.
larly If sho whitens her skin with chalk, or
Fuller's earth. There is no telling, young
gentlemen, what is dirt"
NEW York, April 25.-Ex- Confederatcs
Thomas Rhett, of Charleston, and George
Pickett, Of Virginia, are here en- route for the
Egyptian service. Rhett has been sworn in
as Brigadier General by the Pacha's recruit.
ing officers. Confederate Generals Loring
and Sibley are already there. The Federal
General Stone, who was unfortunate at Balls
Bluff, is also among the Pacha's recruits.
-~>ss---
EN A lady recently called upon friend
who had recently been married. When her
husband came to dinner, she said: ri have
been to SEQ MRS." "Well," replied the
husband, ri suppose she is very happy"
"IIappy Well, I should think she ought to
be; she has oamel's hair shawl, two thirds
border"
aas- A man living at hotel is like u
grapevine in flower-pot-- carried
around from place to place, docked at the
root and short at the top. No where can
man get real root room, and spread out his
branches till they touch the morning and
evening but in his own house.
$
EY- We are ruined, not by what we really
want, but by what we think we do; there.
fore, never go abroad in search of your wants;
if they be real wants, they will come home in
search Of you; for he who buys what he does
not want, will soon want what he cannot buy.
Ey- An ignorant colored "Legislator" in
Alabama opposed appointing clerk to exam.
inc and correct somo badly written "rcsolu.
tions" bekanse sich rehektions kast lektions
on do telligcnco and edikation oh dis onerablo
body.
Eg- Josh Billings says: "Give tho devil
his dues, reads we'll enough in provcrb :"
but proceeds to inquire, very pertinently;
what will become Nv you and mo if this ar.
rangcmcnt is carried out?"
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BAY A lap dog biting a peice out Of q
male visitors leg, his mistress thus expressed
her compassion: "Poor little creaturoi I
hope it will not make him siok."
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ne9- An iowa widow argues in favor Of
insurances. Her first husband was insured
for $40, 900, and the money thus obtained
will set her second husband up in the grocery
business.
neA- Jenkins is not going to do anything
moro in conundrums. He recently asked his
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