Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1870-06-24

OIhiES.-ColOnel Chas. Whittiesey has OBJ
tanned evidence of the existence of two race.
of man and possible of the third intermediat,
race, as having held possession of the north
more recent of them being the Ner.h Amefi
can Indian or red men the earlier race h
terms the mound builders The antiquarie.
OF Europe regard the people who used dint in
strumehts US being prior to those who hat
implements of stone; and latter again, al
older than the races using bronze or othe,
metals. In the United States, the race next
prior to the white man had very few impe
ments of stone; their knives and arrow. heads
their agricultural tools, were almost entirely
of aint, they had very few and rude instru.
monts of native copper. The mound builders
on the contrary, who preceded the red men
produced and used tools in the reverse order
their axes, adzes aud maals were very numer.
Gus, and sometimes of stone; their coppet
tools abundant; but these of flint very rarc.
Hence in this instance, the most ancient peo.
pie were the most industrious; they cutiva.
ted the soilJ they possessed more mechanical
ingenuity and left more prominent and per.
manent monuments. On the Atlantic coast,
from Nova Scotia to the Florida, are numcr.
Gus shell heaps, identical with those of Swe.
den, Norwa. md Denmark, and known as
kjoekkenmad s. The examination of sew
eral caves gave pohes Of the wolf, deer, bear,
rabbit, etc., mixed with skulls of the rcd race,
and not dating back apparently more than
1000 years. Colonel Whittlescy estimates
1000 years as the period also of tho oceupa-
ton by the mound. building face, which does
not take us back as far as the beginning of
the historical in Asia and Africa
COFFEE A DIs1NFEcTANT.-Vc cry few per.
sons are probably aware that coffee is valua-
bic disinfectant. Experiments, however,
have proved thatit is the most powerful means.
not only for rendering animal and vegetable
effluvia innocuous, but of actually DESTROYING
them. A room, III which meat in an adj.
vanced state of decomposition has been kept
for some time, was instantly deprived Of all
smell on an open coffee roaster being carried
through II, containing pound of coffee new.
ly roasted. In ahpther room, exposed to the
efflvium occasiohed by the cleaning out of o
manure-pit, SO, that sulphuretted hydrogen
and ammonia in great quantities could be
chemically detected, the stencil was complete.
ly removed in half a.minute, on the employ.
mont of three ounces of fresh roasted coffee,
while the other parts of the hoise we're pet
''"iSho'J S'SoASo VI 0tC Su"C SulCll ny DClDI
simply trayersed with the coffee rooster, al.
though the cleansing of The pit continued for
several hours after. The best mode of using
the coffee as disinfectant is to dry the raw
bean, pound it in mortar, and then roast the
the powder on moderately heated iron plate,
until it assumes dark brown tint, wheh It In
fit for Use. Then sprinkle 1t In sinks Of cess.
pools, or lay it on plate in the room you
wish to have purified. Coffee acid, or coffee.
oil, acts more readily in minute quantities.
Illustrated Midland News.
BEAUTIFUL AND APPROPRIATE DEDIcA
TIoN.==Mr. Stephens sends forth his second
volume of the war between the States, with
the following beautiful and appropriate dedi-
catory "To the memory of those whose lives,
in the late *ar between the States; were sac.
aifced, either in BATTLE in hospital, in prison,
or elsewhere, In defchse of the Sovereign
Right of Local Self Government, on the part
of the people of the seveial States uf the Fed.
eral Uhion and ia defence of those prinoi.
Piles upon which that Union was established,
tho States can be maintained tohsistently
with the preservatioa Of constitutional Liber.
ty throughout the country, this volume is
luOSI IbOlcululy anu SaCfculy 0culCHteQ Wnlle
others are o.day strewing flowers Upon their
graves. { Is oblation, with like purposes and
kindred emotions, is thus contributed by the
author to the same hallowed shrine"
Vito is HEY-We continHe to hear Of
suspicious persons who are prowlng about
the country A letter from Santeo informs
us of a spurious specimen of the white race,
who secretgs himself by day, and waylays the
road ut night, robbing the coored people
of whatever they may possess. The said in
dividual says he is on his way To New York.
It is thought some Of these gentry are con.
ncctcd with the Heavy bank robbery at Co.
lumbia,a short time ago It is suggested
that the county authorities look into this va
grancy, which is getting little too common.
- Georgeto,bn Times. 4
= neg' This country ought to be pretty we'll
governed, when the estlmoted expenditures
for the current year amount to $298,516,.
732.62. This is sum go enormous as not
to be readily comprehended, yet experience
shows that as the cost t2increases, the advan
tages which should be derived from Govern.
mental expenditures become less ana less. Il.
Just think Of it. A republican country,
whose policy has always been directly in op.
position to standing armies aud navios, OK.
pends $4,000, 900 in tho support Of tho army
and navy, and In bensiohslA.sa sum greater
than the entire anedal expenditures Of the
Governdient before the war. Such bae hvard
progress must seon be, repudiated by the
people. 'fa5eSf ginQaa'