Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1871-03-24
'E'Eae Hleal E:arGsaer.

The New York Eccutny Post describes
the ideal farmer in the following moderate
and well chosen terms !:
First Of all, he should be healthy, hon
est, scrupulous mana man whom lis neigh
bors will trust, and in whom all with whom
he deals VII place implicit confidence Such
Il character, coupled with robust and hearty
good health, would DC the best half Of Il young,
farmers stock in trade. Then, again. he
should be thoroughly vcrscd in the details
of farming as an nrt. Wnon and how to
plow, to SOW, TO hoe, to harvest, to garden,
and to sell, how to keep his land improving
in richness and in til.h how to buy, how to
breed, how to feed, how to grow, and how to
sell his live stock; how to drain land, build
fences, lay out fields, arrange aud construct
farm buildings, make rOaCs, and manage all
kinds OF firm machinery: how to man 81 ,hu
dairy, from the setting Of the milk, to tbs
marketing of the product. III this and
much more should be learned-not parrot.
fashion, but SO that the knoYlad2e viii he
como rs Intimate as an instinct and ALWAYS
ready in any emergency
| Underlying all this should be knowledge
of agrlculturc--tho treason Why of all tii!,
work, so far at least hs tho present state of
agricultural knowledge makes possibo veg.
ctablc physiology, that is the construction
OF plants and the manner in which they form
their growth ard pcrpetuatc their species !;
vegetable chemistry, or the composition Of
| the same parts at different STAGES of growth ;
| vegetable nutriton, or the sources from Which
the plant obtains its food and the manner in
which the food is assimlhtcd; the chemistry
and mechanics of the soil; the nnnncr in
which it is influenced by growing and by de-
caying vegetation, by tho action of frost,
OF water, of air, and Of the various chemical
agents; why wet land should be drained, and
why dry land irrigated or frequently stirred
a WOMAN OF MErTI4E. How Texan
woman persuaded her husband to 90 home is
thus related by a correspondent of the Denton
| llOnitor:
a handsome, d'shing woman rode into a
village in that region few days ago, and
alishting from her horse, wont rapidly to a
drinking saloon, where number of sovcrcgns
wcrc havinga "high time" She singled out
the finest looking man in the crowd, and
walking up to him, seized him by the arm
and ordered him to put down the glass which
he was about to drain. He dashed down the
glass and rushed away; tho lady followed
and finally corncrcd him in the billiard room
She told him, in firm, determined voice
that tho place which he was in and the course
he was pursuing would not answer for he
husband; that he was wasting her property
and that sho would no longer consent to bt
disgraood and impoverished by him. Sh,
demanded his pistol. re refused She tool
it from him. cooked it and presented it a
him, and told him he must leave or die. II,
concluded to leave She marched him on
as prisoner of war to where his horse wa:
liitchod, ordered him to mount, and in fcv
II minutes tho two we're leaving town, the wifi
4 riding in the rear of her captured lord, Will
his six shooter in her hand.
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CHESTER, S. c., March 1t.--Coptair
Kennedy, the ordinance officer, has returned
from Rossvillc, bringing ninety stand O
arms, taken from tho militia, by order of th
Governor. The Chester militia have brough
in all of theirs. Captain Kennedy left thi
afternoon for Rock Hill, to bring in tho arm
of the company thcro. No further trouble
are reported,
- 1t cost to dig the cellar under tho Ncy
York post office and wall up, from $500 90,
4 to&1 100000. This ia an official statcmen n
! made ia the House Of Representatives,. n