Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1871-06-23
Thirrs in Utah.

MIR, JAMES BnooKs, of the New No.li
Erprss, who is making an overland trip to
the Pacific, and writing accounts Of scenes
and incidents to his paper, has in the Express
of Fril1y an interesting description Of his yis
it to Utah, and Of the saints and santesscs
with whom he ATTENDED, worship in the ten
pie.
The women. he says are neither prc,t,
nor fashionable. Occasionally there is seen
cc1uct,ish cay, nick named bonnet silks,
if not satins, also intr,ilc; but the great
moss of the women bring their hats and robes
from their mothers and great grandmothcls
and the result Isl head gear Representative of
Swccdc, of Scot, Of Coit, of Yankee, the
patterns perhaps Of ten generations behind,
with scnots of Quaker formation and nmbrcl
las Of Italian conception. Mr.. Brooks had
the satisfaction Of hca,ng sermon from
l'ri@ham, who is described as good locking
man, now 0f seventy years, resembling much
Tom Benton, the Missouri senate. in his lat;
ter days MIR. Brooks speaks of him ns
MN OF all sorts Of ability, whether Us preach
cr prophet, governor, bnnkeY, farmer .nl
railroad builder, bat it appears he is not mnch
| longer to have disputed religious dominion
Tle Eriscopaliars Lave planted church in
! Iii, capitul. The Roman Catholics are alrenGy
there, Tle Alcthodists are about to invade
Utah with one Of their prodeious camp.
meetings, assembling Mcthodiss there from
the Missouri at Omaha, 10 San Francisco, on
the Pacific. They threaten to capture Brig.
ham unsal his hosts. brigham, generously
or tnun,in"ly, offered them his huge tahcr
nacc, holding l3,G0o pc~sons, w,hits gallo
RES, new and the big :gnn, perhaps the
biggest in the world, u bc thrown in, for
their great lovcfcost; hut they declined the
talnt, or the tnnnt, and they turn upn tents
N The or"n fields, rm9nr tic clonliass SKY
| The grasurpcis, which have hitherto bccu
greater enemies Of the Mormans than the
Gcni'es, arc being dcvourcd by the gnlis, so
that Utah is likely 10 be freed from the pest
= The Montgomery, Ala Adscniscr, is
responsible for The following grand hoi2ipg
sign. il the lflrcuiscr man will permit
us to knock OF six inches Of the "dcad level -
twenty to twenty Eve pounds from cuch Of the
blocks. and then acknowledge that the OAK.
lc tree belonged ton ohiId's 80 cart, VIC u
gulp il down, but shal! want good stiff dose
of CoSiiac TO enable us to swallow it then
"'Ihc hail was one foot deep on dead lev.
e', and knee deep in ravins and sloughs =
1t come over the aSlctrcc of a buggy in raw.
inc six miles from the city, and the next day
such vast quantities Of it remained on tho
ground that the people of that ncighborhood
hauled it off and stored it for ice in blocks of
from twenty to thirty pounds each"
That's pretty cool, for this season, and in
tho South, too - Union Times
|
THE UNITED STATES .MAHSlAISyiIr -
The Washington Chronicic Of Tuesday says:
"Major I IL. johnson, United States Mar.
shal for South Carolina, is in the city clear.
ing up some charges preferred against him
by political opponents. lie has been entirely
successful, we are informed and will retain
bis position. lie has received very hattcr.
ing testimonial from General Walker for the
admirable manner in which, under very difli.
cult circumstances, he has completed the cen.
sus Of the State"
ANOTHER GOVERNOR FOR Us.---The
Chester Rcporcr learns from an influential
colotcd Radical that A. S. Wallace has been
sounding him on the subject Of supporting
him for Goucrnor at the general election in
1872 Poor South Cnrolna! lfss she rot
suffered enough alleady2 is this asks the
Rcporter, IN ges2axe, as &Qr eaoMnilg indg
nity2
I"H - X
Vs. A diSpstoh from Bombay, says vcs.
sea sssadored near Iockport, and eighty were
a1ss.
| - The water in Now Orloans from tho