Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1871-03-03

A Nut for the HrcEanoIosjsts.

Since the result Of Governor Arny's ex.
plorations in New Mexico was made public
there has been no discovery of moro interest
TO tho American archcoogists than the ono
alleged to have been made recently in Iowa,
on the line of tho projected Dubuque md
Minnesota railroad. The workmcn, while
| engaged in oxcayating for tho road, in tho
limestone at the foot Of bluff, arc said to
favc come upon fat stone covered with
strange characters This being removed,
opened the way into passage about four feet
"ido and six feet high, leading directly in
TO the heart of the bluff. At the distance of
ABOUT iltty feet from the entrance another
stone, similar to the first, had to be removed.
when large chamber revealed itself, cut ont
OF the solid rock, about twenty five feet square
and twenty feet high. The floor was hard
and smooth, while the walls and roof wcro
carved in sort Of rude Josso relicyo, with
hgurcs OF birds, trees, stars, scrpcnts and
chariots. The South was all adorned s.w;tb
representation Of the sun, and immediately
below this the figure of man in tho act Of
stepping out of boat, and holding in his
hand dove"
30 Tar, the revelations were not very differ
ont from many previous ones in similar caves
and rock-chanlbcrs throughout the Western
country. But the most curious part of tho
discovery was yet to come, and one that would
60 far to support the theory of many savants
with regard to tho physical dcgcnertion of
the race. A flat slab in tho floor of tho cav
ern being raised, revealed below vault filled
with akclctons of unusual size, the largest
being seven feet eight inches high by actual
measurement. BY the side Of each skeleton
was set small vase, filled with yellow earth,
beneath "hich were found animal bones and
PARTICLES of animal matter. The skeletons
were placed in semi-circle towards the south
west.
cad aMhAS 5tAls list an4 gsaa ef slags
to conjecture. Perhaps they we're branch
of that mysterious and cultivated people
whom the Aztccs are said to have swept away
and destroyed in their great hegira to the
plains of Mexico. Or they may have been
related to the great stock of Natchcz which
once held sway all along the Mississippi
The figured sun on tho walls of tho rock
chamber would Indicate that they worshippcd
that luminary, aud the representation of a
man with dove, stepping out ola boat,
may be an allusion to that tradition of tho
Delugo which, in one form and another, all
cur aboriginal people have been found to hold.
But to whatever family this forgotten raco
may have belonged, it is certain that they
had attained higher degree of civilization
than was reached by those who como aftor
them. In the fingers Of tho largest skeleton
was claspcd pearl ornament, and traces of
cloth were found crumblcd at the feet of the
remains What is still moro important aud
curious, many copper implements wcrc found,
thus seeming to show that tho Lake Superior
mines had been worked at a very early period.
If the accounts We have received Of this
remarkable cave arc strictly true, invcstiga-
tion may derive from it important additions
to our stock of knowledge regarding the prim-
tive races of this continent, and we are
glad to know that the remains arc to be ro-
moved to Gho Iowa Institute Of Arts and Sci.
cnces at Dubuque. o.-Mcw YORK. Times.
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POISONED EY EATING CANDY.-The Fin.
castle Herald says: "It has boon our duty
within tho last few weeks to chronicle tho
deaths Of several Of our citizcns, but mono
hayo been attended with such distressing cir
cumstanccs as that Of Cassius II. Bolton, son
of Mr.. John Bolton Of this place, who died
last Friday morning, after an illness of few
days. His discas, was first pronounced
typhoid fever, but tho symptoms Of that dis.
case not being fully developed, the doctors
efforts availed nothing, the paticntgrcw rapid.
ly worse, and suffered the most intense pconv.
Not until after dcath--whcn the appearance
of tho body indicated the presence Of poison
did tho thought occur that ho had been
poisoned, when it WAS remembered that he
had eaten somo painted French candy, tho
poison from which must have gradually
gone through his system causing the most in
tense suffering, and resulting in death. Tho
deceased was youth Of about sixteen yoars
of ago.
BGS- A Georgia editor is in luck Twenty
four hcathon Chinese walked into lis sanctum
tho other day, and through the modlu,p Of
an interpreter, paid cash down for twenty.