Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1871-08-04
Creeping Things.

she Is aghast; she shricks, "The nasty. ugly
thing j. Madam. the spider is perhaps
shocked at your Brussels lace, and although
you may be the most exquisite painter living.
the spider has right to laugh at your coarse
daubs as she runs over them. just show her
your crotchct work when you shrek at her
Have you spent half your days upon thesa
clumscy anti macassars and these ottoman
covers2 My dear lady, is that your web I?
II were big enough, l might with reason
drop you and cry out at you. Let me spend
DAY with you and brink my work l have
tour little bags of thread--such little bags
In every bag there are more than one thou
sand holes-such tiny, tiny holes Out Of
each hole thread runs, and all tho threads
mere than four thousand thrcads-I snin
together us they run, and when thew are all
spun they make but one thread of the web
weave. | have member of my family who
Is herself no bigger than grain Of sand
Imagine what slender web she makes. and
OF that, too, each thread is made of four thou.
sand or live thousand threads that have mas.
scd out "t her four bags. through four or five
thousand little holes. Would you drop her, ton.
crying out about dclicacy a pretty thing, in
deed, tor you to plume yourself on your dolica
cy, and scream at us - Having made such
specch,wc may suppose that the indignant crea.
tCre 1astens rope around one of the rough
points OF the lady's hand and lets herself do.p
llghIy to the floor. Coming down stairs ;s moi
81, clumsy work, compared with such way Of
locomotion The creeping things we scorn
are miracles Of beauty. They arc more deli.
cate than any ormolu clock or any Iadv's
watch, made for pleasures sake, no bigger
than shilling Lyouct counted four thou.
sand and forty one muscles in a single cater.
pliler, and these arc small part only of its
powers. Hook found fourteen thousand mir
rors In the eye of blue bottle, and there are
thirteen thousand threc hundred sepcrate
pieces that go to provids nothing but the act
OF breathing in a carp. How wondrous is
he.poweer of the great Creator who has organ.
'zod such perfect system of being.
r. q !.sss E.sss .IMpREsSIoN ABROAD. The Caro-.
linn Spartan says:
The Columbia Union learns from eentle.
man, from Spartanburg, that evidence in
about 3OO cases Of outrages has been taken.
Does this ''genlcnnan' (?) or anybody elso
in Spartanburg believe all this According
to. our estimate of the number of witnesses
before the committee nt this place, the evil
dcnce of each would have to make out at
least three cases of outrage to make correct
the above statement of the 'gentleman"
The Charleston RcpuJlican alsogets infor.
nation from the upcountry that several per.
sons have been identified" and that the evil
dence in their several cases is overwhelming.
IL this Information is received from Spartan
burg, ns we are lead to believe, we have only
to say Tat we do not know of any one who
has been 'idcntiicd," or against whom there
is that Overwhelming evidence" that tie
Republican speaks Of. Five or six persons.
it is true, have been arrested ana lodged in
Jail upon some kind Of evidence, and they
have all been baird ort and are hound to ap.
pear before the United State Court From
the information we have Of the character of
the testimony, and Of the parties tcstifying,
there is nothing Overwhelming" or identify
ing in it, and is likely to amount to nothing
when carried before the court. At leust two
of the parties bound over 10 court have here
toforc voted and acted with the Radical party,
and why either one of these has been arrest.
cd by Radicals, "for ntimidnting at cleo.
tions," or Of Ku Kluxing, we do not knew.
Jack Turner, q negro, was committed to
Jail at this place, by S. r. Poiner, United
States Commissioner, on the 9th ustnnt, for
violating tho Ku Klux law. We learn that
Jack denies the charge, and VIC have not
heard that there is any proof Of his guilt
Jack nved in tho neighborhood Of Hills
Factory, in the lower part of the County.
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TnE TURNIp FLY.-Those who do much
in growing the turnip, experience moro or
less Inconvenience from the fly upon the
young plants. An English farmer saws:
"For tho last fifteen years, on sowing turnips,
provide, ready slaked, one ton of lime Der
acre. AS soon as the plnnts appear the limo
Is spread from a cart over tho young plants
in the rows. In hot seasons tho plants hayo
had rough usage from their tormcutors but
sufficient plants escape. I never missed a
crop, nor have had to SOW second time
The lime must be put on dry, and on
warm OF hot dry day for If any dew or mois
Inro bc upon tho plants they will be destroyed.
The limo must DO ready to pat on tho mo.
ment tho mischief begins, for in tho twenty.
four hours of hot season tho fy can ruin
any crop; it is no use then going for tho
lime."
GorSG SoJTu. I.ast Saturday night, lha
leader OF gang of wild geese was plainly
and Gnmistakably heard giving his aonlinands
as no pissed over our town. Our oldest oiti
IONS do not seeollccl over knowing these birds
to 60 South before so eaily as tho 22sd of Iu.
ly, and think it indicative OF ap early full.
This fact, coupled with tho prsscnt cold spell