Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1871-02-03

while they leave their own produce at home
without market. said Ohio, Indiana and
Kentucky sent their haystacks, corn6elds
and fodder to New York aud Philadelphs
for sale
Mr.. Wickliffc, Of Kentucky, jumped up
and said:
why, that is absurd Mr.. Speaker, I call
the gentleman to order; he is stating an alb.
surdity. We never sent haystac:s or corn.
fields to New York or philadclphis'
'Well, said, 'w4es do you send p
why, horses, mules, cattle and hogs
well, what makes your horses, mules,
cattle and hogs? You feed 500 worth
OF hay to horse; you just animate and get
upon the topo your haysack and ride it to
market. How is it with your cattle? You
make one of them carry $50 worth Of hay and
grass to the eastern market
Then | came to the hog question
Said |: 'Mr. Wicklinc, you scud hog
worth $40 to an eastern market how much
corn docs it take, at 33 cents per bushel to
fattcn it2
'Why, 80 bushels
'Ihcn you pu; that 80 bushels of corn into
the shape of hog, and make it walk off to
the eastern market
Mr.. Wickliffe jumped up and said:
Mr. Speaker, acknowledge tie eora.'-
Laughter
A Few REMARKs-Corscts arc most in.
furious to digestion
Light and sunshine are indispensable to
he''th and great curative agents in disease.
Young ladies' when you 90 to church read
your prayers and don't mind looking at the
fashions.
The way for fat people to reduce thcmscl-
YES is to cat less and sleep less. Long sleep
has tendency to fattcn.
The way to kocp teeth oloan ie to got
tooth brush and make use of it. A tooth
pick is also necessary to keep the teeth from
dccayng.
The word biliousncss is RESPECTABLE name
for piggishness. People arc not bilious who
cat what they should. Gluttony counts one
hundred victims where drunkenness counts
one
AN EYE TO BUSINESS. .-From a Western
paper we cut the following notice
'Dicd-After short illness Yesterday. nv
wife, leaving behind her three infant children.
In the hope that her poor soul is with Cod,
beg to inform my customers that nv store
VIII DC as well furnished as formerly, having
conlided my business to my principal clerk
who is extremely intelligent and as we'll
verscG in the business as the deceased her
self"
IN. B.-Frcsh corncd beef just received"
ollucK TRADE a brisk trade has sprung
up between Fredericksburg and the outside
world for hackclcd shucks. We saw letter
OF inquiry the other day from Charleston, S.
u, as to whether two hundred tons per month
could be supplied. fredericksburg gave tho
suinac traffic the start and it has reached ri
gantlc proportions. Esscc Tu) Guzeue.
WASHINGTON, January 24-In the Sen.
ate, territorial bill was referred to commit.
tee OF conference. Blairs credentials were
presented. $4,000 have been appropriated
to dcfray the expenses of the Outrage commit.
tee.
In the House, S. a. Cokcr, from Georgia.
was seated, after debate, Butler leading tho
opposition, and alleging outragcs A mo.
ton to refer was lost by Al to l48.
1aS- California will produce 5000, 900
gallons of wine az the yield of 1870 A fair
idea of the balmy character of the tcmpera.
turc of California may be formed from the
fact that the grape season extends in that
State over period Of six months and that
even up co the beginning of the year, fresh
grapes, grown it the open air, and of most
palatable quality, are exposed for sale in the
markets.
Ba- Wendell Phillips urges tho R,dical
party to cease "Mcre huckstering about
finance, and squabblcs over land grabbina,"
and to "scck its allies among the workingmen,
North and South, white and black" As we'll
urge the wolf to remove its tenth from tho
throat of the lamb, whose life blood it is suck
ing
edy- A writer in the National Standard
gives pitable account Of tho squalid power.
ty prevailing among many of the blacks of