Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1871-01-20
After CatS-.'The Adventures OF N1r
oliver ln PurTuit OF vengenCe.

AUtSf tttS"" A'uc adventures OF NUf.
oliver In Purruit Of vengence.
The fact that Mr.. Oliver lived in uni.
form row Of houses in the Fourteenth ward
was tho reason why he was unfortunate
One moonlight night last week the noise made
BY the cats on the roof was simply awful.
Mr.. Oliver 10y in bed trying in vain to got
to sleep, grinding his teeth with rage until
at last tho uproar overhead became unondu-
rable. Mr.. Oliver crept out Of bed softly, SO
that his wife would not be awakened. He
put on his slippers, seized boot with euch
hand, and, clad in the snowy robes Of night,
he opened tho trap door and emerged upon
the roof They were thirty or forty cats out
there holding kind of general synod in
the cool of the evening, enjoying the bracing
air and singing gccs AS Mr.. Oliver ap
preached, the cats moved over to the
! next roof Mr.. Oliver advanced and flung
boot at them. They then adjourned
suddenly to tho next residence. Mr.. Oil
vcr projected another boot, and went over
after tho first one. In this manner the
synod rctreatcd and Oliver advanced until tho
last row Of twenty houses was rcuched, when
the cats arranged themselves in line along
the parapct, ruffled up their fur, curved their
spines, and spat furiously at Oliver That
bold warrior gathered up his boot and det r.
mined to retreat. IIc walked over dozen
houses and dcccnded through trap-door
lie went down stairs to his bed room, and
, opened the door. There was man in the
room in the act of walking up and down with
a baby. Before Oliver had recovered from
his amuzement, the man flung the baby on
the bed and scizing revolver began firing
r,p;dly at Oliver. 1t then dawned upon
Oliver that he had come down the wrong trap
door. lie proceeded up stairs again sudden.
ly, the man with the revolver practicing at
him in a painful manner. When Oliver
reached the door he shut the trap quickly
and stood upon it The man fired through
the bourds twice, and then hooked the door
upon the inside. A moment after Oliver
heard him spring watchman's rattle from
the front window. AS soon as the neighbors
knew there was man on tho roof, they all
flew up stairs and fastened their trap doors,
and Mrs. Oliver fastened hers, with the firm
conviction that some predatory villain had
entered while she slept and stole her Oliver.
When he tried the door it was fast, and Mrs
Oliver was screaming SO fcrccly that he could
not make himself heard. BY this time the
street was filed with policemen, all of whom
were blazing away at Oliver with their revol-
vcrs, while the young mon in the houses
across the street kept up steady fire with
pistols, shut guns, aud miscellaneous missiles.
Oliver, with every advantage of forming an
opinion, said that Gettysburg was mere
skirmish to it. lie hid behind the chimney
and lay up against the bricks to keep himself
warm, while tho policemen stationed th,m
selves all around the square to capture Lin
when he would slide down one of the water
s?outs But Oliver did not slide. II sat
out on the roof all night, with the bitter air
circulating through his too trifng garments,
listening to the yowling cats and the OCCASION
al shouts from the picket line below, and
thinging of the old Jews yho used to pray
from their house tops, and wondering if Mus
scmcn were ever shot at or bothcrc with
cats and policemen when they practiced their
evening dcyotions on their roofs. Aud then
he wondered how it would do to take off his
night shirt and wave it over the edge as
flag of truce ! lie concluded not to, because
of the danger Of bullet from some misguid-
ed policeman not familiar with the rules of
war. When daylight came, the ncighbors
rallied in crowd, armed with all kinds of wcap.
ons from howitzers down. and mounted to the
roof. Oliver was taken down and put to bed
and he now has more influenza for man
OF his size than any other citizen of the Four
tecnth ward. lie says he is going to move
into house that is next door to nobody, a
house that stands in the middle of q prairie
OF some kind, and he intends to stencil his
name in white on the trap.door. IhRudel.
phtn Dispatch.
a DEMOCRATIC BANoUEr-LETTER FROM
CHARLES FRANCIS ADAMs.-Pi Pittsburg, Jan
9.-Thc annual Banquet of the Young Mems
jackson Association of this city to night, was
a brilliant affair. Among the letters read
was one from Charles Francis Adams, in
which, after regretting his absence, he saws ::