Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1871-07-28
wALHALLA, SOUTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY, JULY 2s 1871.

than he had for his country, and the cause
OF liberty and justice, he determined to keep
out ct the army, and taking to the mountains,
he dug this cave in the most secluded posi-.
ton, he could find. The opening is about
; two Vet III diameter to enter which one must
crees on all tours. After crawling In this
ma'.1 - Spaie dIstnnce, the cave Increases in
sizeI and ends IN chamber large enough for
'nsn to sit up or lie down in comfort. 10
prevent outsiders from penetrating to his hi
ding place, he dug dry well or sllaft sever
al teet from the entrance into which any in
truder would fall not seeing it in the dark
Hc Kept plank for his own use, upon which
ne would cross this hole safely, and then draw
1t after him A man of such stragetica
genius would have made his mark as a sol
dler These hills and mountains were full of
desertcrs and shirkers during the war, who
committed deprcdatous upon the property Of
unprotected people in the vicinity, and even
after the war they continued their bush
whacking operations. They are now all gone
and quiet rcigns again. G. Il. c.
TIE VALUE OF EDUcAr1oN.-If there
were no other cause to prevent rapid immi
grafton southward, the lack of educational
|
understands the money value; the material
growth and prosperity, and the national
strength involved in thorough education, and
poor man, when he lands in New York will
select a location where education is GER
tuinty, rather than one where it is contingent.
The spirit displayed by other States is in
marked contrast with that exhibited here
In Winnsboro', for example, the town has
long been without decent school building
for boys. Owing to pocuniary straitness, due
i'll part to this cause, one trained teacher has
left the place, who could have been retained.
AS TO erecting "a school house for the girls,
the blank look of astonshmcnt at the utter
lunacy of even proposing the thing, which
meots one upon expressing a wish for one,
would be an amusing farce, were it not a sc,
rlous calamity. In Iowa City, on the contra.
ry, besides the general State taxes for educa.
tlon and other purposes, the citizens assemble
aud >cheerfuly vote all enormous tax Of two
per si'nt. for erecting High School building,
costing over seventy five thousaD' dollars,
cheerfully pay it, and have the building up
and the school in operation in year. What
contrast And do we seriously expect to
| keep up with the Western States in the race
OF civilization, and yet continue as incapable
OF combination for social purposes as we have
hitherto been? No If we cannot learn to
combine to developc our various resources,
we will continue mere provincials for a centu.
ry.- Wnnsboro' Nems.
| OF THE ANTEDILUvIANs.--1t must have
teen pleasant thing to be an Antediuvian,
one of the men who lived five hundred and
sixty and two years, and bcgot som mebody.
Antcdiluvian life had its advantages With
life of nine hundred aud sixty nine years
before him, man could accomplish much
He could by personal observation settle the
oft disputed assertion that the pole. cat lives
for two hundrsd years-he could, if Burns
or Shakespeare celebrate his own oentena-
ry-he could be his own oldest nhabitant,
and could gaze far along the vista of nine
hundred years of early green peas and spring
chickens. When time was mctcd by years,
and, instead Of eight day clocks, they had
eighty year chrononlctcrs, man could enjoy
the luxury of lying in bed till September, or
OF going on three years drunk. When
bidding farewell to his family, he might say
II am just going over to Nlethusalah's for
twenty years--don't wait lunch" And the
hoary grandsirc of ten centuries might per-
nit his todding grandson to go out to play
until 1886, but he must return then, and not
seep his parents sitting up for him. Life
insurance would be cheap and the rate of in
tercst, when men gave notes for four hundred
years, renewable for three hundred more,
must have been accommodatngly low.-Ec
| change.
MEMPHIS, July ia storm occurred
last night which surpassed anything here in
years Telegraph poles were Frustrated,
trees uprooted and vast damage done to the
crop. The night express train on the Mem.
phis and Charleston Railroad, hence for
Chattanooga, when near Grand junction, ran
through q treste washed away by the food
The engineer was killed, and IL or Is pas.
scngcrs wounded.
MEMPHIS, July 20-Thc rain has washed
away the treste of the Memphis and Cherries
ton railroad, mile east of Grand junction.
The eastward bound train, engine, tender,
baggage aud two PASSENGER cars went into the
ditch Killed George Gibbs, the engineer,
Montgomery, tho fireman, andscveral passen
gers were hurt
ANOTHER ROAD FOR CoLUMBIA.-Wo
learn, says tho Phenio, that the Wilmington
and Columbia railroad have determined to
extend their road to Augusta. Mr.. Geo. w.
Earle, an experienced engineer, will begin o
survey of the new route at an early day
Colonel r. r Bridges, tho President of the
Wilmington and Manchester railroad, Major