Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1877-07-26
to God for his deliveranoo, found himself
oneo moro among his friends. sai
Jim Myers.

Jim Myers.
From 1880 to about ,lS48 there used to
trade 10 stock to South Carolina Kcntuok.
ian named James Myers, commonly, aud
by himself, called Jim Myers. During the
first years Of his trading he made Abbevillo
one of his points. Ho WAS Jolly and rol
licking follow, and besides those looking ID
his coming for a fino horso or a pair of thou,
his arrival was hailed With Joy BY tho boys
for he was !sone of them although ip his
last visits. ho had reached over his fifty
birthdays by several. He was full Of jokes
and stories, telling them well aud without,
at all times, special regard to truth; SO that
ho secured the title Of lying jim Myers
He used to tell Of his FIRST introduction in
South Carolina and avowed his readiness to
swear to the truth of the statements. His
frst visit was In 1880, during tho height
and excitement of notification. Ho was at
homo Henry Clay Whig, but in South
Carolina and abroad ho was like St. Paul
'all things to all mem to advance his cause
ito wit, selling fno stock.) He supposed
from his reading that South Carolinians wore
all Nullifiers and he came down to be for
season one of them. He CROSSED over the
Saluda Gap md his first stoppagc was ut
Hodges, where he found crowd, and rails,
ing his hat he sang out, 'burra for Nullif.
oation,' aud the first ho knew huge fellow
bawled shoorray for Ben Perry and the
Union,' and struok him. He got out By
explaining from a severe thrashiug. He
concluded he had got tho wrong ond of the
story, and prepared to correct himsolf OF
once. Going down into Laurcns he camo
Il,
where ho found a crowd assembled, and
alightipg, and walking in to wet he
shouted, raising his hat: 'hurra for Henry
Clay and tho, Union which brought in
front of him ainty little fellow muttering
between his teeth, 'whee ray for jim Yarby
and notification and dang your buttons,'
and gave hin dig under tho short ribs.
Quite astonislied again he asked leave to
mako an explanatioh" which was that he
was Nullifer,' all over and which he con-
| frmcd by treat to all such. Aftor these
two lessons ho mover developed his political
status until he had soundcd tho locality
| and then he foil in with the majority,
looking well always to his personal snfety.
Myors dealt only in the finest stock and his
customers we're the aristooracy who always
had opinions. Ho always had fine PAGERS
and trottors, and to introduce them he was
neitlior averso nor afraid to stake littlo on
them. About 1S43 he brought with others
pscer for which he asked $500, (and |
think sold him for that to JohnppGumpbell
Martin) aad challenged with him, for q
pace for any distance or amount. any horse
in Abbeville. The challenge was accepted
for fifty yards by two nahohs and patrons of
Col fnr
was Eli Jonkins Davis, prince of that
realm, with tho privilege of substituting a
paoor with two legs and two arms, hugo
fellow with bare feet and copporas breechos,
named George Washington Scoggins,
present. Tho gallant Kentuckian didn't
want safer bet The stake was s25 on
caoh side and would have becn any higher
amount the Trickcmites could havo borrowed.
They piled all they had or could get. The
ground was measured in tho fiat on tho
Anderson road just above Judge Wardaw's.
At the signal Scoggins struok on his hands
| form leap ten feet in front, throw out his
legs (frog fashion)and gavo a squall from
which Myers charger, ridden by himself,
ran back, and before spurs could bring him
again to tho starting point the stakes were
won by the man-pacer passing out. Tho
Kentuckian throw UP his hat declaring he
had mover won face that affofdcd him half
the satisfaction as losing that, and iaskod
leave to add to It gallon of peach brandy
Ho said Abbesille was renowned for her
Calhoun and other great mon, and now ho
could add bis personal testimony to its JUS
tiee and and truth. It was said by him
that he hired SooggiDs, and took him to
Edgefeld and won back with him double
his loss in Abbeville. -Hi 80 2,V
SLEEp-Dr. w. A. Hammond says of
sleep that it may be defined as general
reposo. Almost all the organs rest during
sleep. The hoars, popularity supposed to be
in perpetual motion, is at rect nix hours out
Of tho twenty four, tho respiratory eight,
and tho other organs moro or less., The
brain alono is constantly employed during
wakefulness, and for it sleep was formed and
made ncedful to it's preservation. It Is true
that sleep does not give the brain total
recess from labor; imagination and memory
are often vividly active during sleop, and
unconscious cerebration likewise takes
plaoo, but enough rest is obtained for the
renovation of tho brain, and that which has
been torn down during wakefulncss is to 6
certain extent rebuilt. Sleep is a most
wonderful power--ofteu stronger than ] 10
viii, as is in tho oaso of tho, sleeping soldier
and moro mighty than pain, as whom sick
persons and tortured prisoners sleep in tho
midso of their suffering. No torture, tits
said, has been found equal to tho prevention
Of sleep. Tho amount of sleep differs ac.-
cordiug to tho constitution and habits,
Big brains and persons who perform much