Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1879-09-25

"Landlady," said llo, "tio coffeo is not
settlod." "No." sho replied, "but it comos
as near It rs your last months board bill
does" That man never spoke again during
the meal.
A young man has been courtng ono girl
Avo years, and every time no has called
during tho past six months sho has fed him
on pop corn. But ho doesn't take the hint
and pop.
"We wish" says Texas newspaper, "that
few Of our citisons could be permitted to
1.-Two till they died q natural death, SO as to
chow tho world what magnificently healthy
country Texas really is."
The copper mino in Asho County, N. o.,
employs from twelve to thirteen hundred
hands at about $1,000 per day, and yields
about one hundred tons of copper daily which
is shipped to New York and sold Mt IL cents
por pound. Ett@
Lucy Warren, colored, of Wayne County, N.
G., has given birth to five children iDthc last
fiitccn monthsnn average of one for every
threo months. First, she Ind twins, and lass
week sbe had triplets. Hr
With all the peaches that hayo been
thrown on tho Baltimore market in tho prst
forty days. it is stated that packers bavo not
canned enough to meet tho demnnd upon
them, one house reported being now 100000
cans short Of filling orders on hand.
The trial of McNinch for killing K1goro in
Laurens County, was begun last Tuesday.
Two days were consumed in getting jury.
The news from Larrens yesterday is that
McNich has been convicted Of manslnughter.
There is said to be great deal of dissatisfno-
ton about the NATTER Grcenviltc Nc,os, 24h.
The Pokin Gazette, published at tho capital
of the Chinese Empire and official organ Of
the Government, is said to be tho oldest ncwst
paper in tho world. The timo when it was
first printed and issued being known to have
long antedatcd the first attempt of tho kind
in Europe.
RELIEvED.-The three hundred thousand
dollars which it was proposed by the book
committo last fall to raise for the relief Of tho
Southern Methodist publishing house at
Nashville have been subscribed, and tho
treasurer, tho Rev. DR.. j. B. McFcrrn, calls
for payments to DO made rs rapidly rs poss~
BILE.
A MODEL. SANrsoN.-A colored man named
Brown Aiken, from Charleston, has lately
been giving exhibitions of his marvellous
strength. Yesterday he lifted seven hundred
pounds Of iron, and later in tho day, on q
small wager, shouldered q four hundred
pound bag of cotton and throw it on n wagon.
This modern Simpson is nun of powerful
boild, but only Of ordinary size.
Palmetto Iconan, 20k.
Ala, until last year, possessed tho finest head
of natural black hair in the State. In .he
summer Of 1878 she cut off her locks, donat-
ing them for the yellow fever sufferers. She
was soon enabled to send several hundred
dollars to Memphis. few days ago the hair
was returned to the original owner by tho
Kindness of Boston merchant, aud is about
to be rallied for in Mon ,;omcry for tho benefit
OF Gen. Hoods children.
JUDGE PREssLY-The associate Reformed
Presbyterian, Of Duo West, thus refers to
Judge PRESLEY: "Tho Judge is Presley
out and out; except that he is Baptist. lie
joined tho Associate Reformed Church in
early life at Cannon Creek, Ncwbcrry, S. c.,
then under tho pasto,atc of Rev. Samuel p.
Presley, but aiterward somehow got into tho
Baptist Church. The Judge is genial
gentleman, and ho is making n very fine
impression in the Courts as q Judge. He
stands among tho first in the State. The
State honors hcrselfin honoring such men,"
Beware Of cards. Many young man has
fallen into the hands Of knayc and como within
mn ncc Of poinp 10 tho t1ucc