Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1879-05-22


1t until a few days ago. then had ocoa.
sion to move my goods to another house,
while remained Oh for few days longer.
Among other things moved were two boxes
OF geraniums and calceolarias, which stood
10 my windows, being always open to full
extent, top and bottom. The boxes were
not gone half an hour before nv room was
as full of flies as those around me. This,
to me, is new discovery, and perhaps it
may serve to encourage others in that way
which Is always a source of pleasure, namely
window gardening. Mignouette planted
in long, shallow boxes, placed on the win
dow sill, will be found excellent for this
purpose.
!, A J1TY OF CAvEs.-Away out on tho
Texas frontier, and in the Eastern margin
Of that vast desert expanse, tho Llano Els.
taoado, sixty miles North Of tho little town
OF Graham, there settled about year ago
colony from Oregon consisting of nine
families. The locality was distance from
market and lumber scarcely to be had.
The settlers, therefore, as tho cold northers
OF winter were approaching, determined to
build habitations underground. They
selected hill, in whose sides they exca-
vated rooms, halls, Kitchens and sleeping
apattmcnts, not unlike the ancient dweilers
In the. rocks Of Judea. A chimney was
formed by running stove pipe up through
the hill to the surface The dwellings, are
perfectly dry and warm in the ooldest and
most freezing norther. This little CITY of
caves has been named Oregon City, and
will be the capital Of Baylor County.
GEoRaIA's WoNDER.-There is won.
derful freak Of nature about six miles
northwest Of Gainesville, Georgia, which is
commonly known as the DEVILS Mill Hop.
pet. This curiosity is large sink in the
earth, covering an area of perhaps four
acres around the top, which gradually
becomes smaller as you descend being one
hundred and fifty feet below the earth's
surface. Having effected tho descent of
the steep walls Of rock, a body Of water is
approached which is perhaps FIVE hundred
feet To circumfefenoe, probably less 10 dry
weather. Into this sheet of water is a
continual fow Of seI or twelvs good sized
streams, from the oreviees of the rock wall
surrounding. Around this wall is large
growth of the various kinds of trees grown
In Florida-oak, ash, hickory, bay, and
also thick underground Of ferns and
mosses.
In tho time Of Julius Cesar, Lake Fuoino.
situated in the Appennines, about fifty miles
Southeast of Rome, some 2,2O0 feet above
the level of tho sea, was a source Of great
annoyance. 1t received the rainfall of a
large District, and was constantly varying in
the tillers Of the neighboring soil and pro.
noting. disease. julius Cesar therefore
planned the drainage of the lako by q subter
ranean tunnel, but was killed before this
could pc done. In the intervening centuries
s'nce his death, various apeculators have
proposed to complete the woak, which at
instance of the great banker, Torlonia. at a
cost of $lO,OO0,O0O. The work has taken
twenty'four years, and 35 900 acres of excol-
lent arabic land have been redeemed, on
which the farmer can expend his labor withr
ont fear of ihundation. AS an enaineerine
teat this ranks very high.
The spread of Nihilism is partly accounted
for BY the Saturday ReUte,b on the ground
that thsrs ID On Unborn Wertherism in Rus
siahs. The war, it remarks, may have deep-
ened the feeling, for it is the kind of feeling
which is easily deepened in troubled times.
but its existence is in no way explained by
the war. Whore this sort of melancholy
exists there is disposition to brood over
wrongs, but to bo Indifferent to remedies.
The Nihilists have no Russia that they wish
to substitute for the Russia that exists. Tl,ev
merely hate those who work the machinery
of existing Russia. and are ready to lay down
their lives if only they may previously have tho
satisfaction of killing some one who conducts
or represents the system they detest. No
political body could be less fit or less in.
clined than these Nihilists to rear up tho
fabric of constitutional government. They
are not Of the people nor for the pcoplo.
They are not even for themselves. Thoy can,
not properly be said to have causo. ffthev
can but repay on their tyrants sotno of tho
misery thoy undergo or fear, they are salts.
10 the high.toned people who are almost
ready to despair of good government ns the
proddct OF universal suffrage we commend
The words Of Edmund Burke: .iTho people
may bo deceived in the choice Of an Object
but can scarcely conceive any choice thov
can mako which would be 90 rhischevous as
tho existence Of human force capable of rea
sisting it," We can think Of nothing moro
absurd than tho fear, of which 40 sometimes
hear the expression, that the people will have
their own way. Of coarse, they are liable
to mako mistakes in defiance of wise oounsels,
but their power to do as they please is tho
ono condition of political freedom, and those
who, regret that they have that power, or
would eeeh to limit it. arc as retrogressivo In
their ideae as any despot who. in the great
struggle for human liborty, has resisted the
tide of progress.
The Goverfor Of Tennessee has issued a
proclamation for al Sleotioh, August Z, to
i. n y 4.