Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1879-04-03

SUGGESTIONS FOR HEALTH. Never sit
with the back to window or door, even if
closed, for the air coming 10 at the crack
and crevice, will certainly give.a cold.
it is not healthy in any country, ut any
season of the year, or OF any time of life,
to get up early, Labitually; the old arc
better rested BY lying late; oven if not
asleep, while the young requires all tho
sleep they can get. 10 all attitudes, In
warm weather, tho morning air, although
feeling cool and fresh, is laden with
the pestiferous miasma. n swinter the
atmosphere before breakfast is so cold and
chilly aud searching, that it fairly shrivels
up man and beast, chilling to tho very
marrow-bone sometimes, henoo tho average
duration of buman life would be increased,
and tho amount of sickness largely dimiu-
ished, by late, rather than early rising, as
all the older nations full we'll know and
practice.
In going out into the colder air, keep
tho mouth resolutely closed, and walk briskly
for few moments, thus preventing chilli
ness, which is always the precursor Of a
cold.
Tho portion of the body which most
needs protection against cold and wind, is
between tho shoulder blades behind, as it
is OF this point tho lungs arc attached to
the body, and the lungs very easily become
chilled.
To spend two or three momonts, on ris-
ing aud retiring, in rapid friction of tho
whole surface of the body with tho hand,
is more rational treatment of tho skin,
and moro health promoting operation
for most persons, than daily cold water
bath.
A good cleansing of the entire body
with soap and warm water once week, is
all the bathing the human system requires
for purposes of health, in ordinary circum-
stances.
No rational mind can fail to SEQ that it
is wisdom, and duty to guard against
the causes and watch viglantly against tho
indications Of snch disease as dyspepsia,
which often Influences the mind as to sub.
vert the whole character, making wreck
Of happiness, heart and life together.
Mr. ". Il. Wheclcss, President of the
Augusta, Knoxville and Greenwood Rail
road, returned from the North yesterday
morning. During his visit he saw several
prominent iron men, with whom be con-
versed in regard to the road and was satisfied
that when the proper time came there
would be no difficulty about getting the
iron. 1t will probably bo eight months
before the grading of tho South Carolina
portion of the road is finished, and there
will bo no necessity for iron until then.
The force at work on that part of the line
has bccn moved down to the river, and will
proceed from that point toward Dorn's
Mines, to meet the section already finished.
The grading has been done for twenty-six
miles from Greenwood this way, leaving
twenty miles yet to bo graded. The Au.
gusta end is very nearly finished.
LONDON, March &C. Correspondence of
tho Times, dated Armcnt, Upper Egypt,
February "a, gives hcart-rending nc
count of the condition of the population of
the Nile Valley. The scenes are described
s oEaSssmesa fa thaaa u qSda Aeg thha thh 5ssspd
arc past help, sitting naked, like wild
beasts, eating roots, and suffering with
the endurance of despair. Madness, worked
on by famine, stamps such brand on the
starving Fclahs as cannot be easily do.
scribcd. In ono town the women and chill
dren fought over scraps of bread like wild
animals. The case is believed to be still
worse in tho inland hamlets. where the
yillopers are c,."S, hmVi"S IN NINA in the
ing honr. Ssald to be starving like dogs.
An exchange says the Southern farmer cannot
prosper until he makes his provisions at home
Ind raises cotton IN incidental crop. Give
my family plenty Of bread and meat and it is
Cotton alone will not make him
comfortable, because he must sell at other peo--
,le's prices and buy his supplies the same way.
rhe only remedy is plenty Of provisions.