Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1881-08-04

with mud that it was stiff aud unyiclding as
go many square feet Of boiler iron. just
imagine follows walking, much leas
running, with a pieco Of boiler iron three
feet long, two feet wido and seven feet
thick, 30 suspended that it was bound 10
Interfere with both legs. 1t took between
forty two minutes and daylight to reach
Aqueduct Bridge with suoh drawback;
and when the bridge was reached, "Hallo!
hale there! Where arc you going with that
gun?" yelled an officer. Thunder and
lightning! We had really brought OF
our gun and equipments complete. Flo
put US on guard to prevent stragglers from
passing over to tho city. Thut mado us
feel good; VIC were not stragglor. Our
bare limb and boilcr-iron pantaloon leg
attestcd that fact. The sun was we'll up
when
A Mule MAN, CAME pAsmINa DOWN
tho hill from tho direction of Fort Cor
coran. The man was portly, rcd-faced,
red-headed ia bahdanna handkerchief in
place Of hat or cap,) and badly scared. lie
looked like an Englishman and sono said
It was Bull Run Russell. lie passed. All
day long the living tidc kept poorng in;
boys came to the post Of danger, we were
pleased to behold hundreds who had evil
| dcntly IL worse time than the u,un who badc
thcmhalt. 1t wasn't bit funny then,
however; but now, that it is all over, laugh
as much as you please. Nobody will care.
Celebrated Mon Of Bumble Ori-
gin.
John Adams WIS the son Of O farmer,
and Benjamin franklin was the sou Of u
tallow chandler. Pope, ono of the greatest
of Eugllsh poets, was the son of linen
| draper. Bloomfield wrote his best poem,
The Farmers Boy" while working iu the
garrct as IL shoemaker Clifford the first
editor Of the Quarterly Rcvie,o, began life
as sailor Toy, and uitcrward served az
| apprenticeship to n shoemaker Ben
johnson, the dramatic poet, worked for
some time as u bricklaycr. Shakespeare
vas the son Of u poor man, who could not
write his name. Burns was the sou of n
small farmer; Allan Cunningham, of u
Il gardcucr; llogg vas shepherd; Ebc~
nezer Elliot worked in an iron found.y .y
talconcr was sailor boy; Thomas Moore
tic son Of Q canal boatmat, and began life
as an crrand boy, und was ncXt an operative
in silk uiII; Dauie DeFoc, the author Of
"Robinscn Crusoc," began life as Losior
and was almost wholly self taught; Cotbcll
was in carly life q farmers boy and after
ward private soldier; Isaac Wal:oa, the
angler, was n linen draper; DR.. Isaac Mill
lcr, Dem Of Carlisle, and his brother Jo-
scph, author ola (" History of the Church, !"
Gcgau life us weaycrs; Dr.. John Prideaux,
Bishop Of Worcester, got his education 1t
Oxford by entering the university as a
kitchen boy; John Bunyau, author of the
"pilgrim's progrvss." was tinker aud
entirely self taught; James Amcs, the anti
quarry, was an iron snongor; Hugh Miller;
the gcoogist and journalist, was quarry
man; Camden, the great historian, Was the
son Of house paintei; Caxton, who was
the first to set up n printing press id Eug..
land, was upprcnticcd to weaver; the
dramatist Holcrott was groom; Sam
Pcpys was the son of tailor, Richard
son, the novelist, was the son Of joiner
Among the scientific mcu, Simpson, the
mathematician, was weaver; Captain
Cook was the son Of peasant, who at
seventy years of ngc learned to read that
he might pcrusn the narrative of his
sons voyages; Sir Richard Arkwright,
tho Inventor of the cotton spinning
machine, commenced life IS barber;
Brindlcy, the engineer, commenced life as
u mechanic; Sir William lIcrschcl, the
iIustrious astronomer, was musician in
the band of u regiment; Furaday, the
chemist and natural philosopher, was a
booktindcr; Ferguson, the astronomer, was
shepherd; John Hunter Tho celebrated
surgeon, and his brother William, tho emi~
ncnt physician, were tho sons of farmer;
Chantry, the scul ptor, was milk boy; aud
| FlaxmnE, another great sculptor, was the
son of Ii plaster cast maker; Sir Thomas
Lawrence, the painter, WAS the son Of an
innkeper; Opie, tho painter, worked in a
saw pit, and llogorth was apprenticed to q
working ongravor; Sir John Hawkins, the
famous admiral, began lifo as house
| builder.
Mr.. w. W. Grady, in Sundays Consti.
tuition tells US about the Clyde Syudicato
1t is composed of w. p. Clyde aud George
| w. Perkins, of New York, and the Stew.
arts of Richmond, Virginia. Back of all
though MIR. Grady does not say SO, is pop
uarly supposed to be tho Pennsylvania
Central. Hero is notable utterancc for
Mr.. Perkins: "Tho South is tho field that
offers tho widest spread opportunity ond
promises the best returns. Tho other sec"
tions of tho country have been ovcrrun all
ready and tho best chances taken. The