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17. WINN. WM, E. SIMMONS.
IviNN & SIMMONS.
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
Hrencevillk, Georgia.
■ractice in Gwinnett anil the adjoining
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Han L. HUTCHINS, GARNETT MMSLLAS,
Hrrenceville, Ga. Clarksville, Ga.
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B ATTORNEYS AT LAW.
Hffice* at Lawrenceville and Clarksville.
Hractice in the counties of the Western
Huit. and in Milton and Forsyth of the
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■LEU M. PEEPLES,
I ATTORNEY AT LAW,
■esXCEVILLE, GA.
■wlices isl the enmities of Gwinnett,
■.Jackson and .Milton.
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■henckvill,, GA
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■■-WRENCEVILLE, GA.,
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■AWRKHcEYILLE, GA.
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T. M. PEEPLES, PROPRIETOR ]
Vol. 11.
Our Wee White Rose.
BY GERALD MASSEY.
All in our marriage garden
Grew smiling up to God,
A bonnier flower than ever,
Sucked tbe green warmth of the sod,
Oh, beautifully, uofathornably,
Its little life unfurled ;
Life crown of sweetness was our wee
White Rose of all the world.
From out a gracious bosom
Our bud of beauty grew j
It fed on smiles for sunshine,
Aud tears for daintier dew;
Aye, nestling warm aud tenderly,
Our leaves of love were curled
So close, and close, about our wee
White Rose of all tbe world.
With mystical, faint fragrance,
Our house of life she tilled—
Revealed each hour some fairy tower,
Where winged hopes might build,
We saw—though none like us might see—
Upon the petals of our wee
White Rose of all the world.
But evermore the halo
Of angel light increased;
Like the mystery of moonlight
That holds some fairy feast,
Snow-white, snow-soft, snow silently,
Our darling bud up-curled,
And dropped in the grave—God’s lap—
our wee
White Rose of all the world.
Our Rose was but in blossom,
Our life was but in spring,
When down the solemn midnight
Wc heard the spirits sing :
“Another bud of infancy,
With holy dews impearled
And in their hands they bore our wee
White Rose of all the world
•
You scarce could thiuk so small a thing
Could leave a loss so large ;
Her little light such shadow fling
From dawn to sunset’s marge,
In other springs our life may be
In bannered bloom unfurled,
But never, never match our wee
White Rose of all the world.
From the Louisville Ledger.
A Mother Surrenders Her Son
to Justice.
Three years ago W. F. Hewitt
was sentenced to live years’ im
prisonment in the Tennessee Peni
tentiary for robbing W. J. Weak
ley’s store in Edgefield of a large
amount of goods, llis health was
bad and he was put at light work
in the shoe shop of the prison.—
After serving two years and four
months he and another convict
named Smith succeeded in scaling
the walls at night and making
their escape. They both came to
Louisville, where Smith was re
captured. Hewitt subsequently
committed a theft in this city, and
was sent to the Kentucky Peni
tentiary. He was discharged a
short time ago. Helpless from a
complication of disease, without
friends or money, and convinced
that he would be hunted up and
taken back to Tennessee to serve
out his time there, he chose the
desperate alternative of surren
dering himself. His mother, who
resides in Edgefield, was startled
last Monday night by his entering
the house and announcing that he
wag ready to go back to prison if
the authorities so decided. He
presented a most distressing spec
tacle, and his mother determined
upon an effort to secure his par
don.
She sent a friend to Gov. Brown
on Tuesday, with an earnest ap
peal in behalf of her son, but the
case was one into which consider
ations of executive clemency could
not possibly extend. As Hewitt
was an escaped convict, pardon
was of course out of the ques
tion, and so Gov. Brown intimated
kindly, but firmly. The mother
had a high sense of her duty in
the matter, and requested that an
officer of the law be sent after her
son, pledgiug that the State should
be put to no expense on his ac
count, aud that he should be de
livered at the prison on Wednes
day. She has kept her word
Wednesday morning she called at
the capitol in a carriage, the sou
sitting by her side. After a last
appeal to the Governor—which
could be answered only as before—
she drove, broken-hearted to the
Nashville penitentiary and deliv
ered the prisoner to Warden Chum
bley.
The episode is one of the most
singular in our criminal annals,
Never before, we believe, did a
mother make such a sacrifice, or
make it more noblj\ But who in
this uncharitable world, will give
her credit for the grand moral he
roisra that moved her thus to de
liver her son to the tender mer
cies of a penitentiary, in order
that he might expiate a crime he
had committed against his couutryi
Lawrenceville, G-a., Wednesday, May 8, 1872.
Tlie Talaquali Slaughter.
Little Rock, Ark., Apr. 20, 1872.
The Fort Smith New Era of the
17 th instant contains the following
startling news from the Indian
country :
The following startling letter
was received on Tuesday morning
at the United States Marshall’s
office by Captain James W. Don
nelly, Chief Clerk:
Whitmores, of Barren Fork, \
Cherokee Nation. (
J. W. Donnelly:
Dear Sir —We have had a terri
ble fight. Lost seven on our side
killed. Three of theirs arc killed.
There are lots of wounded. We
are in a devil of a strait; scud 11s
men and means instantly. We
are with the dead and wounded,
and expect to stay with them until
the last one of us goes. Owens
is wounded. For God’s sake send
help, and send quickly. Come to
Duchtewn and then down to Bar
ren Fork to Whitmores. Ward is
killed. Vanney and Laie alone
with Owens. None of the rest
are here with us. We look for
help to-morrow night by dark, and
are looking to be attacked every
moment. The parties are close
together. Some of the Cherokees
are w’ith 11s. Yours in haste,
J. S. Peavv.
111 order that the circumstances
causing the terrible fight above
alluded to may be more fully un
derstood, we will state the follow
ing horrible details :
On the lltli instant a whiteman
named J. J. Kesterson, living in
the Cherokee Nation, near the Ar
kansas line, about fifty miles from
this city, came here and filed infor
mation before United States Com
missioner Churchill against one
Proctor, also a white man, married
to a Cherokee woman, for assault
ing him, with intent to kill. He
stated that while in his saw mill
on the 13th of February last Proc
tor came in, walked up without
provocation and shot his wife
dead. lie then tired his revolver
at him, the ball striking just above
the left eye. Before lie could fire
again Kesterson escaped. It is
further stated that Proctor is un
dergoing trial now for the murder
of his wife at the Court House in
the Snake district, about fifty-sev
en miles northwest of here. A
writ was issued and the Deputy
Marshals were instructed to go to
the Court House aud remain until
the trial was over, and if he was
not convicted to arrest bi n 011 the
other charge. Proctor is known
to be a desperado, and it being in
the neighborhood where Deputy
Marshal Beutz was billed a little
over a month ago—where, in fact,
a Deputy Marshall is shot at al
most on sight—it was necessary
that a strong posse be sent. The
party also had writs for the mur
derers of the United States Depu
ty Marshal Beutz, who are suppos
ed to be in the immediate vicinity.
aud they intended to resist arrest.
Lust Saturday morning, the 13th
instant, Deputy Marshal Jacob G.
Jacobs and six others left for the
scene. The Indian Court House
is about twelve miles west of that
place. The party proceeded, and
about 3 p. in. on Monday they
were within fifty yards of the
Court House. They dismounted
and hitched their horses and qui
etly walked to the east side of the
house in file by twos.
They stopped at the corner, and
Beck stepped around to the front
door and looked in. Seeing a
large number of people inside
armed to the teeth, he turned im
mediately to come away, but not
before he was fired upon and dan
gerously wounded. At the same
time a volley was poured from the
Court House upon the Marshal’s
force without, who then commenc
ed to return the fire. They were
at great disadvantage, as the at
tacking party was under shelter
inside the Court House.
It appears Beck had some
friends inside the Court House,
who, when they saw him fall,
opened fire on his (Beck’s) enemies
inside, and presently the fighting
was general. It was brief, how
evei, but terrible in its result. Of
the Marshal’s force seven out of
eleven lay dead, and of the assail
auts, three. Some sixteen or sev
enteen are reported wounded, some
mortally,including Marshal Owens.
Morris helped to lay out nine
bodies on a porch, about half a
mile from the scene of the deadly
affray, and thither the Federal
wounded were also carried.
Proctor, the woman killer and
desperado,w as guaidcd by eleven
“COMING EVENTS CAST THEIR SHADOWS BEFORE! ”
of bis personal friends, who would
not see him convicted.
The Sheriff was killed and the
Judge received nine buckshot in
the knee. Indeed, it seems from
the sudden and deadly assault
upon the Marshal’s force, that the
people inside the Court House had
been fully informed of their ap
proach and were prepared for
them. The officials had instruc
tions to make a demand for Proc
tor only in case of his acquittal,
and expected some resistance
should they attempt to arrest
Proctor aftei his acquittal, but
for the murderous volley on their
first approach they were not pre
pared, lienee their slaughter.
Immediately upon receipt of
Deputy Marshal Peavy’s letter, U.
C. Kerens, Chief Deputy Marshal,
raised and mounted thirty men,
under command of City Marshal,
C. F. Robinson, and Joe Tinker,
Deputy. A demand has been made
upon the authorities of the Chero
kee Nation to assist in taking the
murderers dead or alive.
This is one of the most terrible
affairs ever known in (he Indian
country, originating in distrust
and jealousy with which the more
intelligent portion of the inhabi
tonts of the Indian Territory are
misled by the bad white men.—
What protection can be had may
be surmised from the fact that
Proctor has committed eighteen
murders and is still unhung. It is
the stern determination of tho
United States Marshal in this dis
trict to bring to justice the mur
derous and rebellious crew in the
Nation at any sacrifice or expense.
Glutting the Professions.
We fear that our young men are
glutting the professions. Better
that more of them go to trades
and farming. Horace Greeley was
elected an honorary member of
one of the societies of the law
school at Lebanon, Tennesse. He
replied in the following brief let
ter, that contains a world of solid
applicable sense on this subject:
New York, March 26, 1872.
Dear Sir—l have yours of the
2nd instant, and gratefully accept
the lienor of which it noliges me.
And now permit me to make an
ungracious return for your kind
ness. I am impelled to protest
against the devotion of so many
young men—many ot them our
ablest and brightest— to the pro
fession of law. I have no vulgar
prejudices against that pursuit—l
know that many have nobly serv
ed God and man in that calling—l
protest only because 1 see that
profession overcrowded while oth
ers arc unfilled "or neglected. Y'our
State needs this day ten thousand
educated and capable young men
to teach her where to look for
mines and how to open and work
them; how to belt her soil with
additional railroads, laid with steel
wrought from her own vast wealth
of iron ore; how to multiply her
furnaces, factories, machine-shops,
implement manufactories, etc, etc.
Yet she leaves these needs uusup
plied, while she grinds out grist
after grist of snpurfiuous lawyers
and doctors. You will not heed
my protest; still I ask you to re
cord it, for the wiser and more do
cile generations which I trust are
to succeed you.
Believe me yours,
Horace Greeley.
Harry Lee Gosling,
Law School, Lebanon, Tenn.
An Impossiuility.-You may worm
a fence around a winter’s supply of
summer weather, skim the clouds
from the sky with a teaspoon, catch
a thunderbolt in a bladder, break a
hurricane to harness, lasso an ava
lanch, pin a diaper on the crater of
an active volcano, hive all the stars
in a nail keg, hang the ocean on a
rati fence to dry, put the sky to soak
in a gourd, unbuckle tire belly band
of eternity, and paste “To let” on
the sun and moon ; but never for
one moment delude yourself with the
idea that you can escape that place
on the other side of purgatory and
get to heaven unless you pay the
printer promptly.
No Rose Without a Thorn.
I asked for a kiss, but you deemed i)
amiss
To be touched by a beard so thorny ?
And curtseying low, said, ‘ I’d have you,
sir, know,
A scratch would in no wise adorn tnu."
I grut t it—’t is true; but, appealing to
you,
I would fain ask you whether
(Siuce the roses art* thiue, and the sharp
thorns rail c)
Both ought not to flourish together ?
Welcome, Little Stranger.
Mozzrcr bought a baby,
’lttle Wtsey sing j*
Sink I inos could put him
Frow in'’ rubber ring,
An’t lie awful ugly ?
. An’t he awful pink ?
* J tt come down from heaven,”
That’s a fib, 1 sink
Doctor told anozzer,
Great big awful lie ;
Nose an't out of joint zen,
Tat an't why I cry,
Mamma stays up bedroom—
Guess he makes her sick ;
Frow him in ze gutter,
If I can, right quick.
JT
Cuddle him mid Jove him 1
Call him "Blissed sing? - ’
Don't cure if my kite an't
Got a bit of string !
Send me off with Biddy
Every single day,
“Be a good boy Chat ley ;
Run away and play."
"Sink T ought to love him !"
No, I won’t; so zere!
Nassy, crying baby,
Not got any hair,
Got all my nice kisses,
Got my place in bed ;
Mean to take my diuni stick.
And ci. ck him on (lie head.
An Old Man’s Romance.
John Tyler—lnteresting Reminiscen
ces By Henry A. Wise—An Old
Man's Love Match that Turned
Out lloppy.
It is generally held that there is
very little of the romantic element
in the American Presidency, and
not without reason, for men enter
the Presidential office so late iu
life that they have become as
matter-of-fact as soap-suds or sal
eratus; but ex Governor Wise, of
Virginia, in his recently published
and very clever volume, “Seven
Decades of the Union”—which
well deserves reading—gives an
at count of President Tyler’s second
marriage that is very entertaining.
Mr. Tyler became a widower wh le
lie was President, losing* a wife
who was a very noble woman, a
member of the well known family
of Christians, in the Old Domin
ion. He was a domestic man, and
a pure man, and a second mar
riage is the most natural tiling in
the world when a man lias been
happy in a first marriage; but
then it is thought that a widower
should marry a lady of experience
not unlike liis own. Mr. Wise
says that he was in Mr. Tyler’s
coach, taking a drive with him, in
March, !844, when lie soon dis
covered that his friend would talk
only of love and ladies. “We had
always heard,” said Mr. Wise,
“that an old fool is the worst of
fools in love sickness,” aud lie
showed the usual signs of its
contortions into hideous shapes of
seeming. He got it out at last,
that he thought of marriage and
wanted to know our opinion on
the subject. “Well, of course,
you have sought out and found
out some honored dame of dignity,
who can bring grace to the White
House and ad l to your domestic
comfort ?” “Oh, no dame, but a j
sweet damsel.” “Who, pray, of
damsel degree, could or should an
old President win V” He told us ;
and we uttered our astonishment
by asking, ‘Have you really won
her?’ He replied, ‘Yes, and why
should 1 not ?’ We answered that j
lie was too far advanced in life to
be imprudent iu a love-scrape.—
How imprudent ?’ he asked. ‘Ea
sily; you are uot only past the
middle age’ (he was then about 1
fifty-four,) ‘but you are President
of the United States, aud that is a
dazzling dignity, which may charm
a beautiful damsel more than the
man she marries.’ ‘Pooh!’ he
cried, chuckling inetrily, ‘why, my
dear sir,l am just full in my prime !’
‘Ah, but lias Johu Y. Mason never
told you about au old friend of
bis, on the south side of the James,
rich and full or acres, calling his
African waiter, Toney, into coun
cil upon the tender topic of mar
rying a miss iu her teens ? Toney
shook his head and said, ‘Massa,
you think you can stand dat V
•Yes, Toney; why uot. She is so
sweet, so beautiful, that she would
make me rise from a bed ot illuess
and weakness to woo her for a
bride; but lam yet strong, and I
can now, as well as ever 1 could,
make her happyl’ ‘Yes; ‘but, 1
massa, said Toney, ‘you is now in
your prime, dat’s true; but when
she is in her prime, where den,
tnassa, will your prime be V He J
laughed heartily at Toney’s phi-.
losopliical observation, but after- 1
ward, in seriousness, said that lie ;
longed for a renewal of his domes- •
[*2 A YEAR, TN ADVANCE.
tic life, and had been fairly caught
by tho flame of Miss Gardiner.—
\Ve remonstrated that his life was
renewed in Ms children; that I.c
had daughters, lovely daughters,
full of grace, fit to do the honors
of the While House, and some of
them were flic elders of his inteii
ted. What if family dissent should
make domestic jars, and his latter
days be troubled ? He had, l.e
said, always been too tender to
the pledges of his past love for
them ever to withhold from him
their filial confidence, or (o deny
to him his parental authority to
judge and act for his own happi
ness ! We saw the game was up,
and then said : ‘We see you are
bent upon your last love, with or
without counsel, and you have
evei been too lucky for us now to
doubt or distrust your fate. You
are going to marry tiie damsel,
and we arc not foolish enough to
make two enemies by opposing
the passion of the wooer and the
won.’ ” The marriage took [dace
on the 20th of June, 1844, Prcsi.
dent Tyler being then in his fifty
fifth year, and the bride, Miss Julia
Gardiner, about twenty, and whom
we remember being much spoken
of as a beautiful girl, and a Wash
ington belle of those long-gone
days. She was a New York lady,
of good family, as the phrase is,
and descended, we have heard,
from old Lyon Gardiner, who
flourished in the colonial age, and
who gave his name to Gardiner's
Bay and Gardiner’s Island, on and
in Long Island Sound. The mar
riage proved a very happy one,
and Mrs. Tyler, who has survived
her husband more than ten years,
is not yet old. Mr. Tyler, some
years after the marriage, said to
Mr. Wise, when the latter noted
that his tried kept “u doul le-seat
cd four wheeled wicker carriage
for small children:” “Yes, you
see how right I was; it was no
vain boast when I told you I was
in my prime. I have a house-full
of goodly babies budding around
me, and if you will go up witli B ine
to Sherwood, I will show you how
bountifully and rapidly I have been
blessed. They are all so near in
age that they are like stair steps,
and the two youngest are so much
babies alike that each requires the
nurse’s coach, and we have to
have one with two seats!” So
that marriage turned out well,
despite the fact that the gentle
man was old enough to be the
lady’s grandfather, and wo arc
glad of it, for Mr. Tyler had so
much injustice done him as a pub
lie man that lie was entitled <o
compensation in his private life.
Let it Pass.
Be not swift to take offense;
I/it it pass!
Anger is a foe to sense;
* Let it pass !
I .et it pass !
Brood not darkly o’er a wrong,
Which will disappear ere loug;
Rather sing this cherry song—
Let it puss!
I Ait it puss!
If for good you’v taken ill,
Ixit it pass!
Oh! be kind and gentle still;
Let it pus-*!
Time at lust makes all tilings straight;
I Ait us not resent, but wait,
And our triumph shall be great;
I Ait it pass!
Let it [iuss!
Singular M anifestation ok Suite.
About forty years ago there resid
ed in the town of Jackson, Wash
ington county, a well-to do farmer
by the name of Ferguson. lie
I was industrious and frugal, but
, after a time became addicted to
the use of intoxicating drinks,
and when under the influence of
bis favorite beverage would be
lilieral to such au extent that he
would give away any property
which might be at his disposal at
the time. Fearing that he would
thus squander all his effects, a
commission was obtained aud the
property placed in the hands of
his sou. When the papers were
set red on the old man he remark
ed : “Y'ou have taken my property
from mp, have you, and are oblig
ed to support and fake care of me?
Well, then, take care of me.” ne
immediately took to his bed and
continued to remain there, day
and night, for twenty years. For
the first few years lie would get
up and share himself every Satur
day, aud then immediately take
his bed again, but for the last fif
teen years of his life he was wait
ed upou as an infant, notwithstan
ding he enjoyed good health aud
was iu the possession of all his
faculties, mental and physical.—
Schenectady Star.
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No. 8.
A Cli At’TFti on Whining.— T her
allttrs observed, says Josh Billings,
that a whining is sure to get
lickt in a fight. No cur of well
reggerlated morals kan resist the
temptation to bite a cowardly pttrp
that tries to sneak off with his tail
between his legs.
The wliinin bizness man is just
so. Avridge mankind don't put no
konfidena iu him.
Most people don’t like to trade
with him, because they are afraid
lie’ll burst up, or think ntebbe he's
already busted.
The more down a bizness man is
the more his kustomers will let him
stay there.
A good, ringin hark is wnth more
to put greenbax in a man's pocket
than forty two years of wliinin.
I oust knowed a postmastar to £et
turned out t>f offis and tried to whine
himself in again. Es anybody €ud
make that kind of beggin pay tie cud.
But he li as been wliinin eTer since,
and every time lie dttz nieiiny other
dogs tak • a nip at him.
A Detroit man who had contri
buted a bundle of cant off cloth
ing for the relief of the victim*
of the Minnesota fire, received•
from one ol the stifl'ciXTS the fol
lowing note: ‘‘The committee man
gave me, amongst other things,
wat he called a pare ov pants, and
'twould make me pant sum to
ware ’em. 1 fouTid your name an’
where you live on om* ov the
pockits. My wife luffed so when
I abode ’em to her that I lhot she
would have a eonipshun fit. She
wants to no if there lives and
brother* a man who has legs no
biggei than that. Shotted if there
was he otter to be taken up for
vagtinsy for havin’ no visible
mentis ov support. 1 couUh nl get
’em on my oldest l>oy, so I used
’em for gun cases. If you have
another pare to spare my wife
wood like to get ’em to hang up
by the side ov the fire-place to
keep the tongs in.”
Il a laddie meets a lassie walk
ing in Ihe street; if the lassie
wears a “tiller”—shows an ankle
neat; if the wind, rudely blowing,
liftH her skirts too high, and the
laddie sees that ankle, need lie shut
his eye? Every lassie wears a
“tiller” and a “hinderpest,” and a
metal “pnlpitator” on her snowy
brea-t. If, when married to the
laddie, those false charms he spy;
il he says, “I’m sold by jingo!”
need a lassie cry ?
A German peddler sold a man a
liquid for the extermination of
bugs. “And how do you use it ?”
inquired the man after lie bought
if. “Ketch te bug tint drop von
little drop into his nioiit,’’answered
the peddler. “The deuce yon say!”
exclaimed the purchaser ; “I could
kill itin half the time by stamping
on it ” “Veil,” calmly exclaimed
tlie German, “dat isli a good way,
too, to kill him.”
North Carolina boasts a citizen
who was born in IB!i—married
111 1826—fought through the Mex
ican war- served four years under
Gen. Lee in the late Confederate
struggle, and is now the father of
a daughter six months oIJ.
‘ How do you learn that grace
ful attitude,” said a gentleman to a
fellow leaning in a maudlin atti
tude against a post. “I have
been practicing at the glass,” w as
the reply.
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A brick fell from a scaffold on
the head of a passing negro.—
“Fling dent ere gouber shells an
oder way up dere, won’t yer ?”
was the darkey’s advice us lie
scratched his wool.
A little girl in Ithaca, just be
fore she died, exclaimed, “Papa,
take hold of my huud and kelp me
across.” Her fat Iter hud died two
months before. Did she see him ?
■
Faith may rise into miracles of
might, as some few wise men have
shown ; faith may sink into cred
ulities of weakness, as tho mass
of fools have witnessed.
\Vl7a7 is the difference between
editorial and matrimonial experi
ence? Iu the farmer the devil
cries for‘copy.’ In the latter the
‘copy’ cries like the devil.
A man in Cincinnati is organiz
ing a brass band of twenty wo
-11101., He saya if they learn only
half as many “airs" as they put on,
it will be a success. **
An up-towu school committee
summed up tho result of au exumiu
stloD by declaring to the scholars;
“You spell’d good au’ cipher’d fust
rate, but you hain’t sot still V*