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T. M. PEEPLES, PROPRIETOR. ]
vol. 11.
PEOPLE WILL TALK.
You may get through the world, but
'twill be frery slow,
If tve listen to all that is said as Wc go;
We’ll be worried and fretted, and kept
in a stew,
For meddlesome tongues will have some
thing to do—
For people will talk.
If quiet and modest, yod’ll hate it pre
sumed
That your humble position is only as.-,
sumed;
You’re a sheep in wolf’s elothing, or else
you’re a tool;
But don’t get excited—keep perfectly
cool—
For people will talk.
If geflCtOSs itfjfl ftoble, they’ll vent out
their spied!;
You’ll near some loud hints that you're
selfish and mean;
If upright and honest, and fair ds the day,
They’ll call you a rogue in a sly, sneak
ing way—
For people tvdl talk.
And then if you show the least bo'ldficss
of heart,
Or a slight inclination to take yaur own
part,
They will call you an upstart, conceited
and vain;
Hut keep straight ahead—don’t stop to
explain—
For people will talk.
If threadbare your dress, or old fashined
your hat,
Some one will surely take notice- of that,
And hint very strong that you can’t pay
your way;
But don’t get excited,whatever they say—
For people will talk.
If j-oii dress in the fashion, don’t think
to escape,
For they Criticise then in a different
shape—
You’re ahead of your means, or your
tailor’s unpaid;
Bht mind yortr ottn business, there’s
naught to be made—
For people will talk.
No«, ‘He best way to do is to do as you
phase,
For your mind, if you have one, will
then be at ease;
Of course you will meet with all softs of
abttsej.
Hut dbn’t think to stop them—it ain’t
any use—
For people will talk.
A Bkai’tiful SiMile. — \Vhile Ba
ther Ryan was speaking, not long
since,- in Mobile; before the guests of
J tho Ladies’ Memorial Association, be
made use of the following words.
In pointing to a heavy bank of clouds
just rising in the wesß and obscuring
the setting sun, among which a vivid
lightning was incessantly playing, lie
said i ‘‘As yon sun goes down behind
n dark cloud, so went down the hopes
i f those engaged in the unequal
struggle for Southern liberty } as you
now see the lightnings flashing and
blazing athwart the face of that
cloud, so leaped the holts of hate*
and persecution. But behind that
cloud the stars are still shining, just
as the star of hope is still lighting
up the hearts of our people; and as
the sun will rise again on the mor
row, so shall eventually rise up in all
its splendor the down-trodden and
partially obscured cause of right and
justice.
i— •mm • mm
The llubricank at New York. —
The hurricane at New York, Friday,
created considerable damage. Many
persons, both in New York and
Brooklyn, were injured, aud in the
latter city three persons were killed'
At Winfield, Long Island, a hell
tower fell on a train of cars, demol
ishing a portion of the train. None
of the passengers were injured. In
Jersey City the grain house of the
Pennsylvania Central Railroad was
blown down, causing a loss of several
thousand dollars.
Death of Romeo. —The celebrated
elephant Romeo, one of the oldest
and said to ho the largest in the
United States, and valued at $30,-
000 died last Friday afternoon, in
Forepaugh’s Menagery, exhibiting in
Chicago. Ilia death was from natu
ral causes. The body has been pre
sented by Forepaugh to the Chicago
Medical College, and its skeleton will
be mounted in their museum.
President Grant and most of the
members of his Cabinet liavo accep
ted invitations to attend the Boston
jubilee. Under the inspiration of
true genius the machinery of gov
ernment seems to have beon arrang
ed in such perfect working order that
it runs by itsolf without requiring
the heads of any departments at the
capital.
Why is the letter R very unfortu
nate ? Because it is always in trou
ble, wretchedness and misery, is the
beginning of riot and ruin, and is
never found in peace, inrroeence or
love.
Lawrenceville, Ga., Wednesday, July 3, 1872.
For tbc Gwinnett Herald.
PEN ANI> INK SKETCHES-
Richard Saye;
In several of my former sketches I
have incidentally referred to ifr. Saye,
because he was intimately and closely
connected with several of whom I
wrote.
A separate and more extended no
tice is due him on account of his
good standing, and his excellent char
acter as a citizen, and for his exem
plary deportment as a religious man.
Tho old church hook of Fairview,
which was kindly placed in my hands
a year ago by the late and lamented
John Mills—whose mortal remains
were yesterday deposited in the grave
—mentions the name of Richard
Saye for the first time at a session of
that church held on the 22d of April,
1825. He had been elected a ruling
elder and met with the session on
that day. That old book is to me
an interesting relic of the old fast.
In reading it, it revives old memories,
brings up old friends which I knew
in my boyhood, and chronicles histo
lies and incidents of the church that
the cycles of time had obliterated
1 from the memory.
These old minutes were recorded
by George M. Gresham, the first
clerk, and then by Dr. Thomas W
Alexander, extending from the Dili
of August, 1823—the time when
Fairview church was first constituted
—to April, 1835, when a new hook
was opened, extending to the present
time. Through ail these minutes the
j name of Mr. Save appears as a ruling
I elder; and sometimes as a delegate
from that church to llopewcll
Presbytery, from April, 1825, lo Ou
tober, 1807, the date of bis death.
Ho was born in Union district.,
South Carolina, June, 1777. In his
early manhood, ho removed to Frank
lin county, Ga., and settled within
the bounds of the Hebron eongrega
tion* of which the Rev Thomas New
ton was then pastor, lie united
with that church, and soon was cho
sen one of its elders, and was or
dained and set apart to that office in
1819, bv the celebrated Dr. Moses
Waddell.
In March, 1825, ho came to Gwin
nett county, and was a citizen here
forty-two yean.
Mr. Saye was not an active man
like Dr. Alexander, Moses Liddell,
and some others of his brethren < his
temperament Was totally different.
He was not excitable under any cir
cumstances, but always calm, quiet
and uniform.
I give an extract from a letter I
have received from an old friend, who
was long identified with ottr people
and with the members of Fairview
church* and who was a inembef of
that chn/rJi for a long period of
years. In speaking of Mr. Saye, be
says;- "Every one Who knew Hiin
would call him a good man—one of
the salt of the earth. When I first
knew him ho was called ‘Good Old
Father Saye!’ He had no enemios,
for he never engaged in any strife or
contention. He mingled with the
world but little, but rather silently
pursued ‘the even tenor of bis way.’
If he could do no good, he was cer
tain to do no harm, and so tar, his
example had a good influence and
was safe to follow. His natural feel
ings were not excitable, or, at least,
were easily controlled. Ho was a
good man, but not very active. It
was not common to see him much
excited on any subject, but at one
time, during a revival, bis feelings
were much stirred up, and he re
marked that ‘he held the world as he
did his coat, ready to drop it at any
time;’ and he suited the action to
the word so fully that a by stander
observed, that ‘he thought he would
drop his coat right there.’ ”
He had two sons —James H. and
John—‘-who were partly educated at
the old Academy in Lawrenceville.
Both of them became Presbyterian
ministers, and are men of great use
fulness and have talents of a high
order,- especially the first uamed.
At this poiut, I must digress to
say, what I have long desired to say,
that our old county has done more
in sending out men who have become
oseful and great—to bouor her—than
any county in the State !
The bench is now graced by two
of her sons; the bar by a large num
ber of lawyers of distinguished abil
ity ; able and skillful physicians;
successful merchants and farmers;
and ministers of the Gospel that, for
learning, eloquence and usefulness,
cannot be surpassed by any ; and of
the latter, the two sons of Mr. Saye
are very properly classed.
At some future day, I propose to
give a biographical sketch of the
men of Gwiuuett who have gone
out to other parts, and who do honor
' to their old mother!
“COMING EVENTS CAST THEIR SHADOWS BEFORE! ”
j Twenty or more years ago, I sol
emnized tbo marriage of Mr. Save's
yotfngCst daughter —his youngest
child—who now lives iti one of the
far oft’ States of tho Southwest. She,
as all his children, like their venerated
father, was Of quiet, calm and gentle
disposition. This is a characteristic
of all his children : sensible, quiet,
correct in deportment, and religious
in practice.
It was said of Mr. Saye what Can
bo said of few others : he had no en
emies ; none spoke evil or disrespect
ful of him ; that he had the confi
dence of all who knew him, as an
honest man and a Christian, and this
is his best eulogy. YV.
—
Mrs. Jlrtycs* (Jl<t Setting-Hen.
“There’s that old yellow lion set
ting again,” said Mrs. Ilayes to her
son Timothy
“Well, let her set, I can stand it
as long as she can,” was Tim’s irrev
erent reply, as he continued to munch
at ;i large piece of cheese.
‘•{ do wish yen wotild try to ho a
little quinomicle to cheefse, Timothy,
I’ve cut the very last of my every
day lot, and it’s only the first of May.
Abel now, ris soon as you’ve dcfiie
eating, I want you to go out and
i break up that hen. She’s settin gon
an old axe and two bricks now.”
“I hope she’ll hatch ’em,” returned
Tim.
“If she was set now, she’d hatch
the fourth week in May. It’s a bad
sign; something always happens arfer
it. Stop giggling, Helen Maria; by
the time you get to be" as old as yer
may, ye’ll see further than you do
now. There was tho Jenkins folks, —-
their gray top knot hatched the last
of May,and Mrs. Jenkins she had the
I conjunction of the lungs, and would
have died if they hadn’t killed a lamb
j and wrapped her in the hide while it
was warm. That was all that saved
her.”
With such a startling proof of the
truth and the omen before him, Tim
othy finished his breakfast in baste
and departed for the barn, from which
lie soon returned bearing the squall!
ing biddy by the legs.
"What shall l do with her, moth
er ? She will get on again, and
she’s cross as bedlam—she skinned
my hands, anil would be the death erf
mo if she could get loose.”
“I’ve lieern it said that it was a
good plan to throw them up in the
air,” said Mrs. Ilayes. “Bunt Peggy
broke one of setting only three times
trying. Spose’n you try it.”
"Dp she goes, head or tail,” cried
Tim, as he tossed volcano skyward.
“Laud-a-massa !” exclaimed Mrs.
Hayes, “she’s coming down into the
pan of bread that I set out on the
great rock to rise ! Tim, it’s strange
that you can’t do nothing without
overdoing it,”
“Down with the traitors, up with
the stars,” sang out Tim, elevating
l/khly again, with something less than
s pint of batter hanging to her feet.
“Good gracious me, wuss and
wass,” cried Mrs. Hayes, and Tim
agreed with her, for the hen had
come down on the well polished tile
of Esquire Bennett, who happened
to be passing, and the dignified old
gentleman was the father of Cyn
thia Bennett, the young lady with
whom Tim was dangerously enam
ored.
The ’Squire looked daggers, brush
ed off the dough with his handker
chief, and strode on in silence.
“Yes, but it’s going up again,” said
Tim, spitefully seizing tbe clucking
biddy and tossing her at random into
the air. Biddy thought it lime to
manifest her individuality, and with
a loud scream she darted against the
parlor window,broke through, knock
ed down the canary cage, and landed
plump into the silken lap of Mrs.
Gray, who was boarding at the farm
house.
Mrs. Gray screamed with horror,
and starting up, dislodged biddy, who
flew at her reflection iu the looking
glass with an angry hiss. The glass
was shattered, and down came the
hen, astonished beyond measure,
against a vase flowers, which
upset, and in falling, knocked oyer
the stand dish and deluged with
water a pair of drab-colored velvet
slippers which Helen Maria was ern- ,
broidering for her lover, Mr. James
Henshaw.
Helen entered the room just as the
mischief had been done, and viewing |
the ruin, she at once laid it to her j
brother Timothy; She heard his step ;
behind, and she filing the unfortunate j
ben full into his face.
There was a smothered oath, and
the hen came back with the force of j
a twenty pound shot.
• Helen was mad. Her eyes were ;
nearly put out with the leathery dust
and dough, and she went at lirnothy
with a true feminine zeal. She broke
his watch guard into a dozen piecos,
crushed his dickey and began to pull
his whiskers out by the roots, when
she suddenly remembered that Tim
othy had n 6 Whiskers to pull out by
the roots.
But, when she came to look closer,
3bo perceived lh.ll the man she’ ffrtd
nearly annihilated was not Timothy,
But Janies Henshaw.
Poor Helen hurst into tears and
fled into her chamhor, the usual ref
uge for heroins, and James, after
washing his face at tho kitchen sink,
went home, sternly rCsolred (lever to
marry a woman with such a temper
as Helen Ilayes had.
The hen, meanwhile, who is the
heroine, returned to tho ham to es
tablish herself on the ruin of her
nest, determined to set if the heavens
fell.
Mrs. Ilayes soon discovered he ,
and she having heard that dipping
in watet would cure “bloodiness,” set
forth for tho brook with the fowl in
her apron.
Mrs. W’c'.li’cl', an old lady of very
quarrelsome temperament, who re
sided near, arid Was rtt sWoid’s point
with Mrs. Ilayes, was just coining to
the brook for a pail of water, and
spied the yelioW head of the - bird
peeping out from Mrs. Hayes’s apron.
“There 1” she exclaimed, “Now I’ve
found out what puzzled me to death
nigh about a week. I’ve found out
where that yellow pullet has gone to.
Mrs. Ilayes, I a’ders knowed you was
a wicked, desateful woman, but I
didn’t think you’d steal.’’
“Steal ? mo steal ? who are you
talking to, Mrs. Weaver ?” said Mrs.
Haves On her dignity.
“I’m talking to you, madame, that’s
who I’m talking to! You’ve stole my
hen what I got over to Undo Gillies,
and paid for in sassengers. She’s a
real Dorking. Givo her to me right
here or I’ll use force.”
“She’s my lien, and yOu Itfufcb her
if you dare!”
“I'll show you wliatl dare !” yelled
Mrs growing purple, and
seizing the ill starred fowl by the
tail, She gave a wrench, and the tail
Camtf o'fit in her hand.
The sudden cessation of resistance
Upset "if rs. Weaver’s balance, and she
fell backward into the brook, splat
tering the mud and astonished pul
liwogsin every direction.
She was a spry woman, and was
soon on her feet again, ready to
iChevt the assault.
“Give me my hen,” she cried,
thrusting her fist into Mrs. 11 aye’s
face, “you old hag and hypocrite
you f” and she made a second dive
at the bird.
The fien thought it proper to show
her colors, rtnd littering ah’ unearthly
yell, she flew out of the covett square
into the face of Mrs. Weaver, ft Inch
she raked doWft with her nails until
it resembled the pages of a ledger,
crossed and recrosseu with red ink.
Mrs. Hayes caught a stick of brush
wood from the fence—Mrs. Weavor
did the same, and a regular duel
would have been fought if the bank
of the creek had not suddenly given
away and precipitated both the indig
nant women into the water.
The ladies shook themselves, and
by consent went home. They have
ftot spoken since.
The hen disappeared and was not
seen until three weeks afterwards,
when she made her appearance with
eleven nice yellow chickens. She
found some other fowl’s nest and had
set in spite of fate.
But although not “broken up" her
self, she broke up two matches—for
Cynthia Bennett was Rot at home
the next time Timothy called, and
Mr. Henshaw never forgave Helen
for having such a
A man enjoying the euphonious
name of I’igg, married a lady
named Young. A few days since
a child was horn to them, aud a
rich uncle of the young one, who,
like Gilpin, “loves a timely joke,”
promises to heavily endow the boy
if the parents would christen him
the maternal name. The fond hut
thrifty parents lonsented, and the
youth will hereafter be known to
his friends as Young I’igg.
mm •
Bob—“ Jim, de men don’t make
such fools of demselves about wo
men as the women do about men.
If dey look at de moon dey see a
man in it. If dey Ifear a mouse
nibbling it’s a man and dey all
look under de bed last thing »t
night to find a man. Why, I nob
ber looks under my bed to find a
woman, does you ?”
But one false step, one wrong hab.
it, one corrupt companion, one loose
principle, may wrCck all your pros
pects, and all the hopes of those who
love you, honor and regard you.
[s2 A YEAR, IN ADVANCE.
Uriah’s First Untf'.Ov (hr Uni
llot Reconstruction of ii Re
turned Rebel.
Immediately after the late lament
ed surrender I returned to the bosom
of my family, hearing upon my l»o ly
tho marks of honorable and legiti
mate warfare. If a matt has ho right
irt the bosom of his own family, pray
whose bo om lias ho a right in ? But
I didn’t go right in. Not by any
means. My badge of chivalry just
at that time, was not of a character
to coinmend ino, at once, to the arms
and affections of my too scrupulous
ly neat and tidy wife I was ordered
into quarrentine. I itrts pitt upon
docks for repairs. In other words, t
had the itch. California itch,, it was
pronounced by competent judges;
but why so denominated, I am- at a
loss to determine, unless because it
was a healthy, robust, salubrious case.
This wrts the true State of the case—
and it wits the first case I had ever
had, although I had been a lawyer
for some time, by profession, barring
I lie practice—for it is always well to
bar the practice at the! bar.
1 reached borne that night in May
’95, after a hard day’s walk through
a gentle rain, a ltd took thf real by a
chefffful spring fire. Fomehow I had
conscientious scruples against letting
the itch part of trry military glory
leak oirt unf.il next morning. But it
was all in vain. In vain I strovo to
let concealment, like a worm, feed on
my damask, etc. My grimaces, my
bodily gyrations, soon began to point
a moral and tell a tale, “Uriah,”
said the old lady slowly and gloom
ily, “you’ve got tho itch ! And I
wouldn’t have it to break out in the
bosom of my family for anything on
earth. It would he a shame and a
scandal to tho neighborhood.” I
had to own tip. I put on a ghastly
grin and tried to make tho itch, after
all, was nothing hut a patriotic lux
ury, a good thing to have in a family.
She couldtt’t see it,- ShC refused pos
itively to COn:C wtthirf six feet of mo,
while the children Stood aloof and
Stated at mo tfs if I was a wild beast.
I tried to he familliar, —but it was no
go. / had been absent many weary
months, and was full of love and
poetry.
“Come rest in this bosom, my own striek-
CJr dear,”
did (ft seem to strike any one in Jrrtf
ticular. The question was, was I
stored away that night in a room to
myself, to mutfo orr the pomp irud
pride and circumstances of glorious
war—especially the circumstance.—
My wife was inexorable. I suppose
you know what that meatts —in a
woman ? If you don’t, come down
and stay a week wi b me, and take
occasion to bring a quantity of mud
in on your hoots, and it won’t take
you long to find out She don’t put
her foot down often, hut when she
does the pnls it down a liltlo of the
firmest. I knew very well I would
have to get rid of that case complete
ly before 1 could ever know my
rights and knowing dare mrdntafifr
them. It wiftt the worfft case I had
ever heard of. Scratch. I reckon
if all the scratching I did in one day
had boon spread it would have cov
ered a surface equal to twenty five
acres—good measure. And what
was getting to he still more serious,
my nails were fast weatiiifg down into
the quick, and corns were growing
on the halls of my fingers. So early
the next morning, after my arrival
home, hurried over to commit an old
steam doctor who had long been the
oracle of the neighborhood, aud lay
ing all my troubles fairly and square
ly before him, begged for a short,
sharp and decisive remedy.
He asked me if I was equal to the
emergency. I gladly answered in
the affirmative. I was equal to any
thing that would speedily restore my
wife’s lost love. I felt liko one who
trode alone ; aud there was nothing
in this world half so sweet as love’s
old dream—the same old dream. He
said he thought he could sweeten
me.
I took the bottle of turpentine ac
cording to directions, went home and
locked up in my room with all but
me departed, I began to strip for the
contest. 1 was all over as spotted 8s
a leopard, and as raw as a piece of
new beef. I poured the saving fluid
into a saucer, caught up about a gill
into the hollow of each hand, aud
rubbed it on with an energy that
springs from despair, I used half
the bottle before I slopped to think.
Then I didn’t stop long. 1 made a
start as I thought for the door, and
found myself half way up the chim
ney. 1 rolled down and rolled over,
aud screamed like a wild Indian. —
Talk about yallow jacket plasters and
hornets’ nests and honey bees and
abominable humble bees, and hot
ashes, and hell fire 1 If I hadn’t
been dumped heels over head into
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No. 16.
the furnace of the Tennessee froh
W orks, 1 would freeze to death in
five minutes. 1 was on the bed, un
der the bed, walking first upon my
heels and then Ujidtl tny toes and
champing the hit, and chawing one
leg of my pants, till it looked like a
dilapidated dish -tag. I had enough
rebellion in me to have Started three
small republics. My wife and chil
dren were pounding and screaming
at the door trying to get in ; hut 1
couldn’t find the door, for the room
was flying round like a spinning
jenny. 1 was foaming at tho month
like a fifteen cases of hydrophobia,
and calling alternately for water ami
fire.
The next morning theta was less
one ease of itch in the so called any
how. I pealed otl like an onion. I
shod enough scales that night to have
set up a New England fishery.
My hide drew up till it was with
the greatest difficulty I could get my
feet to the lloor for more than a week.
Indeed, all my friends say that my
skin has been short ever since.
fn less than twenty four hours
after I was able to get about o'ne'
steam doctor had timely notice,
signed, sealed attd delivered" by order
of the chief of tho Hu Khix HI an to
emigrate. He is now n martyr in
some county Ctf Dlrio on account of
his “political opinion,” and lias once
represented his district in Congress;
The King and tlio Soldier.
Frederick the Great, of Prussia,-
had a great mania for enlisting
lic Soldiers into the Royal Guards,
and paid an enormous bounty to his
recruiting officers for getting them.
One day the recruiting sargeant
chanced to spy a Hibernian who was
at the least feet high ; lie ac
fcOstSd him iu English, and propb'Sed
that he should enlist. The idea o’s
military life and a large bounty so
delighted l’ati ick,t!ini he immediately
consented. “But, unless vou can
speak GfiTMaft, the King will not
give you so' riipch.-
“Oh,” said lhft Irishman, “sure it's
I that don’t know if word of Ger
man.”
“But,” said tlift sergeant “three
words w ill bo enOogfi, attd those you
can learn in a short time; The King
knows every man in the Guards.—
As soon as lie sees you lie will ride
up arid ask you how old vou arc.—
You will say, ‘Twenty seven ;’ next
Imw long have you been iu the sofv io*\
You must reply ‘Three weeks;’ final
ly, if you are provided with clo lies
and rations You answer, “Both.”’
i’at soon leal fled to pronounce bis
answers, Imt never dreamed of learn
ing questions, fn three weeks lie
appertrCd before the Ring iu review.
His Mirjjesty rode up to'him. Paddy
tftejyptfd forward w ith ‘-present arms."
“llow old aie you?” said the King.
“Three weeks,” said the Irish man.
'‘How long have you been in the
service ?” asked his Majesty.
“T wen tv -»e ve n yea rs.”
“Am I or you K fool ?” routed the
Ring.
“Both,” replied Patrick, who was
instantly taken to the guard-room,
hut pardoned by the King afteT hft
understood the facts of the Case.
Tosh Billings says : “All you have
to do to raise oats is to plow the land
deep, then manure it well, then sprin
kle the oats all over the ground, one
in a place, then worry up the ground
with a drag all over, then set up
nites to keep lire chickens and wood
chucks out Of tlif-riTj (Well f; ladle
(hem together with a kradlc, then
rake them together with a rake, then
hind them together with a hand, then
stack them up witlv a stick, then
(liraMi th>m out with a flail, tuen
clean them up with a mill, then shar
pen both ends of them with a knife,
then stow them away in the granary,-
tlion spend wet days and Sundays
trapping for rats Find mice. It ain’t
nothing hut phitn to raise oats —trv
it.
—• mm * - —*
The other day a young lady
stepped into a dry goods estab
lishment and inquired of the clerk
attending-. ‘ Sir, have voa any
mouse-colored gloves?” "Mouse
colored gluves, Miss?” “Yes, a
sort of gray, just the color of your
drawers,” meaning the store draw
ers, that wefe painted gray. “My
drawers, miss ? why t don’t wear
any,” A cab was seen leaving
the store a few minutes after, with
a lady in the corner, with a hand
kerchief to her face.
A hill to make penal the hiring
of laborers before the expiration
of the time which they have beeu
hired: referred to Judiciary Com
mittee.
Use soft words aud hard argument