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BUSINESS DIRECTORY.
lAWSOM 1 & GODPRBJT,
Commission Merclrants,
93 BAY STREET,
SAVANNAH, GEO.
[p. A. LAWSON. J: E. GODFREY.]
’ iioUD cfc. CO. ’
Factors and Commission Merchants,
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SAVANNAH, GA.
J. W. C. Loud.] [P- H. Loud.
nov. 4, 1851.
42—ly
BBHS &POSTBR.
Factors and Commission Merchants
Savannah, Ga.
r.H. BEIIN,] !>»* FOSTER,
feb. 10,1852. 3 — ] - Y
| JOBUN IVIALLERY.
Draper and Tailor.
Denier i n Ready-Made Clothing and Gentle-
i'li’bfurmshing Goods. 155, Bay street,
Savannah, Ga.
3—ly
Savannah, Ga.
feb. 10, 1852.
PHILIP KX1AW.
Draper and Tailor,
And dealer in Ready-made Clothing, shirts
stocks, suspenders, hundk’ffs, gloves. Marino
and silk under shirts, drawers,
Bryan street, Savannah, Ga.,
feb. 10,1852. 3 “L r
&.e. No. 93,
" J. T. IOKBS.
Manufacturer and importer of
Guns Pistols, Riiles, Sporting Apparatus^&c.,
No-8, Monument Square, Savannah, Ga.
feb. 10, 1852.
3—ly*
I. DASHER'S
Cheap Dry Goods Store,
No. 146, Congress street, Savannah, Ga.
(Late H. Lathrop’s)
A well selected stock of seasonable staple
and Fancy Dry Goods, are kept constantly on
hand, and will be sold cheap for cash.
jj££T* Please call and examine
feh. 10, 1852.
3-ly
S E. BOTHWBW A CO.
Wholesale and Retail Store,
No. 173, Bay street, Savannah, Ga.
dealers in
LIQUORS, WINES, GROCERIES. 4-c
S. E. BOT1IWELL.] [«• V
feb. 10, 1852.
Dr, I?larchisrs
UTBRIfffE CAXHOLICOrff.
The undersign
ed, having been
d u 1 y appointed
Agentfor the sale
of this truly in
valuable medi
cine, would re
spectfully invite
the attention of
Ladies and l’rac-
4itioners of Louis
ville and vicinity,
to the gratifying
success that has
attended its use
wherever intro
duced, and its happy adaptation to the cure of
all the distressing diseases for which it is ol-
fered ; being those incidental to the respecta
ble female, whether married or single, and
usually known by the name of Female Com
plaints. : Of these are Prolapsus Uteri, or
Falling of the Womhi Fluor Albus,or Whites;
Chronic Injlamation and Ulceration of the
Womb; Incidental Haemorrhage, or Flooding;
Painful, suppressed and Irregular Menslrua-
tiOnf dfre., with all their accompanying evils,
(Cancer excepted,) no matter how severe or of
how long standing.
That this Catholicon is in every way wor
thy of the confidence of the afflicted as a suc
cessful, safe, and cheap remedy, is vouched for
by the fact of its having received the approbat
tion and liberal patronage of many promiuen-
members of the
medical faculty
in the United States ; and also by the volunta
ry testimonials given in the pamphlets, from
Ladies and Physicians of the highest respect
ability, as certified by the most satisfactory
authority.
This preparation is not a “cure till,” but is
intended expressly for the above-named com
plaints, so very distressing in their nature and
consequences, and which have heretofore re
sisted the skill and exertions of the most ac
complished Physicians of all countries, tea
degree beyond that of perhaps any other ma
lady to which the human family is heir.
The ingredients, as certificed by high med
ical authority, (see pamphlet,) are all vege
table, and are not associated with any article
unfriendly to the animal economy.
References:
P. B. Peckman, M. D., Utica, New York.
L. D. Fleming, M. D., Canandaigua, N. Y.
D. Y Foote, M. D., Syraeues, N. Y.
M. H. Mills, M. D., Rochester, N. Y.
Prof. Dunbar, M. D., Baltimore, Md.
J. C. Orrick, M. D.,
W. W. Reese, M. D., City of New Y’ork.
W. Prescott, M. D., Concord, N. II.
Pamphlets can be had gratis at my store.
W. A. HAYLES, Druggist,
Louisville, Ga.
For sale by most of the respectable Drug
gists in the Slate.
Central Depot, 304 Broadway, New York.
nov. 2, 1852. 41—6m
POETRY.
Tlie Flowers.
BY C. D. STUART.
There is a 1 jgend old as earth,
But beautiful and true,
Which- tells us how the flowers had birth,
And wherefore came the dew.
When Eve, through Satan’s sore deceit,
Touched The forbidden tree,
And tempted her “good man” to eat,
The Lord came angrily—
And straightway turned from Eden’s bowers
These first born sinners forth,
Away from all its smiling flowers—
Upon the barren earth.
But pitying—ere to heaven lie passed—
His angels—brothers then—
O’er al! the earth their footprints cast,
And hill, aud vale,and glen.
Sparkled with flowers’ Earih’s starry spheres,
And ere they fled from view,
They strewed the flowers with pitying tears,
Which since have passed for dew.
And thus, though paradise was lost
By first of human kind,
Their .children know, though sorely crossed,
God’s love is left behind.
MISCELLANEO US.
JACK WARHAWK,
the Arkansas Coward.
Or
bv a great.effort mustered the spirit to re
turn. He found the. customers helping
themselves with a vengeance, and thought
to overawe them by the assumption ot he
roic ap-s. He snatched his revolver fioih
his pocket, and pointing it at War hawk’s
breast sternly oidered him to leave the
house. ,
“if that’s what you’re artcr,”shouted Jack,
unsheathing his big bowie, and springing
back over the counter, “here's what will
gne you ala die full.”
Myers still kept the revolver presented,
but bis band shook like a leat in the temp
est, and his very lips grew white with ter
ror, and his very feet involuntarily retreat
ed backwards by short, quivering steps. The
two feelings, physical fear and moral cour
age, were struggling for the mastery. He
was endeavoring to act bravely, but his
nerves reiused their concurrence, and he re
mained, so to speak, in equipose—totally
incapable of acting at all. lie was impo
tent to fight, and as powerless to fly.
There was no such hesitation in the con
duct of Jack Warhawk. Brandishing his
big knife with bis right baud, he seized the
flowing locks of Myers in his lelt, roared at
the top of his lungs—
-Down, coward; down on your marrow
bones, or by the blue blazes i’ll cut your
throat!”
Incredibly as it may seem; Myers still
holding his deadly revolver, loaded with
six rounds, cowered to the floor like a beat
en hound, and begged most piteously tor
his life—a prayer which the mocking half-
breed granted on condition that he would
treat tlie crowd for a whole week.
From that time the unfortunate Myers
suited by a direct and gross public indignity j Anecdote of Parson B.
he must call his foe to the field of honor.— j Many years ago there was, in the eas-
Accordinglv on the following day a chal-' tern part'of Massachusetts, a worthy old
lenge was despatched, which Myers prouR t- 1). D., and although he was an eminently
ly accepted and fixed the time at noon of benevolent man and a Chrisiain, vet, it
the same day—the weapon to be double must be confessed, lie loved a joke much
barreled shot guns—distance; ten paces, j better than the majority even of inveterate
r I lie parties met on sand beach, uuder tlie jokers. It was before church organs were
bank of the river, above the village, and much in use, and it so happened that the
hundreds collected to witness the issue.—. choir of his church had recently purchased
The mortal belligerents were placed in a po- a double bass viol. Not far froih the church
was a large town pasture, and in it a huge
CARKIAOB REPOSITORY.
THE subscriber, thank
ful for past patronage,
would respectfully inform
his friends, patrons.and the public generally,
that he continues to put up all kinds of ve
hicles—of his own manufacture—from a .Ter
ser wagon to a pleasure Carriage. He feels
esnfident that his prices will be found low
enousfh to induce those who desire to purchase
anything in his line to give him a call. He chal
lenges any other establishment in the State,
in poiut of cheapness and durability..; and he
will warrant his work to stand equal to, if not
better, than the best northern work. He in
vites all—both great and small—to call and ex
amine hie present stock of BUGGIES; Fancy
WAGONS for families, a neat, convenient
and cheap one-horse vehicle ; one and two-
horse Wagons, &c. Also second hand Bug
gies, which will be sold extremely low. He
will sell new Buggies cheaper than the same
article can be bought in Savannah or Macon
and laid down here. Any who may doubt this
assertion are invited to test its truth by a trial
of the markets. He is determined to sella
cheapt as any one else in the State.
He also keeps constantly on hand a variety
of Harness, which he. offers at a small advance
above cost. LEWIS BEN SON.
mar. 16, 1852. . 8—ly;3y
3—lv
grocery
Savannah, Ga.
A CO.
D. T. SCRANTON,
JOSEPH JOHNSTON.
Savannah.
W. B. SCRANTON,
\ No. 19, Old Slip, N. Yor
feb. 10, 1852. 3 — -
HUMPHREYS A jchmsoh
Wholesale and Retail Druggists,
Smets’ Buildings, corner of -Broughton an-
Whitaker streets, Savannah, Ga.
Dealers in Drugs, Medicines, Chemicals,
Perfumery, Fancy Articles, &.C;
RSf” Soda water of a superior quality.
feb. 10, 1852. 3 —
' HHNE/ST rotschhilb.
Dealer in Ready-Made Clothing,
DRY GOODS, 4-c.
No 178, Congress street, next door to H. J.
Gilbert, Savannah, Ga.
Gentlemen's garments made to order.
feb. 10,1852. 3 ~ ] y --
A. PONCE, • .
Importer and Manufacturer o*
SEGARS,
N O. 13, Whitaker street, keeps constant ly
on hand a Well selected stock of imported
Segars; also, Manufactured Tobacco, Snuff
Pipes, and all other articles usually kept in his
Une of business, which he offers on the mos
Reasonable terms-
? Savannah, fob. 10,1852. 6 ty.V"
~ Cheese.
J UST received a fine lot of Cheese, and for
sale^ Z. BRANTLEY.
aeDt 23 36
■ P
GEO. A. REINBART.
Boot Maker* Sandersvi lli. Ca.
RESPECTFULLY iuformsthe
citizens of this and the adjoin
ling counties, that lie is prepar
ed to undertake and execute, in
The beautiful little town of Van Buren,
on the Arkansas river, near the Cherokee j
line, during its early history, was famous for i
the number aud ferocity of its desperadoes, I ,. . - .• ... • 1 _ 11 i, - j
being the principal meridian aud focus of ;" as su J eC . s I ,ec
rendezvous for gun,biers, Indian traders, oarage. lhejoafcuoud pittas no«
and all sorts of adventured, who had found mere amusement the ha t-b eeds non Id
v to tliange their domicile Iron,; lace to make him ““t, and Omn
rued bv the administration of,,; oral Cole, when mtoxioated, vvould st ike
rigid criminal code. The half breed "brave” i ■>•» with hi. one to cure him ot conardiee,
from the Cherokee nation also Hooked to "» >»■ sa,d. Ihe^oor grocery keeper book-
the same site, to drink, carouse, take a band | *d U«egross indignities with the pa-
at cards, aud exhibit their powers in sangui- Hence ot
nary “set-to’s,” with pistols and long knives.
Such a state of society may be imagined—
it cannot be described. Not a sun perform
ed itscircuit that did not witness some dread-
. . . . * ! r l Lis nnntir
with
martyr; aud would sometimes
meekly remonstrate.
“Gentlemen, it is ungenerous to abuse
me thus, for 1 confess 1 have no courage. I
fulsinole combat with or will,out murder-j , This continued for a whole year, when a
ons weapons, while now and then dozens at! change occurred that caused the msulters to
a time and by mutual agreement, marched
from the rum-shop out into the public
square, aud encountered iu mortal strife.
At this period Thomas A. Myers emigra
! rue their ignoble persecutions. He had a
i beautiful wife, whom he loved with the len-
derest passion. One day, when the hus
band was absent, the hideous half-breed,
.. Jack Warhawk, instigated to the damning
ted to Arkansas, and opened a large groce , - ~
ry store at Van Buren, acting himself as; deed by the persuas on of Genera Cole,
keeper ami retailer. Such an Occupation at went to the grocery keeper s prnate resi-
thai time required a man of the most ue- deuce and maltreated h, 5 lady m the most
termined courage, as the store had always shameful manner. , . , , ,
ii ^ i j .. i j ■ u„ Mvers returD^d bonic lo fiiid bis belo\cu
a back room or shed attached, specially ap- ,
propriated to gambling, both by day and
night, and w here the jilayers were supplied i lue narrow c j
with the choicest liquors at the bar, and
would be sure to bully the grocer out of his
reasonable charges, unless restrained by
fear.
For awhile, however, Myers succeeded
admirably. The half-breeds, loafers, and
“cartered fighters,” as they called them
selves, held a caucus, and unanimously vo
ted that the new arrival was a dangerous
subject and had better be let alone. This
verdict was altogether owing to the stran
ger’s personal appearance, as military as
might well be conceived. Tall, manly, and
symetrical in shape, with great endowments
both in strength and agility 7 , he would have
had few equals in the arms of naked nature.
But, by the cunning inventions of art, iron,
aud lead tell, and the thunder aud lightning
of gunpowder are made to fight for the fee
blest bosom; and thus dwarfs and giants,
provided both are alike the heirs of truecour^
age, now stand on the same dead level. It
was believed also that Myers possessed the
resolute will to handle those awful engines
of destruction where life and death hung on
the touch of a trigger. His countenance
betokened the perfection of bravery. His
face wore generally a stern expression, and
when that melted into a smile, the smile
seemed sterner still. His eyes were exceed
ingly black, wild/penetrating, and restless,
and had that cold gleaming metalie look,
which may be regarded as the surest sign
of desperation. Besides he carried an ap
a neat and workman-like manner, all jobs in his . . . . i n
line of business. He has in his employ sev- paling supply of pistols and a bowie-knife
oral neat and skilful workmen, and is prepar-; fourteen inches m the blade. Hence, every-
ed to do as fine work as any person in the j body was respectful and obliging to the os-
State. Gentlemen wishing a fine article of j teusible hero for a period of several weeks,
BOOTS or SHOES can be furnished by giv-1 d uiin g which an unusual calm reigned in
inga few days notice, and he assures the pub
lid that all work from his shop shall be made
of the best material, a huge assortm ent of
which he has just received; Thankful for the
liberal patronage heretofore bestowed upon
him he respectfully solicits a continuation^
the same. His terms are reasonable,
saridersville, April 30,1851. 16 6m.
rUXiTOBT A WALKER-
Factors and Commission Merchants,
Savannah, Ga.
RESPECTFULLY tender their
fyigj services to their friends and the puh-
licuenerally,hoping by strict and prompt at-;sum _ , .
tention to all business that may be committed: combing his “soap locks” with his long rosy
to their charge, to receive a liberal share of nails.
patronage. They.pledge themselves not to en “Let’s drink his liquor and smoke his ci-
gao-e in speculations upon cotton or other „ ars anc j uo t pay for them, because as how
country produce, un ^f r . fi^r^wcrto^nro 5 ! te ’ s a c° warcl >” said Jack Warhawk, a huge
SliSSSSSistheir oatronif OrderTfor half-bred, and baving enunciated tbi. eny-
themene of genuine Cherokee logic, Jack
the village.
At lenth a terrible affray occurred in My
ers’ grocery. Half a-dozen fire-arms explo
ded in quick succession, and the deafening
roar so frightened the keeper that he took
to his heels and fled from his own establish
ment. The fact settled public opinion as
to his character.
“What a chicken-hearted coward to run
from his own castle,” exclaimed General
Cole, the Napoleon of frontier duelists and
gamblers.
. “Why, he hasn’t the spunk of a dead pos-
lisped Bill Green, the dandy loafer
mote the interest of their patrons,
Batrging, Rope and other supplies, will be
promptly filled flt the.lowest market prices,—
Kr G Warthen. Esq., will act as agent lor
them at Warthen’s Store, Washington^county
aug.3, 1S52. 28 ~
Bagging and Rope.
TUST received and for B&ic a large lot o
aug'lU^ flIldR(>Pe ’ by Z. BRANTLEY.
leaped over the connter and began to fill out
glasses and hand out cigarB, crying“-r-Toast
to the brave, my boys! We’ll never want
while the world has chickens of the white
feather.”
The firing in the grocery having ceased
for moie than an.hour, being replaced by a
a din of the most boisterous mirth. Myers
manifestations of joy or emotion. His face
it is true, became somewhat- pale, his lip
quivered an instant, and then settled into
an expression rigid as a mouth of iron; and
his wild black eye, it may be, shot a few
more beams of penetrating fire; but he did
lie did not mutter curses. He uttered not
a whisper of menace; he did not condole or
even sympathize with his afflicted wife Ue
only armed himself with a bowie knife,
fourteen iuches in the blade, from hilt to
point, and started for the village.
He came within sight of his eueray, then
promenading the public square, and boast
ing of his villainous achievment. At this
vision, Myers’ lip curled into a horrid smile
and his dark eye melted in a stream of tears.
He approached till he stood nearly touch
ing the hall'breed, and then said in a horrid
whisper—
“Wretch, be quick, draw, for by St. Paul
one of us must die !”
And he waited till the other should be
ready for the strife on equal terms. He
did not have to wait long, for Jack, under
standing that cold, glittering, snaky smile,
and those hot gushing tears, as the certain
tokens of murderous madness, immediately
unsheathed at the. same moment with his
adversary, and they began the dreadtul
combat, which was soon decided. Myers
parried three furious blows of the hateful
half-breed, and then, grasping his foe’s
clothiug with bis left hand, with the other
plunged the knife up to the hilt in his
heart! The Cherokee expired without a
groan. -
And now the invvard and terrible pas
sions of Myers’ nature found vent in appal
ling explosions. His curses were fearful to
hear; he spurned his fallen enemy with hfe
foot, and wished aloud he had a hundred,
so that he might enjoy the pleasure himself
of killing him an hundred times over. His
wrath then turned itself on hit other insult-
ers. He flew at the loafer, Bill Green, and
tore out bis soap locks by handfuls, He
sprang upon Gen. Cole, and puHed his nose
till it was flattened between bis fingers—all
the 'while that gory knife dripping with
blood in his right hand. His enemies were
so taken by surprise, terror stricken, stupi-
fied, that for a space they seemed utterly in
capable of voluntary motion.
The coward had suddenly become the
bravest of the brave. The equipoise of op
posing feelings was destroyed forever; (,he
sheer power of pure will had conquered
physical fear. Does any one doubt our
strange story ? Let him address a letter of
inquiry to the Hon. G. W. Paehel, of Vau
Buren, late Judge of the Supreme Court of
Arkansas, and the fullest confirmation can
be optained.
On the same evening Gen. Cole called a
btecial counsel of his friends to consult on
the course he should pursue. There was
but one opinion—that as he had been in-
sition by thoir seconds, and the death deal-
ing guns—enormous double barrels—rested
with dark yawning muzzles on the sand, in
their hands. The spectators were much as
tonished at the strong contrast exhibited by
their appearance. Gen. Cole was an old
experienced duelist, who had shot his man
before he was eighteen, and had often been
engaged in .affairs of tlie kind.
On the contrary, Myers was unacquain
ted with fire arms, and had always hitherto
been deemed an unmitigated poltroon.—
And yet, singular to record, the duelist
stood up nervous and agitated, almost
trembling, while the reputed coward was
caliu, firm, steady as a rock, with that ap
palling smile on his curling lip, and a few
scattered tear drops gleaming in the sun, on
his cheek!
Gen. Cole’s second gave the word. Fire
one—two—three ! He need not. however,
to count so many, for with the echo of the
sound “tire,” Myers elevated his piece as
quick as thought, and touched the trigger.
There was a tremendous roar, and Gen.
Cole, the duelist, fell dead. His head was
pierced with twenty buckshot.
No one ever again called Myers a coward
in Arkansas—no one ever even thought of
the term, as his shadow gleamed by the
sun light. He had taken his degrees in the
college of despe-ratiou, and his diploma was
written in blood 1
He became a politician of great notoriety
a leader in that section of the State; was
repeatedly elected to the Legislature, where
he acquired distinction by his talents,- but
still more by bis fearless daring, as lie is
said to be vet in the progress of ascension,
having recently obtained the commission of
Major General of the militia. We may ex
pect before long to see his name in the roll
of members of Congress. Nature made him
a coward ; love for his insulted wife render
ed him brave, and bravery - has conferred
honor.
“Take him Eout.”-~The best joke that
we have heard related of the believers in
“spiritual knockings” is told of a man in
Norfolk county, in this State, who a few
weeks since visited the house of a neighbor
ing farmer, aDd as soon as the dishes were
removed from the supper table, proposed to
have a “sitting” with the family in the kitch
en, to see if his dear guardian angel, St.
Luke, would not make some new revelation.
After sitting in deathlike silence for a-
bout ten minutes, some one hinted the pos
sibility of the gentleman’s being mistaken
about his receiving communications from
St.JLuke; whereupon the spiritualist brought
his fist down upon the table with decided
emphasis, and exclaimed:
“Gentlemen, I know that I’ve had com
munication from my dear guardian angel,
St. Luke. Yes, you may laugh as much as
you like, but St. Luke is in the room neow!
Yes, his blessed spirit is here. I feel some
thing neow in my t r-ous-ers! Yes, I—oh!
ah! ki-yi! take him eout! take him eout!”
And here the gentleman leaped from his
chair, grasped with both bands that por
tion of his pantaloons which is usually worn
thinnest, and begged the spectators in the
most piteous tones to “take him eout, or he
should die on the spot.”
Requesting the ladies to leave the room,
thegeutlemen present made an examination
of the spiritualist’s pantaloons, and found
them to contain a mouse, that by the still
ness of the company had been induced to
leave his quarters aud search for crumbs up
on the floor..
It is not known whether the gentleman
still believes that he is watched over by his
friend St. Luke, as he now avoids all spirit
ual assemblies, aud is immediately silenced
when he attempts to introduce the subject
of spiritual knockings by the mischeivous
boys exclaiming: “Take him out! take him
e o-u-t /”—Boston Museum.
A Predicament*—The Louisville Courier
tells a story of a romantic youth iu that city
who got into a bad fix not long since. He
was out in one of the fashionable streets
serenading some of the fair damsels, and
when he was about arousing one of them by
singing one of his charming melodies, was
attacked in the rear by a ferocious eur,
which seized him by the pants, and not on
ly frightened him considerably, but deprived
him of both pants and coat, and would
probably have torn himto pieces, had it not
been for the timely assistance of the young
lady whom he was serenading and her moth
er, who were aroused by bis shrieking cries
for help. They arrived just in time to re
lease him from his perilous situation with
no other damage save the loss of coat and
pants. The dog was undoubtedly charmed
and stuck to him closely.
A few days since, a dunner called on*
young gentleman, and presented him a bil
when he was somewhat taken aback by the
gent taking him aside, and blanay saying;
“My dear sir call again next Thursday* and
I’ll tell you when to call again.”
“L say,’’-said a creditor to an easy debtor,
“ V our note has been runuing a long time;”
* “Ah!” replied the other, “well as the boy
said of the molasses, “let her run.”
town bull. One hot Sabbath iu Summer,
he got out < f the field and caine bellowing
up the street. About the church there was
jJenty of untrodden grass, green and good,
and Mr. Bull stopped to try its quality, per
chance to ascertain if its location had at all
improved its flavor; at any rale, the rever
end doctor was in the midst of his sermon,
when “Boo-woo-woo !” went the bull.
The clergyman paused, looked up at the
singing seats with a grave face, and said :
“I would thank the musicians not to tune
their instruments during service time, it an
noys me very much.
1 he people stared ; and the minister went
on. “Boo-woo-woo!” .went the bull, as he
passed to another green spot.
1 he parson paused again, and again ad
dressed the choir ;
“1 really do wi»h the singers would not
tune their instruments while I am preach
ing, for, as I have already remarked, it an
noys me very much.”
The people tittered; for they knew by
the twinkle of his eye that he knew as well
as any body what the real state of the case
was. The minister again went on with his
discourse, but he had not proceeded tar be
fore another “Boo woo-woo!” came, from
Mr. Bull, when the parson paused once
more, and exclaimed:
“1 have twice already requested the mu
sicians in the gallery not to tune their in
struments during sermon time. 1 row par
ticularly request Lefavor that he will not
tune his double bass viol while I am nreach-
ing-”
1 Lis was too much. Lefavor got up
much agitated at the idea of speaking out
iu meeting, and stamrfiered out:
“It isn’t me, Parson B ; it’s the town
bull.”
“Oh,” said the Parson, “ts it ? Then the
sexton will please drive away the bull.”
The people Laughed ; but with a gratified
look at the success of his joke, Parson B—
went on with his sermon.
Washington National Monument.—The
Washington Monument is now one hundred
and twenty two feet high, and will, in all
probability, before the close of the building
season, reach the height of one hundred and
twenty four feet. It has yet to reach an ad
ditional elevation of three hundred and sev
enty six feet to make it what it is intended
to be, the most lofty edifice in the world, in
commemmoration of him, w ho, in all the at
tributes of greatness, was *the most lofty of
human beings. The American people should
take a pride in aiding the uprising and com
pletion of such a monument, which is to re
dound to their' own glory as to that of their
illustrious countrymen. Though it may bo
painful to reflect that it has required an un
tiring effort, during the space of seventeen
years, to raise a monument to the memory
of one whom every American professes to
love and venerate, it is to be hoped that
the stigma of ingratitude which has been
proverbially attached to the name of repub
lics will not, in this case especially, be ap
plicable to the countrymen of Washington.
W.
“Hallo Ned, what’s the matter;”
“Matter enough—John Jones called me
a liar, and' I am looking for him to canehim.’
“But Ned, Jones is much theJarger man
of the two, aud it may prove a somewhat
dangerous operation.”
“True enough—I don’j. think j am able
to cane Jones, but hang him I will cane his
do". ”
Go it While you’re You no.—rAmanda
Young was arrested for excessive turbulence
in Brooklyn lately. Her only excuse was
that she was soon to change her name, and
apprehensive that her husband might put a
curb upon her inclinations, she availed her
self of the last opportunity to go it while
Young.
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By the way, the “ghost of the do
parted,” reminds me of Joe Kelley’s ghost
coming to his wife.
“Molly,” says he, “I’m in purgatory at
this present.”
“And what sort of a plaee is it? says she.
“Faith, it’s a sort of half-way house be
tween you and heaven,” said Joe, “but I
stand it mighty easy after leaving you.”
“Aninibad, what is Cupid ?”
“One of the boys. He is said to-be as
blind as a bat, but if he is blind he’ll do to
travel. He found his way to Aunt Man’s
affections andT wouldn’t have thought any
critter could have worked into such narrow
arrangements with his eyes open.”
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“Are those pure caparies ?” asked a gen
tleman of a bird deafer, with whom he was
negotiating fora “gift for his f*ir.”
“Yes,sir,”said the dealer, confidently;
“I raised them ’ere birds from cauary seed 1”
“Oh, dear!” exclaimed an urchin who
had been chewing green apples; “I’ve swal
lowed an Odd Fellow !”
“An Odd Fellow T
“Yes, he is giving me the grip.'
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