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Regular Boarders received at Reosonablo Kates. *M 10 tf Our Oldest Iuhabitants?Two of Them. ? i i.iM JU6'^ 0". t *?->'! ; By Jos? Billings. John Bascotnb is now living iu Coon Hollow. Raccoon co., Slate ov Iowa. lio iz 196 yours old. aud kau read fine priut by moon light 33 feet oph. lie remembers Gen Washington fust rate, aud once lent him 1 ? dollars teu buy a pair ov kaff skin boots wi;h. lie fit iu the reVolushuti, also in the war ov 1812, likewise in the la'o molec, aud Rvz he wou'? take suss now from enny man living. lie is n hard shell baptiss by religion, und ecz he will dio for his religion. lie was konverted 150 years ago, and thinks the hard-shell iz the tuffest re ligion thurc iz lot every day wear. He sez that one hard shall baptiss ken do more hard work on the same vittles dur ing a hot day than teu episkopalitics. He huz always used plug tohako from u child, und sez he lernt how to cheu hi watching a cow cheu her cud. He huz never drunk enny intoxi kating licker but whiskey, and bcz that no other licker is healthy. He thinks 3 horns a day is enuff for health. He 'huz alwus voted tho dimokratik ticsct for the last. 170 years, and walked, last fall in sloppy weather, 18 miles to vote for ?lim Buchauaii. Ho haint never seen a rale road yet, nor a wimtnin's right convenshuu. His greutest desire, ho tchs me, iz teu see Gen. Jackson, and sez that he sbal go next year down teu Tcnnessc ? teu see him. lie fatted a hog last year, with his own hands, that weighed u"3(i pounds after it was dn-st aud well dried out. lie is very cheerful, and sez he won 7 dollars on tho weight ov this bug, out ov one ov the deakinS ov the hard shell church. He deklaics this tea be one ov the pioudest ackbideuts ov his lift, lor the deukou was known far and near as a lite kuss. He tells me that fur HO years he huz went ten bed at just 17 minutes after D, and has nrozcu at precisely 5 o'clock the next day. The fust tiling he does in the morn ing iz teu take a shori drink, about - inches, und then fur an hour before breakfast he reads the ulmuuux. (i mill here sta c ha' it iz "Josh Billing* Farmers Aim-mux' that he nails ) I asked him hiz opinyun ov -in und milk uZ a fertilizer. He prononnscd it bogus, u..d sed that the g< od old hard shell drink, whiskey unadorned waz the only species that never Went buk on a man. Hiz habits uro simple, For break last he generally etc four slices uv salt poik, 3 hi led pcrtatoze topze and all. a couple ov sussugis, 5 hut bisk its, a d u h id boiled eggs, 3 kups ol rhu: Coffee, a small plate ov slupj.iX, sum phew pickhs and mid cabbage und vinegar, if thave waz enny left from yistcrday'.s dinner. His dinner waz a little one. aud he seldom ct ennything l>nt some biled unit ton, sum (corned beef ?um kold ham, and sum injun ptiddin teu H>p oph with. Hiz suppers were mcro nothing, and konsisted simply ov kold korned beef, kold V>ili'<l nmll.in nml nnee in a ereat while, a phew slices ov kold ham, with mustard and ho>s reddish. ? I examined hiz head and fjuud that he had ail the usual bumps iu a remark* able state ov prcservushuu. lie haz u good ear for music, and Whisselled me Yankee duodlo, with variashuus. Ho was born a shoemaker, but hasn't dun ennything at the trade, for the last 125 years. lie enjoys ine besi ov health, but just now he iz teolhiug, which ho tells me iz hiz 7th sett. On tjie subjekt ov marriage hiz lied seems to be on a ded level. He sed '?that he had been married 15 times, and proposed tsguiu teu Hannah Camp bell, a lady in the neighborhood, who wus 28 years old. I asked him what he thought hiz chances were for obtaining the lady's hand, and he sed "it lays*between him and one Theodor Whitney, a traveling kom doctor/' and added ; "if Whitney don't lcpl> out i wilLeuluvgo his head for him." UpoT? mi ticking him- what he attri buted his immense life und vigor to, h ? sed, iu a clear and dtS'iokt voice : '?To 3 small horns ov whiskey a day, Deleaving in the hard shell docterin, aud voting unanimously the douioorttik ticket." I thaukt him vory much for the in fbrinatioti he hnd given me ov himselt, und i sked him if* he hud enny objekshun to mi putting it iuto print, und ho manifested a greut desire that i should do so, noc forgetting to make special mcushun ov what he had sed about enlarging Whitney's head for him, for he thought that would clear him out ov the naborhood. I left John Bascomb ufter ?i delight ful visit oV four hours, und thought over teu tniself, if thare was enny two rules for long life that had beet) thus far discovered that waz alike. The more i thought ov this, the more i wished i could cum ucrost Mcthuseler for a leu ruiuuttSj and hear him tell how he managed. elizabeth meachem. Lab Mcucltetn (as she iz familiarly culled in the township wharc she resides) iz one ov the rarest gems ov extenuated mortality that it has ever been unblessed luk teu enkounter. * Si is tiot so old as BuSCOinb bi about two years, being about 191 years old. Next to Lots wife she iz the best preser ved woman the world contains. I reached her place ov residence early in the morning und in ouc miniu.tt after i told her mi bizzincss, her tongue had a phull hod of steam on, and lor three hours it run like a stream of quicksilver down an iuklincd plain. 1 asked her a thousand question at least, but not one of them did she tins wer, but kept talking all the time faster thau P?cbuheutufl kau pace down hill teu saddle. Az near as i could find out she had lived 15*4 years simply because she couldn't 1 io without cutting short one ov ' her Storys. I ?r.sked bar teu sho uie sho mc her tongue. I wanted to si-c if that member \ waz badly -vorn ; but she couldn't stop it h>;ig cnufl' teu show it. This woman haz reached her enor inous ago, without eny partikular habits. She haz outlived overy body she haz eonic ukrosr, so far by out-tal ;ing them The only subject that I could lor a moment k.irt the fitiod over her laiiguago with, was the fashiuus j hut this was a subjeet upon which i unfortunately wasn't much. As u hist hope ov drawing her out upon sum fukti as ten her mod ? ov lifo, i lushed upon that all-absorbing (opick teu both old and young?1 ruler now teu matrimony. Her fuflt husbauu it seemed, was a karpenter, and teu use ber own words, ?Svas too lazy ten tab, or teu listen while she 'ulked, und su he died Her si ckoi'd hunban i was a pretty got id talker loir u poor listener, and, lharefurc he ilied Her third husband was a deff and dum man. and, uz she remarked, "either he or she had got leu die, aud 'he mm died." llii* fourth husband Undertook ten out talk ber, and died curly. In this way bhe went ou dcakribiug her husbands ; 1- in all. Az i i ose teu depart i Bed teu her ?otlernuly : "ALIZABKTH MEACHEM, you have been mulch married, and mutch an lukonsoiutc winder?at what time ov life do you think the married state ceases teu he preferable V She replied : "Vuu must usk somebody older than I am " An Upsetting Sin?Dr M'Cush, Preidcnt of 1'riuceCon College, tells the .story of a negro who prayed carnostly thai he and his colored brethren might be presetvd from what he called their ??up.-uttiu sins. '?liiudder/' said ouc ol bis fviouds, at the close of the meeting, "v<>u ain't got de hung iff dut ur word: it's 'besottiu," not upsettin. "Brudder," replied theother, "ifdat's ho, it's so. But 1 was a prayin, dc Lord td sabo us from de sin of intoxication and it dat ain't u upsetting, sin, L duunu what am. Say w hat you have a luiud to about mules, they will have their 0WU way when ibe) uiakc up their mind to. In Louis ville, the other day, one ol them kicked up behind und alter kDucking a pint ol tooth out of the driver he laid down in the shafts aud went to sleep with a sniilo on his face that was perfectly child like and blaud. Tho Experience J>f "Uris*; In a Strict Tempitance Town* "Gris" writes $ t Ymcs-Chronicle tbu {: .the Cinoinnatti Times-Chronicle tbtt J: I stopped over nijht iu a little town iu Illinois recently tlbcre, there is a large temperance rtajont? among the favored sex, who sling tho j illot, and tho conse quence is they dispc sed altogether with the dramshops and liars. No license to sei any liquor is per mitted to any otie^ and a pretty sharp watch is kept to ttf? that none is given away. This woti'*. not have troubled me any, and I probably would not have known it, except! {that that luudlord is I registered mot'yicd me mysteriously into the hall. V "Stranger," eak'nfac, as he closed the door, keeping hijJbaud on tho knob, "this is tho worst. dmuperance town in America. They i\-t&.ll allow us to sell a drop, tavern keeper nor any oue else. Can't buy it at tho utng store '. But I know how it is with traveling men ; they like a drop oi s thin' ia tftkc when they g'> a hotel. Now5 here (putting his hand iu his? cout-tt-ji pocket and produ cing a stna'l flask j some New Knglau' rum that i can ^commend. Take a good hern ; it'll do can see you." I thanked the htt you good. Nobody ?pitable and sympa thetic luudlord, wlj'j wanted to put a bottle to 111} lips, b/it I declined.. "All right," said he, aftdr taking a swig him self," ''whenever you feeJ like having a small nip just Icmm J know." I sought my roftii, and was making ablutions, whuti tltero was a knock at tliu door. "Come in 1" He came in, a g[od humored looking man. wi.h a suuse/ glow on the cud of bis noto, who, witl^n furtive glance out in the hall. closVd?^lie door and turned the key. ThenxUe advanced mysterious ly toward me ori tiptoe, with one hand to his mouth, as he stated. "S h-h," while the other was reaching for his coat tail pocket. I was a little startled at fust. 1 must confess. Didn't know but 1 was to be made a vie!im to emotional insanity by an injured husband who had mistaken me for another man. But my fears wire dispelled when he drew out a willow lla>k. It is4a sufficiently deadly weapon in some hand-. I know, but it d iesu't scare me a.-> a loaded revolver docs, somehow. "Stranger," said my visitor as be sat the Husk dowu on the table, ??our folks here has ?ot temperance tin the bruin. Teetotul abstinence has struck in. Thar ha.n't been a bar open guiu' Oil two years. S-good thing, no doubt, for them us enti'l govern their uppetite for liker, but it's kinder lough ou the bo<s us occasionally likes a drop. And it's rougher on strangers as stops in the tow ll? gives em a bad idea of the place. 1 s e ye when ye Um iu, und I thought ye looked dry, SO 1 Iiiade bohl tu walk Up here and oiler you a dram ont o my par ticular Dusk. It's good ; y m can 'pond tin's. 1'nre old Bourbon whiskey right from Ciueinaati." "My mysterious and anknown friend," said I. "I thank you for your extremely thoughtful kiiidiic.-s. An experience of several years in observing thu effects of Citiciuuuti whiskey s.itisli ;s me that you that 1 could safely warrant. Uut I don't Iccl the need of any just now.-' "All right, old Cup," said my culler, taking a long pull al the 11 i>k himself. "All right, you don't have to. If 3011 get dry, though, call on me." It was a pleasant afternoon, an 1 1 sauntered down on the street for a walk. The hm.ll rd was sitting on the front step. With that de-ire to make it pleas ant f'-rme which was so marked a fea ture in our Hi3t interview, he introduced me all around. If there is anything 1 like better tjuni jinotbef it is being in troduced all around to a party, say L',"> 01 30. You will kn ?w th? in all the next time you see them, you know, ami cull their .?allies so readily. And it U so pleasant to be suddenly and unexpectedly called upon to converse with twenty ftvo or thirty Strangers, particularly when you ure not iu a h?mor to converse with youi ni' st common forms of Amevionn in troduction, and you know how it is your self. 1 at loDght mentioned that I was going to take a little walk, and immediately u couple of my ucw friends volunteered to accompany mc and show me tho tDWn. After seeing the town, which didn't re quire much time, ac it waeu't verry large, they were very atilxlb?s thafll'fo^Ul; bsq their ?ew face track.' airfgn sdi I Of ? Datwdlly yiolrliog.n?ture,(fte the" track was when.I left), I complied, '1 praised their irack, as they seemed to expect I should. I eulogised their co trance gate?admired their 'gate, you kuow?extolled the ticket office, and lavished worfstof.commendation ori the judge's staud. That stand, L.told,.thera could stand anything and I , very7irono ccntly inquired if it could qot stand " ? . I hlad 'jw ??..Mi.'U loq ; treat. Then they instst?d'bn taking Me "upon the judge's stnndf-but I stoutly reiiste^ that though I finally compromised by looking iulo a lit ties room beneath tli ' stand called the judge's room! Once in there they shut the door, aud?you may not believe it, hat it is so??euch. of. thqse young men drew a flask 6vit of his' pock et and offered nie a drink. I will not Tepcht to you the indignant1 and .scathing rebuko I administered those young men, aud it is hardly ucccssary for me to say I emptied thuir flasks?both their flasks?right where I Stood, as a salutary warning to them against trifling with the temperance regulations of their native town or at tempting to leid an innocent traveller ast ray. I positively never bad so mnjiy snares laid lor me and temptations laid before me as I hud iu that teuirpnance town, where they didn't scH a drop. They were a most generous and hospitable people, though.' a*nd did hate to see a stranger suffer. TRW didn't sot in to care for themselves, but likod to have a little within reach wheu a traveller came along. Wearied with resisting those clandes tine invitations to "take sutliiu'," I at last announced my desire* to go to bed. A colored man showed me up to my room, and ashed it there wa- anything I wanted.'* *I told him no' Jlu (fesi a ted, walked to the .stove and poked the lire } then turned his uUeiltidn to the lamp to see if that was properly trimmed and burning, got as far as the door, and j hesitated again. "Well, what do you want, George?" said f. I always cull u r <! ?! d man 'a uve, because Itioro than half of the time that i^ h?t) name, and when it i-u t h-r likos to be called George, because the father of his adop ted country was. i I suppose I know n dozen colored men whose names were originally I'eter, or Julius CtUaar, or Kpbnuniuodas, who have gone and got their names chauged to George because they liked to hear me call them George so well. "What do you want George?" "Uh nut hin', Bar," said George, turn ing his old soft hat on bin thumb, and leaning aguiust the decreasing; ??but I thought"?here his head dr ippcd in an embarrassed way. ?'Well, whit did you think, George1, said I, encouragingly, supposing be wanted a little s< :ip to send to the missiouarics iu Africa. "If you will 'acuae mc." repljed George, at length,,g|,vi*'g tip scratching 11i.-> shin and scratching his hcafd, "1 t bought, bein'e you's a .-tranger, heah?" "Well, George, go oil." "And the license laws a little clus??"' " j es, jes' so. ??You might want a little drink 'fore ynu goes to bed. .Now, in my pocket 1 I jest got? ; He got no further in his speech, but he jes' "got" out of the door and dowu the stairs iu about two jumps, for he saw by the excited way in which 1 was pawing around the stove that L was looking for the poker. Gatciii.no.?"Johnny where is your pa?" ?Gono fishing, sir." llo was fishing yesterday, was ho ' not?" Yes, sir.'' What did bo catch?" "One catfish, the rheumatism two eels, the loochache and some litr.lc ohes. Ma says he'll Ofttch-to night; just wait till be gets homo?" An old bachelor, who bad become melancholy ami poetical, wrote some verses for the village paper, in which he expressed tho hop.-, ih.it the time would conic w hen be should ? "Real calmly iu a shroud, nitk a weeping willow by my Bide Hut to his inexpressible horror it came out iu print: "When I shall rest clamly in a shawl, With a whopping wj-low hy my side. ''"?ur daily cotourporarlw us what they !drm; local tfrSitdeaP^lfiitj an enterprising*' geWds- is?'''?nW?*,Arn^del county has* invented feu! h is paper a string ci/" Ittboj-saving.iteujs.. 'They do. for any locality,.and a? ibey a^cjnot patented, wfl liavo as good a right, tojuse them hi kdyb?dy'elso. ' We makVrdom for thfl followfagV ? ei sj A-b',iab. ' g bee 4s a lo j dm. Pidgiuft,, , -,i relae-iO j ii j| Chow chew. Railroad. , ,, ' Wet raid/ " ' ' Much mud hole. Immenso ankle crop. City spreading. t l'ig styes multiplying. Alleys Odoriferous. | 'handsome.?John Smith's cow.shed'.' ? A" b'?rut'ehild rrfak'etii the h'&rt sick!' I^Bill Stump has a fleat ?wcfodipile Wheu rogues fall out the mice will p|ay. Eutcrprising citizen, Jouathan Whoopcuhizcr has erected a fine hen coop. Hope deferred gathers no mb-s. Clever neighbor Jako Stebbins, has enlarged hisashpilo.; . A bird iu the hand dreads the fire. That pbilantrophic gentleman, Manu? eT Dutteucuttcr, extracted a rac from his trap by inserting his finger" between its teeth, and iuimediatel liberated the gentle sufferer. A merciful man is mer ciful to his beast. A suspicious stranger wants to buy rags. Beware I Supposed to be ridi culing the apparel of the community. An exchuuge boasts that it* office is at last lighted with gas. Spoutaueous combustion, probably. November follows Oe Cob er and pre cedes DccenJbcV. THT?d'thl? month thirty one d?y?, lfWoul*nffcp.i99Cults'?h:-js tili day after to-morrow. Selah 1 This year Chriattnas fulUon December 2?th. hast year the 25th of December fjll on Christmas. Singular coincidence, the whereof may not happen more than ouee in a year. If day before yesterday bad been day after to -morrow. Saturday would have been kicked into the middle of next Week. The difference between Niagara aud our last serenade is rather in favor of the serenade. The former is a cataract, the latter a cattyracket.? Caveat filed herewith. The riso in the river lias produced many good results. Among others, wo note that the resumption of navigation having enabled the exhausted supply of vermifuge to be replenished, our worthy cotemporary of the Roaring Rtutdb??t has recovered his former sweetness of temper. Small boys arc saving their coat sleeves by wearing aud using pocket haukcrchief. Encased in Ice and Ykt Auvk, ?C)n Saturday morning, as Mr. .Joseph Mottera, oh up-town ice dealer, sawed, out a piece ot ice about two feet by twen ty niches, a bug resembling a June bug excepting that its wings and body were of a buff color, rolled out upou the side walk. It had not remained there many minutes before it evinced signs of lifo, uuu in a iew minuets ti e eitect of Lite sun was so marked, tlut the liberated prisoner started to lind new quarters. The block of ice from which this piece was tawed was very heavy* and came from the far North. How the bug could have lived iu this muss of ice, iu a ques tion tho ice dealer could.uot answer. It must, however, have been encased iu iH? ice prisont for soveral months. An editor out West who thought tlie wa ,cs demanded by compositors was imposition, discharged his bauds and intends doing his owu type-setting in future. He say,: "owinG To the oXoad'iTan) WatiKS dRma^jded bv piiu)crrte wE h.\.\e Co?Clitdejj To do oult ow^ tvpo sEjtiuG IN iho fuTuile: ; aii(j ni/rtfbuoil w^.j ocaer (KaftuE? Tho cjusiuoss' Ato dO ^joj Soo utvy gHett) uiAsTclty in tile sUa. In former da)f, when the cook-book was ineludcTd in the educational course for young ladies, they were taught iu this rule: ' First cuteh your hare, then dicss it." In tho enlightened preseut the cook-book docs Uot shliio, but this rule, with slight alterations, is: First buy your hair, then dress it youag ladies." pleusanThablE of keeping % tarn? tage* it ia known, possesse?: for some savago wolf as a?i*vorite companion at NSwltVall fJeldoB,? ontajaB-of fit) .imli nn l?tl81t?iiavJ'4T' eogro, oea^-j^ijyj^b of EugKift birtb having any very particular predilection for snakes. A gentleman "of urbane man ners and great' libeva&w''Jitejf raid* inx near >SUe)by?i^ Jjfentadufe^waf. tastes,. ^ He cooliecteu about; hja frfljoe the most? Veuom?un tmalces lo1 DO1 iMft in that region. Th(rpl5aserTa?^rVrised visitor to this singular* chaiWrtttT' waould I see "one snake ?? wiled;'. ?JL iHmm^*mi*i another nn.^^^v^\^t^^f?sf I and .ofhers lyine around iust nromiaen aus like." We are all liable to meet with accidents, however and tats Torer of snakes met at^&tfC wltlr^'i^?Kons ron?: He hid: tttuwyMMrttsaP? t^jfc bat lively garter snake, and witbpubtfqjring it any time to get accustomed to it? changed quarters, bo nut it in his hat. and his hat on bis head, with tue result that be was soon bitten," and dieoV the next morning. Remarkable to rolato, bis widow, instead of keeping hie snakes to remember the dear-.^fpeeeed at once bad them all killed.. . A ? t ? ? i.j.'Tjft nut a?flu A DrsousTED Jif?at:?A&ArlAnsas judge havl his law oftfde 'so elo3**\o a certuin h}docto^'a4?j?t.i?ft<l they vWere i separated only by a plank pat.t/tn?|I;with a door iu it. The judge was at bis tale busy with big4 griefs and Dills, in chan 1 eery. The MlofwA writUnf 1W letter, aud pdtfsrftfg al the voi'd, economical, oalled out. ? "Judge, isa'te q mbthe way to spell equinoratcair' . ''Yes I tbink it , is, said the judge; but here's Webster's Dictionary.^! caujsoqu. tell., He jopeu cd'.tbe book, auu! turned ovcr'tb^e loaves [repeating aloud, ?e-quinomical?o-qui notnical, "Finding the propper place, he ran his eye and finger up and down the column two or three times Until he was throughly satisfied that the Word in question was not thr?rC. dlosiug the book with a shim, the jddgd t&\& his specs on the table and rising slowly, broke forth' Well, sir, I have always been a Daniel Webstor man, and voted fur him fur President; but any nlacf that will write as big a dictionary as this and not put as common a word as equino mical in it c ..'t get my vote for anything hereafter. ? , ??iB-ittarirhfcurinm-i ? Tbc San Francisco Chronicle chrouicl cs the death and funeral of, t young spiritualist medium named HearyChase, iu which there is a rather l?dicroaa il lustration of the strength of the ruling passion after death. Tb? young man's mother preached his funeral sarufotf, in which site said that since his death she bad bad several interviews with him- In life he was a jolly and frolicsome youth und while bis corpse was being prepared for burial, be entered the room and gave his mother to Understand that ,- ' hef did uot think he would make auuh an ugly looking corpse" During the whole pro cos8 of dressing him after death bo 'was present in the room; cnttiog up antics, jumping about, standing on his head, and doing other funny things. Bo little use is there for one's body,- thai one may perform all these aSrokuirt fed** even when deprived of it* A clever old lady, apparently just arrived on a train from the country, entered one of the refreshment* rooms at the Springfield depot, the other clay aud gazed eagerly about the apartment as though scorching for something. At last a waiter inquired what sho waa looking for, and she repliod that aber left ber purnsol on the settee, and Waa trying to find it. A goueral soaToh com menced, and lasted for some timo. Fi nally ouo of the waiters asked the old rjamo when she left it, to which she answered after counting up on her fingen, HWelK it was just thrco years ago las* 4th of July." There was a gevumt roar, much to the astonishment of the old lady who went away with a very pusslod look upon her countenance. At a recent examination of one of the schools in Washington, tbjo question waa put to a class of small hoys; Why is the Connecticut rivor so called Yr when a bright little follow hold up bis hand. "Do yoa kuow, Jomes ?" "Yes, ma'nra; because it connects Vermont and* New Hampshire, and cuts through Massa chusetts," was the triumphxmt re