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The Old 8exton.
Nigh to r grave that was newly made,
Leaned a Sexton olid, on htseailh-worn spade,
Ills work was done, and he paused to wait
The funeral train at the open gate;
A, relic of by gone days was he,
And his locks were white as the foamy sea,
And these words came from his lips so thin?
" I gather them in?I gather them in 1"
* t Ar>
4< I gather ahem in?for man and boy,
Year after yoar of grief and poy,
I've buiided the houses that lie around,
fn every nook of this burial ground ;
Mother and daughter, father and son,
Come to my solitude, ouo by one;
But come they strangers or come they kin,
I gather them in?I gather them in I
44 Manv are with me, yet I'm alone;
lt._ _r r\-- l -_i ? -* ---
i iu tying ui ,111c jm-hu, nun iiihko my lurone
On a monument elab of marble cold ;
My sceptre of role is ibis spado I hold ;
Coma they from collage or conic they from
ball,
Mankind arc my subjects?Ml?all?all I
Let them loiter in pleasure or toilfully spin,
1 gather thqpi in?1 gather them in I
" I gather theui in?and their final rest
Is here, down here, iu the earth's dark breast."
And the Sexton ceased as the funeral train
Wound mutely over that solemn plain,
And I said to myself- ? When lime is told
A mightier voice tlinn that Sexton's old
Will be heard o'er the last trump's dreadful
? dio*?
M I gather them in ? I gather thein Iti I
He's Coming.
He's coming, the blushing rose
Whispers it low to me,
And the starlight hastens with it,
Over the twilight sea.
All trembling the zephyrs tell me,
On the light winds hurrying past,
And my own heart quickly beHting,
Coining, coining, at last.
The soft lipped waves of the ocean,
Gathering at my feet,
Breeze-born from the coral island,
Murmur the secret sweet.
There's not a dew 6teep'd bloaom,
Or fflislcninor orancre tree.
But furnish its leaves glee-laden,
To breath this joy to rao.
List 1 that is the sound of rowing
Stealing along the air,
1 must gather round my temples
This weight of braided hair,
And trust to growing darkness,
And evening shadows dim,
To hide with their wings the traces
Of tears I've shed for him.
3His?llonenus 11 wiling.
[roa TUB SOL-YBKKX EXTBnrsux.}
Burning Fluid or Bpirit Chut
Although the properties of fluid and
n camphine are quite different, as the former
- is prepared of four parts of alcohol and ono
iFpart of spirits turpentine, while camphine
^Bftfhe purified 'spirits turpentine, neverthe
f^we see those two articles very often connded.
As the burning fluid is our cheapest
Mtd flU*nest article for light, and, regarding
IvaAutlful mil/1 UivUi aimAMAM 1a . aan
|W> liyuiHWl Hum nil aupmim w
df?e%nd mat); kinds of oils, it Is very iuapoitant
that the public should be well acif^
'ffir l^? *rt"iw?
and a few words will be sufficient to show
that burning fluid is 4s safe a material as oil
o?||!e,, while camphine must be considpt?&;pftngarous
in the highest degree.?
I.'timing fluid has no exploding properties
*
> . &? ,;jJ3
.. h.i JMl's >' "t. fcil
itt unmixed stale, as it is used for illurainat- I
ing purposes. Its exploding properties will
burst the lamp or oan, if untimely ignited,
and set on fire everything in its neighborhood
; therefore, it must bo considered as
extremely dangerous in the hands of every
person. Hundreds are burnt to death in
consequence of explosious of campbino
lamps and cnmphlne vessels, and as the public
is generally not vory careful in investigating
the cause of the conflagrations, it oflen
happens that the damage is ascribed to the
harmless burning fluid. Tho use of the
campliine should bo interdicted by the authorities
; but it would be unjust to demand
the same with regard to the burning fluid.
With the same right we could as well de
mand the banishment of the open (ire plac
es iu our house*, as hundreds of children
and grown persons loso their lives by coin ng'in
too close contact with this greatest of
our domestic comforts. E. K.
Legend of the Supernatural.
There is a talc, reported by Lord Lyttloton,
(we mean, of course, the younger of
that name,) which shows lite tendency in
the minds of even the shrewdest men of the
world to give respcc'fu! audience to the
marvelous and supernatural. It may be
found in the twenty-tirst of Lord LvUleton's
letters.
He says that in the early part of the life
of t one of his friends, ho attended a
hunting club, when a well-mounted stranger,
of genteel address, joined the club, and
rode with a courage and address that astonished
everybody. The aniniul he rode is
described as one of nmnziug powers and endurance.
The huntsmnn, who was left far
behind, swore that the man nnd his horse
were devils from hell. After tho sport, he
was invited to dinner, nnd astonished the
company as much by liis conversational
Sowers nnd llie elegnnco of his manners, as
y his equestrian powers.
ITc was, says Lord Lyttleton, an orator, a
painter, a poet, a musician, a lawyer, a divine?in
short, ho was everything, and tho
magic of his discourse kept the drowsy
sportsmen awake long after their usual hour.
At fourth they reliicd, but had scarcely
ciosca ineir eyes when they were awakened
by the most lerriblo shrieks resounding
through ihe house. Inquiring of ihe servants,
they were told that these horrid
sounds proceeded from ihe stranger's chnm
ber, and on approaching his room, deei?cr
groans of despair and shriller slnicks of
agonv astonished and terrified them. After
knocking at the door, he answerer! them as
one just awakened from sleep, declared he
had heard no noise, and, in* rather angry
tones, desired not to bo disturbed again.
The company accordingly retired, and
scarcely begun to communicate their sentiments
to each other, when n repetition of
the most horrible sounds broke in upon
their conversation?yells, scream*, shrieks,
which, from ihe horror of them, seemed to
issue froin the throats of damned and tortured
spirits. They immediately followed
the sounds, and traced them to the stranger's
chamber, the door of which they in
,t.. i . -? ?
Btuuwy uurhi open, una louna turn on Ins
knees in bed, in (he set of scourging himself
with the most unrelenting severity, his
body streaming with blood.
On their seizing his hand to slop the
strokes, he begged them, in the most wringing
tone of voice, as an act of mercy, that
they would retire, assuring them that the
cause of their disturbance was over, and
that in the morning he would acquaint them
with tho reasons of the terrible cries they
had heard, and the melancholy sight they
saw. After a repetition of entreaties, they
retired, and in tho morning aomo of thein
wont to his chamber, but he was not there;
and on examining the bed, they found it to
be one gore of blood. Upon further inqui
ry, the groomsman said, as soon as it was
light, the gentleman came to his stable
booted and spurred, desired his horse might
be immediately saddled, and appeared to be
extremely impatient (ill it was done, when
he vaulted into his saddle, and rode out of
the yard at full speed. Servants were immediately
despatched into every part of the
snrrounding country, but not a single trace
of him could be found; such a person had
not been seen by any one, nor has been
I since nearu or.
Loru Lyitleton ptoceeds to stato that the
circumstances cf this strange story t.ere immediately
committed to writing, and signed
by all who witnessed them, that the future
credibility of any one, who should think
proper to relate theni, might be duly supported.
Among thoso who witnessed it
were some of the first men in England.
The charm of tbie marvelons narrative,
in which Lord Lyttleton evidently suspocted
something supernatural, is somewhat dispelled
by the fact that, about the date of
the narrative, an American gentleman, by
the name ot linger, of Booth Carolina, visited
England, who was just such a person
as described above, as line a horseman, a
man of very elegant manners and splendid
powers of conversation, but who had the
ugly habit of whipping himself in his sleep,
precisely as dctorioed by Lord Lyttleton.
The Lost Child and the Dcfg
One of the most striking instances which
we have heard of the Ragacity and personal
attachment of the shepherd's dog, occurred f,
about half a century ago, in the Grampian
mountains of Scotland. e
In ono of his excursions to his distant J]
flocks in the high' pasturages, a shepherd t
happened to carry along with him ono of }i
his children, an infant about thiee years r
old. After traversing his pasture for some f
UUic, attended by his dog, the shepherd f
found himself under the necessity of ascend- <]
ing a summit at some distance, to have a <
more extensive view of bis range. As the c
ascent wns too fatiguing for the child, he left |,
him on a small plain of the bottom, with a
strict injunctions not to stir from it until his 1
return. Scarcely, however, had ho gained a
the summit, when the horizon was suddenly t
darkened by one of those impenetrable mists, t
which frequently descend so rapidly amidst
these mountains, as, in tho ipacc of a few \
minutes, almost to turn day into night.? s
The anxious father instantly hastened back 11
to find his child ; but owing to the unusual I r
darkness, and his own trepidation, ho unfor- . |
tunaieiy missed bis way in the descent.? t
After a fruitless search of many hours among t
the dangerous morasses and cataiacts with I
which these mountains abound, he was at t
length overtaken by night. Still wander- ,
ing on, without knowing whither, ho at ,
length came to the verge of the mist, and ,
by the light of the moor., discovered that he j
had reached the bottom of his valley, and .
was w ithin a short distance of his cottage. |
To renew tlio search that night was equally |
fruitless and dangerous. He was therefore <
obliged to return to bis cottage, having lost ,
both his child and bis dog, which had at- )
tended him faithfully for years. I
Next morning by daybreak, the shepherd, <
accompanied by a band of his neighbors, ,
set out in search of the child, but, after a <
day spent in fruitless fatigue, he was at j
length compelled by the approach of night, j
to descend from the mountain. On return- |
ing to his cottage, he found that the dog. f
which he had lost the day before, had been |
home, and, on receiving a piece of cako, had ,
instantly gone otF again. i
For several successive days the shepherd ,
renewed the search for his child ; and still, (
on returning at evening disappointed to his
cottage, he found that his dog had been
hotne, and, on receiving his usual allowance
of cake, had instantly disappeared. Struck s
with this singular ciicumstnnce, he remain- J
ed at home one day, and when the dog, as
usual, came and departed with his piece of 1
cake, ho resolved to follow him, and find
i .L - ? 1
out me cause or mis strange procedure.? 1
Tlie dug led the way to a cataract, at some J
distance from the spot where the shepherd *
hud left his child. The bank? of the cataract '
almost joined at the top, yet seperated by an J
abyss of immenso depth, presented that appearance
which so often asloni>hes ami ap- 1
pals the travelers who ficquent the Grain- 1
piar. mountains, and indicates, that these 1
stupendous chasms were not tho silent work
of time, but the sudden effect of some vio '
lent convulsion of tho earth. Down one of <
these rugged and most perpendicular dc- 1
cents, the dog began without hesitation to 1
mnko his way, and at last disappeared in a 1
cave, tho mouth of which was almost level '
with the torrent. The shepherd with diffi- I
culty followed; but on entering tho cave, '
what were his emotions when he beheld his ?
infant, eating with much satisfaction the 1
cake which the dog had just brought him, 1
while tho faithful animal stood by, eyeing <
bis young charge with the greatest compla 1
cency.
From llie situation which the child was 1
found, it appears that he had wandered to <
the brink of the precipice, and then eithei ?
fallen or scrambled down till he readied the *
cave, which the drend of tho torrent had '
prevented hiin from quitting. Tho dog by <
inoans of his scent, had traced him to the 1
spot, and afterwards prevented him from 1
stnrving, by giving up to him his daily al- '
lowanco. llo appeals never to have quitted 1
the child by night or day, except when it
was necessary to go for his food, and then
he was always seen running at full speed to I
and from the cottage. J
Painful IlitTRinuTioN, if Tuuk.?The J
Newport Spectator says there is a young '
man in a town of Vermont, who cannot '
speak to his father. Previous to his birth,
some difference arose between his mother and (
Her husband, and. for a considerable time, '
I she refused 10 speak to h?w. The difficulty 1
was subsequently healed?(bo child was 1
| bom and in due lime began to talk?but (
when sitting with his father was invariably '
silent. It continued so until he was five 1
years old, when the father, having exhaust- 1
ed his powers of persuas'on, threatened it I
with punishment for its stubbornness. When '
the punishment was inflicted, it elicited *
nothing but sighs and groans, which told
but too plainly that the little sufferer was
vainly endeavoring to speak. All who were
present united in this opinion, that ii was '
impossible for the child to speak to his fa *
tier?and time proved their opinion to be
correot. At a maturer age its efforts to eon- ?
verso with He parent could only produce bit
ter sighs and groans.
B* hemeat, boys. u
A Touching Incident
TItKLOVKOF A CHILD.
The Rochester Democrat furnishes the 1
allowing interesting item. It says:
The death of a lovely child was mention-.
d in our paper n few dnya ago, and we j
iave just hoard of an incidentconntc'ed with :
hat event which touches all the tender feelngj>
of the human heart. Among the
nany destitute children who dnilyscok their
nod from door to door, is a small girl who
requeully went to the house where the little
lecensed boy lived. Sometimes she lingered
for a few moments, and by degices be:nme
acquainted with and attached to this
ovely child, until Anally she often remained j
i long while, and shared in its amusements, j
The sequel shows that during this time an
ittachment was formed, the strength and
cndeiness of which was only known when
he little one was cold in death.
The evening before the funeral, this little
>eggar girl went to the kitchen, tho place
he was accustomed to tro. and remained
tnlil after nine o'clock, hoping, ns has since j
ippcared, to get a glimpse of the corpse of
ler little friend. When the procession start- j
:d for Mt. Hope she was observed l>y an
incic of the deceased to be near, and sobdng
ns though her heart was broken, but
10 ono know the cause of Iter grief. Ar
ived at the entrance of the place of burial,
the was again seen, having walked and run
ill the way in a warm day, tho sweat pouring
from her sunburnt face anil brow, and
die panting for breath. She followed on to
the grave, and after the services and lite
lowering of tho little sleeper to his final
Barthly rest, the apparently friendless stranger
was questioned as to the cause of her
jrief; and then, for the first time, it was
bund that she was grieved as only her sobs
iould toll, at the loss of the little child, whol
vlien she came upon her daily errand, had
attained it-elf around her heart. That little I
jirl, the child of poor parents?goes in the
dainest garh; it may be soiled and torn?
icr feet bare, and her whole appearance, so
hi as dress is concerned, indicating extreme
loverly ; but U' der all this, if the incident
illttded to is an index to what the eye can
tot see, she lias a heart containing a jewel
\hich God himself will give a place in his
>wn crown.
Gymnastics in Swedish Schools.
Special pains ate taken in the public
cliools of Sweden to developc the physical
is well as intellectual powers of the pupils.
L'he following is given of the system which
he Swedes pursue :
44 Every school building has its large high
oom, with earthen or malted floor, and all
iorls of implements for developing the musties?ladders,
poles, wooden horses, crossbars
up to the roof, jumping places, ropes
or swinging, knotted ropes for climbing, <kc.
lhe scholars are not allowed to exercise on
vhat they wish, hut there arc regular traind
squads, and move and march, sometimes
.o music, at the v/ord of command.
44 At a huge public school in Stockholm,
I saw the lads in their noon lessons of gymnastics.
Tho lonelier gnvo lite word and n
dozen sprang out towaid a tall polo with
:ross-lmrs, and, clumering up it, each hung
with his legs; then, at the word, all together
dropped their heads bnekwatds, and hung
jy the feet and ankles, then again recovered
themselves, and let themselves down. An>ther
party, one after the other, squirmed
ip a naked mast; another pulled themselves
ip hand over hand on a knotted rope; oth;rs,
in succession, played leap frog over a
? i .1 ' *
nuuucii uor^o; men, uiey marched to the
>eat of the drum. The smaller or weaker
>oya begin witb tho lowest grado of exerand
follow up, according to a scientific
ivstem, arranged for health. They all
leetned to go into it with the greatest relsh,
and showed well trained muscular powsr.
I could not hut conclude that the supcior
physique of tie Swedish men is not onirely
due to climate. NVIien will America
earn that health and strength have tiieir
inescapable laws t"
Is Lager Beer Intoxicating ??This
?rent question of the day was raised in the
rial of liquor dealers beforo the Circuit
3ourt in Uro>?kly n last week. Yesterday the
rials were continued. The case of Jacob
5'auts was the first called. Mr. Stants keeps
i lager beer saloon in the eastern 'district of
Urooklyn, and is indicted for selling intoxicating
liquois on Sunday. Several witness
in swore that it was intoxicating. In the
lefence, witnesses were equally positive tlint
t was not. Ono witness swore that lie
Irank on h wagor, in the city of Brooklyn,
teven and a half gallons of lagor beer in
wo hours ! Another, one hundred and six- \
y quarts in one day! Another, thirty
tints within five minutes. Another took
iftcen glasses to give him an appetite for
ireakfast. The ease is stifl on.
[iV?w York Times.
" This is George the Fourth," said an extibitor
of wax-work, pointing to a slim figire.
" I thought he was a very stout man."
1 Verv likely, but if you'd been here with>ut
victuals half so long as he has, you'd
teen twice as thin."
?,? >?'
Expekikkck is like time?it puts a man
ij> to tnany a wrinkle.
Tkavts, the Sroivrrxo WmjTki.L, Snoortxo
Okaxoes from a Boy's Head.?We f
have already alluded to the thousand dollar t
Roger made by John Travis, thai he will t
shoot three orange# from the head and hands i
of a boy?distance, thirty feet?weapon, a
pistol. When wo reflect that the tremor or t<
movement of a muscle may be sufficient to t
cause a premature discharge, and that the f
deviation of the fraction of an inch to the t
ftrecisc aim might terminate fatally to the I
ad, the font appears as wonderful as it is e
certainly novel. Travis formerly resided in a
Saratoga. The font comes off in Louisville,
in Juue. The oranges are each to bo 2^inches
in diameter; one is placed on the top
of his head, and one on the back of ench ?
band, the aims being extended. In this po t
silion. at the distance of ten paces, or thirty t
feet, facing the shooter, and with no inter- t
vening object, Capt. John Travis proposes to 8
hit the orange, and has only three shots to '
hit the three oranges. The bov who is to ?
support the oranges is ten years of ngo, and 1
a bright nnd sprightly Ih<I. He has every
confidence in the ability of Capt. Trnvis to <
hit eacli object, and has equally as much in 1
hi* own nerve, which cannot be surpassed. ?
lie is now under daily training. The bovV
feet arc placed twelve inches apart, nnd his
hands upon his hips. The Captain shoots t
through the angle made by the bending of I
the aims and between the feet. This is <
I done to accustom tho boy to the firing, and,
1 if possible, give him more confidence and i
make hiin feel at ea^e. The little fellow is
a native of Louisville, and his mother is always
present during the practising. She is
| entirely satisfied that it will result in safety i
to her son. This is probably the most dan- I
| gerous feat ever undertaken by anv man in
i this conn'ry.?Albany Knickerbocker.
Tim following is a literal copy of a list
handed to the nssessors, under tho laws of
Connecticut, requiring a cworu list of all
; taxable property :
I E 11 list for 1857.
'i To 35 nkcrs of land worth b-100 00.?
House and barn nolliiu nial ?>n|y a place
where theafs nnd Robers brakes into and
steels all 1 put in them.
My head which people ses I must put in
which is so weke and i'etal is worth tiothin
at a I.
My wife is of no use to me atal nnd 6he
is gone all the time nolliiu atal.
10 Slicnpo $32 00
One old loin Cat '25
One lvitne half prise 12 12
?? < > #
No Man Can Bouiiow IIimsi-lv Out of j
I Dkbt.?If you wish Or relief, you must j
work for it?economize for it ; you must
mnko more and spend less than you did
when you wero running in debt ; you must
wear homespun instead of broadcloth;
drink water instead of champagne, and rise
at four instead of seven, ludit.-lry, frugality,
economy?tliote nre the handmaids of
wealth, and the sure sources of relief. A
dollar earned is worth ten borrowed, and a
dollar saved is better than forty timea its
amount in useless gewgaws. Try our
scheme, and see if it is not worth a thousand
banks and valuation laws.
Antidote to Sxrvcunia.?The success
of camphor as an antidote to strychnin, in
the two cases reported last year by Dr.
Rochester, of 13ufT?Jo, prompted to its trial
in a recent case, reported at h fglh in the
Virginia Medical Journnl, by Dr. Clair*
boine, of Peteraburgli. The sliychnia was
taken with suicidal intent, in a dose of two
grains, and the patient was not seen until
tetanic and epileptic spasms of intense violence
had supervened, which continued for
hours, until 1 dram of champhor had been
administered in doses of 10 to 0 grains every
half hour, when they ceased, mid the patient
recovered.
Prosperity is a severe test?The human
heart is like a feather bed?it must be
i,?..,ii.,.i ??,i .....ii ?,i.-n..? ?.
J null "VII <?iiii ivv 11 i?r |jic>Clll
its becoming hard and knotty. With pros
pcrity come* the withering discovery that
opulcnco is not happiness, for the shadows
around us nro the daikest when the sun of
our fortuno is brightest. VefV often, too,
we are only the more lidiculous as well as
unhappy, for being tossed in fortune's blanket,
and having our heads tinned, by being
thus elevated above those of our fellows, it
matters little to ho worth money, if we arc
worth nothing cite.
Rkasoxs fou MAnnYiNO.~Tf yon are for
pleasure, marry ; if you prizo rosy health,
marry. A good wife is Heaven's best gift
to man ; his angel and minister of graces
innumerable ; his gem of ninny virtues ; his
casket of jewels. Her voic4 is aw ol rnusio;
her smiles, his brightest day ; her kiss, the
guardian of her innocence ; her arms, the
pale of his rafcty, '.lie balm of his hearth,
the balsam of fiis life; her industry, his
surest wealth ; her ecouomy, his safest steward
; her bosom, the softest pillow of his
cares; and her prayers, the surest of Heaven's
blessings on his head.
Waktrd to see?one of the far.-famed and
very fashionable red pcti?underskirts.?
Wkar are tbey I J
- ' 1 ''VwWjlPlpSifcw * .' .??' f,
- .
M Ik n fellow attacked my opinions in
tiint, would I reply ? Not I. Do von
liiuk T don't understand what my friend,
ho professor, long ago called the hydrostatc
paradox of controversy t
Don't know wlu\t that means ? Well, Til
ell you. You know that you had a bent
ubo, one nitn of which was of the size of a
tipe stem, and the other big enough to hold
he orean, water should stand at tho sama
leight in ono as in tho other. Controversy
quidi7.es tho fools and wise men in the
aine way?and the fools know it."
[Autocrat of the final-fast Table.
Not to nu Outdoxr.? An Englishman
ind n Yankeo were recently disputing, when
lie former sneeiingly remaiked : " Fortu*
lately, the Americans could go no further
hap the Pacific shore." Tho Yankee
crnlched hia prolific brain for an instant,
ind thus triumphantly replied: " Why,
rood gracious! thov'ro already leveling tho
tloeky Mountains, and enrting tho dirt out
West. 1 had a letter last week from my
lousin, who is living 200 miles west of tho
Pacific shore?on mado land 1" The Englishman
gave in.
?
Todacco Bovs.?Tobacco boys will mako
ohacco men, with tobacco months and tobacco
teeth, and tobacco breaths, and tobac;o
pockets, and a general tobacco smell.?
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rmu, wiiai is worse, tticy will have tobacco
appetites, which will crave lubncco enough
in their lifetime to feed tlicm, to buy them
a small farm and raise a smal! familv.?
They will, moreover, spit tobacco till along
llieir way through life, to the annoyance of
their neighbors and the displeasute of their
wives and families.
A woman called at a grocer's, and ashed
for a quart of vinegar. It was moasurcd
ont, and she put it into a gallon jug. She
then asked for nuolhci quart to put into the
same vessel.
" And why not ask for half a gallon, and
have done with it 1" impatiently asked the
grocer.
" Och I bless j-er littlo soul," answered
Bridget, knowingly, " isn't it for two that I
want it ?"
Tnu:n ok Thf.m.?A nuntbci of the citizens
of Philadelphia, Ph., have petitioned
the Legislature to pass a law prohibiting
free negroes from coming into that State.?
Thej* say that they are subjected to trouble,
inconvenience and expense, by such influx,
including old negroes, set free by their masters,
fugitive slaves, and other worthless darkies,
most of whom become a public charge,
or a prey upon individual charity.
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Buffalo Rum.? It appears that the liquor
sold in Buffalo is perfectly " orful."?
The Buffalo " Advertiser" gives the following
description of it :
"The brandy is poison?the whiskey of
that variety known as 4 hardware'?strychnine
would improve it?and tbo win. i?
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in glass hollies, simply became it would cat
through llie slaves of n bnriel in fifteen
minutes.'1
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Sxiokt Lesson in Guammar.?
Said Anna's preceptor, " A kiss is n noun :
lbit tell mc if proper or common," lie cried ;
With cheeks of Vermillion, and eyelids cast
down,
" 'Tia l?olh common atfd proper * the pupil
replied.
A hnat'tivn. Sight.?A fond, confiding
and trusting pair, with hcnits overflowing
with love and purity, walking hand in hand,
joyously nnd blushingly, modestly and hopefully
down the chequered vale of life, is, indeed,
a beautiful sight.
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The Louisville Journal is guilty of the
following :
" According to our Washington correspondent,
Grow struck fieitt. twice in the
face. First the cyc$ had'-if,, and then tho
nose."
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Dukemng Fish.?- Mr. Upliam Treat, of
Frankfort, Mo., is slocking Shnttuck's Lake,
and others adjacent, with alcwives, shad,
bass nnd salmon. Ife has expended upwards
of $2,000 in the enterprise.
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A young Irish girl, who was rendering
testimony against an individual in a court of
law, said : " I am sure he never made his
mother smile." There is u biography of
unkind doss in llt.it sentence.
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Tiikiie it ntthing purer than honesty;
nothing sweeter than charity ; nothing warmer
than love ; nothing richer than wisdom ;
nothing biightci than virtue; nothing moro
steadfast than faith. '"ipfrilTdY''fT *
A vekdant Yaxkkk seeing the announcement
in large letters, in front of n book<toro,
"Nothing to Wear Sold ITeie," exclaimed :
14 Wat, now, I wonder who said thero was!"
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angry woman in ft room is fts bad as
aAghtcd cracker?for when once she goes
off, there is no stopping her, and when she
does go out it is to bo with a bang.
To ascertain whcll.e a woman is passionate
or not, take a muddji dog into the parlor.