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A Confederate Eggnogg. One cold, cloudy Chrismtas day when the prospects of the Confed eracy were as gloomy as the weather, an Arkansaw soldier, whose clothes looked * as though they had beeti run through n threshing machine, approached General Hindinan, who sat on a stunp near a fire, and said : 'Gineral, wouldn't a little aig nog go putty well this mornin' ? You know, in krkansaw we allus cilibrate Christmas with a little o' the stuff. 'Yes,' the General replied, 'and I should like to have a quat of it right now.' 'Well, let's go to your tent, whar nobody ken see us, and we'll make some 'rangements.' When they entered the tent, the soldier said : 'You git the whis key, and I'll git the aigs an' su gar.' 'All right.' The soldier went away, and af ter a while, with a dejected coun tenance. he returned with the in formation that some one had stol en the' artickles.' I'm devlish sor ry, said he, 'for I've been er savin' them things fur yer benefit for a long time, knowin' how a aignog would strike yer Christmas day.' 'That is bad,' said the General, 'and if I could discover the thief, lie should be punished. Stay here, and let me go out and skirmish.' The General, after much difficul ty, succeeded in securing the in gredients, and ere long a bowl .of f'othing drink was prepared. 'Ah,' said the soldier, refilling his tin cip the third time, 'this tastes like old times, when I uster get up a fore day an' fire off the Old fuzee. Put two men's heads together, an' suthin is going ter happen.' Shortly after the soldier left the tent., Col. Bob Newton, cheif of Hinudmans staff, entered and said: ')o you remember old Dave Aiekett, who used to run a flat boat on White river?' 'Yes, he was here a few moments ag'o.' 'Hie came to me this morning,' the C"olonel continued, 'and1 began to talk about eggnogg. Said that he had been keeping eggs and1 su gar for me a long time, and that if' I wouldl furnish the whiskey, we would1 have a Chrismas drink. I agreedi, and he went away, return ing pretty soon, and sorrowfully announed some oneC had stolen his treasure. Rather than see the old fellow disappointed. I furnish - e'd everything, and for a few mo ments we' 'Good morning, gentlemen,' said Gen. Churchill, entering the tent. 'Had a fine eggnogg early this morning. An 01(d fellow that uIsed to run a flat boat on White river, satid that he would furnish the eggs and sugar' 'But did he (10 it? asked Hind man and Newton simultaneously. 'No; some wretch had stolen the stutf. Hello, here is Fagan.' 'Gentlemen,' said General Fa gan, 'you ought to have been with mue this morning. An old gentle man, a former flat boatman, camne to me and tnlked nhnnut eggs till lie made my month water. lie saic that he had been saving up a lol of eggs and sugar for my benefit, and that if I would - furnish the whiskey we would celebrate. I agreed. andl he went away, but I never saw a mote cast down man than he was upon returning. Som< one had stolei the eggs, but I fur. nished the outfit, seeing that dis. appointment would about kill th< old fellow. Hello Reynolds!, 'Good morning, gentlemen,' said General Reynolds. 'I hav< had a fine time this morning. At old fellow-' '1101d on,' shouted the othei men; 'we kn->w all about that egg stealing business.' General Hindman called an or derly, and giving him the name ol the egg man, said: 'Find that man and make him drunk, if it takes every drop of whiskey in the ('on. federacy. Such merit shall not gc unrewarded.' CHAINED TO A ROCK TO DIE.-A dispatch from Wheeling, W. Va.l says: ,John Adams, a promiml nt and wealthy farmer, and Sheriff of Webster county, became infatua ted with a dissolute character. Tu free himself from his wife Adams brought suit for divorce on the grouud of unfaithfulness, and se cered witnesses to sustain the charge. After thegranting of th< divorce 'Mrs. Adams disappeared friom the neighborhood, and it waE supposed that she had left the County. Saturday eveningf one 01 her children, aged 13, who wa visiting a few miles from home, ir climbing Mount Hero, a mountalii thickly wooded, lie came across rail pei. Looking in, he saw a wo man. He ran to the nearest hous< for friends. Returning thie. found the mother of th( child nearly dead from expos ure, chained to a rock in the peni On being revived she said her hus band had had hr taken to a cave and kept there till almost. dead from starvation. Trwo davs be. fore lhe brought her to the pen and fastcnedl her by the chain. Th< place was a very lonely ofle, and is not visited once a year. It is sup posed that the husband meant t( let her (lie, then remove the chains andl make it atlppear a case of sui cide. The country is terribly roused, and the guilty man and his dissolute friend will he lynch ed if caught. Mrs. Adams~ will (lie.' -Mlle. Lilly, seeing a certain friend of the family arrive for. din ner, showed her joy by all sorts ol affectionate c'areesses. "You arc glad when I come to (dinner;'' said the invited guest. "Oh! yes," re plied the little girl. "You love mt a great deal, then?" "No, 't isn'1 for that. Only when you comel we always have chocolate creams.' -Paris Wit. -The House has passedl th< bill approp)riating 250,000 for the Charleston jetties. 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