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VOLUME VII.
THE LEHIGH REGISTER,
i ts published in the Borough of Allentown, Lehigh
COU77ol,Pl.,ever'y Thursday
BY AUGUSTUS U. RUBE,
tslso perantium,payablein advance,and
fs2oo if not paid until the end of the year. No
'paper di.scontinued,until atlarrearagesare paid
'except at the option of the proprietor.
ADVERTIPEMENTS, malting not more than one
square, will be inserted three limes for onedollar
and for every subsequent insettion twentyfive
cents. Larger advertisements, charged in the
same proportion. Those not exceeding ten lines
will be charged seventy-five cents, and those
_malting six lines or less, three insertions for 50
cents.
tiberal deduction will be made to those
who advertise by the year.
EV - Office in Hamilton St., one door East
of the German',Reformed. Church, nearly
opposite the • , 4riedensbote Office."
Great Bargains !
New Arrival of Fashionable Goods.
Pretz, Gulls A• Co.
. Have just returned from Philadelphia and
New York, with an immense stock, of Win
ter goods, which they.are now unpacking,
at• their store in Allentown. They have
been selected with much care. and in point
of cheapness cannot be excelled in this or any
other country town, in the State. Their
customers and other are invited to call at the
Store, and make their . choice of Goods, for
the winter campaign.
Splendid Ladies Dress Goods,
Such as Silks, of all colors and prices, De-
Mins, Merinos, Calicoes and Ginghams. The
Ladies of Allentown, will find it to their ad
vantage, first to call at their Store, before
they purchase elsewhere.
Cloths Cassinzers and Vestings,
they have in abundance, of all colors and
qualities, also ordinary Cloths and Satinets,
Jur every day wear.
FRETZ. GU'I'H & CO.
Allentown, Dec. 15, 411-6 w
GROCERIES,
Several tons of
inr o fmil Groceries such as 14 0 1 . ..1
o :v ,- *VltiMolasses, Sugar
Cutlee, Spicrs, Teas, Cheese. &c.—ull for
sale cheap at the Siore of
PRETZ, GUTE-1 & CO
SALT. SALT.
A large quantity of Ground and fine Salt,
for sale by
I'RETZ, GUTFI & CO
Queensware.
A splendid assortment of `Queensware
comprising every, immaginable article used
in housekeeping, just received and for sale
by PRETZ, GU'l'H & CO.
Carpets Carpets.
Just recetvt d and for sale a splendid as
sortment of Stair and Parlor Carpets, nt the
store of PRETZ. auTE4 & co-
STONE COAL.
• Just received, a largo supply of Lump,
Egg, Stone, Nut and Coal dust, at their
Wharves, at the Lehigh Basin, and will be
delivered.to any part of the town by
PRETZ, GUTEI & CO.
Allentown, Dec. 15, 1852. 11—tivir
Eagle Hotel,
J 39 , North Third Street,
BETWEEN RACE AND ,VINE,
PHILADELPHIA.
DAVID STEM, Proprietor.
This gentleman takes g reat pleasure to
inform his friends and th public in gen
eral, that ho has taken the above named
well-known and de
.
~,,,,..-v.v;.-±:es - servedly popular
'4 7 ( 1 .. IC.
. •,;i • - ....?1i , i. Fr 411:: :-.. Ri EAGLE HOTEL,
;- ..i•-.,!• I u:- -'-'• situate in the most bus
- ?,-?. , ! • : 71 , , .
siness part of the city,
lA) r
. .r.,,.. , ..z : , :; ,,,,, which he has refitted
Witheentirely new Furniture and Bed
ding of a superior quality.
The house has also been renovated and
improved in a manner, which will compare
favorably with the first class Hotels in the
city, and cannot fail to give satisfaction to
those who may patronize the establishment.
TSBLE will always be supplied
with the choicest and most wholesome pro
visions the market affords, and his 13.12 R,
with the purest and best liquors. The sta
bling belonging to his house, is good and
extensive, and will be supplied with the
best provender, and attended by careful
hostler&
Nothing in short, shall be left undone to
make hiR Guests comfortable, and he flatters
himself that by strict attention to business,
be will meriteind receive a liberal share of
public encouragement
Philadelphia, December 1, lir—Oin
• ir•
V r mildm xr c Insurance
Company olPhiladelphia.
STATEMENT of the Assets of the Compa
ny, on January Ist 1853, published in con
formity with the provisions of the sixth sec
tion of the Act of Assembly, of April 5, 1842,
MORTGAGES.
Being first Mortgages, well secur
ed, free of ground rent, in the ci.
ty and County of Philadelphia,
except $ 27,950, in Montgomery,
Bucks, Schuylkill and Allegheny
counties, Pennsylvania, - . $1,021,366 63
REAL ESTATE.
Purchased at Sheriff's, sales um- 1
der mortgage claims, viz:
Eight houses and lot, 70 by 150
feet, on the southiVest corner
of Chestnut and Schuylkill
Sixth streets.
A house and lot, 27 by 71 feet,
on North side of Spruce street,
west of Eleventh,
A house and lot, 21-7 by 100
feet, on west side of Penn
Square, south of High street.
Two houses and lots, each 16 by
80 feet, on south side of Spruce C
street, near Schuylkill seventh
Five houses and lots, each 17-9 d
Nos. 131, 133, 135, 137, and Z.
139 Dilwyn street, jot
Three houses and lot. 49 by 54
feet
I
feet on east side of Schuylkill , i ,
Sixth street, south of Pine,'l v
A lot of ground, 17 by 57 feet, on I 4
the north e. corner of Schuyl- }.1 3
kill Front and Spruce streets,
.zt
I-Intel and lot, 50 by 81 feet, on I g
the South East corner of Ches• 4
I
nut and Beach streets, V
40
Five houses and lot, 42 by 86 1
P,
feel,on the north side olGeorge j•'.
street, west of Ashton, s,
el
Seven houses and lot, 20 by 116.1 to
on the East side of Beach
street, South of Chestnut,
A house and lot, 18 by 80 feet,.
No. 96, Fitzwater street, East
of Water,
A house and lot, 16 by 42-2 feet
No 1, Diamond street, runt, ing
west from Thirteenth street,
below Chestnut street,
A ground rent of $ 500, issuing
out of lot 13-4 by 40 feet, on I
North side of Otter street, 40
feet West of Leonard street, J
LOANS.
TEMPORARY LOANS on enlist- ?
eral securities, amply secured, 5
STOCKS
$lO,llOO Almshouse Loan, 0 per)
cent, interest on,)
200 Shares Bank of Kentucky,
17 " North. Bk. of Kentucky
100 tt Union Ilk. ofTennessee
13 " Insurance Company of
the State of Penn.
200 tt Southwark 1241roadOo.
37 " Commercial &Railroad
Bank of Vieksburp.
300 " Pennsylvania Railroad I
Company,
91 " Franklin Fire Insur Co. I
2 • Mercantile Library Co, I
24 • " Union Canal Company
10 " Schuylkill Railroad Co.J
Notes and Bills receivable,
Unsettled Policies,
Merchandise,
CASH on hand, 30,523 14
" in Agent hand=, 12,393 30
-- 42,910 44
Total amount of Assets. $ 1,315,534 00
By Order of the Board.
CHARLES N. BANCKER, President.
.attest—ClIARLES G. BANCKER, Sec'ry.
January 19. 11-3 w
Good Horses and Safe Vehielesi
pillentorvits
lAN cry YAstablislinn.cut.
THE subscribers take this niethod to in
form their friends and the public in general,
that they have entered into partnership in
the Livery Business, in the stable formerly
owned by George Beisel. They have an
S.
, entire new stock of
! S
;f mr( . 'HORSES CARRIAGES &c.
„. , ...rn+F. Their Horses are gentle and all
goo. travel ers ; their vehicles mostly new
and of the latest style, and such as have
been used are repaired and repainted in the
best manner. They continue the business
at the old stand in William street, in the Bo
rough of Allentown.
They will always be prepared to furnish
their customers at the shortest possible no
tice with safe and gentle horses, good car
riages and careful drivers if requested. ---
Families can be suited at all times with ve
hicles to their particular taste.
Their charges are reasonable, and in or
der to continue their high credit they here
tofore gained of being the "best livery estab
lishment in Allentown," they will leave
nothing undone to keep on hand the best
and safest horses, the neatest and most splen
did carriages, and sober and careful drivers.
Their charges are very reasonable and
hope by strict attention to business to satis
fy all those who may favor them with their
custom. T. P. HOFFMAN.
JESSE SIEGFRIED.
11-8 m •
September 18,1851.
JOIN IPILLVTIMG,
isTeatly executed at the "Register" Office
ALLENTOWN, LEHIGH COUNTY, PA., JANUARY 26, 1853.
PROCLNMATION.---
,
WHEREAS, the Hon. Washington Mc-
Cartney, President of the several Courts of
common pleas of the Third Judicial District,
composed of the counties of Northampton and
Lehigh, State of Pennsylvania, and Justice
of the several Courts of Oyer and Terminer
and general Jail delivery, and Peter Haas,
and Jacob Dillinger, Esqrs., Judges of the
Courts of Oyer and Terminer and generiil
Jail delivery, for the trial of all capital of
fenders in the said county of Lehigh. By
their precepts to me directed, have ordered
the court of Oyer and 'remitter and Geno
ral Jail Delivery, to be holden at Allentown
county of Lehigh, on the
Last Monday in January, 1851,
which is the 31st day of said month, and
will continue two weeks.
NOTICE is therefore hereby given to the
Ju,,tices of the Peace and Constabb.s of the
county of Lehigh, that they are by the said
precepts commanded tobe there at lOo'clock
in the forenoon, of said day, with their rolls,
records, inquisitions, examinations, and all
other remembrances, to do these things
which to their offices appertain to be done,
and all those who are bound by recognizan
ses to prosecute against the prisoners that
are or then shall be in the jail of said coun
ty of Lehigh, are to be then and there to
prosecute them as shall be just.
Given under my hand in Allentown, the
sth day of January in the year of our Lord,
ono thousand eight hundred and fifty three.
Cod Rave the Commonwealth.
JOSEPH F. NEWHARD, Sheriff'.
Sheriff's Office Allentown,
---te
January 5, 1853.
82,497 69
A Chance for Business Men !
• (; T
The undersigned take this method to in
form the public that one of the partners in
tends engaging in the Iron business, and
that they offer their entire stock of Stor
Goods for sale, together with the long ci
tablished and extensively brown "Flalliet's"
Store and Tavern Stand,
which they-offer for rent. It is known as
one of the best stands for Store and Tavel')
ip the county, situate in North Whitehall
township, Lehigh county, on the main rood
lending from Alentown to Niauch Chunk,
about milcs from the former place, and
in the immediate neighborhood of the great
Iron ore district.
90,988 08
P
la'
r. 0
r s
; 62,285 50
The buildings can be tented separate or
together, to suit the convenience of the ten
ants.
Further information will be made known
by Mr. Stephen Bailie!, jr., who resides
near the above property.
Nov. 24
8,284 98
1,580 25
163 81
1 411 4 11 1)12
Notice is hereby given, that the under
signed have been appointed Executors of
the last Will and Testament of So/onion
Knauss, deceased, late of the Borough of
Allentown, in the county of Lehigh. All
those•; who know themselves indebted to said
estate, be it in bonds, notes, book debts, or
otherwise, will please make settlement
tween now the first day of April next. And
such, who have any legal claims against
said estate, will also present their claims
for settlement within the above time.
JESSE KNAUSS,
CHARLES K. KNAUSS, r ,
C.XCCIIIOTS
WILLIAM K. KNAUSS,
JONATIIAN K. KNAUSS.
January ID,
Lo-p 1)i;~:~o11rr.
Tho subscribers have entered into Co
partnership on the 3d instant, in the Liirery
Business, under the firm of HOFI'MAN and
SIEGFRIED. Their establishment is ((wild
in Williams street, a few doors below Preiz,
Guth & Co's. store. They are prepared
with handsoMe vehicles of every description,
and safe horses, and will be prepared at all
times to attend and accommodate those who
may favor them with their custom.
THOMAS P. HOFFMAN.
JESSE SIEGFRIED.
Allentown, January 12. 411-7 w
Dv. 3. V. llavues,
.D.E.7IOTIST.
Adopts this method to inform his
iffi;;;I: friends and the.public in general,
that he has made Allentown his permanent,
residence. He has opened an office at his
dwelling, opposite Kolb's American Hotel,
a few doors east of Pretz, Guth & Co's.
Store, where he will be happy to offer his
professional services in the science of Den
tistry. He will call at private residences,
if requested.
tar His terms aro reasonable, and having
had much experience in the professions,
feels satisfied that he can hive general satis
faction.
Allenfawn, April 24, 1951.
BALLILT & HALLMAN.
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portical tirpattincitt.
The Song of Time.
I fleet along the empires fall,
And the nations pass away,
Like visions bright of the dreary night,
That die with the dawning day,
The lordly tower and the battled wall
• The hall and the holy fane
In ruin lie as I pass by,
Nor rise from their wreck again.
I light the rays of the orient blaze,
The glow of the radiant moon ;
• I wing my flight with the sapphire night,
And glide with the gentle moon ;
O'er earilTl roam, and the bright expanse
Where the proud bark bounds awny,
And I join the stars in their choral dance,
Round the golden orb of day !
I come with age to the hoary sage,
And the lamp of life grows dim,
Nor more its rays upon being's page
Emblazon delight to him ;
Nor more deep sighs from his soul arise,
While the heart with grief is riven,
For sorrow ends as the soul ascends
On high to his native heaven !
And oft alas ! when the young heart leaps
With hearts that are high and brave,
I come with death, and the young heart sleeps
The sleep of the silent grave;
I mourn the flight of the sleeping breath
From youth in its golden prime,
But time is linked with decay and death.
And death is the lord of Time.
I fleet along and the empires fall,
And the nations pass away.
Like visions bright of the dreamy night,
That die with the dawning day.
The sceptre sinks in the regal hall,
And still'd is the monarch's tread ;
The mighty stoop as the meanest droop,
And sleep with the nameless dead.
£fisccllnncou cicc#ioiir.
A Gambler's End.
There is truth in presentments, though
it is nut for us mortals to explain their nn
tore, ns how can we explain the commonest
incidents to our every day life ? Yet as
there is an unearthly stillness iintnediately
preceeding the furious rush oldie hurricane,
as a momentary palsy, frightful from
,its in
distinctness,. appears to pervade nature on
the eve of an earthquake, so-may the 'shad
ow of his uplifted arm be seen athwart the
sky ere the Avenger has dealt the blow
which is to prostrate us in the dust. Angi
cy child crep over me, a dull foreboding of
evil Came upon me, as I walked up the steps
of Htllindon's well known residence, long
before I discovered that the shutters were
closed, and that the house bore that solemn
mysterious air, which we cannot tell Wiry,
is inseparable from the abode of death.
A glance at the pale lace of the servant
who answered at the dor, a hasty inquiry for
t Captain llillingdon's own man. and I stag
gered into a chair in the hall, with the
whole truth indelibly and unerringly im
presed on my brain. • It was needless to
explain —I required no hesitating sympa
thizer to break to me foresooth, the ghastly
reality—l knew it before I was told-Ilii
lingdon had shot himself that very inorninir !
Strange as it may appear, it was more
cult to realize the truth of the awful tidings
when the old and faithful servant- himself
bowed down and prostrate with horror and
consternation, stammered out the particulars
into my ear, than in that first moment of
consciousness, when without the aid of any
outward voice, I knew the frightful truth,—
There, in his own sitting room, his hat
and gloves on the table, the very cigar case
I had given him, lying ready for use—it
seemed impossible—impossible ! Every
thing betokened lite, and life's enjoyments ;
the colors were scarcely dry upon his easel
and those very flowerslWhich he had him
self disposed in their vase, with his woman
ly appreciation of every thing that was love.'
ly, those flowers were blooming flagrant as
ever, and could he, the master, be lying up
stairs with a cloth over his head, a mutil
ated corpse I And such an ending ! To
die by his own hand. I dared not pursue .
the train of my thoughts any further and it
was almost a relief to sit and listen to the
poor old domestic's broken narrative of the
events which had led to the fatal conclusion
we could even now scarcely bring ourselves
to believe. Ono thing only which might
lead me to suppose that a change had come
over the habits of my friend. Occupying
a prominent situation in his sitting room,
a portrait hung, which ever since I had
known him, was carefully veiled by a black
curtain. Not one of his friends had ever
seen the painting, and the supposition that
it was a likeness of the unfortunate Austri
an lady to whom in early life he had been
mulched, was sufficient to check all curious
remarks or illtirned allusions, as regarded a
subject on which he himself preserved un
broken silence. The curtain was now re
moved and as I sat opposite the picture, litt
tening to the dreadful detail of her lover's
death, I could not keep my eyes from dwel-
Fag FARMER AND MECHANIC.
urg of t to gent a eatures of her who had
exercised such a baneful influence on my
poor friend. She was portrayed as a fair,
high-born looking girl, of some nineteen
summers, but was most striking in the coun
tenance, was that eager, high-souled, and
yet suffering expression, which gave such
interest to poor Hillingdon's own features--
that unearthly look which those who are
doomed to an early death seem to bear on
their forheads, as the premonitory seal of
the destoyer —a spirit-beauty which the
spirits claims to wear here in .consideration
of its premature release ; and this was as
manifest on the lovely portrait of his youth
ful bride, as I knew it to be on that glorious
countenance which was lying up stairs fix
ed and cold in death.
Let me draw a veil over the,scne that
followed over the servant's lamentations and
my own unbearable grief—l saw him—l
saw the well beloved face, the admired for,
—and I shuddered to think of tilerlititte in
which I saw him. Days elapsed' ere I .
could bring myself to make'the 'necessary
arrangements which, as hii intimate friend
devolved upon tnyself, t and to the details of
which it was loathsome to see how Mam
mon crept, even into the chamber of death.
It is sufficient to say that from the account
of his servants, and the examination of his
papers, which becorne necessary, I gather
ed clearly thayinY poor friend had been de
cidedly and undoubtedly insane for some
time previous to the fatal act, and this was
all the consolation, since consolation it un
questionably was, for the loss of the bright
est, truest, kindliest spirit that ever chafed
within its tenement of clay.
And it was play that had brought the en
thusiast to his self-selected grave. Play
first the seductive pastime, then the invinci
ble habit : lastly, the despotic infatuation
front which there is no escape. Deeper and
deeper had Hillingdon been drawn into the
whirlpool, and this was the result. A pur
suit adopted to deaden the stings of consci
ence and hush the importunate wailings of
remorse, had at length become the one ob
ject of-existence, the whole being of the man.
Lose of course lie did, and largely. Nor
were the chances of the gaming table suffi
cient to allay the craving of excitement
which indeed too surely "grows with what
it feeds on." Stock jobbing railway shares,
mining investments, all and every thing that
promised hazardous ventures and dispropor
tionate returns, he embarked in with an ea
gerness too much in character with that im
aginative disposition which made him an ar
tist, a poet and a speculator. For a time
Hillingdon's speculations had met with tol
erable success ; enough indeed to encourage
him to push his ventures up to the verge of
all his available fortune ; and his master's
spirits, as the uld servant described them,
were higher than he had ever known, for I
think I have already mentioned the singular
impassiveness of my friends outward de
meanor, but even during period of tempora
ry sunshine, his eccentric habit was never
broken through of sitting undisturbed for a
portion of each day, gazing on that portrait,
which appeared to comprise all he valued
and loved upon earth. This was an unal
terable rule and day after day his cheek
was paler and his eve more haggard after
the communion, which lie strove to think
he thus held with his spirits love. .Then
Caine reverses and failures Those in whom
he confided abused his trust. Shares went
down to nothing. An enterprise m which
Levanter, whoa, he always disliked, had
persuaded him to join, failed utterly, and
Eliilin,gdon, as the only tangible person con
cerned, suffered severely. Whole nights
spent with dice-box in hand, were not likely to
restore matters, and the beginning of the
end" became too nppa rant. All this time
his outward bearing remained totally un
changed; the same calm demeanor, tho same
mild voice and placid brow, and above nll,
the sninc sweetness of temper, that won him
the affection of, all, with Minna he came in
contact. "Late or early, good or evil," said
his old servant, the tears running down his
withered cheeks, never had a sharp word
or an unkind look from my belovtid master.
Oh, Captain Grand, you know what he was
I need not tell you!" and uncoinfurtuble
burst of grief che6ked the poor old roan's
melancholy recital. At length it became
obvious that his whole remaining property
would only suffice to clear hint of his liabil-
ities, and ns soon as he discovered this to be
the fact, he made no secret of his involve-
ments. By one desperate effort he did try
to retrieve himself. Alas ! it was a gambler's
struggle, and lie lost. With a jealousy of
military honor which may be appreciated
though scarcly understood, he had made up.
his mind to stop short of a sum which would
entail upon him the sale of his commission,
and he seemed to have determined that come
what might ho would at least die with (that.-
ness on his back
A like reserve was made
for leaving handsome legacies too few old
servants and dependents, after which his
whole remaining property was devoted to
clearing himself of his liabilities. Thus
much 1 learned from hit servants and the
lawyers with whom he had been concerned.
Tho rest of the history, alas ! comprising but
a few days, I gvhored from tho papers which
ho left in his desk, addressed to myself, and
NUMBER 17.
accompanied by a few trifling memorials of,
his affection and esteem. What hie, origi- e •
nal intentions were I am unable to,declere, i
but it appears probable, that leeliing upon,
the loss of his personal possessions with an
indifference peculiar to hiniSell, he had"
shaped the idea of following out the ieivicte,
as a profession, and winning eventual dis-,
tinction and independence in a military Ca-.
seer. Of advice he seems to have had
plenty, and beloved as he might, contrary
to the usual practice in such officers, have
had assistance nearly in'the same propor_
lion, but it was one of his peculiarities to be,
indebted to no man, and his was a spirit to
chafe above all at, the well-meant' couniiiili,.of a worldly and caln9latlng friend. But
the philosophy,whit't'eniild smile calmly at
the. ruin of-44Coildty - fortune, should not
Ikaver : teetinceitinipanied by the sensitive and
`imaginative temperament that firmly be.
; 1 1ieved in its power of holding converse with . ,
beings of another sphere ; and the excite
ment of poor Hillingdon's later career had
in breaking his health and shattering his,
nerves sapped the foundations of that mys
terious barrier which separates the shores,
of reason from the illimitable ocean of insan
ity. Step by step, I beheld the catastrophe
approaching, of which I was aware would bo
the fatal result. For years he had believed .
in the actual apparition of his Austrian
love ; twice, as he often assured me, he had
seen her distinctly in the flesh, and the con
viction was indellibly impressed upon his
mind that a third appearance would be im
mediately followed by his own decease.—
With the peculiar reasoning of insanity, this
belief appeared now to have assummed the
shape of a stringent obligation, a point of
honor and as he himself expressed it, "he
should be bound to follow when she beck
oned him away." Once more the phantom
stood by his side, and from that moment the
curtain teas withdrawn from the fatal por- 1
trait. Twelve hou rs afterwards he had ceased
to exist; and the beautiful form, the gal:
lant, chivalrous spirit, the kindly loving
heart, were as though they had never been.
We buried him in hallowed ground.—
Grateful at least for this. The sun shone,
I the streets looked gay and crowded. Busi:
ness knit the brows, or pleasure brightened
I the cheeks of the heedless passengers as
they moved toand ho upon their amusements
lor their occupations. Did that death-stroke
upon the minute bell thrill to the heart of
one chit tijeg Mammon ? Did that mournful ,
processio'fi7as ever and anon it stopped, and'
wound on again in mysterious gravity, speak .
its solemn warning to one individual in that
busy throng ? "We are bearing one of
yourselves to his road home. Yesterday,
was he such as ve are, to morrow shall ye
be like him. His place shall be your place
and where he is going ye shall go." I fear,
me not. We have indeed authority to be
lieve, that where all else had failed, not even
the voice of qne from the dead shall prevail.
We buried him. Shall I ever forget the
dull dead sound of the damp earth, as it
it ""smote upon his Coffin ? "Ashes to ashes:
—dust to dust !" Was this the end of all? s
My friend ! My brother !
As [turned from the churc -ye 4 ey:
id; th
were bearing in another funeral—so soon !
I felt that he was already forgotten. IVhat.
matters it to me ? I was alone in the world !
Didn't Like the Meat:
Pat Flannery is not only an efficient of
ficer, but something of a wag. Pond of a
goal joke, he never misses an opportunity
of playing one. A few evenings since, he
was sitting, on the Uncle Sam's corner front
ing the levee, when a 'long, lank' Wabash
deck hand passed him holding in one hand
an 'acre' of gingerbread, and in the other a,
huge bologna sausage. At almost every step
he would satisfy the craving of appetite with
a bite from each of the aforesaid articles.--:
Pat no sooner saw him than ho determined'
on a joke.
As soon es the Hoosier passed Pat a rat
ran across the sidewalk, at which he quick
ly make a kick.
'Leave that rat alone,' yelled Pat, as if
angry.
.Leave that rat alone,' replied the Hoo
sier, looking nt Pat with his mouthful of
bologna, 'what do you want a feller to leave
that alone for?"
'Bt'cnuse it belongs to me, and I will not
have it abused.'
'Belongs to you ? What on earth do,you'
want with rats V.
'ake bologna sausages of them, sir, and'
nice ones they make too.'
The Hoosier waited to hear no more. but
emptying his mouth of its. Contents, and
flinging his bologna as far as the strength of
his arm would send it, hastened to the near%
est groggery fora three cent dram, so as he,
expressed it 'take the darned ratty taste out.'
ry The Orlenean says there is a sign in
that city which reads thus:
Her my wife queres agoas, and I queree
th e rjaizdcrs."
Which, being interpreted', means that—
,' Hera my wife cures ague* and I curd
the jaundice.", •
te'The commerce of the great Western'
Lakes, it is said, doubles every six years.