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VOLUME 2.
DIRECTORY,
EPAliKU EXPRESSLY FOB "THE ALLEGHAMAX."
LIST OF POST OFFICES.
n swr 7'os -Masters. Districts
1031
fenii's Creek,
bethel Station,
drrolltown,
Chess Springs,
Bresson,
Jnsfnh Graham. Yoder.
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JosepbrS Mardis, Bhuklick.
Benjamin Wirtner, Carroll.
Danl. Litzinger, Chest.
John J. Troxell, Washint'u.
Sa Timber, Isaac Thompson, White.
I J uia, J- M. Christy, Gallitzin.
Mrs. II. Jl Cagne, l,iensuurg
IleinlocK,
Johjasto'11
Lorctto,
jliueral Point,
JIuniter,
Pershing,
piatuville,
Augustine,
Scalp Level,
Sonuian,
jjaimerhill,
Summit,
Wilmore,
Wm. M'douffh. Washt'n.
II. A. Bogrs, Johnst'wn.
Wui. Gwinn, Loretto.
E. Wissinger, Conem'gh.
A. Durbin, Munster.
Francis Clement, Conem'gh.
Andrew J. Ferral Susq'han.
J. W. Bowman, White.
Wm. Ryan, Sr., Clearfield.
George Conrad, Richland.
B. M'Coigan, Washt'n.
Wrn. Murray, Crcyle.
Miss M. GUlesptfc Washt'n.
Andrew Beck, S'mmerhill.
CHURCHES, MINISTERS, &.C.
rrts'yterian Rev. D. Harbison, Pastor.
frwcliing every Sabbath morning at 10
o'clock, and in the evening at 3 o'clock. Sal,
UA School at 1 o'clock, A. M. Prayer meet
in' every Thursday evening at C o'clock.
'ilethodist Episcopal Church Rev. J. Shane,
Poacher in charge, nev . ii. iah;u,
sistant. Preaching every Sabbath, altornatel
f lOi o'clock in the morning, or 7 in th
rcninT. Sabuatn ocuooi uv v viu-,
Prayer meeting every Thursday evening at
j'clock.
W,h-h TntUvrndent Rev. Ll. R. Powkt.i
Pistar. Preaching every faaouaiu morning ai
1) o'clock, and in the evening at o o ciock
SiLbath School at 1 o'clock, v. -M. rrayei
eting on the first Monday evening ot cacl
r .r,th and on everv Tuesday, inuvsaai
t:id Friday evening, excepting the first week
ia each month.
p,i:nitir Methodist Rev. John Vhiliams
?:trr Prpftrhinfr everv feabbatn evening at
i.nrf r n'rnrk Sabbath School at IUOCIOCK
i.M. Prayer meeting every Friday evening
t 7 o'clock. Society every luesaay evening
t 7 o'clock.
n:tr;nt.. Rcr.Wsf.LLOYD. Pastor I'rcach
in; every Sabbath morning at 10 o'clock.
P.irti'Hlar V.antisU RKV. DAVID JENKINS
Pst3r. Preaching everv Sabbath evening at
I o'clock. Sabbath School at 1 o ciock, v. m.
Cihr.'lr Tcv M. J. Mitchell, Pastor
Services every Sabbath morning at 10. o'clock
isd Vespers at -4 o'clock in the evening.
EOEXSflURG 31 AILS.
MAILS ARRIVE,
wtera, daily, at 12 o'clock, A. M.
Western, ' at 12 " A. M.
MAILS CLU5K.
Eastern, daily, at 1 o'clock A. M.
Western, - at 7 " A. M.
f The Mails fromButler,Indiana,Strongs-
town, &c, arrive on Thursday of each week,
t 5 o clock. P. M.
Leave Ebensburg on Friday of eacn wcck.
t: 8 p. m.
5n,The Mails from Newman's Mills, Car-
rolltown, &Ci, arrive on Monday, Wednesday
ad Friday of each week, at 3 o'clock, P. M.
Leave Ebensbure on Tuesdays, Thursdays
id Saturdays, at 7 o clock, A. M.
t$L.Post Office open on Sundays from 9
tJ 10 o'clock, A. M.
RAILROAD SCHEDULE.
WILMORE STATION.
ess Train leaves at 0.3 A. M
Ir.st Line " 10.0'J 1'. M
Mail Train. " 3.16 P. M
-Expres3 Train. 8.10 P. M.
Fast Line. " 6.39 A. M.
Mail Train, "
lO.OiA. M.
COUJITY OFFICERS.
Jtt lies of the Courts. President. Hon. Geo.
-j
ivlor. Huntiurdon : As-sociates. GeorereW.
Iisley, Richard Jones, Jr.
I eoihonolary. Joseph M Donald.
Rf'jUttr and Recorder. Edward F. Lytic
SAfrirf. -Robert P. Linton.
D'.puty Sheriff. William Linton.
District Attorney. Philip S. Noon.
Counlu Cmmi'jjiiinwj. Ahel Llovd. D. T.
Storm, James Cooper.
Merle to Commissioners. Robert A. il Ooy
Treasurer. John A. Blair.
Poor llnm T),yfnr Dnvid O'llarro.
ichael M'Guire, Jacob Horner
oor Jtouxe Treasurer. George Ij. k. Aanm.
Poor House Steicard. James J. Kaylor.
Mtrtantilt Appraiser. II. C. Devine.
Auiitar Honfir T f n L- Tnhn P. Stull.
Jobn S. Rhev.
County Surveyor. E. A. Vickroy.
Coroner. James S. Todd.
EBEXSnrRG DOR. OFFICERS.
JWices of the Peace. David II. Roberts.
'"Prison Kinkead.
jryrDnvid J. Evans.
Town Or. 7 r- i:0".1. Tl T T
"uliarn D. Davis, Thomas B. Moore, Daniel
Kvan3.
Clerk to Council T. D. Litzinger.
Virovjh Treasurer Georcre (Jurlcy.
Y'igh Master William I)avi3.
. rtturff h jiiiaiu wnvio, liiLsv o.
T'tisurer of School Board Evan Morgan.
tonjfaiGcorge Brown.
Collec tor George Gurley.
Judt of Election Mesliac Thomas.
'peelers Robert Evans, Wm. Williams.
&uttor Richard T. Davis. .
AnECHAEiAS $1,50 ia advaiicj
T2ie Strawberries.
The garden was filled with odors,
From jasmin and heliotrope.
And the tender moss-rose muffled
In its beautiful velvet cope ;
White currants, like beads of amber
Strung upon sea-green silk,
Mingled their spicy clusters
With snowberries white as milk.
I watch'd her plucking the strawberries,
And bending over the bank,
Where the large red fellows lay hiding,
As if from her search they shrank ;
And when she bit them she opened
Lips ripe and red a3 they
Ah 1 if I had been the strawberries
I would not have hidden away 1
"Are you not fond of strawberries ?
Why don't you pluck anl eat?
See, here is a noble fellow,
Juicy, and red, and sweet.
Don't stand there looking so solemn,
As if you thought 'twas a sin
To eat of such delicate morsels,
But open your mouth and begin."
"Ah ! Imogen, dear," I answered,
"I care for no fruit but one.
'Tis as ripe and red as this strawberry,
And as full as the blood of the sun,
But you selfishly hold it from me,
Nor oiler me eveu a ptirt."
"What is this fruit?'' she questioned;
"This fruit," I said, "is your heart!"
The strawberry dropped from her fingers,
And she stretched, out her little hand,
And I knew that 'stead of the fruit, it held
The sweetest heart in the land.
So we left the strawberries lying
In their shadowy leaves that day,
And silently walked in the garden,
While the long hours stole away.
MARVELS GF THE WHEAT PUNT.
From the N. Y. Tribune.
Iron baa been held by some to be the
true symbol of civilization, because nations
produce and use it in proportion to their
social and industrial advancement. A sim
ilar claim has been made for cotton, but
by the taskmaster only. But the wheat
plant is the only true symbol. Civilization
began when its cultivation commenced.
No savage nations cultivate it. The
American aborigines had no knowledge of
it, and they quickly remarked the differ
ence between themselves and the English,
saying that the latter lived on seeds, while
they Jived on flesh; that the flesh had lour.
legs on which to escape, while the- had
but two with Svhich to pursue, and that
the sced- rowers would supersede the flesh
eaters. Wherever wheat is cultivated the
nations abandon barbarism. Mechanism
was invoked, eveu many centuries ago, to
promote, by rude contrivances, both tillage
and cleaning. The inventor of the sickle
is unknown, but the pioneers of Dutch
commerce in China, there discovered the
winuowing mill, which is now a fixture in
every American barn. The wheat plant
has long been, perhaps, the greatest power
in the earth. It was the acknowledged
staff of life when the steam engine was
unknown, before a single coal mine had
been opened, or the miraculous capacities
of iron -had been ascertained. It has been
the great power from which human effort,
in all countries, has derived its mightiest
momentum. It has built turnpikes and
railroads, dug canals, founded cities, cov
ered rivers with steamboats nnd the ocean
with ships. Millions ot human beings
depend upon it for existence, both as grow
ers and consumers. Banish it from the
earth, and it would be vain to seek for a
ubstitute. Our teeming "West would stop
suddenly short in its wonderful career of
greatness. Agriculture everywhere would
pause, scarcity be universal, and the fact
be recognized that the wheat plant is the
corner stone of civilization.
The oldest history mentions the cultiva
tion of wheat. But the plant has at no
time, nor in any place, been found growing
wild. Neither is the country of its origin
certainly known. On this point we obtain
light enough from history and botan- to
justify the conjecture that its native place
is .Persia, and also India. But even on
this point there arc different opinions en
tertained by able writers. It is certainly
not indigenous to America. In 1530, a
slave of Cortez found some grains which
had been accidentally mixed with riec, and
having carefully planted them and their
product for several years, he raised a stock
of seed from which all "the subsequent
wheat crops of Mexico have been derived.
The controversy touching the origin of
wheat has been most animated and volu
minous. In Sicily a wild grass is found,
called by botanists Eyilops ovafa, which
some have con tended to be the true parent
of wheat. It is a hard, rouh looking
;rass, which is sometimes gathered in
bunches and burnt, and the seeds used for
bod. It is also found in various other
daces, and there are several species of it.
It was contended that by careful cultiva
tion the Kgilops could be transformed into
wheat. This was as vehemently denied.
It was known, however, that under certain
EBENSBU11G, PA., THURSDAY, APRIL
circumstances, plants very nearly resem
bling wheat had been produced from two
perfectly distinct species of Egilops, and
the presumption obtained that these were
thewild representatives of cultivated grain,
and that therefore wheat is nothing more
than Egilops modified by the influence of
soil, climate and superior cultivation.
While this point was yet mooted by the
botanists, an experiment was going on un
known to them, instituted by one who had
never heard of their investigations, their
discoveries or their disagreements, and
who knew but little of botanical science.
Its results have had an important influence
in determining the question at issue. In
1838, a French gardener, Esprit Fabrc,
found the Egilops ovata growing wild in
the neighborhood of his residence at Adge.
In the autumn of that year he sowed the
seed, and in 1839 the plants grew from 2
to 2 feet high, ripened and yielded an
increase of only five-fold. This increase
was again sowed, and in 1840 the crop
bore a striking resemblance to genuine
wheat. It was sowed that fall, and in 1S41
the product was a crop of cars more closely
resembling true wheat. Great and impor
tant changes were observable in the grains
of this third crop. There were no longer
any barren spikclets, while all of them
were in every respect like wheat, each one
bearing two or three perfectly developed
grains. These were sowed, but in 18-12
the crop was almost entirely destroyed by
rust. The few grains saved were sewed,
and in 1843 the plants grew three feet
high, the straw being firmer than before,
and less brittle- The ears were less fragile
and resembled wheat exactly. One grain
yielded S80 grains for one sown, and an
other 450. Planted again, and in 1844
all the spikelets were fertile, and many of
them contained three grains. In 1845 all
who examined the crop adjudged it to be
true wheat. Mr. Fabre so regarded it
himself, and in 1845 he sowed the grain
in an open field, and for four succeeding
years continued to produce it with equal
success, the yield being G to S times the
seed sown. The stems were straight, solid
and 30 inches high.
Thi remarkable result excited the live
liest attention from the learned men of
Europe. It confirmed the position of one
set of disputauts, who maintain that by
c'iniate, soil, posiiim and culture, plants
may permanently change their character
istics, while it covered with confusion some
of the most eminent French botanists.
Instead of according merit to the simple
gardener who for twelve years had labored
patiently to solve a great botanical prob
lem, they impeached hn veracity, and ac
cused him of producing a mere hybrid,
forgetting, in their zeal, that if so, it was
rjrie which possessed the rare quality of
reproducing itself. This series of experi
ments is pronounced by Mr. Kilppart, of
Cincinnati, in his recent exhaustive work
on the wdieat plant, to be pregnant with
the most important consequences. He
thinks that if wheat must be regarded as
of an allied genera of Egilops, it proves
that botanists were not sufficiently familiar
with the character of the plants when the
classification was made, aud that identity
will reconcile the traditious, the vague
and disconnected accounts of the origin of
wheat, which in ancient as well as in mod
ern times, was claimed to be four.d in
Babylonia, Persia and Sicily, as in all of
them the Egilops is very comaion.
Wherever the foot of civilized man has
penetrated, this symbol of hia power has
gone wit1! hmi. California, the latest il
lustration of this fact, which ten years ago
imported vast quantities of flour, is now au
exporter of food. A not less curious fact
is the number of varieties of wheat, and
the apparently capricious taste of growers
in selecting particular sorts for cultivation.
The origin of some of these varieties is
equally curious. The Hunter wheat, so
extensively cultivated in Scotland, sprung
from a single plant accidentally discovered
in a large field. The Ohio Lambert wheat
had a similar origin. Whence these vari
eties proceed, no one can say. A field of
a kind long cultivated on the same farm,
shows a strange head in its crop. It may
topple up higher than its neighbors, or it
may be larger aud fuller, but from some
cause attracting notice, it is preservcdand
propagated. The diflculty is to say where
it came from. A bird has probably picked
it up in sonirt northern climate which pro
duces a hardier berry, and, flying south,
has.dropped it, undigested, on a field al
ready sown, in season for vegetation to
follow. This theory is sustained by the
well-known fact, that auy variety of this
grain which is taken much south of its
usual locality and there sown, will present
a more vigorous and hardy appearance
than its neighbors that have been acclima
ted. It is also known that all the varieties
imported from Europe and now the stand
ards in our best wheat regior.s, came irom
high latitudes. The most popular of thein
is the Mediterranean, which is in reality
Danish or Norwegian, the common name
of Mediterranean being a misnomer.
The wheat plant is much more sensitive
to heat than it is to cold. If it be steep
ed for only fifteen minutes in water ten
degrees above the boiling point, its vital
ity is destroyed. In northern latitudes
the plant lives 180 days, but in Mexico
only 100. Hence it 13 that our extreme
Southern States have never been great
wheat producing regions. Climate alons
forbids it, even if the soil were the right
one. Wheat requires a soil rich in phos
phates, just as vine requires lime. Every
plant seems to need a specific stimulant.
The tea of Java is inferior, because the
soil is overloaded with the salts of iron, a
cause to which the Nankin cotton of Chi
na owes its orange color. W'heat also has
its favorites iu the catalogue of manures.
British agriculture, aided by chemistry,
has discovered what they are, and haviug
used them freely, is rewarded by crops
that nearly treble the yield of half a cen
tury ago. These are the phosphates.
Distant countries arc exhausted of bones
to supply tjjem, and vast quantities of
phosphatic fertilizers are manufactured
at home to meet the increasing demand.
Winter-lulling is constantly complained
of by farmers without the causes being
accurately known. If sowed too deep, the
grain produces so few roots that it can
not afford to loose any of them .without
perishing. When the ground freezes and
thaws many times, at each freezing it
cracks opeu. The roots extend across
these cracks and are torn asunder, thus
depriving the plant of its necessary nour
ishment, when in many instances it per
ishes outright, or maintains a sickly and
unprofitable existence. Sometimes the
crop is thrown entirely out of the ground,
when it is sure to perish, as the chance of'
formincr new roots is
gone.
The natural
remedy for such calamities is known to be
a deep covering of snow. As the plant,
during Winter, exerts all its energy in
developing roots and leaves, leaving Sprit) a
to form the stalk and Summer to perfect
it, a heavy and lasting snow keep3 it so
warm as to allow this energy to act, beside
effectually protecting its roots from rup
ture by alternate freezing and thawing.
But seasons occur when no snowy blanket
falls. The artificial remedy is underdrain
ing; and if done thoroughly, it may be
pronounced winter killing. British agri
culture abounds with proof of this, and in
this country, since uudcrdraining has
been introduced, there is much confirma
tory evidence. Our severe ami variable
climate renders it much mure necessary
than in Englaud.
One of the most marvelous faculties of
the wheat plant is that of sending up a
multitude of stalks from a single grain,
known as tillering. It is the secret of its
great productiveness. Many experiments
have been made to ascertain the limit of
this faculty, and the results have been
truly wonderful. Au English gentleman
sowed a few grains of common red wheat
on the 2d of June, one of the plants from
which had tillered so much by the .8th of
August,that he then divided it into eighteen
others, ail which were planted separately.
In a few weeks so many of these had again
multiplied their stalks, that he had set
out sixty-seven altogether to. go through
the Wrinte?. With the Spring growth all
these began tillering, so that iu March
and April a nev division was made, aud
the number of plants increased to 5U0.
It was believed thatauother division might
have bean made, and that it would have
increased the number to 2,000. The 500
grew most vigorously, exceeding plants as
ordinarily cultivated. When harvested,
a single plant yielded over 100 ears, and
the whole number of ears produced was
21,109, or more than 40 to each divided
plant, and the grain measured 3 J peeks,
weighing 47 pounds. The grains were
estimated as numbering 570,840. All
this was the product of a single ker
nel. It is an " error to suppose that ours is
the greatest wheat producing country.
We do our full share, without doubt, but
our system of agriculture is steadily ex
hausting our best land, and in a few years
a diminuation of the yield will be appa
rent iu our census returns. . Last year's
crop is assumed to be 180,000,000 bush
els, but the average is probably only
120,000,000. The average yield of oth
er countries is as follows :
France, 191,422,2 IS
Rritain, 143,800,000
Two Sicilies, 04,000,000
Canada, 00,470,184
Spain, 4;,;I4,800
Austria, 'J7, 7:55, "G8
Sardinia, 19,1)75,000
Russia, (export only) 38,021.770
Belgium, 13,350,000
Portugal, 5,500,000
Turkey, (export only) 4,729,000
' Holland, 3,000,000
Denmark, y.00o,ooo
Sxtedea and Norway, 1,200,000
Here is an annual production of over
11, 1801.
006,000,000 bushels. If the crops of
mis comment are inciuacu, tne total may
be safely assumed to be 900,000,000, as
the uuaseeitained product of llnssia and
Turkey must be very large. No better
evidence of the primary value of the wheat
plant to the human family could be given
than such an exhibition as this. It proves
that where the highest civilization has
been attained, there the greatest production
is realized.
Taken In SIci- Oitu JVet.
A few Sundays ago, a young man be
longing to one of the very first families of
Virginia, and imbued with that descrip
tju of early piety which induces youthful
masculines to attend fashionable taberna
cles, attended morning service in one of
the principal churches in Ilichmond.
The affable and gentlemanly sexton of the
institution met him at the door, and escor
ted him with all due solemnity to a luxu
riant pew.
The pew was uninhabited at the time j
but scarcely had the young gentleman ta
ken a seat when there entered a beautiful
young lady of the most fashionable pat
tern, who gracefully waved her hand in
token of her unwillingness to disturb him,
and subsided delightfully into a seat near
the head of the private box we mean pew.
Our hero was as pious as a Virginian
can afford to be, and entertained a due
sense of the solemnity of the time and
place ; but he could not help casting a
glance now and then toward the fair stran
ger ; and when she was so kind as to hand
him a hymn-book, an overpowering sensa
tion caused his vocal praise to resemble
anything but music.
The hymn being finished, the clergyman
raised his hands in prayer; aud straight
way the lady and her admirer sank upon
their knees, in the manner prescribed by
polite standards of devotion.
It is believed that the young man heard
little of the petition, as the worshippers in
other pews observed that instead of look
ing devoutly upward he stared persistently
in an oblique direction over the left wing
of hs mustache. At any rate he looked
boldly in that direction on rising from his
knees, and was somewhat surprised to
fiud that the young lady still remained in
tiie attitude of deep devotion and made no
apparent attempt to resume her seat. At
first he fancied that the minister's prayer,
which was of a particularly soothing char
acter, had hushed her to sleep ; but upon
looking more closely at her he discovered
that she was trembiiag violently, and be
trayed every symptom of great mental ag
itation. "Can it be," thought he, "that some
eloquence of the preacher, which I have
failed to perceive, has so touched the inno
cent heart of this young creature that she
dare not arise lest her dewy tears should
attract the attention of the congregation V
"And still heazed, and still the wonder grew,"
until the beautiful knecler's emotion was
suddenly augmented to such a degree that
she actually threw one of her fair hands
behind her, and made divers couvulsive
clutches at her dress ! Purely devotional
fervor would not account for this, and the
young man's astonishment was fast leading
him toward idiocy, when the young devo
tee spasmodically beckoned him to approach
her. Virginians are not generally troubled
with bashfulness ; and when we say that
our hero slid in the direction of his kneel
ing companion with unparalleled alacrity,
it will be perceived that he was no excep
tion to the general rule!
Finding him beside her, the fair girl
turned to him a face rivaling the most
glorious sunset in its rosy hue, and falter
iugly rejoined :
"Please help me, sir. My dress has
caught, and uh, dear ! I can not get
up!"
The bewildered youth 'saw the point at
once.' Though properly pious, the devout
maiden was not above those vanities of the
world which induce womankind to worship
Fashion and their Maker at the same time,
and she had honored the former by com
ing to church in au extensive hoop-shirt
aud a pair of high-hcelcd gaiters. While
in the kneeling attitude, the heels of her
gaiters had caught in one of the upper
hoops of her skirt, and thus rendering her
unable to rise, each effort to release her
self making the matter worse. Her only
recourse was to ask the aid of her com
panion, and that he promptly and effi
ciently Tendered his assistance no one will
hesitate to believe. In short, the young
gentlemau achieved the feat in a way that
would have caused the lady to call him an
'awkward, stupid thing' had he been her
husband, aud she thanked him, as she re
gained her seat, with a blush more elo
quent than words.
XgQ, Don't you think, husband, thatyou
are apt to believe everything your hear''"
Not when you talk, my dear."
NUMBER 84.
Fun aud Fauy.
"A little nonsense, now and then,
Is relished by the best of uien,"
Mixxno ur the Babies. Some time
there was a dancing party given "up
north." Most of the ladies present had .
little babies, whose noisy perversity re
quired too much attention to permit the,
mothers to enjoy the dance A number
of gallant young men volunteered to watch
the young ones while the parents indulged
in a breakdown. No sooner had the w om
en left the babies in charge of the mis
chievous rogues than they stripped tho
infants and changed their clothes, giving
to one the apparel of another. The dance
over, it was then time to go horae, and
the mothers hurriedly took each a baby,
in the dress of her own, and started, somo
to . their homes tenor fifteen miles off,
and were far on their way before daylight.
But the day following there was a prodi
gious row in that settlement ; mothers dis
covered that a single day had changed
the sex of their babes, observation dis
closed startling physiogical phenomena,
and then commenced of some the tallest
female pedeslrianism. Living miles apart,
it required two days to unmix the babies,
and as many months to restore the women
to their naturally sweet dispositions. To
this day it is unsafe for any of the baby
mixcrs to venture within theterritory.
A Bad 2igiit. A gentleman was
once dining with a friend, when a dreadful
storniame up. In hopes of abatement,
the entertainment was prolonged to the
latest hour ; but at length it was over and
the storm showed no signs of ceasing, but
on the contrary, grew worse and worse.
The host insisted upon his guest's accep
tance of a lodging for the night, in vietf
ot the impossibility of reaching his
home.
The guest complied, but in a few min
utes was missed from the parlor. In
half an hour he reappeared, drenched with
rain.
"Where in Heaven's name have you
been ?" asked the host, viewing the sin
gular looking object which looked like a
dog around the paws and a weeping wil
low about the head.
"I," said he quietly shaking off the
water,"Ihave been at home to tell my wife,
that as it was such a bad night I should
not return."
Wanted A Categorical AitsWeiL
A man of unblemished character waa
candidate for a large constituency, and
the following means were used to get rid
of him. At a large public meeting an elec
tor got up and said :
"I demand the exercise of my right to
ask that candidate a question. Will he
answer me by a direct yes or no, like an
honest man ?"
"Undoubtedly I will."
"Well then," said the elector, "I ask
that gentleman who killed his washer
woman V
WThat was the gentleman to say ? Yes
or no could not answer the question. Ha
hesitated, he stammered the meeting
was against him. He was hustled cut of
the room ; and to this day he labors under
the grave imputation, in many people's
minds, of having feloniously accelerated'
the death of some unfortunate and perhaps
ill-used washerwoman.
Vanity Faiu-ites.
Positive and Eggativc a cackling hen.
. The best of the dollar jewels O nix.
A Union toast to the Stars : Thirty
four jorty or fight.
A capital thiug to turn ia a bar-room
an egg Sip-flap.
Apropos of the hard times: An old
friend -with a new face Whatever is, is
tight.
When Jeff. Davis threatens to mako
Lincoln quail, don't he want to make
game of him ?
Why is Doctor Holmes inconsistent?
Because he cither doses tho public with
Autocracy, or Elsie Fincr-ates them.
The editor's lust word to "our own cor
respondent" Be sure you write then go
ahead.
JEa?""To incommode the enemy, the peo
ple of Charleston have destroyed their
harbor. This reminds us of au old French
manwho asked the bank to redeem .in
ppecie a hundred dollar bill. Tho bank
refused. This so exasperated the French
man that he exclaimed, "By gar, I have
my revenge," saying which, ho tore, up
the bill and threw it iuto the cashier's
face.
EQuWhen wo see a pretty female foot,
we naturally conclude that it belongs to a
pretty girl, on the principle that "All's
well that ends well."
2? A girl's vital spark her lover.
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