Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1829-09-09
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LIGHT READING.

considerable mirth was elici-
" -, tho Police Office yesterday, by the com
;n,or, black w,fe, named Fanny HIc6|e-
III, ,OJ ,be application of her black husband,
u .ails bimself KEeklefon BIien. He, it
y ~. 80 wishes 10 get rid of his coal black
60, =, arrangement to which she would by
Ems r consent. The grounds of his appl-
.: ",,' were that she was not sufficiently
s,,l,, for him-shc does not "Speak n'ce"
n, sometimes "dijnkS iRi0ricQtion,"
I ,,ss ), 200 oM TO be his rife, Her COM
INF was, that he not only kept her out OF
- borSc, but occasionally maltreated her.
nom his latter charge he was obliged to find
Ito the amount of 500. On the masis-
r,.,s telling him to go home with his wilc,
~ zee, the peace towards her, as he had Ia
=, be. far better, for teorSe, he replied;
/ .lh -, d.tis dc worst of it in this country
-, man can't get qR0der chance for good
.;;--sure its worse dan de state lottery, sir,
., " added he, ''Ill try all de courts to see
| iGcr will take her from me, and if | don't
-, m oder satisfaction, I'll break her head
de peace rogader; | doc't care about de
rlrcd aoilarS. "-COur. and Eng.
hector Johnson was not little diSconcert-
ID, an unexpected retort made upon him
/ eri, large party at Oxford, by Doctor
/ Grove. The principles Of our photographer
,, with TOO much violence in one way, not
1 20 form little when they met with current
anaing equally strong in another. The dis
1ue h9pened TO turn upon the origin OF whig-
1 ism. DR.. Johnson had triumphantly chal-
I eaged Grove to tell him who was the first
1 rhi., the latter finding himself little puz-'
zels Johnson tauntingIy rejoined, 81 sec,
/ Sir that you are even ignorant of the head OF
YOUR own party, but will tell you sir: the
evl was the first wing he was the first re-
former; he wanted to set up a reform even in
heaven !'-Crowe calmly replied, am much
4 obliged to you for your information, and |
certainly did OF iOreSee that YOU would go so
tar back for your authority yet | rather fear
that your argument makes against yourself I;
Tor If the devil was wing, YOU have admitted
that while he was wing. he was in heaven,
but YOU have forgotten that the moment he
got into hell, he set up fer tory"
EFFENISACY AND CRrELTY.-The figure
OF the, ElScOunt Dundee "was slight and Of
low stature, yet restless and active to- such
degree as it might well excite the idea Of its
being the tabernacle of demoniac spirit
HIS vlSaSe was beautiful even to cfeminacy,
and was still father so6ened by multitude
OIL pcnduIouS rngetS which he disposed a
round II, much after the female fashion of
modern times, and which ii is remembered, he
framed with much care into their proper ar
rangement, by wearing them in leads when
~ uaireSS, d" Nevertheless this curley pa
lei idonls was "the bloody Claverhouse, :"
- being whose severity of discipline was
dreadful The only punishment his inflicted
was asa'h! Death, he said was properly
NE only punishment which gentlemen could
submit to-(and all his men he held to be of
Ina' rankl-because il alone relieved him from
ne CONSCIOUSNESS of crime II is reported Of
num- that having seen a youth fly in is first
lcoon' he pretended he had sent him to the
.sar on message. The youth fled second
'me; he brought him to the ront of the ar
my and saying that gentlcman's son ought
..0' 10 tail by the hands of common execu-
'o'er' shot him with his own pistol"
oRSia6ie's HiSceIf0ny.
l0e following letters are slid to have been
written over the ten commandments in a
C"a'eh IN WALES, and remained unexplained
or moro than century:
PRSVR Y PRFCT Mn
NR KIP THIS PRCPTS TN
,, 10 discover the meaning. add the vowel
1 where tits wanting-eight times to the first
'Ae and nine times TO the second.
SURE ENoUGH I'VE were well pleased
WIN the common sense manifested by an un
Ortunate son of Erin, who was being tried
'e'ore Justice Whitman the other day care
you guilty or not guilty." said the Clerk.
an 'chat the deUH are you PIT there TO,
." 10 hind out !?"---.SiQteSman.
AH'res.-ln the reign of Henry the Eighth,
appears by the Chronicles. that knives