The Yazoo Whig and political register. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 1840-1842, 1842-06-24

DeCn produced IN fNAoulOo tCOuuty3 NORTH 1
Carolina, by Col. VIM. Hancock. !. The |
wheat was sown on the 18th Of October,
l64lc cut on the 18th Of May, le42, thresh-
ed on The 2lst, ground on The 23d, and in |
mhrkel on The 23d.
The crops in Kentucky, of tobacco, corn,
hemp, and grain, are said TO haveneYer been
more promising than at this time.
According to Lord Lenox, there are, at
the present time, in the British army, four
Colonelss who suffered corporal punishment
while they were in the ranks, from which
they have subsequently, risen by their own
merits. ~. u
1t is an exercise Of ingenuity to name
canal boat and avoid repetition. Before the
election, says the Albany Argus, an honest
Wing navigator named his boat "Hard
Times" A few days since, he called at
the collectors office, aud entered another
for the same concern, "Harder Times"
Il is stated, that young lady, native of
Concord, Mass, recently walked from that
place to Maiden, distance of seventeen
miles, in four hours and forty minutes, in
GLIDING three short stops on the course
She's hard to head
A singular coincidence in the death of
the great and good Washington'is, that he
died in the last hour, in the last day of the
week, in the last month in the year, and in
the last year OF the century, viz: Saturday
night, IL o'clock, December 1899.
Hon. Samuel Smith, who died lately at
Peterborough, N. H., left bound files of a.
bout a bundled different newspapers. nearly
eight hundred volumes. He had been pa
per-maker, and took an afectionate interest
in these matters.
Who has not heard of CGt-alne, the cele-
brated meO-sicianR palOs for reply.
Men are not bupglers because thew are
poor; they are poor because they are bung-
leTs.
A clergyman in parish church having
put notice into the clerks hand few
Sundays since, stating that the services
would De morning and evening, or morning
and afternoon, alternately honest Roger
improved upon it, and said that the service
would be to 'GI eternity
As teacher of the young idea was en-
Ployed the other day, in his delightful task
OF learning a sharp urchin to cypher on a
slate, the Precocious pupil put the following
question to his NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. dis q,
Oot3"
A Kamschatkan kneels before his guest
he cuts an enormous slice from sea. calf:
he Grams it entire into the mouth of his
friend, fufiOuSly crying out 'sTana n'-There +!
and cutting away what hangs about his Inns.
snatches and swallows it with avidity.
An auctioneer in Boston, lately INDUCED
the following little bit of the pathetc:-
''GeElemen, if my father or mother stood
where you do and didn't buy those boots
those elegant bOots-when they were poinp
for one dollar, | should feel it nv duty. as q
son, to tell both Of 'em that they were false
TO themselves and false to their country"
An artillery company from Chartertown
Mass, lately paraded in Boston, with the old
military cooked hat of the revolution.
A lot Of WeGuers made their appearance
at Wilkesbarre, on the llth ult Mrs.
Weaver, of thae place, presented her hus.
band with three heirs, two sons and a
daughter. The mother and children are ali
doing we'll.
Maj. g. ". Whistler, having accepted an
invitation from the Emperor Of Russia ha,
resigned the place Of Engineer of the West
ern Railroad. The Directors accepted the
resignation and abolished the ofice-salar,
six thousand dollars. -r
The Indians on the borders of Arkansa,
are said to have school system decided,
superior to that of Arkansas herself.
Bunker Hill Monument now presents Ar
imposing appearance. Eight courses O
stone have been added the present season
making the present elevation of the column
upwards Of $50 feet.
Law can pronounce Judgment only on o
pen taclsj morality alone can pass censurc
on intentions of mischief; so that for secre
cainmny, or the arrow flying in the dark
tnere IS no punishment left but what 1ooc
writer inHicts.
Martin Burney while earnestly explainin,
the three kinds. of acid, was stopped b,
Lamb saying, "the best Of all kinds If acid
as you know Martin, is assid-uiiy."
A Persian merchant complaining heavil,
OF some unjust sentence in the lower court
was told by the Judge that he might 90 I,
the CadE HBut the Cadi is your uncle. ;
urged The plaintiff %Then YOU NAV 90 I,
the Grand VizieT" '"But his secretsrV /;
your cousin.' "Then you NAV 20 to IN,
SULTAN" "But his favorite sultana is YOU
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