Baton-Rouge gazette. [volume] (Baton-Rouge, La.) 1819-1856, 1843-06-03

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In one Of tho courts of Massachusetts
the other day. n young lady brought sui
against n gentleman. charging that he had
br"ken his marriage promise. sho could
prove no promise but did prove ,hat the
gentleman had been very polite and atten.
tive, sitting with her even lato at night,
and riding with her at noon day. The
Jury inferred that a promise must have
been at Tho bottsm Of atl This attention. OF
ought to have boom at any rate md they
made the fellow ray u thousand and fifty.
four dollars because he did not finish his
acquaintan ee; and such acquaintance
always ooght TO be finished.
THE Two JoNss'.--Bennett has fallen
ont MS badly with the GIobo nj Washing
ton. ~ with the Madisoninn. Each OF
these papers he says. has n "John Jones'
and IL Of opinion that if both were put INTO
n bag and well shaken. 'Ihe first one out
would be- mn ass--and so would the sec.
ond." or Capt. Tyler and las Col. Stone
calls him) ''actipg president Bobby" Ben.
nett remarks TINT they haven't the dis
cernmont Of oysters. Iio admits however
that il planted on the York Bank, they
might BIO fl for opening, sometime neat
year. Er=' aa. s5 ." r5".
Duck shooting on a large seale.--A man
living on tho premises Of Tebias Gibson,
Rife Point. Louisiana, very recently kill.
I'd nj a single shot, th'rty.seven ducks
Tho gun 10 nm old United States musket,
manufactured Mt Harper's Ferry. At four
shots, he killed one hundred and thirty.
four with tho same gun. Tall shooting
that. Undoubted proof can be had at Rifle
Point.-Natches Free Tcader.
Prussian mode Of dealing wM defaul.
fers.-tt was recently stated in the Ma.
tional lntelligencer, that a prussian tax.
gather having fled into France. with some
$1,000 of tho public monies, was, under
the treaty between the two nations, given
up, and when carried back to Prussia, was
sentenced to refund the money. pay all the
EXPENSE $, aud to be whipped three times
in the public market. Would not some
such law be e~xpedient and eilicacious here1
THE RULING PASSION Cesar folded
his robe around him and fell with dignity
seven at the base Of Pompey's statue"
John Adams died on the 4ih Of July,
1926, the 50lh anniversary of American
independence, with tho word "Indepen.
dencs" on his lips.
r1hoo,,. I,nr.>rt, IT, ..u.1 -. At
same day were-"Warn the Committee
(of Public Safety of their danger"
Napoleon died with the professional
phrase "7ae d'armte,' trembling on his
tongue. .@ % @
Gen. Harrison's last words Supposed
to be addressed to Mr.. Tyler) were-"Sir,
| wish you to understand the true princi.
Piles of the Government /; I wish them car.
ried out. / ask nothing more"
Captain Lawronce's dying injunction
was--"Don't give mp the ship"
Commodore Bainbridge, when he lay
struggling in death, sonmoning all his
energies for a final effort, exclaimed
"Cail all hands TO hoard the enemy"
And recently, Commodore Porter, when
dying in a foreign land, directed as his
last request that Ibis body .honld be blu.
ried al the foot Of the flag staff, that even
after death the glorious stars and stripes of
America might wave over him."
WAR.-It has been estimated by DR..
Thomas Dick, that since the creation of
the world, fourteen thousand millions of
beings have fallen in the battles which
man has waged against his fellow crea-
ture--man. If the forefngers only of
these beings were to be laid in a straight
line, thsy would reach more than 6oO,.
900 miles beyond the moon.
~ shall die happy" said the expiring
husband TO the wife who was weeping most
dutifuIly by the bedside, "if you will pre-.
mise not TO marry that object Of my un.
ceasing jealousy, your cousIn John
MAKE yourself quite easy, love-" said the
expectant widow Il an engaged to his
brother"
The legislature OF Maryland passed a
law at its last session.. enabling married
women after ceverture, 10 bold in their
own right. real property or slaves. or mo.
rev Of their own earning. 70 t.as amount
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