The North-Carolina standard., 1846-03-25
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Sol. Smith The following quotation, touches
upon the interest of the audience, in one of Sols
mimic scenes: :
Towards the close oflhe season, a branch Of
| the company, consisting of eight men and s wo.
men, was sent out to RusselIviIe, Hopkinsvile
and Clarksville, under my management While
performing the Stranger at ClarksvilIc, one of
our auditors became interested in the last scene
that he got. up and addressed my brother as fol.
s. Come, Smith, look over what's past and
take back your wife: for I'll be id if you'll get
such another in a hurryP
| This reminds me OF similar effect produccd
by the performance of the Gamblers Fate in
Huntsville several years afterwards During
the last scene of that most thrilling drama, where
Albert Germaine and his family are Represented
IN a state OF actual Starvation, a country gentle
man IN one of the side boxes suddenly rose up.
III cannot stand this said he, in a voice loud
enough to be heard all over the house. 'G4n,Ic-
men, propose we make up something for this
woman He was here admonshed by certain
bushes, set DOWNS and orders that his pro.
position did not meet with much favor--on tho
contrary 1t was received with considerable laugh.
ter, while whispered inimalon came to his ear
from friend at his elbow that the distress of the
family was all sham! Gentlemen, continued
the charitable country auditor, you may hush
and order as much as you please-for my part
don't see anything to laugh at you see the wo-
man hasn't anything 10 eat, and that poor little
child of hers seems almost furnished now I
wouldnt give the rascal, her husband the first red
cent; ne doesn't deserve any pity; but really the
woman hasn't deserved this distress; she has fol-
lowed her husband through all his wanderings,
and left her friends, where she was comfortable,
to follow this scamp. Gentlemen, you may
laugh, but here goes my w . And sure enough
he threw pocket book. There, my good wo-
man--Mrs. Germainc, or what ever your name
may be, take that! Send for something to cat
and make yourseIfcomfortabIe but let me advise
ion Of Pnh ht H 6dsee deH bap1hrd bap 1hr paEo qs
with, as sure as h-lII and now continued the
philanthropist setting himself in his scat now 60
on with the play ..-
Death of Sporting Clergyman The Rev.
Hardy nj. Cryer, CT Summer county, Tenn,
died on the 9Th inst He was buried with full
Masonic honors. The deceased was good man.
but very eccentric He is well known in tho
West for his connection with bIooded horses about
which he wrote much and we'll In England ho
would have been keen sporting parson, fond Of
fox hunting and race horscs-and perhaps none
the worse Christian for that He enjoyed rep
utaon for benevoence and uprig ghtness and pos
sessed vast variety of curious Information, pro-
fessional and miscellaneous
| A friend tells characteristic aneecdote of tho
parson, which is worthy of mention. He owned
fine race horse in conjunction with a celebra-
ted and successful turfman and trainer, and when
the fact made known to his parishioncrs,
they made enquiry as TO its truth. and the charge
was brought home to him. AT a meeting of tho
elders the reverend gentleman was called before
them TO pate himself from the hcnous Of
fence of running horse in race Feeling that
it would be idle to put his defence upop the
tional ground ofthe morality and utility OF racing
"A defence which he was very COMPETENT TO mako
with ingenuity and force-he made up his mind
TO "confess and avoid" as the lawyers say. Ac.
cordngy he addressed them thus I" It's true,
gentlemen, Tom Watson and 1 do own Jake
CreaM togcther-and he's not a bad horse either
when he starts he wins. Old man Watson
trains and runs him at his own expense--T get
half his winnings because alow my half Of the
! horse TO run when Col. TOMS half goes. Ifyou
will provide way for my half to remain in the
stable during the race, am perfectly willing 10 TO-
tire from the turf
! Whether the elders were convinced by this log
ic, or were Modified by his having named the
horse after the Rev. Jacob Creath, q celebrated
preacher, we know not; but he was not dismissed
from his charge. ~. o. Picayune.
Louis Philippe When teaching French and
Dancing at Boarding School, Newtown,
Bucks County, friend narrates for the Courier
that he conceived The idea Of manufacturing Bo-
logna sausages, and accordingly purchased d
quantity Of beef and ham, and with the assistance
of colored man. made up lot of the article,
packed, and forwarded them to France This
fact was incidentally furnished by an old lady
now in the city, who then lived in the nrighbor:
hood, remarling that she know how TO make good
Bologna sausages- and being asked where she
obtained the recipe, replied, from Louis Phil
iippe." He lived, at the time, with accom-
pished and beautiful woman, supposed by all o
be his Wife-but on his return to France, ho
wrote to the lady with whom he boarded that she
was not his wife
In his oftea, Of which he was cxtravagant-
ly fond, instead Of cream he used Holland gin
but we sincerely trust that no body, not eveT
those lesser or greater than The Citizen King"
i'll do themselves so great wrong as to initiate
his spiritual propensity in this regard or in his
domestic arrangements IN the sweet village Of
Newtown. -'
Singular Masonic Fact. In an address lately
delivered by Past Grand Master r. G. Scott be-
fore the Grand Lodge of Virginia, we meet with
the following statement:
"From sources Of information on which
entirely rely, state The fact, that fifty at least of
those who signed the Declaration of Independence
were Masons, and tho. same history informs US
that every Major General of the Revolutionary
army was Mason save one, and that one was
Benedict Arnold" Charleston Ne1fs.
An imporlant invent;on. A Pennsyfvanian, it