Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1848-10-26
AMERICAN COURTSHIP.

country OF gong ahead. ii you only saw
one of our young fellows setting off 10 pick
up wife, It would wake you up amazing
ly. There you would see him perhaps in
harvest afternoon with his Wagon and best
team. He arrives al her fathers door-leaps
out: starts right in. Miss is sitting in the
corner sewing napkin; father in the other
putting a new handle in his ak
Good afternoon, says both in return.
] say squire, says Fred, the old lady is in
the kitchen, with something in her head she
wants to be telling you of you had better
start
Still cutting away at the handle, the old
squire gets up and leisurelybows himself
out Of the room.
Now for it says Fred. say Miss, its all
up with me. .f..
Up with you, says Miss whats "who's
that?"
Why, says Fred, there amt no fun in ma
ture, in Teller living by his self in house
as big as Shakers meeting, and nothing III
barrin plenty of furniture in the rooms the
kitchen chock full Of hams and ingincts;
the celler over the lid with cider; and MOTH
ing else in the universe but the live stock
out of door
Olivia, else would you have says Miss
Amt that enough YOU goney?
Enough, says Fred, no there amt wife
in the lot.
Az that's queer, says Miss with blush
No it amt, says Fred, crit,er mus, begin
some time to be married. l've just taken
though, in that of you miss! Oh there
now, my dear, don't look frustrated, says
Fred, in soothing tone, liant got honey
words: but have got heart, you may
depend, as warm as cooking stove.
Tuts your bold, says Miss.
Well then, says Fred, tut amt no. You
won't say that ugly word.
Won't | says Miss.
Well then, says Fred, will you say no,
when ask you right off.
To be sure will, and keep my word.
too, you general!
Then says Fred, with solemn voice,
Mary, my sweet love, will you refuse me?
| No, says she according to promise.
There you are ! says Fred, ,riumphan,ly.
Have the bait! So I'll step and tell Father
All was settled right off; and Fred got
pretty wife the next week to finish the lot.
! OBITUARY ELoQUENCE.-A correspon-
dent of the Burlington Free Press has fur
uished to that journal the following verbatim
report of funeral discourse which he saws
he heard delivered in the Florida House Of
Representatives. The duty Of making it was
voluntarily assumed, and even insisted on,
by the speaker, to the 10 small onder of
the House, his utter incompetency being no.
torious:
"Mr. Speaker: Sir-Our fellow citizen
Mr. Silas Higgins. who was lately mem
Der Of this branch of the Legislature, is dead
and he died yesterday in the forenoon He
had the browncreaers, (bronchils he meant,
suppose,) and was all uncommon lndivi-
dual. His character was good, up to the
time of his death, and he never lost his voice
He was fifty six years old, and was taken
sick before he died at his boarding house,
where board can be had a. dollar and seven
y-6ve cents a week, washing and lights in
cluded. He was an ingenious creature, and
in the early part OF his life had a father and
mother He was an officer in our state mill
tia since the last war. and was brave and
polite, and his uncle, Timothy Higgins, be-
longed to the Revolutionary war, and was
commissioned as lieu,enan, by Gen. Wash
ng,on, first President and commander-n-
chief Of the army and navy Of the United
States, who died at Mount Vernon, deeply
lamen,ed by large circle OF friends, on the
l4lh of December 1899, or ,hereaboul, and
was buried, soon after his death, with mill
tary honors. and several guns were bust in
firing sautes.
Sir, Mr.. Speaker :--General Washington
presided over the great continental Sanhe-
drim and political meeting that formed our
constitution: and he was indeed grea. and
good man. He was first in war, first in
peace, and first in the hearts of his country
men, and, though he was in favor Of the u
nied States Bank, he was a friend Of edu-,
cation, and from what he said in his farewell
address. have no doubt he would have vo-
ted for the tariff of 1916, if he had been alive
and hadn't a. died some time beforehand
His death was considered at the time as ya-
Their premature, on account of its being
brought on by an ordinary cold. t8s
Now, Mr.. Speaker, such being the char
ac.er of General Washington, motion that
we wear Grape around the left arm of this
Legislature, and adjourn till to morrow
morning as an emblem of our respects for
the memory of S. Higgins, who is dead and
died Of the bro,cn creators yesterday in the
forenoon.' aa
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