The Sumter banner. [volume] (Sumterville, S.C.) 1846-1855, 1848-02-09
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from otiF mel gHboTing Slate arrived irfs
New 5an and inquired for the %
+ graph. - lis en- rancs intdicaied tf1nfS
no had He'd a speed Title inferii. fii
|sorStoS the telegraph itself: Yhar,s tie:
TELEGRAPH his hurried inquiry of !.
the person he met upon arriving in Nlai1,sG
street! ut the same time ask Ing whatwould
be the cost of sending 'lctte ~ I'd Cin:s.
cinnati. Now, this Kentuck Khan lived inS !
& adistrict where The principles sot bior5se,g
inventor moi SO parfectly unf1erstood
as N the patent Office at Vnshing ton, nor
had he ever attended a course of Dr. s.
Bentiey Is lecture much less did he frou- s1tl
Dle nlnlseI about the dispute OF s orse and
House, or Kendall and O' Reilly.
The gentleman TO whom lie addressed i
himself being somewhat Of u gng, in form
ed :him thntif he went the Office with
his iettertheyy would charge him pretty
heavily; but that he could. BY climbing 5
|9up! one the posts, put his letter in one
EofS the holes through which the wire pas. .5
ses, and rst s'shock. !, would take il
to IFS destinnti tion, q rec Of postage, BE.
ing disciple Of Franklin of tho strictest1
sect, our skentuck friend sew no reason
for the penditure ,of' half dozen dimes.
when his:objcct, ms he thought. could Be,
otherwise so Seasily attained. But haS
reckoned. without his host. In Id coon
hunt he was counted tssome, = and ifsIlis
rife failed 70 fetch possnm, he would,
i Withson agility littleinferior to the subtle
self l,ss s, .. : - -
Having made the necessary prepara.- =
tons, he commenced tho ascent Of one of.
our "neatly dressed" posts that .sorna-
ment' our principal streets. When he
bad reached an elevation of about fifteen
feet, his hands slipped ,Eand 'downhe came,
larfIng his whole frame, and considerably
brnising himself: ,.3s:l '5ys
Nothing daantcdy by the future of this
his first experiment, our fsope rator' % made
! another effort, and had almost gained The
necessary attitude, when the sarne m is. !.
fortune, and a much worse bruising. over
!; took him GsSbefore. The double failure
would have been sufffii cient to- check the
courage Of most men; but who ever. heard
OF 9. kentuckian 50 aying 81 scan'tp' Pick.
ling Himself up, and consoied with the idea
that the "third time is the charm!n he
recommended his labors, and succeeded
IN putting the precious document in the
proper place. zii;
7 Descending from his elevated position,
the next trouble was to know how, OF
where or when he should get reply TO
!! his communication. But the wag. who
was standing by together with some 9TH
ers,) enjoying this ludicrous scene, was at
10 loss for giving the necessary instruc-5
tons to the corn-cracker. They told him
that If II came to the knowledge Of the
telegraph agents that he had been thus
clundestinely sending sdespatches" with
out; paying the usual fees; they would cer-
tainly make him pay dear for: his whistle. h
he cordiDgly instructed the green.one
70 go about helfmile east Of town, climb
one OF the undressed posts, and there await
the arrival of q reply, for which he must
keep sharp lookout, or it would escape
lis observation. The instructions were
obtyed, and the last we heard of this tele.
graph operator from Kentucky, he was
snngly Perched on one of the posts, lit,
tic way out of town, with his eyes in
tenly bent on the magnetized wires.
Nep albany (Ind.) Dem.
| ABSENCE OF MIND.---A few weeks since
highly respectable citizen of /. southern
city called at the New York post office,
and said-'Haye you any letters for me?'
What is your name sir?' said the clerk.
The gentleman raised his finger to his
| nose, looked grave, and said, 4 will tell
you directly and turned on his heel out
Of the office. A few yards from the post
office he met a friend who said----sEIow
|; do you do, Mr.. .----..? That's it, said
tile gentleman, and he returned TO the Of
fee, told his name, and obtained his let.
| ters.
BEARS have been killed in great num-
bcrs in Michigan the past season than any
previous one. In lonia County alone,
upwards Of two hundred have been laid
tothe land. Ono Indian killed twelve in
one day. 81
| A VERY OLD BooK.-A gentleman in
Now Orleans has in possession manu-.
script copy Of an old Roman nissal, writ
| fen in Latin, on yellum, by a monk, about
the year a. d. 900. The book is con-.
seqncntly, one thousand fivc hundred and
forty.seycn years, old ut least.
AVERAGE length Of human life in Next!
co is only fifteen years, which circnm.
stance alone is sufficient TO show the vast
difference existing botween the moral md
physical condition ofthat people and our
own. IS S
THE AsP1RATED "H - Mrs Crawford
snys she wrote one line in her "KathleenB
Mavourncen" fol, the express purpose of
confoundDg the Cockney warblers. WHO