Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1851-10-24
From the Louisville Journal
Childhood.

anu every Drecze Inat Huttereu py.
Seemed laden with op' ming joy.
The sun still ushers in the day,
The sends down her silv'ry ray,
Yet all their light dimmed by tears,
They beam in chidhood's years.
Theyseem but mem res of past,
Bright, but alas too brgh to last.
Spring still the Garth adorns with flowers
With verdure clothes the forest-bowers,
The brook. its rings of yore, i
Breathes softly to the pebbly shore,
thousand charms the fields unfold,
Yet wear they not the tints Of old: :-~-- n
And thou must return,
Enrth's stern. sad lessons all must learn;
Yet, when the breaking heart is bowed
By sorrow, though the low'ring cloud
Will burst, and softened radiance east
Around US. mem'ries of the past.
AN UNr1nELY v1s1r.-The Washington CORES
pondent Of the Philadelphia Ledger, gives the fol-
lowing piece of Washington gossip
Mr. Blair, of the Globe that was, hearing of Mr.
Bentons sickness called on him the other day. He
first met the ladies in the parlor, who told him that
the colonel sick in bed, and that the doctor had
forbidden people to enter his room. Mr. Blair
thought that, old friend, he enjoyed the privi-
lege of seeing Mr.. Benton under all circumstances
and accordingly rushed into his bed chamber. There
he appalled, to find Col Benton sitting up in his
bed his face covered with scales and scars. ' What
IN the name OF HeaNe1, Is Lhe matter with you ~
cried Mr.. Blair. Nothing, SIR" replied Col. Ben
ton, putting himself in his usual senatorial expoun-
ding attitude, patting. with two fingers Of his right
hand, the palm of his left hand "small pox sir
small pox ha, ha, hs! Small pox, ha, ha ha !"
Blair rushed out like thunderbolt, and Immediate
ly got himself vaccinated, to save his beauty
THE BLAckGUARDs.-We have all sorts of Guards
-Schart Guards, Emmett Guards, Salamander
Guards, and blackguardS but the real Black Guards
jus passed our Office in all the pride pomp and cir
cumstance of glorious war; headed by three great
big buck niggcrs, who looked as if their heads could
batter down stone wall. They must have seen
service, for they all black and blue. When we
see such sights in public streets, can't help
remarkng that things look very dark indeed, and
some means should be taken to do away with them,
for their IS offence is rank land file and smells to
heaven" However, they presented highly polish
ed appearance, and took the shine off everything.
New York Day Book
There is a report says the Independence Beige.
that the Germanc Diet intends to suppress the indie
pendence of the three free towns Hamburg Bremen,
and Lubbock and to Incorporate them in other Ger
man States. Hamburg is to fall to Prussia.
| A couple of limbs of the law" who were con-
ductng suit before Justice in Rochester. got in
censed at another and finally came to blows
The court sat by and looked cooy until the fra
cas- was over. The two combatonts apclogized for
disturbing his honor but the Justice wipng his
Specs cooy declared that he hadn't been disturbed
| in the 1east-he rather liked it,
| DANGEROUS Observation-Disclosures, the man who
was recently in the hands Of vigilant committee in
California, and came near being hung owing to an
unfortunate resemblance to Stewart the convict, has
been discharged from custody. This man had seve-
| raj narrow escapes First he escaped hanging BY
! the mob at San Francisco was subsequently SEN
fenced to death by legally constituted court and
again sentenced to fourteen years Imprisonment.
1t that he guiltless of every charge that
was brought against him, and owed all his troubles to
| ~ in fba
convict above named. Several witnesses swore posi-
lively to the identity of Berdue, but subsequently,
upon being confronted with Stewart, the real cul-
prt acknowledged their error.
AN ILLINOIS Court ScESE.-We sometimes get rich
Jokes from Illinois, and the latest is the following:
1t is good bit of drollery: quite original, we be-
lieve, and must put it the file among the funny
things of the times.
A constable that had lately been nducted into Of
flee in attendance the court, and was ordered
by the Judge to call John Bell and Elizabeth Bell
! He Immediately began at the top of his lungs.
"John Bell and Elizabeth Belle"
"One at time,n said the Judge.
/ Gone at time-one at time-one at time, -
shouted the constable.
"Now you've done it," exclaimed the Judge, out
of patience.
"Now you've done t--now you've done it-now
you've done it !'--yelled the constable. There was
no standing this: the court, bar and bystanders
broke into hearty laugh, to the perfect surprise
and dismay of the astonished constable
4 The story is told of certain New Zealand chief,
that Young missionary landed at his island to
ceed sacred teacher deceased sometime before. At
an interview with the chief the young minister
i asked
did you know my departed brother %
i "Oh yes Me deacon in his church,
i "Ah, then you knew him well and was he not a
! good and tender hearted man 2!
'Yes,' replied the pious deacon with much gusto.
i :. he very good and very tender. Me eat piece OF
/ him -
A member of the e Lazy Club has just been ex-
pelled for going at faster gait than walk. The
recusant offered, in mitigation of sentence the fact
that the sheriff was after him, but the society
l inexorable.
i surgical operation under the influence of chic
roform has Just terminated fatally at Paris, to the
regret of the public, to whom the patient was well
known. One of the brown bears in the Geological
Garden suffering from cataract of the eye, emf
nent sergean and party of gelchrter assembled to
undertake his cure Bruin tempted to the bars
of his den by the offer of bread and then secured
\ bv ropes and muzzle After stout resistance,
chloroform was administered In state of insensi-
bty the cataract was removed, and the bands un-
tied but the patient showed signs of life. Feath-
ers to the nose cold buckets of water and bleeding
produced no effect Poor Bruin had gone whittier
the great tortoise Two ostriches and the African lion
have preceded him, for the managers of the Berlin
Garden are decidedly unlucky. With the tri6ing
drawback of the death of the subject the operation
was skilfully and successfully performed
Ladies who cultivate flowers, will gratefully re-
ceive the following recipe for destroying very
troublesome reptile Worms in pots may be easily
DESTROYED simply by watering the soil with lime
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