Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1854-03-01
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WoMAN's RrGHTs AssERTED.-The
Stanford Advocate contains the following
spirited advertisement
To TIE PUBLIC.-Whereas my hus-
band, Edward II. Jones, has falsely adver-
tised that | have left his bed and board,
and that he will pay no debts of my con-
tracing, &c, this is to inform the public
that the aforesaid Edward II. Jones had
neither bed nor board for me to leave, he
having been living at the expense of my
father; and further, under p~retence of pro-
curing money to pay his way to Birming-
ham, Connecticut, he borrowed a dollar of
my father, and with that paid for his lying
advertisement against me and even after
this dastardly act, he took all the money |
had, and borrowed every cent in my moth
er's possession, and left the town. For the
past three months he has been kept from
nakedness and starvation by the exertionsof
myself and relatives ; he squandered in dis
sipation all the money his Unborn ~laziness
would allow him to earn. The scamp need
not to have advertised that he would not
pay debts Of my contracting, for the pub
lie we'll know that he would not even pay
his own. He is a lazy, ungrateful, loaing
scoundrel not content with living at the
expense of my relatives and borrowing their
money, he publishes an outrageous lie. His
bed and board, indeed! Ifleft to himself
his bed would be nothing but a board, and
| should not be much surprised if the bed
he dies on were made o fboards, with astrong
cross beam overhead. SARAH A. JONES.
WRITING PRAYERs.-A correspondent
from Virginia sends us the following, with
appropriate vouchings of its truth : At
the breaking Of the ground for the com
mencement of the Lynchburg and Tennes-
see Railroad, at Lynchburg, the Rev. j.
E., by appointment, acted as chaplain
on the occasion. At the time appointed
for prayer the chaplain raised his hands and
said Let us pray In an instant all hats
were DOTTED, and the chaplain commenced,
slowly aud s~olomnly, to read a very appro-
pirate manuscript prayer, which he had pre-
viously% prepared. During the reading Of
the prayer an old negro man, who had been
engaged with his spade, was resting with
one foot on the spade and his arms on the
handle, looking very intently in the chap.
lnin's face. At the conclusion of the pray,
or, tho old negro, s~traightnipg himself, re,
marked audibly 'Woll, l recon dat's de-
fust time dc Lord has ever been written tC
on the subject Of railroads!
POPPING THE QUEsTIoN.-A young la
dy said to her beau, after five years court
ship, Charles, l nm going out of town to
morrow
where 7"
Il don't know
'When are you coming back?
Never
what are you going for?
Il am going to look after something whic
you have never had, and yet can give IN
without any loss to YOURSELF
You are welcome to it but what is it
a husband =
'Why, you might have had that fy
years ago, if you bad only said the word
but l was afraid to begin
PAINFUL BUT LAUGHABLE.-In Not
Of an Army Surgeon we find the followir
which occurred during the siege of Flo
Erie:
] remember, one day, in making my he
pital rounds, a patient just arrived preser
ed an amputated forearm, and in doing
could scarcely restrain a broad laugh ; t
litter was constantly on his face.
WHAT'S the matter? this does not stri
me as a subject of laughter
1T is not, doctor; but excuse me.
lost my arm in so funny a way that l st
laugh when l look at it.
what way?
'Our first sergeant wanted shaving, al
got me to attend to it, as | am a corpor
We went together in front Of his tent.
had lathered him, took him by the no.
and was just about applying the rag
when a cannon ball came and that was I
last | saw Of his head and my arm. Excl
me, doctor, for laughing so, but / nev
saw such a thing before
A young lady given to tattle, says {
never tells any thing except 10 two classes
those who ask her, and those who don't.