The Weekly comet. [volume] (Baton Rouge, La.) 1853-1855, 1855-05-13
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| ~ JAcNsos hs., Mar efn rs
| Comet :.---Ohe need not 60 in the
busy STREETS Of this city, to discover
that tosday is The Sabbath, and thai
the citizens Of out Athrhs, remen.
Der the Sabbath ahd keep it holy. =
no, it is alike visable in the eounien.
anee Of the landlord his guest the
| hostess, and all The in dwellers Of this
sea. Jf leafhihg mid arts. The very
loot-posts proclaim the fact, ahd tile
closed shutters speak Of IT,; whilst the
work nurse and uiher cattle that live
III dumb felicity stroll lisily about Id
spini cnntiotisiless of tie fact apfu-
clained. There IL but Uhe huuse,
see, with distended jaws, treh 10 take
one III and tlat ah aputheeary On
what your daponeni believp'h ii bis
faith, to be Main Street This estab-
lishment Is ever open, and like death
himself 'hath al seasons for HE owns
The proprietor has with single, pro
ffiety, placed dead inpns heads and
blvudy hunes !" in bis front Window.
What a tale they tell In a hollow
voice like that Of the ghost Of joseph
McMuagins, they seein tv say. 'Unue
| was well. proper aud sufficient
man. and now my head Is placed in
base co'nl anionship, and no enc
knows iiip. Y
But have done with sentiment
sense IL what il wanted-plaih mat
TER of fact. Jackson is a moral place !:
and were II not for your boys who are
sent here to take orders, To make
war Oh mankind ut large through the
learned professions. II would be Il
eefy mnral plaae but they will. III
spite of threats Of suspension and en-
pnlsion now aud then, cross the FLYER
Ri'se, and 60 into Egypt. Egypt
is not altogether the land Of darkness.
but there are people there who keep
lights burning o dark nights and strag.
glers who might otherwise luvse their
way, are ''taken IN" You must know
that "your boys, " who are supposed
BY your al,sions parents to be laced
up in straight iarkets, aud walking
the bee line Of rectitude moi upfre-
quently get into Egypt, where they
cut capers ii fantail-calico patterns
! du not, Genet admire tlis strained
Methodist inorality--thoae who teach
It, mistake the nature Of the animal
man aud DO him an injury.
The cfups here are 9 $50 mot
much different from what they are
elsewhere, and portend what is clearly
written in the conntenance of the fn.
ture fam't,e. You must know
ere this, that our friend Moore has
given up the " Feliciana'," a clover
gentleman of the name Of " Mas.
seo'''hy' has possession now. A friend
OF mine, who boards at the Feliciana.
happend to stay out the other night
after the ninth hour-(locking perhaps
at The eclipsed mocn) came to the
house and found himself shut out,
there vas no light Of hope visable. =
He knocked at the dosr. gently at
first: then loud, andbeconing uneazy-
louder. The host come with lighted
taper. and before unlocking, cried
"Whce's therel (you must know that
there are thieves in Jsckson as else
where) the delinquent, trembled to
door slowly opened, and
IN ossworthy" appeared. in becoming
habilalnents for the midsummer sea.
son. and my friend received thorough
moral lecture, in Patfiarchal voice,
on regalaa habits. 8.
Adleu Comet | must 90 to church
did | honestly confess why, it would
he--ihat all the sweet faces, which
talk in silent eloquence, Of light, life
light.hear'edness, and love, (which lat
ter sentiment is unadulterated christi.
anity) will be there. your No. 6
E R. HorrMANN, Court House
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