The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1855-03-01
VALLEY FORKS, Nov. Is, 16-

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VALLEY FORKS, Nov. Is, ls-.
"To F. N. B., Esq.-Dear Sir: re-
ceived your polite note of the fifteenth in
slant this day. 1t was directed to the
post-ofice at Freetown. The mail comes
from your village to Tompkinsvile every
day by the stage which runs from your
place 20 Owego, leaving your village at 6
o'clock in the forenoon. From Tomp-
kinsville there is mail every other day
to Freetown, and also Valley Forks
From thence there is a cross mail around
the hills, through the lower towns in this
county, to our place once week; but the
/ postmasters on the route can't read very
well, and sometimes keep letter over one
mail to spell out the direction.
by directing your letters to this Office,
where get my papers, | should get them
generally in about three days after you
mail them, and about week or ten days
sooner than if directed to Freetown; which
delay, in an extended correspondence,
might, in some cases, be of considerable
Importance, [ hope, my dear Sir, you
vii! not suffer any inconvenience from it
this time; but thought it best, as you
seemed little ignorant Of the geography
of this part of the country, to give you
this inform alton, that you might in future
know how to direct to,
Dear Sir, yours very respectfully,
JOHN CALKINS.'
p. S. As to that note, you say it has
run long time [ can only say, as the
boy said Of the molasses, 'Let her runp "
Reading this to friend at our elbow,
he remarked that he had heard or read
of two cases of independent, impudent
Goodness that he thought were quite as
freezing. He went on to say:
q sharp-nosed, glib-tongued woman
was marketing with her basket on her
arm in one of the markets of Cincinnati,
when she stopped before station where
hominy erits buckwheat, -four, etc, were
sold by the small quantity. Unlike the
present time, everything was down then
to the lowest figure. Going up to the
seller, she said
"'What do you ask half-bushel for
Indian meal 2
"'One shilling, ma'am.'
"'A shilling, eh? Amt that rather
high?'
"Hgbi Sbant I give you half
bushel! If you think a shilling is high
price for half bushel of Indian meal,
III give you half bushel-oome, now
"LS 1t Sitted p ased the woman--indi-
eating that even as a gift, she was not
going to take it unless it was 'frstrate. y
Something akin to this was the other
instance of 'coolness.'
! A merchant in New York, formerly a
resident of hourishing western city Of
the Empire State, after residing in the
metropolis for some ten years without
once leaving it, took it into his head to
visit his old town for a few days. He
arrived there the day before the Fourth
of July, and during the celebrating Of
the ensuing day, he encountered very
many of his old friends and acquaintance
While be was conversing with one of them
a man with but one arm made his way
into the circle where he was standing, and
said,
"Ain't you W B, that
used to live here some time ago, dowr
there to-'s storeW
81 am the-the same" was the reply
Eyes; well, thought so. Don't yot
remember meH
"Can't say that 1 do-though your
face is familiar to me, too somehow"
"Why, it is my arm that does it.
had two when you knew me. This arm
(moving the stump Of an arm that wa
not there "was bIow'd off, last july
four years, by the busting of cannon
Don't you remember old Ben--, tha
did good many days work down to you
6 store!"
The recognition being now complete
the man went on:
"Can't you give poor cripple some
thing on this glorious day? Eff it hadn'
a-beeu for the fourth of July, l shoQldn'
have lost my arm"
Mr.. B-took from his waistcoa
pocket two twenty-five cent pieces, an'
/, resumed his conversation with his friends
The man backed out after receiving th
: money, without a word of thanks, an
! he saw him no more until, while he wa
seated at dinner, the one armed Dor
came to him at table, and bending oyel
: said in loud and confidential" whis
per;
: "Your h1otlsey that lives here give m
dollar this morning; gou didn't give m
but half dollar. Couldn't you give
: feller little more!"
: Not wishing-being New York mel
: chant to be outdonc in liberality by
relative in the rural districts. he agai
took from his pocket two quarter dolla
:, pieces, and handed them to the cripple
+ Without deigning reply, the man too
the money and walked off.