The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1856-09-23
FOCAL DEPARTMENT..
it, himself.
UP TOWN ITEMS.
REPORTED BY UP TOWN, ESQ.


SIck--sick-sck blazes again this morning, yet
complaining won't help the matter any; we've got our
work before to be DONE and it be DONE the sim
sttution" mustn't be neglected; the "Items" must be
turned out or else the world will stand perfectly still
and then = Oh, what responsibility rests upon us
As we were interrupted in our general reflections.
yesterday morning. by the untmely obtrusion CT old
Aunty -, who as anticipated, faoOred us with
curious dation matters and things pertaining to the
ultima thule of human existence the vanity of world
ly affairs the unadorned appearance PIE nted in our
debut, and the impossiby of placing worldly es-
tate in trGnsitH between this world and next with
the prospect of enjoying it there and the consequent
necessity of making equitable distribution of the
aforesaid worldly estate among heirs and assigns;
and winding up with peroraton in the shape of a re-
quest and instructions for writing her will. We will
now resume the thread of DISCOURSE and that cur
sorily and discursvely of matters which come legt-
mately under cognizance. But first we have left
our readers in the dark relative to the denouement of
Aunt IS business. The will was executed, and now
Chiaren of Mortality, to your County Records and
there find recorded, how that, "ln the name of God
Amen"-old Aunty = being in the full enjoyment OF
all her metal faculties, and with all very good old
Christian lady. hath devised and bequeathed item BY
item of her goods. chattes and effects those aec
tionate kinsf whom she knew were determined to
presence of witnesses, and all done view the ap-
preaching dissolution of body and soul and ask your
selves each of you, 'How begin to set
my house in order, and distribute my old clothes pre-
paratory to starting the trip to THAT bourne from
whence 40 traveller returns"
But now we come back to our legitimate grounds,
and first peep into the different
MAGISTRATES OFFICES.
commencing it'll his Honor, the Recorder. o, doIefu
prospect! Tread lightly we disturb the sleeping
spirits that attend justice. Dust and extinguish,
cigar stumps dried up inkhorns and long idle peas
spittoens brm full and running over and half sheet
of fools cap unsuliied except by the accumuted must
and mould of weeks while there in that sacred cor
ner that hallowed chair sleeps soundIy the ermine
decked functionary, the of wrts for rowdes and
costs for constabes with full consciousness of the
magnitude of his responsibilities to give very snore
adignifed Tone de4ing thorough bass in "B fat"-
Nolselessly we enter and open to the light
of day, the pages of long closed dockes. over and
over we turn each successive leaf in the hope finding
recent ease," but, alas if loves labor lost so are
some other things, for though FOOLS countenance or
section of space may be blank they're only so in the
positive degree, when compared to the pages of the
sqaire's docket Finding only void there, then we
turn 10 our reliable
but Cy. thinks we're encroaching on his domain, and
Cy says we shant say river; well will say rv-
err, if die by it, and when river is said alls said
and we've done the subject ample JUSTICE for we trow
it far gone, that there's but little more than the
name left, except those pertinacious
FISHERMEN,
who in spite of bad luck. cold airs hot suns and poo
prospects, still obsnatey persist in endeavoring to Sc
duce the nnOcen: fishes into the which they have
for them and which the innocent little fishes being
little too smart and too well posted, obsnatey per-
sisted in avoiding, much the deriment of fisher
mems luck And this river, although itself at present
dry subject, is very suggestive; mghtwrite
H0MILY ON HUMAN LIFE,
drawn from it, but won't just now. We spare our
leaders this infection, and allude only to Commodore
Kratzs little
"SPORTSMAN,"
which Sabbath last brought up from Henderson-to
which place she is ,ng, regular acket-a full
Cargo of human life, in masculine and fem mime en-
bodimeus-and all of which is respectfully submitted
&C.. &c.
Thu fact is we must wait for something to turn up
The res 'snary" an item to record.