Washington sentinel. [volume] (City of Washington [D.C.]) 1853-1856, 1856-02-09
KISSING.

lowing opinions OF the press, upon inns IN
teresting subject:
Kissiag-Jacob kissed Rachel, and lifted
up his voice and wept.-- Scripture.
If Rachel was pretty girl, and kept her
face clean, we can't see what Jacob had TO cry
about.-N y. Globe.
| How do you know but that she slapped his
face for him. 0. Delta.
Weeping is NOT unfrequently produced by
extreme pleasure, joy, happiness-it might
have been so in Jacobs case Wing
Gentlemen, hold your tongues the cause Of
Jacobs weeping was the refusal of Rachel to
allow him to kiss her again.-1aylor Flag.
| 1t is our opinion that Jacob wept because he
had not kissed Rachel before, and he wept for
the time he had lost.-Age.
| Green, verdant, all Of ye. The fellow wept
| because the gal didn't kiss him.-Manchester
| american.
| Nonsene, Jacob wept because Rachel told
him to /" do it twice more" and he was afraid
| to-Democrdt and Freeman.
| Ridiculous there is not true Yankee
| among you. We guess Jacob cried because
Rachel threatened to tell her marm.-Se,,ec
| Union.
| There you are wrong again he wept be-
cause there was only one Rachel to kiss
Rutland Herald
| Oh, you get out! He wept for Joy because it
tasted so good.-NaH.
We reckon Jacob cried because Rachel had
been eating oaions.-OP-
| Our own opinion is that Jacob wept because
he found, after all, "it was not half what it
was cracked up to be."-Richmond Whig.
Pretty scriptural commentators, all of vel
| Jacob was puzzled to weeping at how to COM
pound re-bus on the essence of tulips, when
Rachel's lips had no miss terious smack in
them-,Soath Side Democrat.
| DEATH OF ScoTCH MILLIoNAIRE.-On the
9Th ult., Mr.. John Ferguson, Of Cairnbrock,
| died at his residence near Irvine, in Ayrshire,
Of which town he was a native, in the Goth year
of his age. 1t was known that the deceased
gentleman was immensely wealthy, and, as he
was childless, much expectation existed, espe-
| cially on the part of those who were in any de-
| gree related to him, as to the disposal of his
property. At the opening of his will. after the
! funeral, it was found that Mr.. Ferguson had
died possessed of means to the value of E ,250,-
| 900 sterling, which consists of estates in Ayr
shire and Wigtonshire as well as investments
in British, American and continental securities
On the whole, the old gentleman has divided
his immense wealth in way which has given
considerable satisfaction. Relations who were
| poor he has made comfortable, and those who
were already i'll easy circumstances are now af-
fluent. Besides recently given to relations and
charitable societies sums varying from 900 to
100000, he has left legacies to relations, on
/ hoth foth I'D dc ,I
tant, to the vast amount of G6Sl, 900. The
legatees amount to upward of one hundred in
number, and the legacies vary from $500 to
100000 to the respective recipients. He has
also left 100000 among "a personal friends /;
but the requests which the public are most in
terested in, are the following, for charitable,
educational and religious purposes, viz
To be distributed by his trustees among the
poor of Irvine time and mode-at discretion of
trustees, fl,000 to the poor in Holloway of
Irvine c ,000 for the instruction OF the youth
of Irvine, E 1000; to each Of the six churches
| in Irvine, f50-f300 also, in connection with
the town of Irvine, his trustees to set apart the
sum OF s5, 900, the interest Of which to be for
the benefit of deserving women above forty
years of age, in reduced circumstances, who
have never got parish assistance also, like
sum of $4,000, the interest of which to be paid
reduced circumstances, who have never got
parish assistance; for charitable, educational,
and benevolent societies and institutions in
Scotland, 100000; for religious societies and
institutions in Scotland, 100000; for ragged or
industrial schools in Scotland, fl0,000 or, in
the option Of Mr.. Ferguson's trustees, the an
nnal income of these sums to be applied for
these purposes; and the reversion of his estate,
which will be very large, he has directed to be
set apart and invested on real or personal secu.
rites as a permanent fund, to be called "The
Ferguson Request Fund" the interest or pro
duce thereof to be paid and applied towards
the maintenance and promotion Of religious
ordinances and education and missionary oper.
ations and for public libraries, in the first in
stance, in the six western counties of Scotland,
viz: county Of Ayr, stewartry of Kirkcudbright,
and counties of Wigtown, Lanark, Renfrew and
Dunbarton, by payment for the erection or sup
port Of churches and schools in connection with
the quodd sdcrd churches Of the establishment
Free Church, the United Presbyterian Church.
the Reformed Presbyterian Church, and the In
dependent Church.
For the management Of this fund the body
Of trustees named by the deceased is to be in
creased to 10, viz-three of the Established
Church, four of the Free Church, four Of the
United Presbyterian Church, one Of the Re-
formed Presbyterian Church, and one Of the
Independent Church. The executors under
the will are l. in number, chiefly resident in
Glasgow and Irvine. Mr.. Ferguson derived
the greater bulk Of bis fortune from maternal
uncles named Service, who originally belonged
TO Ayrshire, and respectively becoming mer-
chants in London and New York, realized i'm.
mense property, and dying intestate il came to
the recently deceased gentleman, as their
sisters son and heiratlaw. Mr.. Ferguson was
himself for some time engaged in a mercantile
establishment in America, but he came home
on succeeding to the estate Of his uncle George,
in 1910, and abandoned trade altogether.
He was calculating, sharp-sighted man, and
largely increased his inheritance BY judicious
investment, and by money-lending. lie occa.
sionally visited London and Edinburgh, but he
generally spent the concluding years Of his life
in his native town of Irvine, where he lived at
little expense, though there was nothing Of the
| niaar abnnt him