Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1857-05-30

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~ SIN Favor Of the Hogis
r. In the good old county Of c. :
aStatessof Alabama, there aliped one Job,
Smith, whosunlike The remainder of hi
Ismall family was peculiarly afflicted with
want of discrimination between his owl
things and those of other persons, OF who
rather, was Ignorant of the laws relating
to ssnast,as ettuatna. y Now, oneesonE a time
the said John Smith, while laboring undeI
a severe attack Of the above named disease
and being further impelled by the vocifer
lations Of an empty stomach, went unde
| the cover of night, and feloniously took ant
carried away from his ineighbor's pen a
shoat, valued at; one dollar and fifty
cents, with the intention of appropriating
| the same to his own use. But, unfortu-
fnately, Johnny was detected, and in due
lcourseof time was carried before Judge
P, for trial. The witnesses were in
troduced, aud the fact of the theft was
proved beyond the shadow Of doubt ~
THE jury retired to make up their verdict
lof"gnilty Of hog stealin' IN fust degree
II The Judge told them that their verdict
was proper, except that they had omitted
to assess the value, of the property stolen,
and that. there was no degree to hog steal.
ing, and to retire again, and bring in their
verdictAin ''proper form "A gain they res
tired, with pen, ink and paper, but rather
|nonplused with regard to form They
pondered deeply over what he meant by
form" AT last, old w. jim. Turner who
had been Justice of.the Peace in Georgia,
with bright eountenance, aud a sIy-wink,
as much as to say, .::Look at ME, bcys--I
understand thing or two" wrote The YER
dict and returned to the Court House
One after another they filed in, old Jim in
the lead, and they took their seats. Old
Jim handed the verdict to the clerk, with
anxious pomposity, and sat down. Judge
|of the laughter when the clerk read the fol-
lowing - 9''''% --.s'-'
"We, thejeury, ftss7dninsoasly; find the
detsndent gilty IN The sam Of dollar a
|l-2 an tavor oftae hog s.li bns
HUGH MIXERS VIEWS ON THE CREA-
TON AND DELueE.--In his early writings,
the late Hugh Miller. was content with the
six DAYS of twenty-four, hours. each for the
work of creation, which satisfied the minds
of Chalmers and Of Buckland. Upon this
he says, in preface to the volume, which
VAS his last work, ssMy labers at the time
Jas practical geologist had been very much
restricted to the Paleozoic and Secondary
rocks, more especially to the Old Red and
|Carboniferous Systems Of the one division,
EandsO olitiei Systeuaof the other; and the
long extinct organisms which afound in
them certainly did not conflict with. the
view Of Chalmers. !. All found necessary
at the time to the work of reconciliation,
was some scheme that Apga6a aafaf ana 9 70 t.
regard it as the scene of many succeeding
creations. During the last nine years,
however, have spent few weeks every
Autumn in exploring the late formations;and
Iacquainting myself with their peculiar Or
ganisms. have traced them upward
from the raised beaches and old coast lines
of the human period, to the. brick clays,
Clyde beds, and drift and boulder deposits
|of the Pleistocene era, and again from
these, with the help Of museums and col
|lectiors, up through the mammaliferoous
crag Of England, to its Red and its Coral
'craSs And the conclusion at which |
have been compelled. to arrive is, that Of
our Yoost r,l1il6sonhical reOIopists: we must
accept the Mosaic day as periods, must
Iexpect no scientific revelations in the BIZ
Ible, must receive without fear the proved
facts of geology, must admit, for instance
the belief that the whole earth has not at
ANY time since man was made been cover
Ted b antunlversal deluge."
HowLINa FOR THE FUTURE. Clouds
and darkness-threatening clouds; orninous
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