The independent press. (Abbeville C.H., S.C.) 1853-1860, 1857-06-05
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did seel Let me sce.how I'll cook him: broil
ii''nl No he so fat lose. nil dc grcnse 1 fry
himself Golly! how fat he be No, won't
fry him stew himi"
The thought of the savory stew. mado tho
negro forget himself, and in spreading out tho
fenst in his imagination, his arms relaxed, when
off hopped the rabbit, and squatting at good
| ly distance, he eyed his late owner with. cool
composure.r -, - -
The negro knew there wds IN end OF tho stow.
and suIumolting up all lhis philosophy, ho thus
addressed the rabbit, at the same tnio shaking
his fist at him; - - 49, 4 ssssS5. = >
"Eou long-eared, whitc.whiskcfed, red eyed
son Of gun, go" not 50 berry Jat artcr alil', Z!
LSSp srEcuLAr1oSs:-Thc Chicago Journal
predicts bankruptcy for spectators in Western
lands 1t says: -. ,.es
Such result is inevitable, sooner or later. ff
cannot be otherwise In the newer States and
Territories lnnds nrc held and sold ut almost
fabulous prices, and all classes of people are
wild with the land mania. In Kansas disturb
ed aud agitated as that Territory is towi, lots=
are sold at hundredsof dollars per foot, and
wild lands scarcely trod by the foot of eiYilzds
t'on nre held ot prices very far above their
real r"uc for any practical use. At some prom:
isin'' business points, in the more recently or,
gr.. I'd States, thirty, forty, fifty, and even ono
| hundred per cent is offered for money to invest
in real estate. 1t is impossible that suel, state
of things should long exist. Lands cannot c;1,
tin'ic to so up and up, al i'.fs:;ium. There
must be n stopping place somewhere, md whon,
that is reached, they will drok to their roal
value for practical purposes. l5.
| No STARVATION IN TENNESSEE r-Browplow of
the Knoxville Wing, Of the 25th ut, saws that,
the t"les of want and starvation in Tennessee,
80 extensively circulated abroad, arc. greatly
exaggerated There is general scarcity, of
gram especially in five or six of the uppor
counties, owing to the failure Of crops the Inst
season, and the temptation of cxorbitant prices
that induced farmers to sell out to close. These
with the early winter and late spring. wero
| enough to produce scarcity, but no one has yot
PcrIshcd. and the false alarm of Starvation ia
n vile calu.nny and slnnler on East Tennessee.
| We arc glad to hear this, and only wish tho
same contradictory statement might provo true
i'll every other part of the country
! OSE PRAys AND ANOTHER PuMrs-The shin
Senator, which arrived ut New York from Liy-
erpool, in leaky condition, met with n very
severe gale of wind just after leaving port iAf.<
ter several days of hard pumping, the crew no..
titled the Captain that they should not pump
any longer Captain Coffin said, coolly. It@is
now just IL o'clock, Mt the rate the ship is now
! leaking, calculate we shall all bc inthe othor
world n about halfpnst .. am, going below
to sny my prayers" and went into his:Eeabin.
One old fellow declared lie had rather pump
than pray. In few minutes thespnmps going
again rs lively rs ever and they did not ceaso,
going, except ut short intervals, until tlloy ar.
rived i'll New York,
| WILLS OF SIrAKEsrEAIE, MIToN AND NAPOLEON.
| The last wills and testan,ents Of these three
great men arc tied u1 in one sheet OF foolscnp,
and may be seen Mt Doctors Commons, Lonitlon.
In the will Of the Bard Of Avon Is an interlinea-
tion in his own handwriting: 81 give unto my
wife my second best bed, with the furniture. It.
isprovcd by Wm. Boyd, 22d July, 1916. Tho
will 1.-THE Minstrel of Paradise is nnncupa.
tive one, taken by his daughter, tic great poet
/ being blind, Tho will Of Napoleon is signed in
n bold style of writing; tho eodicil, on the con-
trnry, written shortly before his DEATH exhibits
tie then weak state ofhis body
WmAr CONSTITUTES ABGsnxLa-The Corn E--
change, saysnNew York paper, is disturbed by
the recentState legislation: 1t has been Gus
tomnrY TO ALLOW 90 pounds of cornto the bush
el, and sellers generally reftse to give moro.
However, BY an act passed during the late sesss
sion of thetL legislature, md which was to hayo
taken, effect on the I6t! IT, was deereed
that SO I1ounls Of eora should Gthcnce cetorward
EconstitutS 4 kusE N1nafF hiitsrs t.,5 f.