Bellevue gazette. [volume] (Bellevue City, N.T. [i.e. Neb.]) 1856-1858, 1857-08-20
"No," said | al shall stay here to.

"No," said l =" shall stay here to-
night" HHtih j,H .lw rfal a1'
Wen all stay, then, / guess, and
make night of it," said another of the
cul-ihroats. .,.,7, -,
You'll have to put up your own horse
here's the lantern" said the woman. a1
al am used 70 that" | said. /" Gemle-
men, excuse mo a minute; I'll join you in
drink when come in" II, ....,t .,..--
"Good on your head More whisky,
old gal, !" shouted they. '.'l '''
Iwent out, glanced at their wagon II
was old.fashioned, and linch-pins' sei
cured the wheels. To take out my knife,
and pry one from the fore and hind
wheels, was the work of an instant, and /
threw them as far off in the darkness as
| could. To unite my horse and dash off
was the work of moment. The road
lay down steep hill, but my lantern
lighted me somewhat.
j had hardly got under full headway,
when | heard yell from the party had
so unceremoniously left. put whip TO
my horse. The next moment, with
shout, they started. ! threw my light
away, and left my horse TO pick
his way A moment later | heard a
crash-a horrible shriek.7 The wheels
were off. Then came the rush Of the
horses tearing along with the wreck Of the
wagon. Finally they seemed to fetch up
in the wood. One or two shrieks heard
as swept on, leaving them far behind.
For some time hurried my horse--you'd
better believe "rid ~ 1t was a little
after midnight when | got to Mount Yer
non.
The next day I heard that Moore's
prairie team had run away, and that tive
men ont of four had been so badly hurt
that their lives were despaired of; but
didn', cry. Ny clients got their money,
and l didn't travel that road any more.
Things wise and Otherwise.
I" Matrimony,"' said modern Benedict
the. other day, produces remarkable rev.
buttons. Here am |, for instance, in ten
short months changed from signing lover
to loving SIRE "u.sal 1-iBaea 1uas .di
The sieve through which the man
STRAINED every nerve" is for sale at half
tho, trst cost. t,, .-a. ...i a...---.---ss ....1
A magazine ropor, ofthc fashion, says,
There is not much change in gentle-
mems pantaloons this month";
There is a lady in Boston habitually so
sleepy that her curiosity cannot be ava
kened. ''A 3 3 '-'' 'i''af
Some graceless scamp says: at is wo-
man, and not her wrongs, that should be
redressed" That fellow ought to suffer
the torment Of being invited out to tea.
A medical man says that those ladies'
who make it business to trouble dry
goods clerks, and never buy anything,
ought to be called counter irritants,
The editor Of tho Lynn Mass. J .Nssrs
thinks children's games are becoming pop
uiar with older persons, nowadays, as fre
has seen recently "a large number of full
grown men chasing hoops in ours.reets."
% A lady of rank. complaining that her
husband was dead TO fashionable alnuse-
menis, he replied, "But then, my dear,
you make me alive 10 the expense" .,,.
\ "See here, my friend, you are drunk
$40 be sure ] am, and have been for three
years. You see, my brother and are On
a temperance mission. He lectures, and
set frightful example, a4q eds spa4sd
A German wrter-one Kirsten--states
that, though America is popularity sups
posed to be such marrying country, yet
in no land in the world are there really 50
many old maids. -
A STUPID ScnooLMAsrgR.-A.p peda-
gogue relates laughable story Of one of
his scholars, son Of the Emerald Isle
He told him to spell hostility. ~oi'it
g' "H-o-r-s-e, horse, commenced Pat.
i Not hOrse-liliiy," said theteacher, rbut
Hostility" - --, ...l--. b....,i
"Sure," replied Pat, 'an, didn't ye tell
it me the other day, not to say hosSf BE
jabbers It's ,can thing wild ye one day, and
another the Mkt" h ti n
Explosion in Davenport, Iowa.
We learn from Mr.. T. j. Orr, who left
Davenport On the 30ih ult., that on the
morning of that day, at 6 Ia o'clock, the
stationary engine attached TO the Machine
shop of the Miss. & Missouri Rail Road
CO., exploded; killing the fireman, tearing
The engine house 10 pieces, and greatly
ldamaUino tha machine shoa Sama of