Sugar planter. [volume] (West Baton Rouge [i.e. Port Allen, West Baton Rouge Parish, La.]) 1856-1925, 1858-01-09

10 WASH GOWN Lne5 teetOtal3 lecture
we have just been hearing.,'
s:Nip Of sling,'' thought I, as I
walked away, n1usi in & and trying t.,
analyze the cognor% %len-how appro-
pirate i }gH1z G3H.<G3<>sz.ss
|. SsS1ing," as a; verb, means to
tt1hbroau or cast o,tt. And SO, thoueht
I, his s'sling'' will Soon ssthrow''the
remn ant ofhis money to the winds;
it he has d family it will throw
them
/. Into disc puragementys=
3. Into wretchedness, and. ~:
3. Upon the town. 49,. =.
It will probably sssling'' litnesaf
l. Into idleness,
2. Into debit - r@N 49,
3. Into crime, --s3f f..rt,s.
4. Into the ditch; .... :...,..,..o., ;
5. Into prison, .s...
6. Into a drunkard's grave, and
I: Into a miserable eternity
II. "Sling," as a noun, means
l. Something to throwagith, and.
2. Something to hang d1.
If my analysis Of the verb IS cor
rect, then the! first definition is true;
and: when the Judge, the jury, the
hangman and gallows corne9rush-
ing into my mind, surely. thought I.
there is more truth than fiction, in
it's second definition.
And there is the gratiiffy tifyg ing word
snip This means ITO bite" e 4''to
blast,n and ITO pinch" The first
agrees with Solonnon's description
Of Intoxicating drink: 'sft biteth
Hike a serpent and stingeth like an
adder.''' It b1asteth The ..tondest
hopes Of parents, Wifs and children !;
and how often has she drVnkard, as
he: stood upon the hangman's scat
fold, pointed to the mi 3 and slingp
as the procuring eause Of this awful
and final snip in the sling" t"---GoId-
en-; Era. -ss3- y -
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/. .s1,s,eu1An MoronA Ma A New
York = lett letter 4. writer VII .f furnishes the
following: Il <.ss.ssze
There is. a most singular indiiviid-II
udl in the Twentieth Ware, whose
conduct on certain oecasions for
the past TWO mounths has created
ne little SD prise and amusement. ).
He has always been accountedIa a
man Of strong common sensej
Yet he has: not venturgd into thd
street for many, weeks during q
rainstor1n without d lightning.rod
attached to him. gss4 tits An iron rod
about five feet in length withs%
tito, Of prdngs, at the top, and 50
Bent that it hangs or sits upon thh
crown Of bis hat where. It IS fas-
| tened with the upper end. rising
some ten inches above him, and
/ the rod running down his back out
side, being held in its place bya
/ band about his waist. The lower
end stand ). out an angle Of forty
| degrees, likefa monkeys tai, 80 81 IS
10 convey; the. ELECTRIC huid soue
distance should he be struck while
walking. On All other subjects of
Tconversatibn he is 4sane but when
Ethis lightning subject is touched
upon, he. Hiscourses sesiousIy upon
1.-THE necessity sof.such arrangement
whenever! it it rains, believing that
|lthea air-is. then filled Mithteledhic-
| .ity, whether it is q thunder Storm
OF: or : not e. d. u, 1: .,... 45eg
1 A few evenings ago, in Albany,
! H. 1.-the Argus Vouehes forsit,)
a widow. who was known, Ito tto The
entire congregation I'd be greatly in
want ola husband, was pray ing
with great fervency:: = : Ss7s. ~ .=..f
les2|e Oh, thou knowess.t the desire Of
my hear,!n she. exclaimed
e :" A~m-a-np' responded . hotltaa1,
IN broad bro accent. IS en- w., 5.>s. {; u ~: r !.
Poor ireland has been long fun
rdered by i absenteeism Paddy,
upon landing at Liverpool, 'was
asked what brought him 70 Eng
land 224sBe Jasus, Z quothf at an
sure sI'ye come to look after tome
Of the rnnaY(ay abssentees, ,hoqey !"
ssMy g er41ans friend, e how; long
j have youbsan married ~"
H. aVeH, disSa ting shat / s9donl