The independent. (Harrisonburg, La.) 1853-18??, 1859-02-02

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A Coon SrocK TO BEGIN BUSINESS WITH
Bella Squires, a widower, married Mary Gro
mac, widow, a few days since in Hartford
Conn. They commenced their matrimonial
engagement with twenty seven children.
EE Who would be discouraged after
that!
Embalmng is the making Of fresh stat
ue-eternalizing corpse-perpetuahng the
perisbable with more pains than We take to
save that which is immortal.
RATHER PAErIcuLAE.-There is q maiden
lady in Connecticut so modest, that she turn
ed off her washerwoman because she put her
clothes in the same tub with those of a young
man.
SYSTEMATICALLY saying that there is
more pleasure in giving than receiving" is
to apply chiefly to kicks, medicine
and advice"
Many ofus are led by our vices, but many
more follow them without any leading at all.
A turkey weighing forty pounds, raised
in New jersey, was sold in New York last
week for one hundred dollars.
CoID BED FrLLows-Th.ee Young ladies'
Of Anderson, Illinois, were married a few
days since to three brothers by the name Of
Ice.
Put out your tongue little further said
physician to female patient: \ little fur
Their ma am, if you please-a litllo further
still"
why doctor, do you think there is no end
to woman's tongUe.' cried the far i'll
valid.
A rich Joke is told at the expense Of cx-
Senator Fooe, who has recently adopted a
clever disguise, !. c. dyeine bis beard and
wearing wig. Arriving at his ola camp
ing ground, jackson, Miss, the other day be
was rejected as an imposter by the Democ
racy, who knew Foote by his silvery beard
and bald Uranium.
A coffin containing the dead body Of a
boy, apparently about two years old, was re-
Gentry found in St. Mary's Church, Boston.
The body was neatly and plainly laid out,
and upon its breast was a paper bearing the
following, written with pencil James is
member OF the Holy Evangelical Church.
and he was christened n ST. Marys Church"
Prentice says of an editor, who said be
'smelt a rat that if he did, and the rat smell
him, the poor rat had the worst Of it.
'You have lost your baby, hear said one
gentleman to another, Yes, poor little thing
it was only five II onths old. We did all we
could for it. We had four doctors, blistercd
its head aud feet, put mustard poultices all
over it, gave il nine colonel powders, leach
ed its temples, bad If bled, and gave it ali
kinds of medicines, and vet, after a weeks
lines, i diedn
A short time since, on the Ohio, The clerk
of the Cincinnati steamboat >eventy-Six,
from Evans vile t. Cincinnati, found two
runaway negroes hd under The boilers They
offered him 1920 to lie. them 90 free, bat
he refused, and put them in jail at Hen
derson, Ky. The clerks name is w. L. Nc
Collough.
A GREEN YANKEE-The editor Of the
Knickerbocker says" should Ike Won to
have seen specimen Of a green laukee
who came down the Sound in Hartford
steamer with me.
ale had never been to York before, and
he was asking questions Of everybody on |
board the BOAT. however, II nc "Ao 9iCeH |
rs grass he was picking up good zeal OF
information, which will doubtless stand him !
in good stead hereafter. One Of bis com
parsons struck me, as beng decidedly ,
original. |
"Up to Northampton said he, q took |
breakfast, and they taxed me tew shIllns
Twas 4 pootv good price, but | gin 1t to en-.
Twas enough any way Well, when ! came
down TO Hartford, took breakfast ayin, next |
morning, and when [ asked how much, they
looked at me, and said, half Il dollar. |
looked back at EN- poorly sharp, but paid |
it. sot down, and cphered up inside how
much it would COS; fellow 10 board long at
that rate: and tell you what, poorly soon /
found eout that fore the end of a month it |
would make fellows pocket book look as .
If an elephant had sfomprd onto IT," Sam
Slick himself never employed moro striking !
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