Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1860-11-16

sunk down on box of goods under
shed. In the hurry nobody noticed
him, or noticing him thought it moi
worth while to inquire into his misfor
tunes. At last when the hustle began
to lull, couple of men came along.
There is that poor fellow" they said
&C he is never likely to see his home
again
& Who is he ?" asked third.
Don't know his name, answered
one.
Maxwell, I think said the other
&" Maxwell, a down easter p
The name arrested the attention of {
stranger near the wharf, looking over an
invoice of goods.
MAXWELL" he said, looking up
/" Maxwell, where p
They pointed him to the sick man,
who seemed to have fallen asleep. He
went toward him.
A good deal older than any Maxwell
I ever knew he said. q Maxwell
MAXWELL" he repeated, half aloud, and
the name seemed to flood him with memo
ries which took him far back into his
boyhood again. " Maxwell" he said
again, and again his attention was drawn
to the poor miner. g Your name Is
MAXWELL - he said, seeing him awake.
"That is my name, sir, George Max
WE'LL
George MAXWELL" exclaimed the
stranger, grasping the miners thin hand
in his right honest, healthy grip, ''God
bless you; and who am but j ed Little,
able to carry dozen of you on my back
Come, come, my home is your home
1t is all summer with me now, and you
shall share my summer with me, George
Maxwell. "
Who can describe the meeting, or the
wonderful faithfulness Of Gods Provi-
dence, whereby Il bundle of old clothes,
planted twenty or twenty-five years be-
fore, yielded an abundant harvest
friendship, food, hope, shelter, medi,
cine, and prospect of better business
than mining could ever be for one SO
delicately brought up as George Max
we'll had been.
" ALN1NG a RAFT.
There was a fellow once stepped out
of the door of tavern on the Missis
sipppi, meaning to walk mile up the
shore to the next tavern. Just at the
landing there lay big raft, one Of the
regular old-fashioned whalers--a raft q
mile long.
Well, the fellow heard the landlord
say the raft was mile long, and he said
to himself, {: will go forth and see this
great wonder, and let my eyes behold the
timbers which the hand of man hath
hewn." So he got on at the lower end
and began to ambulate over the wood in
pretty fair time. But just as he got
started, the raft started too. and as he
walked up the river, it walked down
both travelling ut the same rate. When
he got to the end Of the sticks, he found
they were pretty near shore, and in sight
of a tavern SO he landed, and walked
straight into the bar-room he'd come out
of. The general Sameness ofthings took
him little aback, but he looked the
landlord steady in the face, and settled
it i'll his own way:
Publican ~ said he, care you gifted
with a twin brother, who keeps similar
sized tavern, with a duplicate wife, a
comporting wood pile and corresponding
circus bills, mile from here p
The tavern keeper was fond Of fun.
and accordingly said that it was just so.
"And, Publican, have you among your
dry goods for the entertainment of man
and horse, any whisky of the same size
Of that of your brothers p
Ana the tavern man said, that from
the rising of the sun even unto the going
down Of the same, he had.
They took the drinks, when the
stranger said, Publican, that twin
brother OF yours is fine young mana
very fine man indeed. But DO you know,
I'm afraid that he suffers good deal
with the Chicago diptheria p
i" And what's that? ?" asked the todd
sticker.
g It's when the truth settles so firm in
a man that none Of it ever comes out.
Common doctors, of the catnip sort, call
it lynn. When [ left your brother S
confectionery, there was raft at his
door, which he swore his life to was ID
mile long. Well. publican, walked
that raft from bill to tail, from his door
to yours. Now, l know my time, an
| m just as good for myself as for hoss,
and better for that than any man you
ever did see. always walk mile in
exactly twenty minutes, on good road,
and III he busted with an overloaded
Injun gun if I've been more n ten minutes
coming here, steppin' over them blamed
logs at that
Summary Of Women.
The Rostou Ip7,iip7 oivos tho fo)Iov