Bedford inquirer. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1857-1884, 1860-02-10
PRENTECEiNl.

fSpeclnlen of the Contents OF the new Work
BY the editor Of the 'sLouisvi,ls Journal" en-
titled PRENTICEANA, just published. and which
will be sent, postpaid, on receipt of One Dollar,
by DERBY 4 JACKSON, Publishers, New
York;
The editor of a western paper recently fan
cied himself "a live OK but since our rough
handling of him ,he is beginning to conclude that
be is only jerked beef
The Southern Mercury say that Mr. Z. 0.
Thomas has received his commission as Post
MASTER So there's post-ofice gone to 2.
o. T.
A Newbern paper says that Mrs. Alice Day
of that city was lately delivered of tour sturdy
boys. We know not what a Day may bring
| forth.
| A lady correspondent, who processes to be
horrifed at the indelicacy of our paper, threat
ems for the future to set her foot on every copy
she sees. She had better not. Our paper has
! as in it,
The common opinion is that We should take
good care OF children at all seasons of the year,
but it is we'll enough Ia winter TO let them
| slide.
A party of our friends, last week, chased a
fox thirty-six hours. They actually "ran the
thing into the ground"
Mrs. Charity Perkins, OF New Orleans, came
near dying of poison few days ago. A sister
! Of Charity was suspected Of having administer
| ed the dose.
A. K. says that be expects to be able in a
short time to pay everything he owes in this
world. Ay, but there's heavy debt that he
bas got to settle in the other world. The,eW
be the Deua to pay.
Mr. u. Round, an old aud valued friend Of
ours, was recently elected magistrate in Wis
cousin. That, we suppose, is what our Wis
cousin friends consider squirting circle
A Mr.. j. Black, declares for the dissolu-
tion Of the Union. Let him have traitors re-
ward:
ssHung be the heavens with Black
The Ohio River is getting lower aud lower
every day. Ii has almost ceased to run. All
who Look at il can at once perceive that it ex-
hibits very little speed, but great deal Of bot
tom.
Mrs. Lucy Hill complains, in an Arkansas
paper, that her nephew has trampled upon her
rights and feelings. The grsceless young ras-
cal shouldn't be allowed to trample upon his
Gunt Hill,
a Canadian paper mentions the marriage of
Mr. Joseph Sterling to Miss Anne Sterling -
Love strokes are not usually severe, but this
one, it is plain, has knocked an out.
A Mr. Bentley has been indicted in Alabama
for striking stranger with an axe. He says
be didn't knolD but tnat the stranger was rob-
Der. He didu't know, SO he axed him.
|
in the rather quizzical name of Harry Hurry,
says that truth Is generally slow progress =
Probably it is never in such Hurry as be.
man in our State, who attempted to hug q
beautiful young woman, Miss Lemon, has sued
her for striking him in the eye. Why should
fellow squeeze Lemon unless he wants a
puLch
Mr. and Mrs. Brewer, Of Wayne County, have
twenty-five children. Theirs is, perhaps, the
most extensive brewery in the West.
The Beaver Argus records the marriage of
John Coburn, only three feet high. No wonder
be wanted to get Spliced.
A man named j. S. Bill has set up a shaving
shop 10 one of our western cities. We know
him of old. Whenever he takes off his beard,
he shaves bad Bill.
An lmpudeEt anonymous correspondent,
signing himself 'Ned Bucket expresses the wish
that we we're dead. Very well-let him show
himself in person, and We pledge ourselves to
'ktck the Bucket
\ Southern lady has abandoned the Shaker
establishment near Hopkinsvle. to marry Mr..
James Bean, aged seventy-6ve. She must be
fond of drid beans.
a handsome young fellow in New York. in
great distress for want of money married last
week rich old woman Of seventy. He was no
doubt miserable for want of money, and she fos
want of husband; and 'misery makes strange
bedfellows.'
A father and son, Anthony and Thomas Screw
escaped on the 25th ult., from the Wetumpka
jail. There are two Screws loose.
A lady in Montreal, on the lst, recovered
$4,000 of Maj. Breckford for hugging and
kissing her rather roughly. She out to set a
high value on the money she got it by tight
squeeze.