The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1860-06-30
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.
A YANKEE TRICK.-A week or two ago
four creditors started from Boston in the
same train of cars. for the purpose of at
taching the property of ceI tain debtor in
Pennington In the State of Maine. He owed
each one separately. and they each were sus-
picious of the object of the other, but dar
ed not say word about it. So they rode,
acquaintance all, talking upon every thing!
except that which they had most at heart.
When they arrived at the depot at Farm
ington, which was three miles from where
the debtor did business, they found nothing
to ''put 'em over the road but solitary
cab, toward which they al rushed. Three
got in and refused admittance to the fourth,
and the cab started.
The fourth ran after aud got upon the
outside with the driver. He asked the dri-
yer if he wanted to sell his horse. He re-
piled that he did not want to-that he was
not worth more than $50, but he would
not sell him for that. He asked him if he
would take 500 for him. Yes said he
The .:fourth man. quickly paid over the
money, took the reins and backed the cab
up to bank-slipped it from the harness
and tipped it up so that the door could not
be opened. and jumped upon the horses
back and rode off ''lick-a-ty switch" while
dow feeling like singed cats. He rode 10
lawyers and got writ made, served, and
his debt secure, and got back to the hotel
just as the "insiders" came up putting and
blowing. The cabman soon bought back
/, H. r.,
ed to pay that sum, ii The fortunate one,
who found property sufficient to pay his
own debt, would not tell of it in Boston.
Judge B. was once obliged to double
with an Irishman in crowded hotel, when
the following conversation ensued:
pat, you would have remained long
time in the old country before you could
have slept with Judge, would you not 20
"Yis, yer Honor" said Pat, "and l think
yer Honor would have been long time in
the ould country before ye'd been Judge,
too
JEFFERSON AND HIS FIDpLE--The writer
of the Declaration of Independence, was
passionately fond cf fddling, and is said to
have exceled in playing on that instrument.
In 1870, his family mansion was burnt
Mr.. Jefferson used to tell in after years, with
great glee, an anecdote connected with the
fire. He was from home when it occurred,
ard slave arrived out of breath to inform
him of the disaster. After learning the
general destruction, he inquired:
"But were none of my books saved 90
''No massa, but we saved de fiddle !"
was the reply.
Benjamin Franklin had nephew who
was sad spendthrift, for whom, however,
in spite of his faults. he entertained warm
regard. Being in Philadelphia, John VIII
liams was on one occasion reduced to great
straits, and found himself compelled to have
recourse to his friends. His first applica-
ton was TO his unc.e, of whom he asked
the loan of sixty dollars. Franklin told
him to call next morning, when, if posi-
BILE, he would accommodate him. OF course
john was there, and had the qualification to
see his uncle counting out the cash. While
this operation was going on, he took sheet
of paper from the desk, with the intention,
no doubt, of giving his 1 o U. If such
was his design, he was disappointed, for
Franklin gently drew away the paper, and,
with a benevolent smile, said, ''You need
not waste my paper, too, John
lie SetTNu Is d ICIl1cE anu kiuu "
the husbandman; and yet, at one season,
he always harrows her bosom, and at an
other plucks her ears.
/ 1t is a significant fact that not a single
paper in Indiana supports the ''Constitu-
tional Union ticket. So far as that State
/ is concerned it is a Bell without tongue,
and it is about the same where Everett goes.
A woman in Detroit has brought an ac-
ton against her husband to recover wages
as a domestic. It seems be procured di-
yorce from her eight months ago. She knew
nothing about it, and lived With him per-
forming domestic duties. DC. One bright
morning he told her of the divorce, and,
much exasperated, she seeks 70 punish him.
Queer place out West, isn't il?
REPUBLICANS IN VIRGINIA.-The Repubii-
cans of the city of Wheeling are delighted
with the nominations of Lincoln and Ham
! lin. They say they viii carry the city by
600 majority. The mechanics are fairly
aroused to join the great movement in favor
of free labor. The artisans are mostly
young men of intelligence, and we are con-
fide Mt that Wheeling will soon stand side by
side with st. Louis, as an unfinching Re-
| publican city
From the last number of Pogfer's
| Spirit Of the Times ne learn that certain
] class of the Washington populace take a
| great deal of interest in cock fight that is
10 take place on the 10th instant. The
stakes are $500 and 81 900. The combat
1 ants on the occasion win be no Others than
i General Coneha, = red cock of the Span
ISL breed. belonging to the Hon. John b.
Floyd, Secretary OF War, and General Or
tega, " a Spanish cock belonging to the Hon.
John G. Breckenridge, Vice President. Il
is believed that this cock fight viii draw
| tie largest cosesarse of ladies' and gentle
i men that ever assisted in pastime of his
J sort In the United States. What next