Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1860-02-28

Specimen OF the Contents OF the ,corE bV the
editor of the sLouispigle Journal entitled PREM
TIcEANli, just published, and 7chich soiN be sent
postpaid, receipt of One Dollar, By DERBY
JACKSON, Publishers, Neg York.
hA-A party of our friends, last week,
chased fox thirty six hours. They ac.
tually ''ran the thing into the ground. p"
nA-A Mr.. j. Black, declares for the
dissolution of the Union. Let him have
traitors reward:
chung DC the heavens with Black"
sA. The Beaver ''Argus" records the
marriage of John Coburn, only three
feet high. No wonder he wanted to get
spLcea. 5szA
nM-A Mr.. Archer has been sent to
the Ohio Penitentiary for marrying three
wives. "Insatiate Archer! could not one
suffice?"
sA father and son, Anthony and
Thomas Screw, escaped on the 25th ult.,
from the Wetumpka Jail. There are two
Screws loose.
HA- Mr.. and Mrs Brewer, of Wayne
County, have twenty-five children
Theirs is, perhaps, the most extensive
brewery in the West.
m-T The Southern Mercury" SAYS
that Mr.. P 0. Thomas "has received his
commission as Postmaster, So there's
post-ofice gone to P. 0. 7.
p9-A Newbern paper says that Mrs.
Alice Day of that city was lately deliy-
off e., ,-Jr
what {. Day may bring forth.
s@1 We were considerably amused by
an account that We lately saw of a re-
markable duel. There were six men
upon the ground and six misses.
pT Mrs. Charity Perkins, of New Or
leans, came near dying of poison few
dsyjs ago. A sister Of Charity was sus-
pected of having administered the Dose
g1A man named J. S. Bill has set
up shaving shop in one OF our western
cities. We know him of old When
ever he takes off his beard, he shaves a
bad Bill.
ra- Messrs. Bell & Topp, Of the an
C. Gazette" says that ''Prentices are
made to serve masters Well, Bells
were made to be hung and Topps to be
whipped. a
sa-A Southern lady has abandoned
the Shaker establishment near Hopkins
vile, to marry Mr.. James Bean, aged
seventy She must be fond of dried
beans.
sa. The editor of a. western paper re-
Gently fancied himself "a live OK" but
since our rough handling of him, he is
beginning to conclude that he is only
jerked beef
pAL Mr. Round, an old and valued
friend of ours, was recently elected mag
istrate in Wisconsin That, we suppose,
is what our Wisconsin, friends consider
squirting a circle. y
nm.A man in our State, who attempted
to, hug beautiful young woman, Miss
Lemon, has sued her for striking him in
the eye Why should fellow squeeze
Lemon unless he wants punch?
nm-A 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
pm- The Ohio River is getting lower
and lower every day. 1t has almost
ceased to run All who look at it can
at once perceive that it exhibits very lit
tie speed, but a great deal of bottom.
VISA quizzical editor in Arkansas,
who rejoices in the rather quizzical name
of Harry Hurry, says that "truth isgen-
orally slow in its progress" Probably
it is never in such a Hurry as he.
nA-A lady correspondent, who pro-
fesses to be Mortified at the indeliacy of
our paper, threatens for the future to set
her foot on every copy she sees. She had
better not. Our paper has is in it.
na-A lady in Montreal, on the 1st,
recovered $4,000 of Maj. Breckford for
hugging and kissing her rather roughly.
She ought to set high value on the
money, as she got it By a tight squeeze.
D~W. H Hooe, postmaster in Yer
mont, publishes that two hundred dol
lars ofthe public funds are missing from
his office, and he asks "aoho has got the
money! Possibly echo may answer
Hooe.
p9- Mr.. Henry A. Rhule says, in a
Mississippi paper, that he has sworked
zealously for the administration Now
let him turn and work faithfully against
1t. It's poor Rule that won't work
both ways,
G~An impudent anonymous cores
pondent, signing himself "Ned Bucket, :"
expresses the wish that we were dead.
Very well-let him show himself in per-
son, and we pledge ourselves to "kack
the Bucket" -a
A. K. says that he expects to be
able in short time to pay everything
that he owes in this world. Ay, but
there's heavy debt that he has got to
settle in the other world. There'H be
The deoi1 to pay.
nG-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 the want of money, and she for the