Union County star and Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1859-1864, 1861-03-01
Anecdotes from Harpcr's Mcnih,y for March.

Old Sid c. is one of the few who
can keep hotel. He is doubc-disrilled
(4O per cent above proof Democrat. The
present politico- financial troubles don't
suit him, not bit. He predicts great
trouble, and bases his opinion on the fact
that "Liucoln was turned in .jcopar9ysOme
time since iu South Carolina
In Lanarkshire, Scotland, there lived,
about fifty years ago, poor crazy man,
by name VIII Schooler. Will was a reg.
ular attendant of the parish church III
his town, on the ceiling Of which there
was for ornament dove with Outstretcbed
wings. One Sabbath day, Will growing
rather tired of the sermon, and throwing
his arms and head back, aud seeing the
dove, reclaimed, 40 Lord what biz hen"
Col. s., of Louisiana, was in jack
son, Mississippi, several weeks ago, and
while on the stand advocating the claims
Of his favoritc candidates, was asked by
one of the opposition speakers what the
people Of his State would DO in case Mis-
sissippi seeded? "Do?" said the Colonel,
1--WE would stand by and see old Eng
make you pay your debts y
My cousin, Mrs NJ, being a smart
woman, and hearing one morning (after
her husband had left for business that the
banks had suspended-spccie payment, she
gathered up the eight or ten dollars in
halves and quarters from the drawer, and
started full tilt for store, jingliDg her
money all the while to see if the clerk had
heard the news. She asked the price Of
this and that until she matched the amount
Suppesing her money to be good, which
Mr.. Clerk concurred in mos. heartily as
be fingered the nice plump half dollars,
she gathered up her bundles and went
home in the greatest tiigct of delight a
little woman ever enjoyed. Mr.. NJ
came home to dinner. Wanting a half
dollar, and finding none in the place where
his sinners ought to be, he inquired, of
Mrs. NJ, what had become of the
money? Mrs. NJ, in soft, sweet
voice, said, "IIush, my dear-dcn't say
word heard this mcrning that the
banks had stopped paying specie, and SO
ran out aud passed it off on the store
keeper before be heard the neWs!"
Dea. F. lived out West. - He had
a son, John. The sovreigns Of that Sec
tion met in caucus to appoint delegates to
. County Convention. Now the Conven-
tion would meet many miles from that,
and how to get carried there without ex
pense, was subject of the gravest impor-
tance 10 the aforesaid sovrcignsin conclave.
Finally it was agreed to appoint John, the
Deacon's son, delegate, thus giving him
an opportunity to display his patriotism
BY taking his fathers horses aud wagon to
transport the whole delegation to the cOun-
ty seat. The thing was done.
1t SO happened that the Deacon had
changed works with a ncighb in thresh-
ing, ouly the Deacon had got the neigh
boris help and hadn't paid it back. The
day before the Convention, the neighbor
notified him that be should want him
next day.
"But We can't come"
"Why not p
"Wby, you see, John, he's 'pin.ed."
"Pinted how? what do you mean"
"You see John he's 'piated a-d-a-
renegade tc the Cou"ty Concption!!'
"Up here in the AIleghanies," writes
Pennsylvania reader, Eve sometimes get
n good thing. The late political excite
ment furnishes US with the following:
"In one of cur villages lives squat,
bull-headed Dutchmau, Stephen C by
name. Steve has always been Democrat.
One of our Republican friends called on
him, with the hope that he could make a
vote for Uncle Abe. He began with the
usual arguments-the conflict between
free and slave labor, the poor negro, free
farms, ETC. Steve listened with civiIity
for long time but at last grew weary,
and told the fellow he wss Democrat,
and wouldn't swop. The Pub stuck TO
him, and, as a clincher and final argument,
be said that DO Christian could belong to
the Democratic party, for they were slave
This was too much for
Steve; it 'riled' him all over; be rolled
bis head; his little black eyes sparkled; /;
be shook his fists; and, with true Dutch
be ratified out:
"I was born Luteran been a Dem
okraat all my life. l bees Dcmokraat
md Luteran till | goes dead. Ii dat
don't take me to heaven, why den-den-
aen-chus, let er-rip y"
Mr.. W, an attorney in one of the
central counties of Pennsylvania, many
years ago, when that part of the State was
'backwoods," was a genuine 1risbman,
of little learning, professional,
scientific, or literary, and always went a.
business in a manner peculiarly his own.
On one occasion, when the courts we're in
session in his county, client Of his had
been induced to execute judgment bond,
by some trick or fraud, for which be had