Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1861-03-22

nA.A Yankee. doctor has got up a
remedy for hard times. 1t consists OF
ten hours hard labor, well worked in.
nA- There are now FIVE living ex-
Presidents of the United Statesman
Buren,, Tyler, Fillmore, Pierce and Bu-
chanan.
psA. The man who 'stook a walk the
ether day. brought it back again; but
the next day he took ride, and went
eff with it.
n9- 4 fellow charged in an iudict-
ment with stealing a hoe, was discharged
upon trial, it being proved that the ar
ticle taken was an axe. The matter was
a regular ho-a1.
"2 Troo.,
1t is said in some quarters that Abe
Lincoln will turn out the worst Presi-
dent the United States ever had. Too
true. He turned, out James Buchanan!
Ceremony took place March 4.
Bg- Prentice says many of the South
.Carelinians not only have Yankee arms
in their hands when they muster in war
like parade, but Yankee arms around
their necks in the privacy of their own
homes.
pG-A sleepy churchwarden, who
sometimes engages in popular games,
hearing the minister use the words,
''shuffle of this mortal coil, started up,
rubbed his eyes, and exclaimed, Stop,
stop! it's my deal
neEThe Administration of Buchanan
came into power with only S25, 10000
of National Debt, and had u balance of
SIC, loco, 900 in the Treasury. 1t went
out. last week, leaving a National Debt
= of SIS, 900, 900, and a banhruptTreasury!
rea- 1t is reported that Mr.. and Mrs.
Burch are to come together again, and
that it was on that account that further
prosecution was abandoned. Mr.. Corn
ing is said to have acquiesced in the ar
rangement, it being satisfactory to Mrs.
Burca.
EGy 1t is said there is now growing
in the garden of Moorsend, near Chel-
tenham, England, an extraordinary
white rose tree. thirty feet in height
1t is a perfect picture, and estimated to
have between Is, ,000and &c. 600 blossoms
upon it, being literally smothcred in
bloom.
ByAn eager sportsman saw upon the
Back Bay, Mass, while Il miles from
home. what he thought to be flock of
wild ducks; he Immediately drove home
to get a gun; ON returning, he crept for
ward to the water, sighted his game. and
fred into-a lot of posts which had been
set to mark boundary line.
@A pedagogue told one Of his
scholars, a son of the Emerald Isle, to
spell hostility. "H-o-r-s-e, horse.
commenced Pat. Not, horse tility,
said the teacher; ''but hos -tility. -
"Sure, replied Pat, "and didn't ye tell
me. the other day, not to say hos? BE
jabers it's one thing wild ye one day,
and another the next.
Comfort Bennett, the millionaire
of Chemung county. lisa remarkable man;
he went to- Big Haho without mems,
.and worked for the farmers for, eight
wears, before he had means to buy land;
in the meridian of his life, he lost his
right hand. He is now eighty years
old, has been BLIND four years, and has
accumulated by earnings. and savings,
not speculations, 81 100000.
work of the .Deyil."
b We have seen some awful typograph-
ical errors in our day, but seldom any
more Iudicirous than the following
The editor, wanting a line to fill a col
umn, gave
.sshoot Folly as she fies.''-PoPE.
In the hurry of setting it up, the
Devil" rendered it thus:
"SEoot Polly as she fies-ror:'