Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1862-09-26
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S2ttt tN0 VOtN1NOAts
s@- The snakes poison is in his teeth;
the SANDERS in his tongue.
Eeg-A stranger is received according
to his dress, and taken leave of accord
ing to his merit.
e9r"Dos cheap" is now defined as
meaning the keeping of a canine with.
out paying the tax.
B6- Why is married man like a can
die? Because he sometimes goes out
when he ought not to.
ET Fortune may favor fools; but that
is poor reason why you should make
fool Of yourself.
BJ-A flush of hope renders toll and
trial beautiful, as the sunbeam gives a
sparkle to the winter frost
THE improved way of spelling po,
tatoes is poughtetgh,ea;e The new way
ofspelling softly, is psogy1flsiyh. <
s@-A poor fellow sometimes drives
ostentatiously pair of grays when he
Is driven BY aseore of duus.
nU-The man who with a hammer
mashes his oEu finger probably thinks
he hasn't hit the right nail on the head
s@ Two lovers, like two halves Of a
divided bank note, however widely sep
arated, always correspond with each
other.
n@-P Patriots are just now doing their
utmost to help their country. Polite
ians are doing their utmost to help
themselves.
nca- Why did William Tell shudder
when he shot the apple from his sons
head? Because it was an arrow escape
fol his child.
sg-The Union league of Baltimore
comprises over fifteen thousand mem
bers. 1t is of immense service to the
military, and is the most effective agency
in keeping down the secessionists.
SEs- 1t is said when a Frenchman has
to wait, he smokes; German meditates;
an Italian sleeps; an Englishman takes
O walk; an American inyents some new
contortion Of his limbs, and tries to put
his feet higher than ever.
EG-A An old minister up town the other
day asked a woman what could be done
to induce her husband to attend church.
Il don't know" she replied, "unless
you-wer to put pipe and jug of
whisky in the pew
ne -Anintelligent farmer being asked
if his horses were we'll matched, re-
piled: u
"Yes, they are matched first rate;
one Of them is willing to do all the
work, and the other is willing he should" "
sgA sixty-nine FOUNDER shell burst
near an Irishman in one of the trenches.
Pat coolly surveyed the ruins the frag
ment had made, and exclaimed, BE ia.
bersl thims the fellows to soften the
! wax in a mans ear!'
ns at seems to me I have seen your
physiognomy somewhere before" said a
swell to stranger whom he met the
other day, "but 1 cannot imagine
where" Very likely" was the reply,
II have been keeper of prison for the
isst twenty years.
rA-A telegram to Governor Berry of
N. Hampshire orders the exemption of
administers and physicians from the
draft. We think it probable that like
course will be pursued in all those
States where they are not exempted by
State law.
g@e One Of the readiest replies we
have heard lately, was made by an Irish
man. A gentleman travelling on horse
back down east came upon an lrishman
who was fencing ina most barren and
desolate piece of land"
"What are you fencing in that lot for,
Pat?" said he; "a herd of cows would
starve to death on that land.
"And sure, your honor, wasn't fenc-
ing it to keep the poor bastes out of it?''
rI Never at any time since the begin
ming of the war has tn esprit of the loyal
States been so high or so resolute as it
now is. The people freely put all they
are and all they have at the command
of the Government. IF there is not
enough generalship and statesmanship
amongst. us to WELD these unlimited
means for the salvation of the country,
the shame and the pity will be undying.
--Louisoilhe Journal.
aGyA brave Western Colonel recently
wrote congratulatory letter to newly
commissioned officer. in which he said
-"Destroy this Government and what
safety remains for our homes; what hon
ors in our history? In the past is the
memory of greatness; in the future are
anarchy, self-contempt and foreign
scorn. Rather dare all now, preserve
the Government, vindicate its strength,
and the republic passed through this
crisis will stand with such assured dig
nity and frmness, through all the com
ing centuries, that no foe without, or Ju-
das within, shall ever dare raise an
armed hand against her.