The southern aegis, and Harford County intelligencer., 1864-02-12
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WHEN The NIeiHrr AND rEMPEsFt IN EsSt q 9cyLo|sE S|sh
2
II, 1864.
coFnero the apron7"G GOODNESS bless me,
what's the matter ~ -. ,,.Ssa,.,, 80 10


corner;of the apron--".G GOODNESS, bless me,
what's the matter p r,,,,., ,et,ats,., 10
"Tbe matter is, / want yon to marry ps
two right Of" replied Smith. sd,,.@ aJ,
Marry youp calculated the Clergyman,
With expanded fingers and awful, eyes;
care you drunk Or what is the matter VI With 4
However, he finally married them, T. ever over
stTaightway, and would not take . fee be
fact is, grave as he was, he was dying to
be alone that he might give vent,to Q sup
pressed laugh that was shaking him all
over and Smith and Smiths wife went
|joyfully home and kissed every one of
their children. The little Smiths never
knew that their father and mother, had
ever been made strangers to each other BY
Legislative enactment. ..,h,,, Ia h0.
Meanwhile, and on the same night j ones
returned to bis native town-Bprlington,
u believe ---and sought at once the fine
black eyes which be had hoped shortly to
to call his own. The pretty widow sat
on the sofa, a white kershief tied careless.
" about her round white throat, her black
hair s laid in silky waves against INST each acha rosy
.sDiyoroe, is the vord,D cried ri 4 Jones. 5.
playfully patting her double chin r'asthe
fact ID, Eliza, 7 am rid of. that cursed,
woman, and you, and TIL be married to-,
night. I know how TO manage those
scoupdrels -at Trenton, Aschampagne
supper-ora was it breakfast did the
business for them. Put on your bonnet
and q, let ss " go to the preachers at once, epce,
dearest. ~ "a AZ or,.,cc os. al .sa,s sei..r :,
The widow, who was among widows "a
peaches among apples, put on her bonnet
and took Johns arm, and---f 40 aJt 4
.'"Just look how handsome it is put, on
parchment ~ cried Jones, pulling out the
document, before her, Mhere,s, the law that
says that N t Jacob sp Jones and Ann Caroline
Jones late two.8o,G3 ggdi lpdf oitlt onlsi
Putting her PlYmp gleysd hand Sl llon s bio,
shoulder she did look at it. - ssg, L,ya,
~@O dear" she said, with her, ,posy lips,
and sank back, half .fainting on the, sofa.
20 bblazes b r cried Jones, and sank tbe.
side her rustling the fatal parchment in
his tiss5hbaapd, hand, Hheretsb s lot Of happiness and
champagne gone TO ruin.p roitGg,1sbno
Il was hard case, Instead Of being d.;
vorced, and at liberty, 70 marry the widow;
Jacob Jones was simply, BY the Legislal
ture q, New Jersey, incorporated into
turnpike, company, and what made it
worse, authorized to run from Burlington
70 Bristol I! When you reject that Basn
ington and Bristol are located just q mile
apart, on opposite sides of the Delaware
river, you viii observe The extreme hoperi
lcssness of Jones case. =. sr,ss aS, q -,
aIt's al the fault Of that turnpike man
who gave them the champagne suppeTr-
or was it the break kfastp, cried Jones 10,
agony, 6aaIfthsy'd chartered me TO o turn
pike from Pigs Rum to Terrapip Hollow
! might have. borne it; but the very idea,
Of building . turnpike from Darlington TO,
Bristol !! bears rtla an absurdity on the face aof
~ I.gp,. pt acgn. stqoog agstilGost edi al
SO il did. trsa ssi q; aaaaa-s3ai} 7iag
eGAnd you ain't divorced, said, Eliza,
d tear running down each cheek, k,,sIs.,g'a
sHSNoga thlndered Jones' crushing bis
bat between his knees, 1and what is worse;3
the legislature IS adjourned, and gone
home drunk, and won't be back to 4Tren7l
ton till next year 2,"giIof i iaf;dv ,tua
Iewas hard case; gf,t ,ryil 4isa.gb \
The mistake { had occurred on, the
last day Of the session, when Legislators
and transcribing clerks we're laboring under
a champagne, breakfast. Smith 3 name
had been put, where Jones ought to haye
been, and "wiseyr rwersey,n,aaa aaas the Latin
noat has IN 90