Baton Rouge tri-weekly gazette & comet. [volume] (Baton Rouge, La.) 1865-18??, 1865-09-12
CETIO US.

real ''live" oak post-now sixty-sevsn
years old and sound as ever:
The Russian telegraph through Siberia
will be economical on account Of the Num-
Der Of Poles on the ground.
No one in New York had stolen over one
hundred thousand dollars up TO 10 o'clock
p. NJ, yesterday, therefore no account Of
theft, forgery or embezzlemeat was mem
toned.
Why is the Atlantic Cable a warning to
young men ? Because it has only been
soaking in water, yet it is quarter seas
over.
The difference between Billy Mulligan
and the Mimic that finished him. One was
Plug Ugly and the other an ugly plug.
The circumstance of a child born in
sleeping-car appears in all the papers. AS
if births were not a necessary concomitant
in such vehicle.
A Virginia paper says when Horace
Greeley dies he will leave vacuum that
cannot be supplied. He will be missed as
few men are missed. As Prince Hal said
of Falstaff, we ''could have better spared
better man."
In domestic quarrel man in New
York tried to set his wife on Are She was
put out by the police.
Kit North's son-in-law, Professor Ay-
toun, is dead. He was Black-woods-m
Geo, A. Smith, Of Iron County, Desert,
is candidate for Congress. He must be
hard character.
Paradox-the east wind is often mist
when present
'.Are the Buckleys negroes, Par No,
my son, they are Cork-asians.
"Tell me not in mournful numbers is
now rendered tell me not in obituary
statistics.
A man actually died in his bed in New
York day or two since. Street murders
are decreasing.
A lady remarked upon being informed
that Miss Bellona was married that she
must be sausage aid (saucy jade.)
A man just dead in Stockbridge had
eaten nothing for 35 days. About time
to die.
There is an editor named Silver-thorne.
We venture to say there is more silver in
his name than in his pockets.
Greeley says he composes two columns
per day. He composes nothing, he agitates.
Jenkins is said to feel very downcast at
the insgnifcance Of his fraud compared
with later ones.
George Sand is writing another novel.
She is sort of sand that never runs COM
pletely out.
The poet SAKE is not descendent Of
Marshal SAKE. He is closely related, how
ever, to the other Martial, who used to
write such Swinging lines in Latin.
IF the Atlantic cable were successful how
could intelligence through so salt chan
mel be fresh.
A correspondent inquiries if the Radicals
have yet got through their Chase al over
the country.
Bennett says Greeley only has one idea
at time. When he had the idea of max
ing Bennett minister to France, it was
enough for one time.
President johnson is blamed for the speed
with which he pardons. The President
declares that Speed has nothing to do with
it.
1t is trusted that Ketch-him will not
prove o misnomer.
A man of much decision-the Commits
sioner of Internal Revenue.
After defaulting to the amount Of $140,-
900 an internal revenue collector in Column
bus, o., very properly committed suicide.
Seventy churches in Connecticut are in
want Of pastors. Here the want is con-
gregations.
Ship reported lost-Co dictatorship.
The best chance for the Collectorship has
proved to be the Maine chance.
Political black mail-negro suffrage.
The Treasury Clerks in Washington are
said to be much in need of Maine law
General Baker has gone West to investi-
gate frauds upon Government. 1t will be
the largest batch any bater eUer kneaded.