The Sweetwater forerunner. [volume] (Sweetwater, Tenn.) 1867-1869, 1868-06-25
Short Paragraphs.

"a crying negro baby.
Remember that you are at the door of
eternity, and have other work to do than
to triae away time.
"Pat, is your sisters child boy or
girlP' "Faith, am | don't know yet
whether Pm an uncle or an aunt"
Initiate the example of the locomotive.
He runs along, whistles over his work, and
yet never takes anything but water when
he wants to "wet his whistler"
Many flowers open to the sun but only
one follows him constantly. Heart, be
thou the sunAower, not only open to Gods
blessings, but constant in looking to him.
A little four-year-old child in Portland,
told his father he was fool. On being
reprimanded by his mother, and required
to say he was sorry, he toddled up to the
iusulted parent and exclaimed: "Papa
Pm sorry you's fool"
Frank Hayman was droll dog. When
he buried his wife friend asked him why
he expended so much on her funeral.
"Oh, sir" replied he, "she would have
done as much or more for Inc with pleas
ure."
Moral and religious culture furnishes
the principal excellence of woman's noble
characater and crowns her queen of home
and empress of the school-room, where her
greatest power is felt and her greatest in
fluence exerted.
A highly respectable English journal
actually alludes to the women who persist
in wearing long skirts in the streets as
''the ladies with dirty legs"
A negro woman while praying in cot
ton patch in Arkansas was shot one night
last week and killed, by negro man, who
mstook her for one of "dem Kukluxes."
OF Freemasonry it may be said that
truth is its handmade, freedom is its child,
peace is its companion, safety walking in
its steps and victory following in its train.
Why is Clergyman marrying couple
like an apothecary? Because he COM
pounds simplcs.
The Albany Argus says ''the system at
Washington is to govern the North by
falsehood and the South by force; and to
pillage both sections"
Mr.. Nathan Lipscomb, of Troup coun-
ty, Ga, while plowing, not having any to-
bacco with him, substituted weed called
angelica, and in thirty minutes he was a
corpse.
A man named Elias Bare, farmer re-
siding in Ross township, Clinton county,
Indiana, committed suicide by hanging, on
the 18th inst. Apprehensions of pecuniary
loss on a contract for land-clearing crazed
him.
A young woman in New Philadelphia,
Ohio, was seduced, lately, by a married
man named Everett, a former lover, and
having given birth to child, poisoned
herself last Saturday. The seducer has
fed. tarI
The negro barber in Louisville who
left an estate of 100000, made his money
by never charging more than five cents
for shave.
-Four hundred barrels of pork which
went down on the steamer Amazon, and
have been under forty feet of water for
more than month, have been raised, sent
to New Orleans, and sold for twenty-nine
dollars barrel.
In Dallas county, Iowa, the grasshop-
pers appear piled up from four to five
deep, and as they pass over the ground
not enough vegetation is left in their
track to keep life in field mouse.
The papers announce that the Loyal
League of New York has struck the name
of President johnson off its list and turn
ed him out of their society. From Mr..
johnson it is learned that he never was a,
member of the League, and was not
aware that anybody had put his name up'
on the list. C-3
On the morning of the 10Th, during a.
heavy thunder storm at Monroe, Connec.
ticut, three school boys, aged respectively
thirteen, ten and six years, while standing
on the school-house porch were Instantly
killed by lightning, and little girl was
badly stunned, but has since recovered.
The school house was badly damaged.
In Connecticut, recently, boy killed
spotted adder with stick, and soon
after took that part of the stick which had
come in contact with the snake in his
hand. He was Immediately seized with
severe pain in the hand and arm, and his
body began to swell and was covered with
spots. Whisky cured him, but it was a
remarkable case Of poisoning.