Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1869-08-24

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EEApNd or THE JOURNAL. - The Southern
Monthly Magazine the first number OF which
,,l...r,d m August OF this year, contained the
i,.IoNil.. rapl,:d story, which the writer as
-nc- NJ, VA related 10 hun hy Mr.. Prentice
h,n>c,t
We hardly think We could inaugurlte the
Spice Box with anything better than an old
story which may be new To many cJaccrnng
a udiculuu, mistake once made hy Colonel
tirrcu, oi Bourbon county, keutucky- The
Colonel va, a member Oi the State Legislature.
tie had been elected by 4 very small majority
un The Wing ticket, owing to the fact that he
h,d been only recent convert from Democracy.
rhr Louisville Journal had supported Green
with at ability, and OF course, he ielt duly
grateful To Mr. Prentice. He was a constant
reader Of the paper at home, and when he
went To Frankfort he subscribed Tor a second
copy and always read it in his seat in the
House Il had become to him friend and
.,lacc in those early days OF legislative toll,
aud it is needless to say he welcomed It's ap-
rrarapce every morning as he would the cherry
face OF an Old and kind friend,
But there was o serious drawback 10 this
measure, and one that he was making up his
mud at m early day to Squelch forever Morn
iug after morning, and Just 1t the moment he
wa, most interested In tho columns OF his
iavorltc newspaper, some representative would
leap to the floor and cry out with evident trl-
umph Mr.. Speaker, | move you, sir, that
we dispense with the reading OF the Journal.
The motion always carried, and, with lll.con-
,raled disgust, Green folded his paper and land
IT aside lie could have borne with this better,
uprhats. II he had not witnessed all around
him gentlemen cOmplaceutIy scanning the pages
of half dozen other papers.
After bearing it mildly for q tritlc better than
three weeks, he arrived at the sage conclusion
that patience had ceased to be virtue, and
one morning, after grave gentleman from
Grrcnup county had offered the usual rcS0lu'
tion, which dispensed with the reading OF the
journal Col Green Jumped to his ieet, anu
while hi, face crimSOucd with rage, and the
prr,piration strcamcd down his swarthy tace'
sal
MIR Speaker, | have right, as member
# this House, to speak up for my friends, and
,n the cause OF Justice | have stood this thing
a little too long. won't stand 1t any longer.
would rather resign my scat, sir, and 90 home
IN a constituency who love liberty and ialr play.
tSrnsation and crlcs OF 'OrdCrl) No, sir,
don care for your parliamentary rules, as YOU
all them. IN bound 10 speak out against
this evil twaving the Louisville Journal over
his h,aN Now, sir, I'm q friend to the
Journal believe in the Journal II con
uns more honesty and truth than all the
luruals ot kentucky rut together intend
ro stand NJ Tor the Journal at all tlmeS and IN
every place Nothing can intmldatc me a.
ipng a, know I'm right. And DOW, sir,
N,ll amend the gentleman motion by adding
the Democrat, aud the Cincinnati Enquirer
# We dispense with the reading of one news
paper, move to make 1t general, that We may
lc Just.
Tie asloniShud members at once realized the
,luit oi thus oraOrlcal Outburst, aud 1t Is hardly
necessary to say that laughter prevented the
organization OF the House Tor some time.
Colonel Grccn treated
GEV BEAUREGARp The euterpr-Ing but
imaginative Jenkins, Of the New 0rk Herald,
~ a letter from the White Sulphur Springs,
says IN 4 mV>teTIOuSy confidential whisper:
"tu raysant may remark that no young gen
tlculu now at the White Sulphur pays the la
dies more mremitting attention than Gencra
B.aurcrard aud ruusOr has revived the repott
., last sca-on that he Is addressing, WIN IAN
,Issp,cts of success, "A belle from lynehpulS'
a.. attentions to her arc certainly very lhatAeu'
and .ee no reason why she should not appear
l,r. ,,vt summer as the brilliant Mrs. General
E,aar,garl." This makes about the seven
,.,nih charming woman the General has been
,,rottcd as being either engaged to or about 70
marry within the last two years
"RAlLY ROUND THE FLAG. Hearth aud
Home pcuc,ratcs the following story
la>'idlouS husband who diSliked to see IN
iaut's linen hanging from the windows OF hlS
house, whilst walking out one day with hiS
wife, asked sarcaStically, as he saw the often
>lve Tapping eonspicuouSly in the breeze
My dear, what flag is that displayed from GU
window why she proudly replied, that
,Lc aag Of our Union" Conquered by tho
,nrpent retort, he. saIuted the flag with tn
Sxinr OF his hat, AMI pressing his wic's arm
laser within his own, sang, As they wake
bomeward, And long may she wave.
4 STEAMBOAT captain Oh the lakes wa,
r,srntlv feeling his way along in the DARK
,rLen the lookout ahead sang out, "SchOOn,
,y;thonta light 1t was aclose shave, and as Il
~,ramrr paSscd the schooner, the captain sat
ont' "What are you doing with your lnfern intern
schooner here in the dark without ngnt
his Jismay the skipper, who was a rrehehm
answered Vat ze diable you 40 here VIZ l 20
ole steamboat in three feet water, eh
iu,t then the steamer.la landed high anu ury
sand hank.