The Lincoln County herald., 1870-06-23
Clippings.
JEFF Davis is sixty two.

oeH laws is sixty TWO.
Don Pia,t, the outrageous fellow, calls
Spotted Tail "Mr Variegated Narrative"
The Lexington, Ky, Insane Asylum
has decided to admit negFo women to that
institution. tt
Three hundred have enlisted 10 tho
regular army at Indianapolis within o
twelve month.
Twenty Eve members of the Connect.
cut Legislature are moro than seventy
years Of age.
Somebody udvertises as found in At
lnnta, Ca, IAN accomplished young ladys
silk parasol."
A fatal and singular disease is making
havoc with the cattle in some portions Of
Marion county.
"Mr. Speaker, l straddle that blind"
is what . Californian says when he sec.
ouds tho motion. -.
Boys are not allowed to run at large in
the streets Of Peoria, Illinois, after o
o'clock at night.
A young man at recent fro threw
away a pail Of water, because it was too
hot to do any good.
A cheerful citizen of Indiana adver.
tises that he will "huild coffins that shall
give complete satisfaction"
Dr.o. o. u~va.svL, 80 sru--.--:u-,-.-
elected President of the Missouri Dental
Association at its recent session in st.
Louis. ir..
Miss Amy ". Brady is the first woman
office holder in North Carolina. She has
been appointed examiner Of schools in
New Hanover county.
In the "pig Eye" neighhorhood, Mont.
gomery county, Ohio, within scope Of
three miles there have been ten pair of
twins born within year.
Brigham Young, having become tired
of the many false reports circulating
about him, says that he has sixteen wives
and forty nine children.
Abraham DoBond, Of Washington
county, who received ball in the fore
head in battle in 1864, is in good health,
with the ball still in his head.
Rev. Thomas f. McMullcn, of Phila.
delphia, refused to marry Miss Mary l..
Search, and now wants IS 5000 for the
support Of the little inevitable.
Women in Perry county, Indiana, a
few days ago stripped, tarred and fca,h.
cred, rode on rail and ordered out Of
the county Jane Alsop, woman of loose
morals.
An idiotic colored boy in Maryland
has fallen victim to an Unsuitable appc
tite. He would eat anything; so the
boys filled him up with worm pills and
fly poison, and he died.
Ladies spring hats are built after the
model of Esytian pyramids. They are
three stories high-the bonnets We mean,
not the ladies-with cupalo and bal.
cony, and flag at half.mast.
Some Radicals are getting the hys.
terics over the fact that some decent peo-
pie decorated tho graves of Confeicrates
as well as Fcderals. We never could
hate a man after he was dead.
They are trying to divide the State Of
Texas, SO as to put the carpet baggers
and scallywags all IN one State. One
Governor cant attend to the business of
pardoning the scoundrols out of the peni.
tentiary.
DEATH OF WM. GILMORE SIMs.-A
dispatch from Charleston, S. c., announces
the death, on last Saturday, Of the dis.
tinguished Southern poet and novelist,
VIM. Gilmore Sims. His age was sixty.
four years.
"A Deleware farmer curbed the friski.
ness Of his oxen's tails by tying q brick
to each. He considered the plan fail
ure when one of the brutes swung the
brick at maddening fly and Drained the
farmers Oldest boy.
A water spout recently burst in Tram
sylvanis, by which eighty houses were
destroyed, and the. dead bodies of two
hundred and fourteen persons were found
strewed in the fields, and taken out of q
neighboripg stream.
An old merchant once instructed his
clerk as follows "When q man comes
into the store and talks of his honesty,
watch him; if he talks of his wealth,
don't try to sell to him; if be talks OF
his religion, don't trust him dollar.
A poor scamp left his wife in great
rage, declaring that she should never see
his f".A .e.in till hs was rich enough to
come in carriage. He kept his word,
for in two hours afterwards he was
brought home drunk in wheslbarrow. :.
Crops are looking splendid all along
the line Of the Hannibal and st. Jo.eph
railroad. IF present prospects arc real
ICED there will be corn enough raised
this year, in Missouri, okeep US in plenty
for the next fye years, Missouri City