The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1870-05-12

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enabled to aid IN this redemption BY
your partnership. Applause.
Never desert a friend in Distress
never violate promise.
Make temperance thy companion, so
shall health sit on thy brow.
Be charitable to the poor; he that
giyeth to the poor lendeth to the Lord.
The woman who neglects the buttons
of her husbands shirt-front is not the
wife Of his bosom.
Some 10000 children have been
named Ulysses this last two years, out
Of compliment to the President.
A New Hampshire paper suggests
that 'JustifabIe insanity" is the form
in which yerdicts in many cases should
be rendered nowadays.
The good man has God in his heart
when he is not in lis mouth but tho
hypocrte has God in his mouth with
out having him iu his heart. e#
Aman died in the Wilmington, Conn.
almshouse the other day, who was for
merly a prominent citizen, and quite
wealthy but he gave his money away
to help others, and died paupcr
Disguised with one of the stamps
that will not stick, a Providence letter
writer on Thursday dropped the letter
into the office with the stamp se-
curely fastened with pin.
The Louisiana Baptist tells of an in-
cendiary who lately set on fire Bap-
tist church, but who first piously re-
moved the Bible and hymn book, put
ting them on log cut Of reach of the
fire.
The Sandusky CO.. Register claims
for that city that it has less Temperance
agitation, and more temperance, than
any other city of the population in the
State, Temperance societies and lee
lures are unknown there.
Both houses of Congress have passed
a resolution extending the income tar
another year, but reducing the per cent.
of tax to be paid on incomes to 8 per
cent. This reduction does not apply
to the incomes Of last year, the tax on
which is now being assessed.
Awidower in Indiana who married
again last week, while on his way with
his new bride to the depot to start on
their bridal tour, was rudely stopped
by an undertaken who demanded in-
slant payment of his little bill for bury
ing his first wife. The father of the
new bride stepped forward and liquida-
ted the bill
A Yankee one day asked his lawyef
how an Eeiress might be carried of.
"You cannot do it with safety" said
the counsellor; "but III tell you what
you may do Let her mount a horse
and hold a bride whip; you then
mount behind her, and you are safe;
for she runs away with you" The
next day the lawyer found that it was
his own daughter who had run away
with his client
The House Committee on Rivers and
Harbors has reduced the amount to be
spent in Improvements to about $s,-
500, 900. The amount asked for is
about S1l,o0O,o00. 1t would have
been better economy to have granted
the eleven millions in judicious exper-
piture on these free highways of COM
merce. the traffic of which after all,
bear the greater burden of taxation for
all purposes
We would suggest to the editor Of
the Columbus Journal that although it
may be very crushing and witty and all
that sort ofthing to call au adversary an
ass when he cornors you in argument,
still, the crush and the wit get just q
leetle stale in the course OF years, par
ticularly when it is used once or twice Q
dav. Caillicoshs RegSser