The Sweetwater enterprise. (Sweetwater, Tenn.) 1869-187?, 1871-02-09
RanGOmites.

day morning rain and mud plenty.
Quorum Court was in session Monday.
See "dots from jacksonville"
Rodorick Random Butler has been ac-
quilted.
The recent heavy rains has caused a
rise in the Tennessee river.
Our young friend Charley Lee, of Lou
don, holds the position of Emigrant Ticket
Agent at that place.
A small lot of hogs and beef cattle we're
sold here last Saturday morning.
TIE printers f%ayorite song is, "Tis
Sweet to be Remembered" We would
like for several of our subscribers to re-
member us about two dollars worth.
Time is the only gift in which God has
stinted us; for he never entrusts us with
a second moment until he has taken away
the first, and never leaves US certain of a
third.
We once heard an old topper define
hard drinking, He said it was "sitting on
a rock and drinking cold water"
A bald-headed man may always expect
to find a friend and sympathize r in a man
ufacturer of wigs.
In POcket-picking, as we'll as in almost
everything else, a man never succeeds un.
til he gets his band in.
\ gentleman of our acquaintance, who
is ashamed of his intensely bald head, ex-
plains the absence of his hair by saying
that he was born poor, and was compelled
to scratch his way through life.
What can be uttered more s~woctly than
Come =! What can be conceived more
lamentably and more awful than Depart
These are two words that exceed--the one
in blessedness, the other in hOrror-all
that we can aver hear. '''
If we study christians, not in the sharp
angles of their croeds, but in the pleasant
rounlings of their lives, we shall find good
men of every name alike in spirit and
practice.
A journal in criticising a child's book,
more mournEul than merry, says that "to
read it to any child who does not deserve
a whipping, would be an act of cruelty"
One of the LATEST men in this country
resides in Iowa. The only reason he don't
get married is because he is too lazy to
"stand up"
As long as a man crouches and skulks,
and shirks his work, every creature that
has weight will be treading on his toes and
crushing him he will himself tread with
one foot on the other.
The author Of a novel just out, wishing
to saythat her heroine opened her mouth,
thus expresses himself: "The pretty CO.
raj doOr-keeper of her words gave way,
and a low hooking laugh ran out from
them"
Science is not a club, it is an ocean it
is open to the cock boat as to the frigate,
One man carries across it a freightage oil
ingots, another may fish there for herrings
Youth is ever coniding, and we can al
ways forgive its disiLclination to follow the
c%ounsels of age, for the sake of the gener.
GUS disdain with which it rejects suspicion.
Single ladies, in general, do not ap.
prove of tue re-marriage of widows. A
young lady who is fast approaching the
"middle ages" is in the habit of saying
whenever she hears of a widows marriage.
"Tbere, now, that woman has got one oil
my husbands"
"Pulvcrized hog'' is the latest vulgar.
ism for sausage. ....r ,
An orphan girl in Virginia has just
smoked herself to death al the age of 100
Housewife, Penn, it is said, can beat
Boston out of sight for crooked streets
and have crooks enough left to start an.
other town.
In describing a new Organ, an edito,
says; "The swell died away in a deliciou.
suffOcation, like n singing q sweet song
under the be~dclothes." <.,.I. ....,
A reporter who attended a banquet
concluded his description with the candle
statement that sit is not distinctly re
mombered by anybody present, who made
the last speech"
An Ohio farmer saw a stranger tearing
down his rail fence, and hailed him t,
know the reason. The reply was that he
was suddenly seized with the shakes, ant