Litchfield enquirer., 1871-07-27
HARpERs DRAWER, !

HARPERs DRAWER. - s-l
 We have very good story of shs Hon. Benjamin 'F. Butler that has not yet found 1 it's way into the newspapers: When nth- dent in college it was binding on fhe 1tn. dents to attend the college church-sduty which to him, was very irksonne. On cns also professor) advancing propositions like the following: H) That the elect done would be saved. t2j That among thoso who, by the world, were called Christians probably not more than one in a hundred belonged really and truly to the elect. (o.) That the others, by reason of their Chris. tian privileges, would suffer more hereafter | than the heather, who had never heard the Gospel at all. Mr. Butler, whose au. dacty was as conspicuous as his reverence, made note of these propositions, and on the strength of them drew up petition to the faculty, soliciting exemption from far. ther attendance at the church, as only pre- pairing for himself more terrible future. For, said be, the congregation here amounts to six hundred pt rsons, and nine of these are professors. Now, if only one in ahnn- dred is to be s,ved. it follows fh ( three even of the faculty must be damned. He (BenJamin F. Butler), being mere stu dent. could not expect to be saved ia pref. erence to professor. Far, he said, be 1t from him to cherish so presumptuuus Q hope! Nothing remained for hisa, there fore, but perdition. In this Enelancholly posture of affairs he was naturally anxions to abstain from any thing that might az Il gravate his future punishment; ands as church attendance had been shown in last N,'c kr hov sn Su0n
 the non elect, he trusted that the faculty
 would for all time coming exempt him from lit! r. .... . -.. r..r.. The result of this petition, written out in an imposing manner, and formally pre- sented to the faculty, was that Butler re- celved public reprimand for irreverenOe, and. but for the influence of one or two
 friends in the faculty would have been expelled.
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 During the trial of a citizen of Nevada, recently, for borrowing in an irreenlar
 way the horse of a gentleman who hadn't
 the honor of his acquaintance, the ptin0i. ] pal witness was woman, who used the expression, Il said to myself, so frequent y as to create some merriment. At length
 the judge said to her, ''Mrs. Peters, you must not tell us what you said to yourself | ys Dr. Isaac Watts wrote many touChinR : lines about than kfulness for merCies, spiritual and temporal, but none more
 pleasing than the hymn commencing. Whene'er take my walks abroad. How many poor sect
 9 How many children in the street 1I Half naked behold, fwf liva ' While am clothed from head to feet, And covered from the coldl
 |, No man with pure mind would dream of |. making light of such lines as, these: yet q k Boston person has the effrontery to submit r the following as an Improvements:
 Whene'er take my walks abroad, l How many poor seel
 And as never speaks to them, A nous ealf They never speaks to mel | ks...ss 5 The very last instance of having a s' Sl,re
 thing on the jury" comes from MiChiRan. v where an untortunate young man, bat per- '. feet gentleman, had been arrai0nad for stealing pork. He retained bright young 8 lawyer, who, having listened to the eul. 8 prit's story, and learned from him what 3 the peoples witnesses would swear to. can didly informed him that it was useless to waste money on defense. 7" 3uf
 "Never you mind, was the reply: s'go t ahead and argue the case good and etrcng. 8 man, and I'll give you twenty dollars" The lawyer worked up to the contract.
 and before he had half summed ID he had the jury in tears at the bare idea of snatch. :, ing such bright example of domestic and social worth from the bosom of his society of his neighbors, to be thrust among felons
 in the common jail. To his astorishment 3 the appeal was affective. The prisoner was acquitted. Closeted together after the yer.
 dict and discharge of the culprit, and twen- } ty dollars having been paid over, the law.
 yer said, 7" s+'s4 -4'al il~i eAI
 "By y-the-bye, B---, that was most sur. prising verdict, considering what the sgov-
 ernment proved"
 ''Not at all," was the cool reply; .,six of 2 them jurymen had some of the pork. {" The mercury in that lawyers bump of
 self esteem fell to zero. .t......-' One of the cleverest of our Brooklyn , contemporaries thus alludes to the strange habits of the statesmen of that city:
 One of the best-known politicians of that
 third city of the republic, noted for his waggery (d. e., the politician, not the City), stopped the conductor on an Albany -bound train on which he was journeying last win.
 ter, and asked innocently if the next ste.
 tion was Pougbkeepsie. '.No," said the cOnOucCOrs Ons hl6 .mexe f1ro-ColleCtinR
 round the conductor was again asked if the train was nearing Poughksepsie; to which
 he again replied negatively. Again and again, as the official made his srouhflss the
 same question was asked by the anxious passenger; until at last the man of checks replied, with some little irritation in his
 tone:e& A. aaiiGI9 "a &aaasst.a "A 4asI.5
 ''No, Sir; we are not yet near your stop- ping place. Pray trust to me, and will
 let you know when we shall get there"
 The passenger thereupon reIapsed into silence. and the official, engrosssd with
 other duties, forgot his Case until Che train
 had left Poughkeepsie about half mile to the rear. when, recollechug himself. he hastily backed the cars to the st6tlOn. dnd.
 rushing up to the troublesome passenger. cried out: ,.r
 ''This is Poughkeepsie. Hurry np and get of. We are behind time" Afld "Oh, thank you," deliberately dratvled the quondam questioner; 'iDut | am Roin9 through. My daughter cautioned me par. ticularly to take pill at Poughkeepnio, I That's alI.' s9oo 6T6d ye13 2 Sfd .11
 The pill wasitaken--and so was the joke