The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-10-10
Reginning Right.

The Richmond Whig recites this Incl
dent of the late war
After breakfast, struggled to a camp
fire lust in time to hear Charles b. say
ssUncle Pleasant, you are the only man
in the company who got box and | t.
ter Yesterday, and you have good wife,
and no mistake" Uncle Pleasant, who
was aged sixty, and the company COM
missary replied, eyes, we have lived
together nigh forty years, and che IS
about as good as the best of 'em. There
amt no trouble in having G good wife
if vou Jest start right. It's all In the
start, bov. You see, I married what
was called a putty gal, and so she was,
and Itook her to my new log house, where
I had already plenty of meat and bacon,
and such other things as poor man
ought to have. Next day | went to get
shingles, and when [ come home she
hadn't got no dinner. [ didn't say any
thing. but got dinner for her and me,
and size eat Jest as hearty as If she had
been working. The next day 1t was the
same thing, and while my dander got
up, didn't say nothing, and again she
eat heartily, as if she liked my cooking
nightly. The third day came home
monstrous tired, and ] said to her,
Where's nv dinner?' She said, Look
! here, Pleasant Batkins, L amt gwlne to
| h cook for no man, and if you want
your dinner. you must cook it yourself.
! Here the pint was reached, as you VIII
see. I cooked dinner without saying
ANYTHING, and after she and me eat, l
went across the road and cut three
.chinkerpin' switches, and went back,
and if ever you seed gal get larrup-
ing, gave her one then and thar. She
went straight to her mothers, as L eX-
pected she would, and next morning L
went after her with long switch. She
said she wouldn't go home to save me,
but 7 told her she would. When she
saw [ was in earnest, and was, she
went ahead of me, and that day she
cooked me as good a dinner as any poor
man wants to sit down to; and from
that hour to this, me and Sukey amt
had no more trouble. If you ever get
married, boys, be sure and start right.
in an article On German emigration
the Pail Maui Gazette gives some
interesting statistics, from which
we quote the following: "I
seems that it is only for the last tel
wears that very accurate statistics have
been prepared, but ever since 1874
registry has been kept, and from this
is hown that the numbers emigratlnt
,, from 1874 to 1871 were not less thai
$40, 900, of whom three-fourths wer
adults, and two-thirds of these of tn
l male sex. In the twenty-seven year
there may, therefore, be considered t
: have been registered as emigrants no
| less than 300, 900 men, nearly all i
the full vigor of life, but, if all no
officially recorded were added, thi
= would probably swell the list to nearl
half a million, chiefly of the rurf
classes. On the other hand, there wer
. rather over 100, 900 persons returning c
;. immigrating but more than one-ha
:, of these were of classes that would h
added to the population of the town
It The emigration fever began in We
Prussia chiefly, but has now extende
" largely to the most eastern districts I
the kingdom, where it is at its highest
II The telegraph line to the top
Pixies peak has been completed al
At communication opened with Washin
ton. A stone house will at once
/ erected on the summit for the use of Il
signal officers, four of whom will
W stationed there during the winter.
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