Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1874-01-10
MISCELLANEOUS.

play cuchrc and steal eggs.
\ marriage in a New Hampshir,
hamlet the other day was the first
experiment of the kind tried there
for fifteen years.
lie was good man., says al
Iowa paper OF deceased citizen,
'but then he sometimes bet on the
wrong horse, the same as the rest
of US
One Gillespie, cashier Of the
Michigan Southern Freight Depot
at Chicago, is short in his accounts
only to the amount Of $4,000, so
far as yet known.
The editor Of u Kentucky paper
was thrown into Il pond by a prize
fighter, and is said to have swal-
lowed some water for the first time
since his boyhood.
An exhorter out West recon-
mcndcd the Christian religion to
the ungodly, because he had been
Il church member fifteen years, and
it hadn't cost him but Is cents.
a Maine gentleman refused TO
got up and light fire, and his wife
said she wouldn't, and they remain
cd in bed thirty-seven hours. OF
course the man had to give in.
Owing to John Robinson's cir
Gus being in town, the regular
Thursday evening prayer-mecting
has been postponed said recent
number of the Enterprise, of Dali
las, Texas.
The bancfui habit Of opium eat
ing is increasing in this country.
From three to five years of in
diligence wrecks the finest constitu-
ton, the eyes are sunkon, the frame
is emaciated, and death ends the
wasted life.
A long-suiiering county supcrin-
tendcnt, driven to desperation, fired
at an importunatc book agent yes
terday, but no serious injury was
done, the ball striking the book
agent fairly on the cheek, Clipped
off Il piece Of metal and passed on.
A young beau, at his sisters
evening party, began to sing why
am l so Weak and Weary? when a
little brother brought the perform
ance to sudden close by yelling
out, aunt Mary says it's because
you come home so late, and drunk,
most every night
\ Pennsylvania preacher while
holding services, recently gave
thanks in u forvent prayer, for the
prosperous condition Of their crops
Excepting, o Lord, the corn
which is backward, and the oats,
which are mighty thin in spots
a farmer sent to an Orphan Asy-
lum for Il boy that was smart, ac-
tive, brave, tractablc, prompt, in
dustrious, clean, pious, intelligent,
gOod-looking, reserved and mod
est. The Superintendent wrote
back that unfortunately they had
only human boys in that institu-
ton.
A little boy in New Orleans was
rcprovcd for telling a flo. He in
sisted it was only in fun, but his
pious mother told him he must ask
divine pardon. So the little boy
kneclcd down and said: 40 Lord,
forgive me. wouldn't have done
il only / thought you could take Il
joke
Residents OF Virginia City pro-
pose presenting tine'sIlver brick
10 Lamberton Lorraine, comman-
der of the British war ship Niobe,
for his manly action in the case of
tho Virginius. The brick will bear
this inscription: ''Lambertou Lor-
raine: You are 'brick,' this is an
othcr--presOntod by Americans
who love humanity and it's manly
defenders. Virginia City, New,
U. s. A., 1873"
An intelligent western clergy
man, being in poor health, instead
of visiting Europe, went to the
Rocky Mountains and spent five
months in tramping about on foot.
lie got entirely well, and has re-
sumed his pulpit work with more
JUNCTION than half of those public
clcrgymen who spend thousands
on a jaunt TO the Continent of Eu-
rope.
a Macon, Ga, negro who went
into trance at 4 meeting, the 9TH
or night, was accidentally overlook
ed. When nc found the lights
were all out he followed the con-
gregation, and succeeded in seri-
ously walloping one of the deacons.
He gives rs an excuse that 'dey lug
udder niggers home, an dey mout
as we'll logged me. De church
amt no place fur ter git up 'stine-
tiors in s'cicty.'
a Boston till Taper recently
purchased Il half gallon of molasses
ut grocery, and, in default of Il
jug, got the grocer to pour it in his
hat, which was no sooner done than
he clapped the hat over the gro,
GERS head, and while the latter was
suffering through the flood Of
syrup, deliberately robbed the
drawer and decamped. Experience
is hard teacher, but an infalliblc
one; and that grocer has probably
learned now the meaning of the
proverb, Sweet are the uses of ad-
versiTy.'
There goes another culprit from