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VIRGINIA FREE PRESS.
/ \ &F E.B. GALLAHER. IDITllS
The Carriers .AddTeSS
TO Tbs PATRONS o7 TIE
T1r6inia Free Press.
JANUARY /. 1874.

and generous been,
Where they are now | know not; but here am,
A living mouse is better than lion that is dead
Forget not, then. kind patrons living mouse
daily bread.
Do YOU know how Oft we've call'd on you-for how
manv bygone years,
Sometimes mid merry aughter-someiimes md
binding tearsP
Some vears-as you remember-some years you
saw US not.
The reason why nor you nor l. are likely TO forget.
But that is with ,he past-no memories to-day
Shall mar the pleasure of the hour, or spoil my
roundelay.
wish you. Ladies, one and all, Ladies and Gen
tlemen too,
The compliments of the season, and more, Il that
won't do.
In faith there's little else to wish, for now we're
great people
Not only ON our Churches, bu, our Court House,
Great wonders have been worked midst us-briek
pavemeuts in a thrice,
And, Presto Quick support Friend Fouke.-
the Jail beats Paradisel
The LAWYERS have library, and are examining at
such a rate.
That simple folk. the question ask, heretofore how
did they pirate ?
Our Doctors are kept busy, prescribing S. Fr"nen-
Ihe Dtu.glstS must Dc CAREFUL NHlc AiaAi
their red-ege.
Legislation vou'r pretty thing long'd Tor
toyl We make YOU.
And then. like little children, we go TO work and
break you.
All me. Tho I'm devil, with no right to an
opinion,
There are many things that don't like, in our
section Of the Old Dominion.
In the olden times liked it not aud 1t suits me
not of late,
To state patronage expended all, IN totbeF ena
If jefferson aud Berkeley arn't Suns, and Moons,
and Stars,
Neither are tbey farthing candles. whatist, then,
debars2
There are twenty LAWYERS in this town-if you
Coubt me they VI attest
That would sacrifice themselves 10 be in Appellate
Ermine drcssd
/ This time last year. we thought, alas! How
Thought leads one astray
/ That railroads would be running by our town
this precious daY.
! But patience is a yriue When the good folks in
the Ferry.
See Factories on their Public lands, Railroads
here will make US mtrry
And now. kind folk, a word or so in reference
q the panic,
/ Tho it gave me little trouble as I slept in my
hammack.
]
Banks are 90 thrifty,
That the man that lodges liity there, can alway'
draw his fifty.
'Tis the rich alone or rather those, who poor
mems monies hold,
That bring upon the country these miseries mani
fold.
Yet, to those rich men doh their hats I've oh.
served it, I've been a ranger,
/ So therefore. Tina William Tell, and would like
! ~ be a Granger.
L ct swindlcls beast their Stock, and their Fancy
Operations;
| I'd rather own one farm Of land than be King II
corporations.
| But then I'd want o. have it known, and felt
thrnue huut the nation
/ That land should have It's legal rigbis-swiudlcrs
their proper station.
. II dedicate this paragraph to the Philosopher a,
the SunMlf
IT'S borrowed from Aristotle, 50 be has claim
upon it.
But this is mighty sober talk. Let tus change the
conversation.
! Peyt0u Brown has changed bis residence, and b.,
in utter dcsoiation.
For hundred years or more he lived in the old
And never thought Of leaving it, by any freak Of
chance.
But what are all his troubles to those of old Tom
Moore.
Being mistaken for Mr.. Isaac Fouke, while enter
ing the Court House dopr?
| Pray what's the matter Thomas? Have we bet
ter men than Isaac?
Tho a treble coated pill to some-I speak not now
Of physic.
But again change the subject to speak Of fome
tine lectures.
That Doctor Duncan gave US, that were open to
no structures.
........ the lesson he has taught us, should
learn
| What that lesson is our Bachelors will readily
discern.
But pile the Yule log on the hearthl Let it,
cheerful hight ascend
And in It's friendly warmth vow past errors TO
amend.
We have cliqueism here amongst u1-maps drawn
with metes and bounds.
We admit flower beautiful that grows not IN
our grounds.
You think that YOU are China, being High Episco-
I'm bgf~praise God, another way, and there
fore am an AitsH!
Virtues alone distinguish whyl aren't We all
from Potter's clay;
But it born in minger, you'd know us not to-day.
Yes! we've cliqueism here amongst Us Ope
wide the heart and door,
Or, at all events, determine, each clique, 10 help
the pour.
ITEM: Our Editor wants Turkey-he makes
no false pretences.
Yet i, jolly, ike Max JaPely-"under circun-
stances"
Your Help would ike to go 70 Church, bat with
cooking is not able,
Dear Friends, on sundays, think of this and think
less oi vOur table.
To you who have many joys, such sources Of
delight.
The,e things seem very Iittle-belieTe me, they're
not slight.
A simple smile-a simple word, frankly aud warm
Is spoken,
Has ofttimes staunched the bleeding wounds Of
posr hearts we'll gh broken.
But harkl we have a yisit1T Who is't? How
opportune
lis Parson Hopkins on his rounds, and Dots whit
to soon,
And wer't not for the frosted pane we even now
could trace,
The gentle Meade as be wanders to his sacred edi
fee.
Marx Lucasl as he tags away at Pact. and Equi-
" plrading"
Forgetting that good Poetry our people are more
needing.
Ambition? Pshawl Sir Walter Scott, and Irving
stand a. high
As Mansfield, or as Narsball, in the worlds ere.
Ia it. heart they stand still higherTis our hearts
that they address,
Come drop that poor mans fee, sir, and this sol
emn truth confess.
Regretting the non user Of talents largely given,