The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1874-05-15
A WATCH TRADE.

Old Davis, of Ossipee, the weli-known
shlngie and clapboard autOcrat of thirty
years ago, had dog named Watch. The
dog had become old, and nuisance.
Davis had often threatened to kill the
brute, and had as often relented.
One day Sim Brown, the Concord ped
dler, drove up to Davis store, but Davis
wanted to buy nothing.
Cant | sell you a clock? I've got
'em as cheap as dirt, and real good ones"
Il haven't got the money"
''Drat the money. I'll make a fair
exchange of anything"
Davis scratched his head, whereat
Brown continued:
Come, we'll make a trade somehow.
You've got to have one of my clocks.
What have you got to exchange for iti'
I've got nothing but a watch. "
Eth, u watch!' cried the peddler.
Frightening up. What kind Ofa watch<'
'''Taint, of course, a very good one,
or wouldn't want to trade it of.
What kind of casel'
Il can't say much for the ease, but
the inside is in good order, and it runs
well. It'll let you know when feeding
time comes, sartin.
How'll you trade!'
I'm give you my watch for one of
your clocks, and call it bargain, with
out any ifs and ands"
Done" said Brown, and he selected
a steeple-topped Connecticut clock and
brought it into the store. There's
your clock Now, where's your watch|
Davis went to the door, whistled, and
called: Watch, Watch, Here, old
fellow, you're wanted.'
The dog came in with bound
That's the watch Brown. You'll
find his in ards perfect, and he can run
like Sancho; and when it comes meal
time, If be don't let you know il, I'm
mistaken in him
The peddler gasped and staggered, and
he said something not quite proper for
ears polite: but he did not back down
He only said. as he hitched the dog to
the axle-tree of his wagon, and prepared
to drive off: ''SomebOdyll pay me for
that clock before night"
Aud We Opine that there are hundreds
Of people to-day in that section of New
Hampshire who have Il firm belief that
they helped to pay Brown for that clock
The SOUTHERN FLOOD. "A CORE
spondent of Memphis paper says of the
flood in the Mississippi river: after a
residence of nearly 40 years OH the river,
have never witnessed anything equal
to it, Domestic animals. farm houses.
and every movable and perishable thing
are involved in one common ruin. Be
low the Arkansas river the oldest set
tiers say they have never seen the river
50 high, and the end is not yet Ma
poleOn. Chieot City, and other towns,
have a navigation of from two to ten
feet. In many places the vast river has
no visible shore. As far as the eye can
reach there is one grand sea of water
Many levees are broken, and the water
ispOuring through like cataract What
is to be the fate of the people living III
this district. no one can tell They bave
little money and less credit. very light
supplies. etc. Who can see the end ?
Already hundreds of whites and blacks
are suffering for food, clothing and other
neeessaries of life. with almost no pros
pect of the water abating in time TO
make a crop. 1t presents a dead future.
indeed. Thousands of freedmen, VINO
poured into the bottom last season from
the old States. are suffering greatly, ana
many are making efforts to get back