Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1875-04-17
MISCELLANEOUS.

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down
the little boy
Her childish favor singled.
sI'm sorry that | spelt the word,
Ihate to 60 above you,
Beeause''-the brown eyes lower fell
Because, you see, love you"
Still memory to a gIay-h'dred man,
That sweet child face is showing;
Dear girl, the grasses on her grave
Have forty years been growing.
lie lives to earn in LIES hard school,
How few who pass above him,
Lament the triumph and his loss
Like her-bccausc they love him.
Let US act at home as though there
were a stranger at our freside.
Those who have had the most for
given them should be the leas. addict
ed to SANDER.
i picture of "the boy that never
told a lie" looks down upon the wit
ness stand in the Brooklyn courtroom.
There is an Anti-Profanity Society
in GAINESVILLE, Tenn, which charges its
members five cents for every oath in
dulged in.
Success is n horned bull; seize it
bravely by the horns, and you may
ride upon its back; hesitate, and it
rides upon yours.
A prominent Boston clergyman has
been presented with a check for S14,-
coo by few of his parishioners to pay
of Il mortgage on Ais house.
a Boston paper thinks that the en-
p!oyces of the gas companies and water
works ought to wear some kind Of uni
form, to distinguish them from tramps.
They had Il fifty thousand dollar fire
at Greenville, Mississippi, Saturday
None of the Memphis insurance com
panies are affected by it.-APpeal.
Col. Jefferson Davis and CapL Ulys-
ses 5. Grant are invited to reunion
of the officers of the Mexican war in
Austin, Texas, on the Sth of May.
at isn't loud praying which counts
with the Lord 80 much as giving four
full quarts for every gallon" says an
Arkansas circuit rider.
Selma (Ala) Times: Died, at st.
Augustine, Florida, on Tuesday, 9th
inst, Mary Lewis Hardee, widow of
the late Gen. w. j. Hardee, of this
place.
One Frost, of Marion county, KY,
has named his five sons Severe Frost,
Winter Frost, White Frost, Jack Frost
and Hoar Frost An ice family they
must be.
The guardian Of the tomb Of Napo
leon l., Pierre Hendier, died recently
at the age of 90 years. He fought un
der the man whose ashes he guarded
for many years.
Col. Lee Jordan, Of Georgia, one o
the largest planters in that State, say
that among the same number of ne
groes, sixty babies were born before tn
war 10 thirty now, and Of these thirt,
about halfar raised.
The principal sufferers by the uey
Tennessee dog law will be the fleas; bu
they are recuperative little creatures
and are not going 20 desert the famil,
to weep over the death of the family
dog.
The New York School Journal give
the following hint: "Don't ever sea
boys and girls, or young men and VIC
men, in the same seat and AS seldom
rs possible in the same row of seats"
\ colored organization in Dayton ha
decided to forgive their clergyman 70
betting on three-card monte and losin
$50 of festival money. One of til
Deacons remarked: eve is all human
and de game is very exciting"
Detroit Free Press: While Mr.. Jones
of Natchez, was drinking his whisk,
lie heard a voice call out: "Jones, pre-
pare to die!" and he sank back on
chair and died. Heart disease? No
by jugful, Old Renfew shot him.
Some people are never quiet, other
are always so, and they are both t
blame; for that which looks like vivaC
ity and industry in the one is only
restlessness and agitation; and tina
which passes in the other for moderl
ton and reserve is but a drowsy an
inactive slOth.
"Aly very dear children" said
travelling Sunday gimlet, 81 Low
you so much l could talk all day I
you, but time forbids. But l hop
to meet you in heaven, and then
81 hope he won't" said a restless, REQ
headed boy, hell talk us to deatI
won't he Jim%
The last letter ever written by Ger
"StOnewall" Jackson is in the posses
sion of the Southern Historical SOoiC
ty. 1t was addressed to Gen. Lee un
der date Of May ,, 1868, and read a
follows: General: The enemy ha
made a stand at ChancellOr's, which j
about two miles from Charlottesville
| hope rs soon as practicable to attack
/ trust that an ever-kind PrOvidenc,
will bless US with success.
In the Office of one of the Detroit no
tells recently gentleman snapped hi,
finger 10 a bootblack, and as he put hi.
foot on the box said: you look like
good, smart boy" "See here, mister!'
replied the boy as he rose up, a brusl
in either hand, "I'v had that game
played on ME a dozen times, and now
want TO know whether this is a cash
shine or whether you're going to pat
me on the head when l get through
and tell me that I'll be Governor OF
Michigan some day"'
A farmer, having buried his wife.
waited upon the grave-digger, who had
performed the necessary duties, to pay
him his fees. Being Of a niggardly dis
position, he endeavored to get the
knight ofthe spade to abate his char
ges. The patience of the latter becom-
ing exhausted, he grasped his shovel
lmpuleiyelY, and, with an angry look.
exclaimed doom wi another shillin'.
or up she camesp The threat had the
desired effect.
How PEOPLE DIE-Although il is
appointed unto all men to die once, not
everybody dies alike. 1t would take
TOO long and be further than my pur-
pose to enter into any minute descrip-
lion OF the phenomena attending the
several causes. | may content myself
with the general points. One person
we see falls suddenly in the midst of
health rs If struck by lightning, IS
death may occur from apoplexy, or
some OF the forms of heart disease
Another fingers for years after friends
anu physicians have pronounced him
as good as dead, or without any signs
OF disease. To use Sir James Paget's
description, They may seem to only
Wlther and cry up-sharp-featured,
spinous Id tolks-yet, withal, wiry
and tough, cling TO life, and letting
death have them, as it were, by small
installments slowly paid. Such are the
lean and slippered pantaloons.' One
person dies hard, they say Yields the
ghost after a fearful struggle with
seeming evidences of terrible distress (;
another passes 50 peacefully away that
II can hardly be said when the awful
change takes place. As Hood so well
describes il in his death-bed lines
eve watched hcr breathing through the
night,
Her breathing s0ft and low,
As in her breast the wave OF he
Was heayiug 20 aud fCa.
"Dur very hopes belled uuI I.uIr
our fears our hopes beliGG;
We tlSSdght her dying when silc SLEPT
And sleeping when she died.
FOR when the morn came dim ana .aJ
And chill with early showers
Her quiet cyclids closed; SHE han
Another morn than ours"