The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1877-01-12
WHY SHE DIDN'T L1kEHsR SITUATION.

many candidates presenting themselves, she
chose very pretty girl from Alexandria,
whose recommendations were au fat, and
who looked still prettier in her white frilled
apron and bonnie cap, and the mothers
heart was proudly happy as the little ones
took their airing under so charming an es-
cort. After the novelty had worn off, Vir-
ginia dropped, and did not seem contented.
and electrified her mistress one morning by
informing her that she would leave when
her month was out.
"Don't you like the children ?' inquired
the lady.
"Yes, ma am"
"Do you think you have too much to do?"
pressed the mistress.
"No, ma'am."
"Don't you get on with the other SER
wants 7" persisted madame.
+ eyes, ma'am."
"Do tell me why you are dissatisfied,
Virginia, and perhaps L can remedy it,"
insisted the lady. '
IL have no fault to find with the place,
ma'ann, but I'd rather live where receive
more attention from the gentlemen of the
family than do here"
"Attention; what do you mean, girl !?
snapped madame.
"Why, when l lived with Mrs F., Mr..
+. always came into the nursery mornings
to kiss the children, and he would come
behind the washstand screen and kiss me,
too. Aud l amt been kissed once in this
house
The girl is still looking for place.
A TEXANS WoNDERFUL TRAcEs--A
Texal, visiting this point, gathered around
him some Of our citizens Monday, and en-
tertaincd thcln with some of his experiences
in the Lone Star State. One incident told
by him is as follows:
"Youd hardly believe, now, what l am
going to tell. In Texas we use raw-hide
straps, or thongs, for traces, and in wet
weather they do stretch amazingly. Why,
often in damp weather at home I've hitched
up Two horses and drove down the hill from
my house into the creek bottom for sled
load of wood. l have loaded the wood and
many times driven back home and unhitched
the horses and the sled would not be in
sight"
How did you get the wood home them"
asked All inquistive bystandcr.
"Oh, just tied the ends of the traces
together and threw them over post, went
knocking about my work and waited till the
sun shone OUT Sometimes it would sbc
more than two hours before that sled load
OF wood Would get home, but you7d sec ncr
up the hill at last, gradually ap-
preaching as the raw-hide traces shrunk up
into their proper lengths. Yes, Texas is
great country, you bet. - GreencdsHe Star:
Phibbs, an excessively fastidious man,
went into an oyster saloon, and ordered
"half dozen raw on q plate" He noticed
lust as he had downed his number one, that
corpuIent Dutchman stood beside him
sorrowfully surveying single oyster on the
plate before him. The moment that Phibbs
swallowed his first, the expression of tho
Dutchman's face changed from sorrow tt
joy. ,, ;.
"Ah mein Gott, you schwallow hin
whole Ehi" saysShleinheer.
"Of COURSE" says Phibbs.
"And you can schwallow him whole, too?'
pointing with his fork to the lone oyste
that lay on his plate. :.
"Certainly cam" says Phibbs, and suit
ing the action to the word, the oyster. wa
on his fork, and in moment "schwa
lowed"
"Oh meip Gott, dat is wonderful, VOL
der-ful! / never did see | have try
schwallow him, two, three times--ever
time spit him back"
f Phibbs has been quite unwell ever sine
9 The publishers of the New York ST.
! announce that j. Blythe Smith, the for
). man of the composing room of that pape
!. absconded on Saturday night, taking wi
+ him the money intrusted to him to pay t
;, eompositors. He was formerly foreman
!. the Offices of the Washington Chronic
% Richmond Enquirer, and pappers i'll A
~ W bama and Georgia. He is also said to ha
# left unbured the dead body Of his roc
If matesfer whose funeral he had collected
ID sum of .mouey.--NeY YORK Wafk
StvH Detroit man who diee mtssable e:de'
3 = 10 garret the other day aftaared that
= Grst sdownward step was acting as Judge
~ baby Show.
~ n; THE HAMPTON STOR!
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