The Van Buren press. [volume] (Van Buren, Ark.) 1859-1914, 1877-12-25

think of anything he begins then to
whistle"
The man who has to work on u farm
for nothing and board himself, just about
earns his wages"
Ey Texas has spent nearly one and
one quarter million dollars for the pro-
lection of her Indian and Mexican from
tiers.
Eg' Joseph A. Leonard. heavy cot.
ton dealer of Fort Worth, has /" skipped
out" with $4,000 belonging to his cred
itors.
Bay" The congregational church of
Walcott, decided that the use Of wine at
tho communion table tends to promote
incompetence. Water is hereafter to be
used.
Gs- Fully seven hundred thousand
gallons of oysters will be shipped from
Norfolk during the present season.
EE- The Austin TEX State Gazette
is urging the erection of q monumet to
Albert Sidney Johnston, 1.-the idol Of
Texas
EE- Should the weather prove any way
proptous the next wheat crop of Texas
will be enormously large. All over the
wheat regious of the State farmers are
turning their attention to its cultivation,
and will plant less cotton than hereto
fore.
ET Alabama papers are announcing
that mignonnettes are blooming and
strawberries ripe.
ES- Sumpter County, Florida, proba.
bly, will ship one and half million oran-
ges the present year.
EE Kossuth has word to say about
this Russian war, and he is tolerably
emphatic. Among his points is this
Fl" If st Petersburgh and Vienna should
divide the rags of the torn Turkish EN-
pire. twenty, five years would not elapse
before the Russians, the Prussians and
the Itallions would divide Austria and
Hungary among themselves, perhaps
leaving some thing of the booty to Wall
achia, as the reward Of subserviency te
Russia. This is as true as that there is
God"
Eg- The farmers Of North Alabams
find great difficulty in procuring hand!
for field work, in consequence Of which
half the cotton crop remains in the field
and will neccssitcte good deal uf linan
cial embarrassment.
EE Fine rubics have been discovered
southwest Of Gunnison, Utah.
EE- Our apples laid down in Liverpool
cost about IS barrel.
EH- Boston post: " One of the learn
ed members of the Pittsburgh Presbytery
said he had heard that in some dance.
in voge in respectable society the gentle
man put their arms around the waists o
ladies" Yes, sir +; that is so; and wher
the waist is trim and slender, and the
fair lady's pearly ear comes about up
to moustache, peaches and cream ar,
nowhere.
Ef- A. Oakley Hall is the New YorI
correspondent OF the new Democratic pa
per in Washington, the Post. The ex
meyor is getting up in the world.
Eg- Several children were feeding &
pet bear with corn at Austin, Texas
An ear was dropped out Of the reach Of
the bear, and little girl handed tit
him. The bear sportivcly pulled her to
him, when house dog, believeing the
| child in danger, sprang upon the bear
Brun then carried the child to the further
part o: the hogshead in which he SLEPT
and returned to fight the dog, under the
| impression that the dog would hurt the
child. A party of darkies tried to pro
tect the child from her other protectors
but tho little one did not escape until
her mother had killed both bear and dog
with musket.
EJ- AS the law allows pay for only
| twenty days Of extra session, the Tennes.
sc Legislature will rattle off public bust
ness at pretty lively rate.
Ey- The death of Bishop Marvin, oil
the Methodist Church South, will neces
state the election Of three Bishops by the
General Conference, which meets in
| Atlanta.
| ET A cloth made from the down OF
birds is coming greatly in favor in Paris
1t is waterproof, and estimated to BE-
five times lighter and three times warmer
than wool.
E1-" try to preach the milk Of the
word" replied city clergyman to a
parishioner who demonstrated that his
sermons were too loug. Eyes" remar.
ked the other, :" bat around here what
we want is condensed milk"
EB- An Indian said, when he first
heard it he was much surprised, that the
white men killed their Savior, but since
he knew them he wondered that the
didn't steal his clothes.