The Beaufort tribune and Port Royal commercial. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1877-1879, 1877-11-22
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The boss team-A yoke of oxen.
Two-button kds-A young goat fight.
Hotel-keepers are people we have to
"put up with"
Agony personiAed-A bachelor editor
trying to prepare an able and judieious
article on the baby show.
Charles Barth made treasury of his
bed in Boscobel, Wis, and after his
death securities for $13, 900 were found
in it.
There are over 1900 convicts in the
penitentiary at Joliet, III. and the mum.
Der is increasing at the rate OF 100 q
month.
A murder jury at Reading, Pa, offered
PRAYER at every meal, and petitioned the
Divine Providence to direct them in their
verdict.
The Black Hills papers say if LOCO
women would immigrate there they
would at once find remunerative work
and husbands.
At midnight on lonely road: /" You
don't recognize me?. Why, you defend
ed me and got me off at the last assizes.
Thanks to you, I have been enabled to
resume my avocation. Your money or
your life p
A grub of boring species was found
in four-foot lath the other day, In Ber-
lin; Conn, that must have been in the
wood for thirteen years at least. 1t had
eaten almost the whole length OF the
lath, leaving only shell.
"I was born in Bath" said q dirty
looking customer, as he harangued q
crowd at political meeting, "and / love
NV native place" "You don't look as
if you had ever been there since, said
one of his hearers as he proceeded TO
laud an opposition candidate.
From under the bluff on which the
town of Huntsville, the capital OF Madi-
son county, Alabama, is situated, bursts
ON immense spring, clear and cold, sup
plying the whole town with water for
domestic uses, for watering the streets,
and for use by the fire department. 1t is
the largest spring in Alabama.
III enOulQ come 10 ulSu IcioNn,
And compass things divinely great,
And stand pillar Of the State,
And count an empire all my own,
And miss myself were o child,
That sold himself to slavery
In some fair castle by the sea
That glimmered toward his mountain Wild.
In Auburn IN. " prison there we're
recently 1,405 convicts. Fhty-three OF
the number were "lie men, OF whom
on their entrance the Oldest WAS fifty
seven years old; the youngest, fifteen.
The man longest in the prison was sent
there on September 25, 1853. The aver
age cost of supporting each convict is
S70.31 yearly; or nineteen cents ana
three mills daily. Superintendent fiis-
bury is negotiating for contracts, which,
if obtained, will give employment for
900 conyicts. The total earnings per
convict are increasing. In 1876 they were
$51.36; in 1877, $58.76.
The North Hill boys tied Q sky rocket
to dogs tail, and when it began to fizz
the dog looked at his watch, and remark
ing that be bad just time enoughto get
TO the depot to catch the train, started
off. So did the rocket. For secopd.o .ot
two it was doubtful whether the ROGET
would run away with The dog, or the dog
with the rocket. But,at last the canine
got the bulge, and settled down TO q two
minute gait, increasing the distance and
cutting down his time every jump, while
they could hear him 'howling clear TO
Keokuk. The dog passed through VIM
nebago county Wednesday night, and Is
supposed to have reached the Evergreen
shore by this time. Harrington Haacs-