The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1884-07-04
A Texas Liar.

LEXIS ClILlllRS.
Il never knew Sam Baldwin to tell
the truth but once,'' remarked Col. Foley
to Jim Mitchell, the latter being in Fol
eY's store, one day. .-.....
3 eff Sam Baldwin told the truth, it
must have been by accident, " responded
Mitchell. .--sr.s ...~ g ..
"You have hit it precisely; it was by
an accident chat he told the trutl = Sam
had an old shotgun that had bee n in the
family for forty years, and one day he
put two loads INTO one barrel, an when
he fired the gun burst into til Ousand
pieces. When Sam was restc red to
consciousness. his head was ba 1daged
up, and the doctors. We're explorin z him
for relics of the battle The biggest
piece of that gun that could be found
was about twoinches long, and W as dug
out from under his collar bone. Then it
was that Sam told the truth"
"What did he say?'
He said if he lived to be tn ousand
years old he would never fire off t lat gun
again and he never did; for nobody
could find that gun again, when. there
was nothing of it left to fire off except
the piece Sam had hid away W der his
collar bone"
Just as I said. He never told the
truth, unless it happened by .eci( lent"
A Problem for Ready Reclzo ners.
Marietta Journal.
The school teachers of CohR county
held an interesting meeting at ,he court
house last Saturday, and dis alssed the
following sum; A gave four notes to B,
5000 each, drawing 10 per " Mt interest:
the first note made payable six months
after date, the second lively ,months. the
third eighteen months, an the fourth
two years. Four mont rs after they
We're given c buys them from B on the
condition that they shcU realize him /.
per cent interest. VIII # did G have t.
pay b to realize 70 per emf on his invest
ment? The above ira ,saction actually
occurred between tive ,citizens. and tn
teachers have arrived at t,voconcIusious
doubtless differing as to the face value o
the notes at the time they were sold.
capt isaac biSst t, doorkeeper of tn
United States senat ?, is said not to hav
been absent from MS duties more tbar
twenty days since Daniel Webster wit
whom he was e reat favorite, had hin
appointed pager 1881. He was still j
his possession ttE bloodstained towel an
soap With whlca he washed the wound
Of Charles SuIfa Ter, and a piece of Brook
gutta percha 90 ne.
Gen. Wary B. Buonett. who died
Washington I" IN Tuesday. was a vetera
of five. wars and the oldest living graz
uate Of Vest Point who became q gene
al in the Meg lean campaign. He was
native oai ? ennsylvania and went
West Point Gfty-six years ago.
Judge II rtland. of NirmOnt, viii d
cline a rdn omination for congress, an
in an open letter to his constituents Wi
announce mis- retirement from politics c
account o advancing years
"Yegs IT." he said, much excited; 'he
liar, AZ d l told him so" That's rath
risk y t hing to do; 1 wonder he didr
knoc Y on down" oh, l told hi
tllro ugh the telephone"
The Pc pulation of the United States i
creases at the rate of 81 per cent evel
ten years At this rate there will be s.
100000 in habitauts in 1900, IS -.
The yo ung Queen of Holland Is vel
popular the. Hague, where she has j
fused mo- e social life into court circl
than had been known for years.