Democratic Sentinel, Volume 2, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 September 1878 — Rear Guard. [ARTICLE]

Rear Guard.

Night before last a family man on West Hill peeped out of the hall door and saw a youth sitting in the moonlight talking to his eldest daughter. The old man made a rush, the young man drifted out into the shrubbery, and as he went over the fence pater made a good line shot and kicked. Then he carried himself into the house on one foot and sat down and wept, and called for witch hazel and arnica, and yelled, “Emeline! What does that young fool plate himself for?” And Emeline said, “Why, pa !” and she and Ferdinand laughed about it the next night until the moon went down.—Burlington Hawk-Eye.

Washington's will, now rapidly fading, is to be copied by photo-littiogra-phy, by order of Gov. Holliday, of Virginia.