Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 February 1883 — PREFERENCE. [ARTICLE]

PREFERENCE.

“Are you travelling alone?” asked a tall, agricultural-looking gentleman, approaching a lady wno occupied two seats iu a crowded car. “No sir,” she replied. “May 1 ask you who’s with you?” asked tne man, looking around vainly for some other place to store himself. “My husband,” snapped the lady, with flashing eyes. “My husband is travelling vith me.” “Oh, ah! excuse me,” and the tall man straightened up and prepared to take a standing ride “Is this seat engaged?" asked a dashing, well-dressed yourg fellow of the lady five minutes later. “No sir,” she replied, and down he plumped. “I say, ma’am!” protested tne tall man, “is that your husband?” “No* h: isn’t, and you need not ask any more questions,” retorted the woman. “But you said you wero travelling with him,” persisted the tall man. “So I am,” snorted .he lady. “Where is he?” insisted the tall man. “He’s in a baggage-car m a coffin," re* plied the lady.

Messrs. Bedford & Warner have an expensive stock of Groceries, Hardware, Tinware, Woodenware, Brick, Tile, etc., etc., on hand, to which they invite the attention of the public. General Fitz Hugh Lee, of Virgini i, at a banquet tendered him in New York City a few nightsjsince, in response to the generous demands of his entertainers, says: We are all one people. We are Americans, an 1 that will meet everything. The differences between tbe two sections are healing, and the time is swiftly coming when the two sections will be firmly cemented. The doctrine of paren al Government is growing much stronger in the South. When two Senators of New York seceded recently from the Senate they thought •at the South that New York might be going to se cede, too, aud the National Gaurd of Virginia were looking to see whether they would not have to take their old rusty sword from the wall and fight for the preservation es the Uoiou. Vi-ginia is ready now to fight for the Union, and when New York shall send to Virginia the war cry, Virginia will send it back reverberating down the ages: “The star spangled banner, oh long may it wave O’er the land ot me free and ths home of the brave." - An old woman, when her pastor said to her, “Heaven has not desert ed you in your old age,” replied, “No, sir, I have a good appetite still.”