Indiana Palladium, Volume 5, Number 38, Lawrenceburg, Dearborn County, 26 September 1829 — Page 4

After my sleighride,. lait winter, and the slippery trick I was served by Patt) Bean, nobody would suspect me of hankering after women again in a hurry. To hear me eursc and swear and rail out against the whole feminine gender, you would have taken it for granted that I should never so much as look at

one again, to all eternity O, but I was wicked. "Darn and blast their eyes V. . mcir sKins tormeni; wen neans anu aarn mem to carnation." Finally I took an oath and swore that if I ever meddled or had any dealings with'thern (in the spaiking line I meai.)l wished I might be hung and choaked. But swearing eff from women, and then going into, a meeting house chock full ol gals, all shining and glistening in their Sunday clotlus and clean faces, is like swearing off from liquor and going into a grog ehop. It's all smoke. I In Id out and kept firm to my oath for three whole Sundays. Forenoons, a'w iiioons and intermissions complete. O nhe fourth, there were strong symptom of a change of weather. A chap,

about my size was seen on the way to: the meeting house, with a new patent hat on; his head hung by the ears upon a shirt collar; his cravat had a pudding in it and branched out in front, into a double bow knot. He carried a straight back and a slitrneck, as a man ought to, when he has his best clothes on; and every time he spit, he sprung his body forward, like a jack-kcife, iu order to shoot clear of the ruffles. Squire Jones' pew is next but two to mine; and when Island up to prayers and take my coat tail under my arm,

and turn my back to the minister, I naturally look right straight at Sally Jones. Now Sally has got a face not to be grined at, in a fog. Indeed, as regards beauty, some folks think she can pull an even yoke with Patty 13'jan. For my part, I think there is not much boot between them. Any how they are so nigh matched that they have hated and despised each other, like rank poison, ever since they were school-girls. Squire Jones had got his evening fire on, and set himselt down to reading the great bible, when he heard a rap at his door. "Walk in. Well, John, how dor do? Git out, Pompey. Pretty well, I (hank ye, Squire, and how do you do? Why, so as to be crawling ye ugly beast, will ye hold yer yop haul up a chair and set down, John." "Ilowdoou do, Mrs. Jones? O, middling how's yer mirm? Don't forget the mat, there Mr. Beedle." This put me in mind that I had been off; soundings several times, in the long muddy lane; and my boots were in a sweet pickle. Il was now old Captain Jones' turn, the grandfather. Being roused from a doz, by the bustle and racket, he opened both his eyes, at first with wonder and astonishment. At last he began to halloo so loud that you might hear him a mile; for he takes it for granted that every body is just exactly as deaf as he is. "Who is it? I say, who in the world is it?" Mrs. Jones going close to his ear, srreamed out, "it's Johnny Beedle." "Ho Johnny Beedle. I remember, he was one summer at the siege of Boston. "No, no, father, bless your heart, that was his grandfather, that's been dead this twenty years." "Ho. But where 'does he come from?" "Daown taown." "Ho. And what does he follow for n livin'?" And he did not slop asking question, after this sort, till all the particulars of the Beedle family were published and proclaimed in Mrs. Jones' last screach. He then sunk back into his doze again. The dog stretched himself before one andiron; the cat squatted down before the other. Silence came on by degrees, like a calm snow storm, till nothing was heard but a cricket under the hearth, keeping tune with a sappy yellow birch foreetick. Sally sat up prim, ae ifshe were pinned to the chairback; her bauds crossed genteelly upon her lap, and her eyes looking straight into the fire. Mammy Jones tried to straighten herself too, and laid her hands across her lap. But they would not lay still. It was full twenty-four hours reincc they had done any work, and they were out of all patience with keeping Sunday. Do what she would to keep them quiet, they would bouncy up, now aud then, and go through the motions, in spite of the fourth commandment. For my part, I sat looking very much like a fool. The more 1 tried to say something the more my tongue ctuck fast. I put my right leg over my left, and said "hem." Then I changed, and put the left leg over the right. It was no use ; the silence kept coming on thicker and thicker. The drops of sweat began to crawl all over mc. I got my eye upon my hat, hanging on a peg, on the road to the door; and then I eyed the door. At this moment the old Captain, all at once sung out "Johnnj Beedle!" " It sounded like a clap of thunder, and I started right up an eend. "Johnny Bjcdle, you'll never handle sich a drumstick as your father did, if ver live to the age of Mithusaler. Tie would toss up his drunstick, and while it was whirlin'in the air, take offa gill er rum, and then ketch it as it come down, without losin' a stroke in the tune. What d'ye think of that, ha? Bat scull your chair round, close along side er me so yer can hear. Now, what have you comea'tei? 1 a'ter? O, jesttakiu'a walk. Pleasant walkin' I guess. I mean iest to ppp how vp nil An. Hn That's janother lie. You've come a courtin', johnny Beedle: vou're a'tcr our Sal. Say, now, d'ye want to marry cr only to court?" This was what I call a choaker. Poor Sally made but one jump and landed in the middle of the kitchen; and then she skulked in the dark corner, till the old man, afte. laughing himself into a whooping cough, was put to bed. Then came apples and cider; and, the ice being broke, plenty chat with mammy Jones about the minister and the Harmon.' I agreed with her to a nicety, upon all the points of doctrine ; but I had forgot the text and all the heads of the discourse, but six Then she teased and tormented me to tell who I accounted the best ginger in the gallery, that day.

But mum there rcas no gelling that out of me. "Praise to the face is often disgrace," says I, throwing a sly squint at Sally. At last, Mrs. Jones lighted t'ether candle, and after charging Sally to look well to the fire, she led the way to bed, and the Squire gathered up his chocs and stockings and followed. Sally and I were left sitting a good

yard apart, honest measure. l or tear of getting tongue-tied again, I set right in, with a steady stream of talk. I told her all the pbrliculars about the weather that was past, and also made 6orne pretty cute guesses at what it was like to be in future At first, I gave a hitch up with my chair at every full stop. Then growing saucy, I repeated it at every comma, and semicolon; and at last, it was hitch, hitch, hitch, and I planted myself fast by the side of her. "I swow, Sally, you looked so plaguey handsome to-day, that I wanted to eat you up." "Pshaw, git along you," says she. My hand had crept along, somehow, upon its fingers and began to scrape acquaintance with hers. She sent it home again, with a desperate jrk. "Try it again" no better luvk. Why, Miss Jones you're gettin' upstropulous, a little old maidish, I guss." "Hands off h fair play, Mr. Beedle." It 13 a good sign to find a girl sulky. I knew where the shoe pinched. It wat that are Patty Bean business So 1 went to work to persuade her that I had never had any notion after Patty, and to prove it, 1 fell to running her down at a great rate. Sally could not help chiming in with me, and 1 rather guess Mis-? Patty suffered a few. I, now, not only got hold of her band without opposition but managed to slip an arm round her waist. But there was no satisfying me; so 1 must go to poking out my lips after a buss. 1 guess I rued it. She fetched me a slap in the face that made me see stars, and my ears rung like a brass ket tle for a entailer of an hour. I was ced to laugh at the j-kc, though out of the wrong side of my mouth, which gave my face something the look of a gridiron. The battle new began in the regular way. "Ah, S;jlly. give me a kiss, and ha1 done with it, now. I won't, so there. I'll take it, whether or no. Da it, if you dare." And at it we went, rough and tumble. An odd destruction of starch now commenced. The bow of my cravat was squat up in half a shake. At the next bout, smash went thirt collar, and, at the same time, some of the head fastening? gave way, and down came Salh's hair in a flood, like a mill dam broke loose. carrying away half a dozen combs. One dig of Sally's elbow and my blooming rullles wilted down to a didh cloth. But she had no time to boast. Soon the neck tackling began to shiver. It parted at the throat, and whorrah, came a whole school of blue and white beads, scampering and running every which way, about the floor. By the hokey ; if Sally Jones is'nt real grit, there's no snakes. She fought fair, however, I must own, and neither tried to bite nor scratch; and when she could fight no longer, for want of breath, she yielded handsomely. Coosarn it, how a bess will crack, of ? still frosty night. Mrs. Jones was about half way between asleep and awake. "There goes my yeast bottle, said she to herself burst into twenty hundred pieces, and my bread is all dough agin." The upshot of the matter is, l fall in love with Sally Jones, head over ears. Every Sunday night, rain or shine, finds mc rapping at Squire Jones' door, and twenty times have I been within a hair's breadth of popping the question. Bat now 1 have made a final resolve; and if I live till next Sunday night, and 1 don't get choaked in the trial, Sally Jones will hear thunder. Anecdote. After a consultation, several physicians decided that a dropsical patient should be tapped. Upon hearing the decision, a son of the sick man approached him and exclaimed, "Father don't submit to the oj.-eiation, for there was never any thing tapped in our house that lasted more than a week." Unlucky mistake The London Literary Gazette sas "A friend of ours (not very polite one we are sorry to say) was with another dandy, blacking the gangway into the Park ot Brussels, when a person in a plain blue cout passed between them, interrupting their conversation. Our friend observed pretty loudly, D n that fellow, he'd no gentleman !" Upon which the stranger turned round, took otFhis hat, made a bow, and said very courteously "Gentlemen, I am the king r What docs Paul soy? A country clergyman about repairing to church on Sunday morning, was informed by his wife that they had no meat for dinner; whereupon he despatched his blackmail Ca?sar, to a neighbor of his, generally known by the name of Paul, to borrow a piece of beef after which he was directed to repair to church. The black fellow went for the beef, but was refused on the ground that his master had already borrowed very often, but had neglected to pay, Coesar repaired to charch, the

refusal cf the meat still running la li head and it so happened that just as he entered the door his master was dilating upon the words of the apostle, and thus addressing his hearers: "What does

Paul say':" Ca sar supposing himself interrogated, answered "What do Paul ay : why, tie say, lie cant let you hab no more meat, till you pay up de old score. Shocking. Dr. Franklin endeavoring to kill a turkey by an electrical shock, received the whole discharge of the bat tery himself: when he good naturediy observed, that instead of killing a iJikey, he had nearly put an tnd to the existence of a goose. By-gone days. The Vermont Advocate publishes the following as a literal copy of the records of the whole proceedings of a term of the Count v Court in the Clerk's office, Orange County: Feb. 25, ) The Court set out 1771. from M iretown, (now Bedford) for Kingsland, (now Washington,) travailed until night, there being no road, and the snow very deep, we travelled on snow shoes or rackets. On the 2Gih we travelled some ways and held a council, when it was concluded to pen the Court on the spot, as we saw no line and knew not whether it was in Kingsland or not, but we concluded we were far in the woods. We d"d not expect to see any house unless wo travelled three miles in Kingtland and no one lived there, when the court was ordered to be opened on the spot. Present John Tnplin, Judge. John Peters, of the quorum. J oh n Ta pi i n, j r. Sheriff'. All cau3t'S continued or adjourned over to the next term. Motto. The cellar or lower story of a Presbyterian Church in JNew York city is improved by a retailer as a dram shop,

for-'having a sign at the exterior entrance,

labelled in large capitals, " . Dealer, in Porter, Spirits, Cigars, &c." The Evening Post thinks that the following Motto should be printed in as large letters over the church door, a few feel above the grocers sicn: There's a Spirit above and a spirit below, A Spiiit ot bliss hud a spirit of woe; 'I ho spirit above is (he Spirit Divine, And the spirit below is the spirit of wine. Fulling, Ss'c. r I! HIE Factory at new Lawrenceburgh is now ready to receive Cloth for Fulling, Dvioir and Dressinir. lhe fulling mill having b?en repaired and new machinery added, the utmost puuetuahty and despatch may he expected. TEST & DUXM Sept. 1, 1S29. 35 Collector's Notice. n 1 1 i.mi rtceiveu me cupiicats of tases for the year 18.9,1 m prepared to receive tlum. Those concerned will py the same, on cr before the 1st. day of September next. I will sell lands and town lots for taaeson the d Monday in November next, agreably to law. I will give in receipts for tix, or any debts due me, 27 12 cents pr cord for cutting 10C0 cords of wood and helping the brush, cn my Jesse on the lands of David Hees's heirs. 1 will attend at the court hoi:se in Lawrence.'uirgh on Stu'-dajs for the purpose of perioral ing my olncial duties nd other business. JOliN SPENCER, C.D.C. July 11th, 13Z9 Pay the Printer f j HOSE who are indebted J to this establishment for papers, job work or adverti sing, are notified that they will be called on shortly for settlement cither by note or. payment. GUEGG & CULLEY. c. ice pt. 12, 1829. NOTICE. A LL those who are inji Si .1U.I :i -.J ueuicu iu iuc buutcriuer, either by note, llond or Book sec t, are requested to come for ward and settle the sme, on or against the first of October next, otherwise their accounts v.'ill he left in the hands of & proper offiYrr for col lection. SAMUEL JBI.LKY. P. S. The subscriber wilt rent his Tanvard situated in the town cf Rising Sun, c ithe; wit h! or without stock. Said Tanyard contains thirty four vats, large batk house, cast raett.1 hark mill, sixty eords good bark, with a sufTiency of tools, tc. kc. to carry on saij yard. S. J. Hising- Sun, Irsd. Sept. 7th, 1829. CC-3w. Take Notice, ( TAKEN UP by Joseph 1 hompson,of bpirta town'jiai. 9 st.'n. Utaroorn rnnntv. nn i.-i, 68&SJ2SJ llORSL, supposed to be six years old last Spring, about fif teen hands high, his hind fett white, with a long tail, nd sime saddle marks, hrandtd on the If ft thigh dimly, supposed to be K G; no other mrks or brands perceivable. Appraised at thirty seven dollars, by Nathaniel Uichmond h. Samuel SUge, before me, this 4'h day of Sept. 1829. JONATHAN VAIL, j. p. S6 3" ATTORNEY &L COUNSELLOR AT LAW. Office in Lawi enceburg, on the corncrof, High am! Short Streets,

DOCTOR C. R. MTALL, "TT"Tf " OULL) respectfully inform the ciuzens of U15ING feUN and vicinity that be fc89 located himself in the above placewhere he intends devoting hiomlf entirJj tu

the practice of Medicine and Surgery. He hopes that by a persevering and unremitted attention to business to merit a share of the public patronage; bia charges shall be moderate. Hig office is in part of the house occupied by Mr. C. Campbell as it tailoring shop, where he iubv at all limes be found, or at Mr. S. S. Scotts, where he boards, unless professionallv absent. July 25, 1S29. 29-Smo By the President of the United States. IN pursuance of law, I, Andrew Jaclso:, President of the Uriled States of Am:ricj, do hereby declare and make known, that a public sale will be held at the Land Oftice at In the Stale of Indiana, on the second Monday in November next, fur the disposal of the pub lic lands included within the boats of the un dermentioned townships and fradioodl tewnships, all situate North of the base line, acd est of the second principal meridian, to nit. Fractional townships nineteen and twenty, of Ilange one. Fractional townships nineteen and ticenty, of Range two. Being a reservation of ten miles square, herefofore appropriated for the use of the Etl river or Thornton party of (Miami Indiaus, at their village on Sugar creek, and ceded to the United S'ates by lraiy of February ll'h, )82S. Also, Fractional township ticenty four, and townships ticenty five and ticenty six, of Hange four. Townships twenty four and twenty fee, of Rangp.a-e. Also, Fractional townships twenty one, twenty two, nd twenty three, of Uaoge ten. Which last mentioned Kaope i funded by the line of demarkation between Illinois and Indiana. The lands reserved by law for the use of schools, or for other purposes, are to be excluded from sale. Given under my hand, at the City of Washington, this nineteenth day of August, A D. 1U29. ANDREW JACKSON. By the Presipknt: GEORGE GRAHIM. Con imissioner 26-ts of the General Land Office. NOTICEL SURLIC nolire is hereby given to Warren - l ebbs and Elizabeth Tebbs his wife, Ltwi Jolly arut I.ucinda Jolly his wife, Klijh Ls.ka and !1rla Lak h.s wife, Hamilton Asbby und nd John Ashy, heirs j,nd I represtnUtives of lialiss Ash by, tale ot Dearborn rouuty, de. cf as d, that I shall iiply to the Probate court of Dearborn county, at its stss-on or Term on the firbt Monday in November next, to appoint rfjranV'S sioneis to assign ui d set over to nn- n.y dower of, in, and to a part of the west hUf if section fourteen, town &tven, Range one w est, in me county ot Dearborn, the real estate of said deceased Hdyliss Ashby. IlhZIAH ASH BY. Sept. 3i, 1829. 36-3zir. 1 av the Blacksmith!! (r POSTPONED. fnilE undersigned hereby no'tfies those inJL debted to him in any way whatever, thit he will attend at the office of Thomas rairrt Ks-q in Lawrencehurh,trom tht 20th to the 23d October ncit, for the purpose of settling his brcks, l'hiise interested, who do not attend at the lime and place above mentioned, may txpect to be dclt with in a summary way. No indulgence may be expected, but the most rigid course will be sdopttd, to collect the moneys due him, that he may be enabled to pay those to whom he is in debted. RICHARD PRE ST. Sep!. 12, 1829. flTMlE, undersigned, guirdun of Moses and .a Aircn 1'nrstl, will ofiVr far sals on Wednesi'y the l-I h of October next, the one tenth pm of one hundred nd eighty acres of lud Lying in Union township, Dearborn county, being, a part of See S t , in I. 4, It. J west, liy order of the I'robale Cjuit, for the benefit of sid minors. ELKANOU PUUSEL, guardun. Sept. 12, 18-29. SG-3v Flour, Corn meal, Oats, Potatoes, Wood, Slc. Will be received at this office in payment of subscriptions and other debts. INDIANA PALLADIUM, PRIMED AND PUBLISHED BY DAVID IT. CULLBY, Public. of the La:-s of the United States. 'rX7 r 1 ft? 2 iL.j The P-itLAmtJM is printed vp-k!y, cn super royal paper, at i llllEti L)OLLAUS; per annum, paid ct th end ot the year: which nry he chrtrged by the panient of TWO DULL.MiS iu advance, or by paying T'.V O DULLAKS &. l if I V CENTS ut the expiration of .S?.r n:u:;ths. Those r.' ho receive their papers through the Post-Ofhce, or by the wail carrier, must j.&y the carriage, otherwise it will be chaitd ou their subscription. A DVr rvTIPEM ENTS Containing 12 lines or under, three ir..'rticiis or less, one dollar; twenty-five cent for etrh additional insertion larger advci tiocn.tnii. in the same proportion The CASH must accompany dveri.?e menta otherwise they w;ll be published until piariJor at the eieusu of the advertiser.