Jasper Banner, Volume 4, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 July 1857 — A Dandy Overwhelmed. [ARTICLE]

A Dandy Overwhelmed.

A cotcrnporary, who has rather a lively sense of the ludicrous, tells a mirth-provoking story of a traveler, who quartered at a tavern in Yan-kee-land, on a Sabbath not long since, which is so good and so characteristic of a class who glory in “ cutting a dash,” that we reproduce it here: He prepared himself to attend church,'hut not possessing that very important chattie, a watch, and hewing particularly desirous of * cutting adasb,’ lie applied to the landlord i for the loan of one. The landlord, I possessing a very powerful alarm- ; watch, readily complied with the re ! quest, but previously wound up the I alarm and set it at the hour which j he supposed would be about the midj die of the first prayer. The dandy (repaired to the church; he arose j with all the grace of a finished ex- ' quisite, and . stood playing very j gracefully with the borrowed seals, when he jumped as if he had discovered a den of rattlesnakes; the whizzing of the alarm commenced I The people started, the danidy made a furious grab at the of- | fending watch with both hands outside the pocket, and tried to squeeze it into silence, bnt in vain ; it kept up its tur-r-r-r, and seemed as though it never would stop. The sweat rolled off the poor fellow, he s’eized his hat and, making one effort at the door, hurried off with his watch in one hand and h’at in the other, amid the suppressed laughter 1 of the whole congregation.” ---A Referenb Negro Sentenced toi the Penitentiary.—Our readers will remember the arrest of the Rev. Elijah I Anderson, the colored preacher from j Madison, Ind.,' some time last ■He was examined in our Police Coprt* at tlie time on the charge of running off slaves, and remanded so Trimble county. His trial has just closed in the Bedford Circuit Court, and, upon conviction of the j charge, the reverend gentleman was sen-■ tmittd to- the penetentinry-for eight years.