Locomotive, Volume 8, Number 6, Indianapolis, Marion County, 7 April 1849 — Page 4

" A jest's prosperity lies in the ear Of him that hears it never in the tongue Of him that makes it." Love's Labor Lost.

Bill Jinkins' Delighted and Elected ! BY THE ' MAN WHO TAKES BR ANDRETH's TILLS.' , 11 Fine times at our house ! Lucy's got a little one !' Some few weeks ago, I gave you a statement of Bill Jinkins' troubles on' the first night of his mar-, riage.' About a year after that eventful time, a little stranger was heard sounding its wild vocal tones, and Jinkins' heart bounded with joy, and his philoprogenitiveness became greatly excited and enlarged. Oh, 'twas then he dearly loved Lucy, the baby, and all the world beside. When important personages visit us, it is a timehonored custom to make suitable arrangements for their reception. Jinkins noticed Lucy making up little caps, long frocks, and little sues and tockings,' and hemming towels,' and such nice little arrangements, and he was anxious to know if Lucy might not, possibly, be mistaken in the gender of the expected visitor. 4 Lucy,' said Jinkins, in a good humored, and rather arch way, for which he was not very proverbial, Lucy, I would laugh at you, if all your trouble and work was wrong that you had corded up the wood on the wrong pile. Now, suppose the baby comes a boy, what will you do with

the frocks and caps then I 'Well, Jinkinp, you are a fool! Did you ever know an infant to be dressed with coats, pants, and boots J Say, Mr. Smartee. did you ever?' ' I never noticed,' said Bill, but this I do know, that if the baby is a boy, he shall have just what he wants ; or, rather, perhaps, I should say, he shall be dressed ' Just as I please to have it dressed,' quickly interrupted Lucy. ' ' I've got one comfort, any how, Lucy !' said Jinkins. - 'And what is that?' she asked. ' It will be a boy. .Old Mauge, the fortune teller, told me so and I gave her a dollar to be certain she told me the truth.' ' And old Mauge told me that it would be a girl,' replied Lucy. s '.Oh, Lucy, you've been to the fortune tellers. 'Yes; and so have you. Men have-no business at such places they know too much, any how and I only went to old Mauge's with cousin Sarah, for company and then it was that the old woman told me and she charged me nothing although I gave her some change, because I thought she was an ob ject for charity.' ' We will not talk about these things, said Jinkins, 4 any more, now but what I spoke to you about yesterday have you reflected about it V About sending for a physician ? I cannot think of such a thing ; and 1 am surprised that you should imagine that 1 would have cne about me in my situation V Lucy,' said Jinkins, ' you had better have a regular Doctor he knows all about such matters and if anything wrong should happen, he knows what to do. These old women make great pretensions and talk very knowing, until they meet, with a trouble

some case, and then they are too stupid to know

what to do. Now, let me speak to Dr. Edwards.'

'No, my dear Billy,' replied Lucy, ' I won't have

any of the Doctors fooling about me. Let them attend to fevers and fits, and such cases as they can with propriety and delicacy but they shall not attend to me. I have engaged Old Aunt Hester Brady, who has practised for twenty years i:i this country ; and I am satisfied to trust myself to her experience and judgement. So, you are just wasting your time talking to' me about Dr. Edwards for have him I won't.' Whenever Lucy came down with a positive, Bill knew it was utterlj useless to contend with her and he acquiesced in her desire to have Old Hester. Time jogged on, and in a few weeks Lucy ' got the

rheumatis-' She roused up Jinkins about midnight, and hurried him off to Aunt Hester's. . 'Oh, Lucy it's so late,' said Bill, 4 and so cold, and I'm so sleepy, do try and put off having the baby till morning, and ' 'Get up, get up, and run for Hester,' cried Lucy. 4 Oh, no, don't leave me, 1 will die. Yes, run run my dear Jinkins don't be gone a minute.' Jinkins leaped out of bed as if his head was, on fire ; and forgetting every thing but Hester, Lucy and the baby, made better time to the old woman's house than pedestrians have any conception of. His wardrobe consisted of a night shirt and a pair of socks. He arrived there almost breathless and exhausted, but still knocked at the door, and shouted out 4 Hester ! Aunt Hester ! Mrs. Brady ' Elegant Extracts : Thought. Thinking leads man to knowledgde. He' may see and hear, and read and learn whatever he pleases, and as much as he pleases : he will never know anything of it, except that which he has thought over, and that which

by thinking he has made the property of his own mind. Is it then saying too much, if I say that man, by thinking, only becomes truly man. Take away thought from man's life, and. what remains? Pestalozzi. Conversation. Conversation calls out into light what has been lodged in all the recesses and secret chambers of the soul. By occasional hints and incidents it brings old useful notions into remem

brance ; it unfolds and displays the hidden treasures of knowledge, with whichreading, observation, and study had before furnished the mind. Not Partictjtar. An aged spinster, growing weary of a life of 4 single blessedness,' betook herself to the silent recesses of the grove, and there prayed most fervently that Providence would provide for her what forty years of smiling and simpering had failed to entrap, viz. : a husband 1 She had no sooner got through with her devotion, than an owl (of the largest species, says our informant,) hooted from the top of a tree over the head of the 4 hapless maiden,' 4 who ho hoo !' To which she replied, with her eyes fervently fixed on the earth, and supposing that He whom she implored had come to her rescue, 4 Any body, good Lord!' Don't be too Particular. An Irishman once dreamt that he visited the Lord Mayor of London, who treated him with the greatest hospitality, and asked him if he wouldn't 4 take a little suthin.' Be replied that he wouldn't mind a little whisky punch. 4 Hot or ''old V inquired his lordship. His guest preferred it warm, but while the Lord Mayor was out heating the water, the Irishman awoke from his delicious slumber. 4Och!'cried he, comprehend

ing what a fool he was to wait for hot punch during

the precarious tenure of a dream. ' How I wish I d said cold!'

Bidbie's Wages. 4 What's your eggs a dozen, marm?' said an old skin-flint one day to a market woman. 4 Twenty cents, sir.' 4 Ain't you rather high in your price ? nine-pence is enough for eggs.

4 Perhaps such an old hunk as you are may think so; but if I was a hen I wouldn't lay eggs for a

cent a piece, I know.'

4 What is love, Mary V said Bill, the other night,

as he sat by the side of his sweetheart u 4 Love !

Bill, I hardly know what it is ; but suppose it must

be getting married and kissing the babies! ism fainted !' ! 4 Sammy, Sammy, my son! don't stand there scratching your head stir your stumps or you will make no progress in life.' 4 Why, father, I've often heard you say that the only way to get on in the world was to scratch a-head ' Chastity. Nothinc can atone for the want of modesty and innocence ; without which beauty is ungraceful and quality contemptible.

A Schoolboy, at a recent examination at an English academy, was asked by his instructor who discovered America ? 4 1 wish I may die,' says a correspondent of the Banner of Truth, 4 if he didn't answer Yankee Doodle !' 4 A young Miss having been invited to a Military ball, inquired with great simplicity, if all the ladies were expected to bare arms V 4 Oh, dear,' exclaimed an urchin, who was chewing a green apple, 4 I've swallowed an odd-fellow !'j 4 An odd-fellow V 4 Yes he is giving me the grip.'

Temperance Lecture. The lecture adver. tised for last Tuesday was postponed until next Tuesday, on account of the Installation of officers. Sons, Daughters, Cadets, and the public are invi. ted, particularly the ladies, at the Temperance Hall on next Tuesday evening, when an address will be

delivered by John Cooper.

By order. J. M. Sharpe, R. S.

liAILKOAD SPEECH. I will address the people of Indianapolis, on the 10th inst., t nno nVllr P I r. iU c,v,:. f .u l: 1

Bellefontaine Railroad. A new map of the Railroad lines of thp Tlmte.l Statoc um!I Kn vh;i,;t,l ,.r,A ; . c

central line shown. 1 wish to see all present who feel an interest in the success of this great central railroad.

-fiprn o, ioiy-u U. II. SIM 11 11.

OCrl atn authorized to announce the name of Joshua Stevens

as a suitable candidate for Mayor of this city. II .

85" The Free Soil Democraov of Mnrinn Hnnntv Huva seWtptl

SAMUEL FRAZIER of Pike, and JOHN COBURN. of Cen

tre Township, as Candidates for the next General Assembly.

ft-Weare requested to announce WILLIAM SULLIVAN

as a candidate for the office of County Clerk.

CANDIDATES FOU CO Ul OILMEN. In the 1st Ward S. V. B. NOEL. In the 1st Ward HARVEY BATES. In the 2d Ward JAMES GILLESPIE. In the 2d Ward DAVID D. WOODRUFF. In the 4th Ward ANDKEW WALLACE. In the 5th Ward JAMES SULGROVE. In the 5th Ward DANIEL CARLISLE. In the 6th Ward JOHN S. DUNLOB. In the 7th Ward SAMUEL MERRILL.

33otn. , " A babe in a house is a well-spring of pleasure, a messenger of peace and love : Vet it is a talent of trust, a loan to be rendered back with interest."

On the 2Gth ult., a Son to David Day. On the 29th a Daughter to Henry Musser. On the 1st a Son to R. Campbell. On the 2d a Daughter to John M. Tracey. On the 3d a Son to Henry Munsell. . On the 5th a Daughter to C. Yorke.

iilatrlarjcs. "O happy lot, and hallowed, even as the joy of angels, Where the golden chain of godliness is entwined witht he roses of love. On the 5th, by Rev. C. E Babb, at the residence of R. M. Stewart in this City, Miss NANCY N. STEWART to Mr. WOODFORD A. WO)DS. LICENSES ISSUED TO Woodford A. Woods and Nancy N. Stewart, on the 2d. Henry Stoops and Amanda Hunter, on the 2d. B. E. II- Woodrow & Mrs Eliza N. Rodgers on the 2d. George Northway and Bell Jane Moore, on the 4th. Lewis M. Bowles and Kesiah Noe, on the 5th.

PAY UP. THE undersigned would request those indebted to him to come forward and cash up immediately, as there are claims against him he must pay, and he wants the needful to pay with.. March 31-3t JOHN M. WOOD.

LUJIKtB! LUMBEH!! LUMBEK!" THE undersigned would respectfully inform the citizens of Indianapolis, and vicinity, that their Saw Mill being W

good repair, they are prepared to fill bills of Lumber at a shorter notice than any other mill in the country. Persons wishing to purchase wo Id do well to call at the Ripple Mills, and apply t0 March 17-12tpd KOONTZ Sc. BURK.

JOHN DOUGLASS.

JOHN E. ELDEB-

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