The Butcher-Knife, Volume 2, Number 6, Danville, Hendricks County, 5 September 1857 — Page 1

THE

"TALL OAK Fr LITTLE ACORNS GROW."

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VOL. -2. DANVILLE, SEP

EMBER

1857.

Is published evert SATURDAY rccrr.in, In the town of Dsnville, and the State of Indiana, and will be furnished to Subscribers at th'e extremely raedorato price ti tarentv-n' ve ee&ts per ''opy, consisting of twelve numbers. All communications and remittances must be addressed to GEORGE GREGG, Editor. True Temperakcs. What we want is not mere abstainers from intoxicating liquors, but temperance men temperate lives lives which pursue the calm and even tenor of their way without running into extremes. "Be temperate in all things," is the injunction ; and the man whose lips are never moistened by a drop of liquor from January to December, may yet be the veriest sot in sensual appetite

or fierce passion of the soul a slave to demons who bind him hand and foot, and do with him whatsoever they please. A lawyer to avenge himself upon an opponent, wrote the word 'rascal' in his hat. The owner of the hat took it, looked ruefully into it, and turning to the Judge exclaimed : 'I claim the protection of the honorable Court. The opposing counsel has written his name in my hat, end I have a strong suspicion he intends to make way with it.' (r A story is going the rounds of a party of young ladies, who were caught in a skewer; and had the color washed from tccir wheel's. A lady at our elbow thinks the color in seme -of the young gentlemen's cheeks will cot be worked out with water at present. Q&r Mrs. Cunningham says she don't care a fig for the decision of the Surrogate, as far as it afiects htr claim to the Burdell estate ; she don't mind the property, but the decision affects her character, it disgraces her, and that the wen't stand !

'Tns Healthiest Country in CheatXo. De Bow's mortality statistics chow that the people of the United States are the healthiest on the globe. The .deaths are three hundred and twenty thousand per year, cr one-third per coat, cf the population. In England the ratio is orer two per cent., ana in France nearly three per cent. Virginia and North Carolina are the healthiest of the States, and have sis hundred and thirty-eight inhabitants over one hundred years of age. 03" There is one objection to fat, and that is, it kills sympathy. Let a man who measurci 50 inches around the waist fall in love, and take to arsenic, and in less than a week he will be figuring as the principal character in a comic song; had he

j been a poor lanthern-jawed devil, he

would have been the weeping willow of a dozen clerfes.

——>The Crown Point <Register> states that they have twelve mills in the young

county of Lake, nine churches, thirty-three school houses and plenty of children

'Rem,' said his mother to a roguish

boy of four, actively engaged in buttering the cat's nose with the best Goshen, 'Rem, will you step that, or not?' 'Or not,' was the coolly echoed reply cf Master Mischief, as he cocked his eye at the impending slipper, and took another dab on his inch and a half forefinger.

to fill them, sixteen stores well filled and plenty to do, thirteen taverns, seven flourishing villages besides the county seat, three railroads running through the county, and another one expected. ——————— ——>The Marshall (Ind.) Republican cays that Fred Gipe, charged with stealing $3,800 from the United States Express Company's office, in which he was a clerk, and to which charge he plead guilty and threw himself upon the mercy of the court, was sentenced to twelve months imprison in the county jail, fined $100, and disfranchised for five years. ———————

——>Senator Rusk, whose melancholy death was recently recorded, was the eon of a very poor Irish emigrant, who, when he came to this country, settled in South Carolina on land belonging to John C. Calhoun. He was a stone-cutter by trade. ——————— ——> 'I suppose," said a quack, while feeling the pulse of a patient, 'that you think me a humbug.' 'Sir,' replied the sick man, 'I perceive that you can discover a man's thoughts by his pulse!'

(gj- James Fits, a Virginia poet, while describing the scenery of the Old Dominion, goes into the following poetic fit, which may be sot down as a hard grind: Extensive cotton mills are here, -

fiT 'Can you nife me two halves for a

dollar?' inquired a loafer cf the clerk of

a retail store. 'Certainly, sir,' said the accommodating

clerk, placing two half dollars upon the

counter. 'To-morrow I will hand you the dollar said the loafer, and he quietly . pocketed the change.

With a fine wter power,

borne are making cotton poods, And eomeare making flour.

03" 'Boy,' said a traveler, to a little fellow whom he met, clothed in pants and roundabout, but minus of another very necessary artieh of apparel 'Boy, where is your shirt?' 'Mamma's washing it.''Have you no other?' 'l?o other!' exclaimed the urchin, with indignant sccrn, 'would you want a boy to have a hundred ehirts?'

Fecplo ilccu to hear a wcrn rrcr.c.i not

lffetic rllA T5T,5"' f1vo 1tf Iaapa

she preaches anyhow ; just as they go to ceo a deg walk c:i his hind lege, though he dees net wa!k cu then near as well as

a man

EZT Why is a restless nan ia bed like a lawyer? Be: 3 he l:;s en all tides.

(7- 'Mamma, papa is getting very rich, isn't he?' I don't know. Why, child? 'Cause he gives me so much money. Almost every mcrniEg, when Sally is sweeping the parlor, lie gives mo sispeucc to go cut and play.' Sally was immediately dr.:hargcd.

What is the matter, Mr. Stubbs t What is the cause cf your grief ? O I boo-hoo-co, my eld woman's dead, and I'd just as r:cn one of my best cows hadd-i-e-d, Lco-kco-oo.

0r 'Didn't you guarantee, sir, that the horse wouldn't eby before the fire cf an enemy!' ITo mere he won't. 'Tisn't till after the fire that he ehks.'

STLengthencd sweetness, long drawn out,' cays a western editor, 'is clearly defined in the lezieokgy cf romance, to be a pretty girl sis feet in her stockings.' 27" A pair of Mi:::s::ppi lovers were recently married cn kerecknek by a par-