The Butcher-Knife, Volume 2, Number 9, Danville, Hendricks County, 26 September 1857 — Page 6

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. !h.r' t admirer. The nuptial feast

" " t t c ' 1. . she is old. j I ta - mothers' '."ty, : ficr.-fth, limb, fence 3 and estate:

"it h.r ulitic.i as .. moihcT is as the sun t- - - w - . r .t, for it is :.i .ys ia th.- i ii !'rr-, and haoweth no . . , r.mgr 'A;.o j r-on may I, a grey-head-d, h. : . tl ily i , l:t: ; i i - always in ; i a. it r :a y b ; a :tnr:n, yea, win- ' r i'h a vr rr b".t -.ith t' o mother, jr.cthcr, iti ? ah.ajs spsing. jns ! hov: little do ve i-ypruiiti' a raolhua' tendcrn:. 3 -wlnlo livio ;- ! IU); 3us.dl.ss are wc in youth of all lur anx'dies and kindnefs! But when she is dead and gone when the cares and coldness of the world

come withering to our heart when we experience how hard it is to find true sympathy how few love us for ourselves how few will befriend us in misfortune then, then it is that we think of the mother that we have lost.

The New Orleans Crescent says: upon the adjournment of one of the courts a few days ao, the iudire instructed the

jury not to talk about the pending case

witti any one. One of the jurors facetiously asked if he might consult his wife in regard to the matter, as he alwavs

found it necessary to tell her something !

wnen ne went home.' His honor gallantly VC'VilifA thnt if v.r c not In I h m,,.! C

.t at .and; ad preliminary ar-the court to meddle with matters of so

Nf;- 5 rl'(i'uaioiy io domestic and private a nature.

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i.i.i. it no.' .j p;..ia t'.iat the heroine ; tir i had an aLlaity etionger than .a ! ' , f v r her f er rait or. First r.- c 2 ted ita r -stent t y ell : he yielded, . ' . .ilu.I wo. i tl!" i iiintal roof yes-

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-S" Jimmy, are your folks all well 5 'Yes, ma'am, aH but Sail? Ann,' 'Why, what-, the : Miter with her?' 'O, nothing y. j -.r only she had the hcoHn-c di care, and she haint never go', over it. Tha cough h.dnt of

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dollar for each oflence. He paid' theCne, and was arraigned the next day. Ko you don't judge. I !.::).;'.-, t! li w, or.; dollar for each o't:.:o, and thii i, l rarieV!-J drank.'

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rT 'Pun. -' . . i : a cr- ., .lingly dark complex ioned with prodigiously projecting h" () - dnr he was seen running as fast as hi f ielrixo feet would permit him. - - What's the mat ter?' atked his astonished neighbor. 'Oh,' replied Poaipey, as soon as he could breathe, and while his -white eyes and teeth shone from his coal-black .face, 'Oh, a man tiled to kill me, and I'm bo frightened, fmjht 'as white ah amjlcdy.'

Or 'Grand-mother,' said a child on returning from Sunday school one fine morning, 'is the Bible true?' 'Certainly,' replied the old lady, 'but why do you ask?'

'Because it says every hair on our head is numbered, arid so I pulhal out a handful to-day, and narry one had a number on it.' 'What heresy!' exclaimed the old lady, as she adjusted her spectacles. A lady sitting dow? to a dinner of

roast veal, the other day, exclaimed while eatinp "1 do think that butchers are the most cruel creatures that ever lived; these poor calves! another piece off the shoulder if you please, Mr. IJaynes." fiir 'When a feller has reached a certain pint in drinkin,' said an old soaker, 'I think he orter s'op.' 'Well, I think,' said a wag, 'he had better stop before he reaches a pint.' A man went into a printing office)

to beg a paper, "because," said he, "wo like to read the newspiper very much,

tut our neighbors are too stingy to take a

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the Terre Haute Express en the subject of hoops, says : "Now, the poor hoops have to catch it. If a lady happens to'have much scope on the side-walks, they stare at her as if they ncvey saw a cooper-shop before." ; V 'Do you tlii.: you are fit to die V ' r; st!j . ; cf I..r neglected child. ' I den'tkns r,' caid te hale girl, taa : : h.l cf her dirty ok, ith her dirty ;:npr: and i"; ; .lh j it: ! rrtiess so, it I ain't tea dirty S' ' 7Je!m"' r ' I r. doting pannt to her rrt.icnrMr", ! :y, r.lc - that prddirg with La-aityf

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