The Butcher-Knife, Volume 2, Number 11, Danville, Hendricks County, 10 October 1857 — Page 5

Sharp Practice. . '

Soms years ego a gentleman living in

Crawford County "went west," settled in

a western city r.nd became rich. He mar

ried a lady residing in the city where he V '

located. After he had been married about six months, he prepared to visit rawford county in company with his bride; but a few'- days before the time appointed to start, : he w a s a cci de n t a 1 y i I ! ed y acrafcof cnit'kery fallingon hkn from the second story of his Warehouse. The event whs duly communicated to his family in Ohio; That was about eighteen 'months ago. ' About three months since the father of the deceased was startled to see a carriage drive up to his door. A. very inter

esting hid v, dressed hi 'mourning, stepped 'out and introduced herself as the Ifidotv of the deceased son. Great was the joy of the household at the visit of the son anil brother's relict. She "said she was going to Rhode Island, and could not refist the opportunity of seeing the parents and relatives of her ''beloved Henry.' This Was accompanied by a great 'flood of tears and "furnace sighs." Three weeks passed by, and she had worked her way deep into the affections of the family. She was regarded as a daughter as a sister. The h our came for her departure they had exchanged miniatures farewells Vcre said the blabbering was at its very height, when she called the old gentleman to one side, and, with great embarrassment, told him that she had lost her pocket-book on the ears, containing alll but a

trifle of her spare funds. She felt a diffidence in making the request, W if she could not apply to her "beloved Henry's" 'father, to whom could cho go? The old man's heart molted, and in a foment hh Wbllet was produced and ten X's of the Seneca County Bank were ten-

uered ana accepted, and she departed. Time flew by, and a month passed, but

nothing was heard of "beloved Henry's" relict. The old gentleman became alarm

ed, and addressed a letter to the father of

his son's wife, detailing the circumstances oflier visit. An answer came. It stated that the widow of the late son was at home had not been away and from the description given, the woman who personated her waa a errant girl who had lived with them, and had gleaned enough of the history of Henry's family in Ohio to enable her to play the part of his wife. -Tifln ( Ohio) Advertiser.

Otr Some ins (or a poodle dog has been found at 'last. The New York Tribune made the discovery." Having an abiding faith in the axiom thatnothing was created ia vain, we have

lonir sourrht for some aDolo?v for the ex-

f those wretched little creatures

t o r r. 0 tt

known as poodle dogs, hnd at last we have

found their uses, A lady nvho 'kept one

of tlfccuiy abominations recently lost her

'pet, and 'called upon a policeman lo find

it. The next day the officer came with tire

dog, which was very -wet s?nd dirty. The

lady lias overjoyed, 'nd aAed forty silly

questidns, ffaiong others, Where did you find tile tler bally?" "Vhytnarm,' re

plied the-dScer, a big 'nigger up in Sal

T An irishman had been 'tizk a Iod time, and while, in that state would occasionally cea$f breathing, and life be apparently extinct for some time, when be would again come to. On one of these occasions, when he had just awakened from his sleep, Patrick said to him : 'An how'H we 'know, Jemmy, when ytm'ie dead? Ye're afther Taking up evt?ry time ! B ring 'me a glss of grog, and say to

'me, 'Here's till ye, Jemmy 1' and if I don't

rise and drink, then bury me

JUNsoriiisTicTED ElOiekCs. A country woman was carrying on a very simple

process against a neighbor in one of the

livan street had him tied to a pole and m'M cdtrrrs inGermaty. The attorney - .... Lf ll. . . . -.. It . T

was vsshlng -windows -with him.'

"of the opponent pestered her with so much

'chicanery and legal suttleties. that she

lost all patience, and interrupted his thus: "The case is simply this, I bespoke of my opponent, thexarpet-maker, a caipet with

'figures, -which were to be as handsome

05- The'flochester Times says: "tVe could never understand the reason why

the man who sells a yard of cloth, Or a hoe, or an axe, or a pair of shorn, is re

garded by the community as & batc'r or as my lord the-Judge, and he wants now

more recTxame men Uian m tho made to force me to takecne with horrible carit nor he who sells nWrel of ilour, or ' rieaftm's, ugikr even than his attorney.

ships it off to another country, than he who raised the wheat from which it a? as manufactured."

Zs Lore is as natural to a womafi as fragrance to a roe. You may lock a girl up in a convent you may confine her in a cellyou may cause her to change her religion or forswear her parents these things arc possible but never hope to make her sex forego their heart-worship, or give up their reverence for cassimeres, for such hope will prove as bootless as the Greek slave and as hollow as a bamboo.

Was 1 not right in breaking off the contract?" The cdurt laughed at the c imprison, the attorney waa stupifled, and the woman won her 'suit.

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it- is a sm'rmar iaci iisai aue s ana

suicides are unknown a'mon the Turks. They believe in predestination, and are

rigidly opposed to the idea of hastening

death by arsenic or gtin powder. The con

duct of the Turks in this respect may be therefore i:eld up as a model for polite imitation.

07 In Westmoreland County (Pa.)

recently, a stranger announced the open

ing of a dancing school, and after collecting sundry dollars in advance, "chasssd" to the depot, and took the locomotive quickstep for the East. By means of the

telegraph he was arrested at Johnstown,

brought back to Greensburg, and taken

before a "Squire," who discharged him

on a promise to "balance all" his accounts

by the lessons he had engaged to give,

nd 'Hum corners" less rapidly in future.

(Kr A late nurabsr of the Louisville Democrat, says: "It has been known to a very few persons in this 'city for some time that a discovery of great wealth has been made in the faterior of Kentucky, on the line of the Louisville and Nashville Railroad, by a poor family who formerly lived in this city. The discovery was made by a young man while plowing in the field, about mk

months since. As he was plowing leisurly along, the earth suddenly gave way under his feet, and he was preceipitatcd

into an immense cavern. Much injured by the fall, the young man in casting aabout him for some means wherewith to get out, discovered nutnbsrs of iron safes &nd strong boxes, which upon investiga

tion were found to contain gold and diver

coin, jewelry and other valuables to a

fabulous amount.

T -She that marries a man because

he is a 'good match,' must not be surprised if he turns cut to be a 'Lucifer.'

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T An Irishman beimr arraigned for

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having hve wives, exclaimed:

one.'

'Och 1 I was onlv trving to get a cooi