Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 3, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 May 1859 — The Dying Never Weep. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

The Dying Never Weep.

It is a striking fact— the dying never w>ep. The circle of sobbing,agonized hearts around, produces not one tear.” Is it that he is insensible and stiff'already in the chill of diss solution! That cannot be; for he asks for his father's hand, as if to gain strength in the mortal struggle, and leans on the breast of his mother, brother, or sist r, with stili conscious affection; and just before expiring, at eve, after a long day's converse with the Angel of Summons, he says to his oldest brother—the last audible good night of earth—“ Kiss me, kiss me!” It must be because the dying have reached a point toe deep for our earthly crying and w’eeping. They are face to face with higher and holier beings, with the Father in heaven, and his angel throng, led on by the Son himself; and what are griefs of a morning, tears of a dying farwell—be it that they are shed by the dearest on earth—in that vision bright of immortal life and everlasting re-union! OO”A lieutenant in the service by the name of Broom, \ as advanced to a captaincy, and naturally enough liked to hear him- ' ; ■» self addressed as Captain Broorn. One of his friends presi-ted in calling him plain Broorn, much to his annoyance, and one day, h ving done so for-the fortieth time, Broom | said, “You will please remember, sir, that 1 ; have a handle to my name.” “Ah,” said his tormentor, “so you have—well, Broom-han-dle, h xv are ye?” §l5O Reward tor a Methodist Minister!—John S. Holland, of Kentucky, offers §l5O reward for the return ’to his “sirves” I of Thomas Whitlock, a Methodist minister! I Here is a chance for some of the recently discarded “dough face” Congressmen. The President hasn't Missions or Land Offices I enough for all of them. Let them try their hand at slave catching. There would be j some Southern glory gleaned by the return ’ o. a preacher of the gospel. Low Freight.—The New York THiime learns that merchandize was taken, or. Sati urd ay, by the Hudson River and New York I Central Railroads, as low as 10c. per 100 ! lbs. , to Buffalo, and that the rate to Chicago I has been put down to 80c. and to St. to 90c ' We also learn that kcal rates on the New York Central have been put down to compete with canal rates. (ky”A Western editor once apologized to ■ his readers somewhat after this fashion: “We intended to have a death and a mar* i riage to publish this week, but a violent I storm prevented the wedding, and the ctoci tor being taken sick himself, the patient recovered, and we are accordingly cheated out of both.” CC(7’T’ v o culprits who sawed out of the I jail, at Little Rock, Ark., a few days since, first held a Democratic meeting, passed resoi lutions of unabated confidence in Mr. Buchanan’s administration, ami left the proI ceedings behind, with a request for their publication in the Little Rock papers. is said that Samuel Rogers was en- [ gaged on the ‘‘Pleasures of Memory” for nine years. Airs. Partington, to whom we , sjubmitted this, thinks a life of ninety years 1 must have been a dreary one, with only nine devoted to the pleasures of memory. Singular Accident.—A young woman, ■ in: Worwick, New Jersey, lately fell upon the stairs of her father’s house, while carrying a bowl of earthen-ware. The bowl was . broken, and the fragments severed her jugu- ; lar vein, causing her death in a few moments. (O’An old man in Philadelphia for stealing i nine cents, was recently sentenced to the ; penitentiary lor three years. Had he swindied his creditors out of nine thousand gold eagles, he would now be able to hold up his head in genteel society. (0j”In a discussion in the Connecticut Legislatve Agricultural Club, last year, c wag recommended the farmers to put snuff' on their corn, so as to make the crows sneeze, and then to shoot the sneezing one® as the- rogues.

Georgia editor accuses one of his ; cotemporaries “ol dying his hair and trying I to renovate his carcass so as to get some feI male into the embraces of his rattling bones.” (Kt*A man named Samuel Mitchell, has ' been arrested in New”Vr*rk for attempting to pass counterfeit money upori ah~undertai kor. in payment for his child’s coffin. O’Negotiations are in progress tor the erection of a Telegraph line on the New Albany and Salem railroad, from New Albany to Michigan city. 0O”A man asked a company of little boys what they were good for! One little fellow very promptly answered: “We are good to make men of."’ (O“’l'he Centerville (Texas) J/e ffirms that General Houston is bu»i- t :e preperation of a history of his life ana adventures. A negro being examined, asked if his master was a Christian. “No, sir; he's n member ol Congress, ’’ was the reply

THE RENSSELAER GAZETTE. RENSSELAER, IND. WEDNESDAY, MAY 18, 1859.