Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 3, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 April 1860 — Bound them over to Play Whist. [ARTICLE]

Bound them over to Play Whist.

There is a judge down in one of the Southeas’ern counties of the Reserve who is very fond of his little joke and his game of whist. A few weeks since, he was hearing a case of some importance, in which several witnesses were summoned, and among them one or two of them notoriously good story-tellers, y,’ho also knew something about “honors”and “odd tricks.” Their fame had reached the ear 3 of the judge, but as yet he had had no opportunity of having a test of their quality, although eager to do so. The court was about taking its usual recess at noon, and in the afternoon the witnesses in question expected to testify and return home by the evening train. To their astonishment the judge rose and gravely said: “The case on trial will not be heard this afternoon. The witnesses are bound over until to-morrow, and are this afternoon requested to meet at my house to play whist and tell stories. Mr. Sheriff, until to-morrow.”-^ Cleveland Herald. QC!7”The Nashville Union (Democratic) comes to the conclusion that there will be but two Presidential tickets before the country in the ensuing canvass, and that the Southern Opposition will be found either in the support of the nominee at Charleston or of the nominee at Chicago. (Cs” There is a room in a house in Duxbury, Mass., in which fifteen children, eleven girls and four boys were born of the same parents, and what is still more singular, the eleven girls were all married in the same room. (jC7“Seventy-one ladies, calling themselves “grass widows,” who reside in and around Elkhart, Indiana, gave a ball last week, and invited their male friends. None but “grass widows” were allowed to participate in the festivities. letter writers from Washington suggests Judge McLean as a compromise candidate for the Presidency to the Chicago Convention! OirA young man in Kalamazoo having advertised for a wife, received word from eighteen married men that he might have theirs. is a manufactory of proclain teeth in Philadelphia, which turns out seven hundred daily, and itsyearly sales are $350,000. oO”Lieutenant Governor Wood, of Illinois, was formally inaugurated Governor at five o’clock Wednesday afternoon. Hon. John L. Robinson died Wednesday evening at six o’clock, at his residence in Rushville. He was a Kentuckian by birth.