Rensselaer Republican, Volume 14, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 February 1882 — One Disgrace Spared Her. [ARTICLE]

One Disgrace Spared Her.

Xrom the London World. Irish humor, hard knocks as it has received, is not dead yet. A triend of mine, a Major in the County Militia and Chairman of Potty Sessions in the Province Leinster, lately sententenced au old lady, who bad given the Solice a good deal of trouble through runkeness and disorderly conduct, to two months imprisonment. Perceiving she was rather astonished at tie action of the Bench, the Major asked her if she had anything to say aguinst it, when, advancing to the front of the dock, she thus delivered herself: “I have this to sav; I have been divorced by two huibands; my youngest sister has been unfortunate; niy eldest has lately been indicted fur keeping a disorderly house; but,” —and her© the old lady derew herself up—“l am proud to sav I have flo relashuus in the mlirtia>

At the funeral of Chief Justice Pierpoint, of Vermont, at Vorgennes, tha preacher caused some resentment among the mourners by expreiMn& sorrow that the deceased had “nevqr given expression to those views which are considered necessary to the Christian.” One Key West gardener expects to send north the tomatoes from 12,0(Kfc plants. !