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Meigs County Telegraph, 1851-05-22

The front page of 1851-05-22. 669 words, read by machine from the Library of Congress scan and reproduced without correction.

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ni f hen.I reached her daddy' boute, ; .-n.-:7i.riftJ o 'humpin, .., UBut jrhen I taw. that heavenly maid, ; It kinder stopped a jumpin'. . , 'tirai'liaif riast'te"n, when at her ftet I knelt, and yet ere dinner, .With bqnjed speech and winning ways, i"' " I had' contrived to win her. , ,. . k' '-' v-. .. ' Some months elapsed to set the day ' i1' ' I now began to press her; " ' -.: ' I urged, entreated, plead in tain. . " 1 In vain did I caress her. 1. While mattors were thus cross'd and spil'd, . " My clothes all growing seedy, : . s My rival from the mines returned, : Still for my Sukey sreedy. i,! saw jbtm kinder sidlo up .,, i . .'; . , And slip his arms around her, ., m1.- tv ;. When heavens and earth ! she let him kiss -. ..Those precious lipsl : Confound tier! - " I tolif her that 1 iwas surprised " My eyes had sure deceived me-- , ' And aske4her to renew her vow , ...,. I . And fiow suspense relieve me. x'; - When don't you think, the tarnal gal, ' Her thumb upon her smeller;

, 'jAi Bit tnai no provou.inni nm luiniiy .iiBu nu mmram mjuiu iu, uuouiuhjij no- anxious menial exercises, biuiuu iv iii aaiui never suffered by his intemperance,, and cessary He who walks by the light of it islied pastor that be had lately received da that then there was in his, house sufficient has the advantage of the niid-duy sun; he call' from the Lord to preach rhd gospel." money, meat, flour and wood, n The jury, who would spurn it, goes forth amid clouds The Reverend gentleman was rather per notwithstanding, brought him in guilty, and and darknes. There is no way in which a plexed at first to decide, upon- the proper -

kintlne, (porcupine.) 1 treed him under a prisonment did not cure him or his passion, the whites will not bear tho yoke.' f i.nvJ haystack, and shot him with a barn shovel, on his release ne attempted to cntei the ,. ,. , ; ,. ,'t . ,m";. v-uaii. The firtl time I thot him I missod him; ihe house by' picking tho lock. This mode of j (r Nearly twenty-five hundred persons second time I shot him I hit him In the tame burglariously making his way into a lady1 signed ill 3 temperance pledge, in' Zanosville,

ible, well adapted ; to the wood and lumber trade and agricultural purposes, and In li e midst of the best fisheries of t the LakesA-, The Northern, .Islander stale, that ! 15,000 barrels of fish were shipped from there the past season, : Saint Jatries is 'the nama of ihe- Mormon :town, and a large emigration to it i looked for. ihis reason. - Warren Post invites the "Gaihering" in Mormon poetry. The first verse reads: . t, ' . v ! 1 O come all ye Saint without lonier delayt ' .,

IBbHnUrI w Thuraday Morning. 'TERMS OP'SCBSCRIPTION.'' ".",' r ft One DoUftir un Fifty tnu, "' if -paid in advance, " i ,-'fir Dollars within the year. lft ao paid until after the expiration of the year Two JHar and Fifty Cent ... will bt charged. ... ' . fT"to paper will be discontinued until ell ar ' reeMgweii paid, except at the option of the pub- lithe. -.vr.f. : .- ''. i :': ' --J, " flj-All communication on the business of Hie

liaiia oi tuniui ici, poiuimi w lumuwuvpt For instance,' one was distinguished for the unsurpassed beauty j1 of his penmanship, another for paiming, another in composition, another in mathematics, another in- Ian guages, &.c. Some were remarkable for ilia, mildness of their dispositions, while others were turbulent and morose.; Hi continued to make , further observations. He noticed that those who had the best faculty of com

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