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VOLUME II NUMBER 9.
RALEIGH, MARCHES, 18 42.
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From the Lincolnton Republican.
TRIAL OF MARY fl INKLE.
On Saturday last, Mary Hinklewas brought
to the bar of the Superior Court, then sitting
at this place, on a charge of murder. The pri
soner on her arraignment, had pleaded 'not
guilty,' and she was, on the day above men
tioned, brought into court for trial. The ar
rangement of her dress, was neat: and her ap
pearance was not unprepossessing; though at
times during the trial, she evinced a degree of
feeling which showed that in former days she
had studied but little, the art of controlling her
passions. One one occasion in particular,when
a witness for the State was giving in his tes
timony, which was in relation to tt.e conduct of
the prisoner towards the deceased a few weeks
previous to the deatji of the latter, she rose
from her seat, and directing her eyes, natural
ly bright and piercing, at the witness, she gave
manifest symptoms, that the emotions within
her were with no little exertion restrained from
breaking forth. If we read her thoughts aright,
she said in her looks, 'young man, were I at
liberty you would not dare to utter what you
have said.5 She appears to be between thirty
and forty years of age, and is, we understand,
a native ot South Carolina.
The State closed its testimony at about one
o'clock no witnesses weie introduced on the
part of the prisoner. She was defended by
Messrs. Hoke, Osborne, Williamson and Lan
der. The Jury retired, after a very able, lucid and
impartial charge from His Honor, Judge Pear
son, they returned again to the Court House
for some further instructions from the Court,
and once more retired, and after deliberating
between two and three hours, came into court
and rendered a verdict of guilty of murder in
the first degree, against the prisoner.
At about nine o'clock, the prisoner was again
brought into Court to receive the sentence of
the law; when several attempts tor a new trial,
and also in arrest of judgment, were made by
her counsel, ail of which were overruled by the
Court. Upon the prisoner being asked what
she had to say why sentence of death should
not be pronounced against her, she rose irom
her seat, and said in an audible but somewhat
faltering voice: 'Before God and man, I declare
I am guiltless of the charge.'
The counsel for the prisoner then read the
certificate of three physicians, who had been
appointed to examine into the condition of the
prisoner, as regarded her peculiar situation ;
and thereupon craved a respite from the sen
tence of the law. No sentence was passed by
the Court the prisoner was remanded to the
countv jail, there to remain, until the next Su
perior Court of law is held at this place, when
sentence f death will be again prayed against
her.
The deceased was an aged negro slave, the
property of the prisoner's husband.
Forensic Eloquence. 'May it please the
court, and gentlemen of the jury: We shall at-,
tempt to prove first, that my client's hog did
not commit any depredations on the complain
ant's fence: 2d, that the hog broke only three
pickets instead of six, as set forth in the indict
ment; and 3d, that my client has no hog, nor
never had.
The Hoosier and the Yankee. 'Wal now,
stranger,' said the Yankee, 'suppose you tell
us about your own country j you're the only
man I ever seen from west, lhat did'nt die of
fever n'agur.'
'Well, old Yankee, I'll just tell you all about
it. If a farmer in our country plants his ground
with corn and takes first rate, care on it, he'll
git a hundred bushels to the acre; if he takes
raiddlin' care of it he'll git seventy five bush
els to'the acre; and if he don't plant atall,he'll
git fifty.'
The beets grow so large that it takes three
yoke of oxen to pull a full sized one; and then
itleaves a hole so large, that I once knew a
family of five children, who all tumbled in a
beet hole once before it got filled up, and the
earth caved in upon them and they all perish
ed. The trees grow so large lhat I once knew a
man, who commenced cutting one down, and
when he had cutaway on one side for about
ten days, he thought he'd just take a look round
the tree; and when he got round on t'other side
he found a man there who had been cutting at
it for three weeks and they never heard one
another's axes.
I have heard tell, yet somewhat doubt that
story, that the Ohio parsnips have sometimes
grown clean through the earth, and have been
pulled through by the people on t'other side.
'Wal now, says the yankee, 'I rathe? guess
as how you've told enough, stranger, for the
present. How'd you like to trade for some
clocks to sell out west?'
'Never use 'em we keep time altogether
with pumpkin vines. You know they row
just five feet an hour, and that's an incha min
ute. Dont use clocks at all. Its no use, old
Yankee, we can't trade no how.'
The yankee gave up beat, and suddenly cut
out.
The woman who regularly reads the news
paper, will be so much the more suitable a
companion for the well informed husband, and
exert far more influence in the family than she
otherwise could.
HOLE IN THE STOCKING,
How queerly does a fellow feel,
A walking in the street,
When he's aware his stocking heel
Makes yisible his feet.
He knows the females, as they walk
Before him and behind,
Of his deficiency will talk
For they are never blind.
He fancies he can hear them say,
'That is a curious chap,
To curl his hair and dress so gay,
With such a stocking gap.'
He lifts his foot up awkardly,
And puts it down again,
And tries to pass, that none may see,
But labors all in vain.
He fancies, too, a thousand girls
To see his heel are flocking;
O, who can tell the horrors of
A single holy stocking.
Scrupulous Indeed. We hear of a man in
Boston, who js so overly pious, that he stops
his clock every Saturday night to prevent its
breaking the Sabbath, but he is not heavenly
disposed at all, and has no respect for the Sab
bath whatever, comparatively speaking. We
know a man in South Carolina, who never will
beat cider on Saturday, for (ear it might work
on the Sabbath. Sandersville Telescope.
It is not the noisest people who are the most
pious.
' A country school. 'Bible dictionary class
come up,' said our schoolmaster.
'Who was Lot's wife?'
'The pillow of salt, wot Moses laid his head
on when he went up to Mount Sinai to offer his
son Isaac up cos he had no sheep but himself,
to do likewise.'
What is said about Jonah?
Jonah swallowed up a whale, and was vom
ycked up the third day with a passel of gourd
seed, which he gave to the Queen of Sheba for
mendin' his trousers, which he bust in strain
in' to get out of the lions den, where Daniel
had been eatin' Pulse and Pease's candy.
An Irish Address. The following is an ad
dress delivered by the manager of a small the
atre in Ireland; there were only three persons
in the house: 'Ladies and Gentlemen, as there
is no body here, I'll dismiss you all: the per
formance of this night will not be performed
but the performances of this night will be re
peated to-morrow evening.'
The Boonslick Times enumerates the fol
lowing as one of the things he don't like to see:
'A man taking a paper so long without pay
ing that he forgets how his account stands,and
then disputes it.'
At a town in France, an old countryman lay
on his death bed. His son went to get the cler
gyman, and stood knocking softly at his door
for three hours. 'Why did'nt you knock loud
er?' said the clergyman. 'I was afraid of wak
ing you,' said the clown. 'Well, what is the
mattex?5 'I left my father dying; sir!' 'So! soj
he must be dead then, by this time?' 'Oh, no!
sir,5 returned the other, 'neighbor Peter said he
would amuse him till I came back!'
SEWED UP.
As one of our delegates to Cold Spring was
relating his experience last week, arum-seller
in the crowd asked the speaker if he intended
to starve him out ?
'Why,' replied the Washingtonian, 'I would
rather starve you out than hundreds of women
and children; but no man need starve in this
world unless he is too lazy to work, r drinks
rum. When I can't get nothing else to do I
go to sawing wood.'
'Well,' said the rum-seller, 'You'd better go
back to New York and saw wood.'
'Not till I get all your customers away,' re
plied the Washingtonian.
'Well, then I can go to the poor-house,'said
the dealer in evil spirits.
'You'll be there aloae,then,' retorted the tee
totaler; 'for all the old rummers are becoming
sober men, and there will be none to keep your
company.
At this time up jumped a lady in the crowd,
and looking at the rum-seller, exclaimed
'You'd better go to New York and saw wood
too.' This silenced him.
The next morning one of his neighbors went
into his shop, and said 'Mr. you got
pretty considerable wound up last night,did'nt
you?
yes,' was the reply, 'wound up and sewed
up too. I didn't care about what the lecturer
said, if the women had only let me alone.'
Organ.
Derision. Insult not misery, neither deride
infirffiity,nor ridicule deformity; the first snows
inhumanity; the second, folly ; and the third,
pride. He that made him miserable, made
thee happy to lament him; he that made him
deformed if he has made thee otherwise, do
not show thy ingratitude to thy great Creator
by despising any of his creatures.
Wealth, in this ceuntry, may be traced back
to industry and frugality: and the paths which
'lead to it are open to all.
TO THE LADIES.
How to choose a good Husband.
When you see a young man of modest, re
spectful, retiring manners, not given . to pride,
to vanity, or flattery, he will make a good hus
band for he will be the same 'kind man' ta
wards his wife after marriage, that he was
before it.
When you see. a young man of frugal and
industrious habits, no 'fortune hunter,' but
would take a wife for the value of herself, that
man will make a good husband; for his affec- ...
tion will not decrease, neither will he bring ?
himself nor his wife to poverty or want. f
When you see a young man Whose manners
are of a boisterous character,with brass enough
to carry him anywhere, and vanity enough to
matte him think every one inferior to himself
don't marry him, girls, he will not make a good
husband. ,
When you see a young man using his best
endeavors to raise himself from obscurity to.
credit by his own industry, marry him, he will
make a good husband, and one worth having.
When you see a young man depending sole
ly for his reputation and standing in society
upon the wealth of his rich father or relative,
don't marry him, for goodness' sake he will
not make a good husband.
When you see a young man always emi
ployed in adorning his person, or riding through
the streets in gigs : who leaves his debts un
paid, although frequently demanded of him;
never do you marry him, for in every respect
he will make a bad Husband. .
When you see a young man who never en
gages in affrays or quarrels by day, nor follie.4,
bv night, and whose dark blank deeds are not
of so mean a character as to make him wish
to conceal his name; who does not keep low
campany, nor break the Sabbath, nor use pro
fane language; but whose face is seen regular
ly at church, where he ought to be, he will
certainly make a good and faithful husband.
When a young man who is below you in
wealth, offers to marry you, don't deem it a
disgrace, but look into his character j and if.
you find it corresponds with these directions',
take him, and you will get a good husband.
Never make money ah object of marriage 5
for if you do, depend upon it as a balance to
good, you will get a bad husband. . "
When you see a young man who is attentive
and kind to his sisters or aged mother, who is
not ashamed to be seen in the streets with the
woman who gave him birth and nursed him,
supporting her weak and tottering frame upori
his arm; who will attend to all her little wants
with filial affection, lore and tenderness, take
him, girls, you that can get him,no matter what
his circumstances in life, he is truly 'worth the
winning.and having, and will with certainty
make a good husband.
When a young man is known to visit tar
erns and ale-houses, or use strong 3 rink, even
in the smallest degree, girls do hot marry hied
for if you do, you will come to poverty and
rags. '
Lastly: Always examine into" character,
conduct, and motives; and when yon find these
good in a young man, then you may be sore
he will make a good husband. r'
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Why does a portrait painter resemble a clown?
Because they both gain a Jiving by matting
faces. m ; j;-v.u-;- ;V::LU: k
'Confoundedly long icindid,' said a man last
Thursday, when his hat blew ofl and Jed him
a chase of a hundred rod3 to recover it.
A Beautiful Coaf. 'That isa beautiful
coat yon have on,' said one gentleman to anJ
other, 'where does your tailor ivttV ,
'On the skirts of the town,' was the reply
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