Show A terrified thief A colo colored red man mail living near jesu jusup ill mIS missing SIDI a watermelon water melon from hid patch immediately set out on i tho llo track of the thief and soon came up tip with him hill a man about his own size and weight lit preparing to cat eat the melon w whereupon ier cupon ho be told him hirl to lay himself upon the ground and submit to it good thrashing or lie would cut hid his throat threat the obeyed and the owner cut him three or four black gums and wore them to a friz on aplis him while lie uttered screams that might inight bo be heard for half balfa a mile alow ow said the owner tako take lie the melon and march i right along through jesup ahead of me or ill kill ym they started but meeting some of the neighbors attracted attract edly by the cries distress s the owner waa was persuaded that ho lie had sufficiently punished the offender and advised to let him go which he did and returned to his home honic the thief did not g go far fir before lie bat down and ato the melon jesup go ga Sen sentinel tind the chico enterprise says that it is curious liow how a thousand dollar trotter shrinks anav into the hide of a sev enty five dollar plug plu when tho the asses SOT sor comes comes along biddy said a lady tober to her servant I wish irish you would step over and see hov flow old mrs jones is this morning in a few minutes biddy returned with the information that mrs jones wag seventy two years seven months and twenty eight days old bur burglars lars broke into tho the house of a hor horrify ugly old maid tho the other night and just as they approached her couch the woman who waa was dreaming sho she was being proposed to by a handsome young man rose up in bed and exclaimed yes love I will marry you the frightened burglars sprang thirty feet through the window sash and stopped until they were hid bid under tinder a haystack hay bay stack fifteen miles from town ex tz |