A Christmas Thought. A lecture was delivered in Boston a few days since by the Rev. Wm. B. Wight, and during his remarks he beautifully said: Most of us remember days which are set in the years of our ...

Origin of the Term Doughface - At an Anti-Nebraska meeting held at Delhi, New York, says the Gazette of that place, Judge Hathaway, who was one of the speakers, mentioned an anecdote showing the origi ...

Louisville, KY., December. 21. - The Courier-Journal's Vicksburg special to-day says: Advices from Lake Village, Chicot county, Arkansas, say, in regard to the affair of the 14th inst, that john Sande ...

A young minister whose reputation for veracity was not very good, once ventured to differ with an old doctor of divinity as to the efficacy of the use of the rod. "Why," said he, "the only time my fat ...

Three children burned to death --On Wednesday the wife of a man named Seers' who lives a mile or two south of Erie, Pennsylvania, left her three children at home alone and locked up he house to visit ...

Polite Man.--"My dearest uncle," says a humorous writer, "was the most polite man in the world. He was making a voyage on the Danube and the boat sank. My uncle was just on the point of drowning. He g ...