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UNION CITY, Tenn., possesses a news gatherer who evidently believes that facts, like pretty women, are none the less interesting for being becomingly clothed. This is how he tells by wire of a little event of the other day: “This bright spring morning Eli Davis, a negro barnburner, was found a short distance from the depot at Woodland Mills, ornamenting the limbs of an oak tree.” It really seems a pity that Eli was deprived of the pleasure of reading this poetical little story of his fate.
WITH the disappearance of ice and snow—the mercury being occasionally above freezing point,” is the way the New York correspondent of Modern Light and Heat begins his letter dated March 12 ! And on that day the thermometer marked three degrees above zero, there were snow drifts in our streets seven feet high and the wind blew a living gale. This is very sad. We fear that letter wasn’t written on March 12. Could it have been written the day before, which was Sunday ? Would a correspondent of a Boston paper dare to put pen or pencil to paper on Sunday ? Shades of the Pilgrim Fathers and burned witches! the mere suspicion of the correspondent’s possible delinquency overwhelms us!
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