MISCELLANEOUS.

Evening Star, Issue 3829, 2 June 1875, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS.

ar ‘ s febt.-—“ John, do you know whether neighbor Smith is near-sighted or not’” “No dad. Why do you ask?” “ Well, John, I see he s got a fresh pile of kindling wood, and we*re all out, and haven’t any prospect of get tin" more, except by—” “ Oh, I understand. Let ui try to-night.” A Tough _ One. —Mr Magaffin braced himself against the boarding-house table X *T- ed o?® 8 ."•!>» to cut his steak The edge of the knife turned, but the meat showed no mark. Then he called the waiter Thomas, has the cook used the axo mnoli lately to chop kindling wood on the door-steps’” I don t know, said Thomas. “ Whv sir : Because,” said Mr Maguffin, “if it du t| I would like to try it on this steak ” The American papers contain accounts of two remarkable executions, one in Texas and the other m Louisiana. In the first case a negro had killed and robbed a young gentle man named Carmichael, the son of a well tonlo and respectable planter. After the murderer had been convicted and sentenced, Mr Carmichael hired an extra guard to keep armed watoh day and night over him, and rode un fw ti 18 ?™ on , ce . a ' veek to see for himself that the heavy chain by which the negro was manacled was not tampered with. On the dav of the execution, which was attended by an immense crowd of people, the whole Car michael family, father, mother, sons, and daughters, came to see the death of the murderer of their son and brother. The two daughters were handsome young ladies and more than well-educated. The old man carSed a rifle in his hand, and the family were placed upon seats directly in front of the gallows Here they remained until the rope was placed on the neck of the doomed man; then the courage of one of the young ladies gave wav and she left the scene ; the others remaS’ tbe dl '°Ptol the old man rose and rf , to shoot the murderer if the rope should break. When the body was Mmth™^gmaS4r d “ lrfe4 ° W!,y ' vit ' J