ODDS AND ENDS.

Temuka Leader, Volume 2, Issue 129, 15 March 1879, Page 2

ODDS AND ENDS.

A colored preacher in Alabama puts his foot on excessive bribery at elections, and crushes it. “Dis ting,” he says, “ob giftin' §IOO for a rote is all wrong ; §lO is of much, as it’s worf.” Dar now,” said the negro preacher, as the deacon left the meeting in a pet. “ Dar now, dat’s just what de Bible says, de wicked run when nobody’s arter him.” “ Brudder Jones,” said a colored elder to V his white pastor, “Cudn’t yo preach once widout sich talk about lyin’ and stealin’, and give us one day to real comfortin’ religion ?” A negro, overpaid 100 dollars on a cheque, returned the money—a sure indication that the race can never ho civilised. A rejected colored juryman soliloquised: I don’t un’staml this hisness. Looks to me like natural for a man what’s in trouble to git his friends on de jury. I alers bin friend to dat man in de hoi, and yet I i» rejected.