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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3058, 14 April 1881, Page 4

For many years Moses, a negro, was a servant at the University of Alabama, and was a most notorious hypocrite. He was on that account commonly called " Preach among- the boys. One day he was passing a crowd of sudents, when one of them out of mischief called to him ancl said—" I say, Preach, what are you going to do when Satan gets you ?" " Wait on students," was the ready reply. A boy came down Linwood Avenue on the rush, a few nights since, and in an excited manner, said that there were a lot of lights in the Jewish burial-ground. Half a dozen scientific men, four loafers and a dog started of to see them. The grave-yard was as dark as such places usually are. " Where are the lights ?" asked a big man of the boy. The youngster backed off to a safe distance, and yelled out: " Underground ; they are Israelites !" He then ran for his life.

A blacksmith of a village in Spain murdered a man, and was condemned to be hanged. The chief peasants of the place ■joined together, and begged the aleade that the blacksmith might not suffer, because he was necessary to the place, which could not do without a blacksmith to shoe horses, mend wheels, &c. But the aleade said : " How, then, can I fulfil justice ?" A laborer answered : " Sir, there are two weavers in the village, and for so small a place one is enough; hang the other." Not long since, in a Mississippi court a colored man sued a neighbor for damages for killing his dog. Colonel M—, defendant s lawyer, called Sam Parker, a colored gent, to prove that the dog was a worthless cur for whose destruction no damage ought to be recovered. Colonel M— : " Sam, did you know this dog?" Sam, " Yes, sah.J wer pussonally acquainted with ci.at dog. Col. M_- " Well, tell the jury what sort of a clog he was, Sam. " "He wer'* a big yaller clog. " Colonel M— : " What w_w he good for? " Sam : " Well, he wouldn't hunt; he wouldn't hunt; he wouldn't do no gyard duty ;he yes lay 'round an' eat. Dat _. % iake 'em call him what dey did." Colonel M-- : " Well, sir, what did they call him ?" Sam ■ •' Dey called him ' Lawyer,' sail. "