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The East Tennessee Convention has re-assembled at Greenville. The State has voted by a tremendous majority to join the Southern Confederacy. "How long did Adam remain in Paradise before he sinned?" asked an amiable spouse of her husband. "Till he got a wife!" was the crusty reply of the "brute." Charles Lamb once said to a brother whistplayer who had a hand more clever than clean, and who had enough in him to afford the joke, ‘"M--, if dirt were trumps, what a hand you would hold!"’ A German, being required to give a receipt in full, after much mental effort produced the following! ‘"fresh full. I wants no more money.--John Swaekhammer."’
The Daily Dispatch: June 18, 1861. Richmond Dispatch. 4 pages. by Cowardin & Hammersley. Richmond. June 18, 1861. microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mi : Proquest. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm.
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