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watchman i"1 v d ; aks_payable in i advance two dollars ■. ii for the f.rst.andcocts i;1„ser.,on courtorders er than these rates a bb i yy ixtue mill i 1 the pleasant village ol i e utile girl whose true i — lizzie slone lhe i whom everybody loved — ■so pretty lively and ■: being so sweet gentle ■,.„,_. lizzie had iwo bro herself who were whom she was very ■to ■and played in per h sunny atitumn forenoon ■they bad h played in lhe yard in h mrs stone h woman looked on in their sport b t.-i v ica by themselves after one last merry eaving she said to lizzie — i go home with alice and h with them as lar as the stop there ; and come oui laughing and frolick slood in be little iront h looking alter ihem as and thinking what she smiled at liz i ol laking leave of ber io be gone so short a time — oui her mother even tor ing her lovingly and h a voice as sweet and of adove now as mrs she said solily to en years since god gave ■never has yet caused me h so much along he road k flowers and ber v ,- nearly dark when hey reach i ii when the girls came lo h . many things to tell each h invitations to give so many h was no wonder that tbey i i 7 lizzie could not let her cou i from ihem in her loving h . that her brothers grew a . h george the eldest said — i h m'l see bui thai ned and i u in your kissing or you'll i i elia blushing and laugh h iheir cousin and ran last h wards their home the boys h and lizzie after watch h 7 and thinking bow good ; i her such amiable cousins h and such dear parents to h nl into the mill she found h . mosi frightened by the din ' h daikness ; lor night was h she called iht father's name h . bei the machinery made so i -•.- thai she iiu not hear thinking ____\ tie turned ui_u heme alone ■. . hid often safely taken over ; h greal water-wheel but to j h e was bewildered — lost her fooling j h . off on the wheel wliich whirled her ' h « i;i tearing her in a shocking : h ed lhat jusl at thai moment ; h lhat lizzie lad been sent i ped the mill and began h led by her cries be came i re lound what had occur i h vou badly hint my daugbter ?" he ask j h am terror h i seem to be all crushed to i i i annol stir but 1 think 1 shall live i leave me here and go for h hood was soon roused and ma il ith saws and axes lo lhe mill h tl on ly one or two could woi !•: _ away lhe strong heavy . il would be some hours before be taken from lhe cruel place w is held so fast and crushed so ! said i hat to move the wheel rward might kill ber at once m s stone came one of lhe men let o lhe wheel so that she could when she saw lizzie's . ; the bleeding arms held towards ihe shrieked and cried bitterly hut liz j .,.- sweetly and cheerfully - ken in her life and said — . mother ! they will get me _ keep up good courage and me ntinued to talk hour after hour li kept cutting and sawing the ■so she cheered and comforted . her poor brothers when they mill te her voice grow very low and indistinct tltogelher ; the doctor iooked - ie had tainted away and thev upon her as soon as she re - v comforting things and til 1 brothers not to cry — not suffei so much pain as at was sure she would live to me v midnighl when tho last timber ■was sawed away and a workman • up and laid her in her lather's tin ol being moved caused the lint again and she did not revive en carried home when she - ■t j l -• she found herself on her own v h her dear lather and mother and d lizzie's wounds and im to make her sleep bul r father and mother lhat she could - i well when he heard she pros mr stone groaned and covered ith his hands and for a few mo leaned her head on her hus r and cried then lifting her _ ber hands she said thy ■■" '-" and went and sal down j lizzie's side and watched her till w ' ""<** girl remained sleeping most .*• she would olten wake and the carolina watchman j j bruner ) } " keep a check upox all voce editor 4 proprietor ) rulers ( new series do this a?*d liberty is safe \ gen i harrison ( volume ix number 19 salisbury n c thursday september 9 1852 ask for water but she then seemed hardly to know where she was or who was wiih her — her cousins alice and celia came to see her but she did not recognize thern and they went away sobbing bitterly early in the night however she awoke and seemed better she knew all about her and smiled on them but said she must leave them veiy soon she told her father lhat she want ed to hear him pray once more ; and mr stone knell down by her bedside and asked god to lake safely home the little daughter he had given ihem and thanked him lor leaving her with ihem so long then lizzie said to her mother " will you sing me jusl one verse of the hymn i love so much ■jesus sought me ?' " her mother tried but she could not sing for weeping ; and lizzie said " never mind where 1 am going there is beautiful singing yet it seems lo me 1 shall hear no voice so sweel as yours mamma why do you cry ? only think mamma if i should live now how > crooked and sickly i should be 1 might be a hunchback and give a greal deal of trouble and sorrow to you all will it not be belter ; lo bury up ihis crushed body and let he plea sant grass grow over it and have a new glori ous body such as the angels have ?" as she spoke these words she smiled and did uot weep ; but when afterwards she asked lor a faithful bouse dog and her pretty mai tese kitten and ihey were brought lo her she bursl into tears '* good bye old bose ! good bye kitty !" said she *' i cry mamma lo j pari from ihese because i never never shall see them again ; for tbey have no souls poor things but you and papa will come to liea ven belore many years : and you too broth ers it you are good boys a little while alter this she said " georgie \ give my love lo alice and celia and tell ihem \ lhat 1 am glad 1 kissed them so many times last night eddie take care of my flowers ; ; and boys don't miss me too much in your play i after lying very quiet lor some moments she i again spoke and said : " mamma are lhe shutters open and has i the morning come very brightly ?" " no my daughter her moiher answered | " il is sliil dark night " oh ihen said lizzie " it must be the windows ol god's beautiful palace i see with the pleasant light shining i brough 1 am al most there ! good bye mamma and papa aud brolhers — good bye and with a smile spread over her lace lizzie stretched out her arms looked upward and so died when lizzie lay in her cofiin lhat smile was on her sweet face still — brighter and pur er than lhe while roses that lay upon her pil low — and mrs slone tried not lo let her tears fall upon it ; for she said •' god has taken back a little angel he lent me lor a few years and why should 1 weep for my happy happy child !" the moonlight ride a number of years ago a gentleman in j clydesdale offered me a situaiion ot head j groom which i accepted he had one horse \ which was kept in a stable by himself and j was without exception the ugliest and most j savage animal ot his kind i had ever seen — j there was nol a single point of a strong or fast i horse aboul him he was black as charcoal ; j — he was named saian and richly did he de j serve the name he would fly at you like a dog with his teelh ; attempt to beal you down j with his forefeet ; and strike around a corner al you with his hind ones he had beaten off all the rough riders grooms and jockeys in that j pari of the country after being at tbe place a few days i was \ asked by the gentleman if i thought i could make anything of satan i replied that if he \ beat me he would be the first horse that had ever done so ; bul still i considered him to be . by far lhe most savage i had ever seen " try him to-morrow at one o'clock said he as he turned lo go away : " i will have a lew iriends with me to see how you succeed 1 determined however to try him that night and without any witness to see whether i sue , ceeded or not my room was over the stables and as the moon did not rise till eleven o'clock i threw myself upon the bed clothes and contra ry to my intention fell asleep when i woke it was twelve the moon was shining brightly and rendering everything as visible as it it ; were day i went down to the stable with a bridle pre pared for the purpose and heavily loaded whip in my hand 1 knew lhal it would be impossi ble to saddle him ; and indeed 1 would be sa ler on his bare back in the event of throwing himself down i opened the stable door gen tly and ihere ho was prone on his side his legs and neck stretched out as i had often seen , horses laying alter sore fatigue i clapped my knee upon his head loosed ihe collar that bound him slipped the bit into his mouth buckled lhe throat band raised him to his leet and backed him out and leaped upon his back belore he i bad lime to get his eyes wide open but open | them now he did and that wiih a vengeance ; he pawed and si tick the walls with his tore feet till the fire flash from tbe stones and then he reared till be fell back upon the pavement i was prepared for this and slipped off ot him | as he went down and then leaped on him a j gain as he rose i had not as yet touched him with whip bridle orspurr : bul now i gave him the curb and ihe spur at the same instant j he crave one mad bound and then went oft at | a rafe that completely eclipsed the speed ofthe j fleetest horse i had ever ridden he could not j trot bul his gallop was unapproachable and j i consisted of a succession of leaps p^med j ! with a precision velocity and strength absolute j ly bewildering . , ! he fairly overturned all my preconceived no i tions of a gul horse on he thundered nil he i came under lhe shadow of a firwood and then whether out of mischief or dread of the dark ne*s he baited instantaneously his forefeet so close together that you might have pul them in to a bucket owing to the depression ot bis shoulders for he had no more withers than an as,__the way lhat he jerked down his head and the suddenness of ihe stop a monkey al though he had been holding on with his teeth musfhave been unseated for me i was pitch ! ed a long way over his head but alighted upon j a spot so solt and mossy lhat it looked as if ! some kind hand had purposely prepared it for j me had i been lhe least stunned or unable j to gain my feet lhat instant he would have torn me to pieces with his teeth and beaten my mangled body into the earth with his hoofs — bu i at once sprang to my feet and faced him i could have escaped by leaping into the wood ; bul my blood was up my brain clear and my heart gave not one extra pulsalion there he stood upon his hind legs nearly upright beating the air with his fore-feet his mouth opened his upper lip curled his under one drawn down his large while teeth glancing like ivory in lhe moonlight a soon as he saw me upon my feet he gave a yell such as i had never heard irom a horse before save once and which i believe is never elided from lhat an imal except under the domination of frantic rage or fear this unearthly cry aroused every thing li v ing wiihin hearing an army of rooks start led from iheir encampment in the wood cir cled and wheeled between us and the moon shading her light and filling the midnight air wiih discordant screams this attracted the attention of satan and bringing his fore-feet tothe ground he pricked up his ear and listen ed i sprang forward and seized him by the mane and vaulted upon his back as i stoop ed forward to gather up the reins which wero from his head he caught me by the cuft of the jacket — luckily il was but the cuff — and tore it up to the shoulder instantly he seiz ed me again ; but this lime he succeeded rath er belter having a small portion of the skin and flesh of my thigh between his teelh the intense pain occasioned by lhe bite or ralher bruise of a borse can only be properly judg ed by those who have fell it 1 was the madder of the two now ; and of all animals an enraged man is the most dangerous and i most fearless i gave him a blow between ihe ears with the end of the whip and he went down at ouce stunned and senseless with his legs doubled under him and his nose buried in the ground 1 drew his forelegs from under him that he might rise the more readily and ihen lashed bim into life he turned his head slowly round and looked at me and then i saw the savage looking glare of his eye was nearly quenched and lhat if 1 could follow up the advantage 1 had gained i should ultimately be the conqueror i now assisted him to rise mounted him and struck j at once with whip and spur he gave a few bounds forward and a stagger or two and then fell heavily upon his side i was nearly under him ; however i did save my distance although that was about all i now began to feel sorry for him his won derful speed had won my respect ; and as 1 was far from being naturally cruel whip or j spur 1 never used except in cases of necessity : i so i thought i would allow him lo lie for a j few minutes if he did not incline lo get up j of himself however as i had no faith in j the creature i sal down upon him and watch ed hitn intently he lay motionless with his , eyes shut ; and had it not been for the firm . and fast beat of his hearl i should have con sidered him dying from lhe effects ofthe blow but the strong pulsation told me there was pien i ty of life in him ; and i suspected he was lying j quiet meditating mischief i was right ev i ery muscle began presently to quiver with sup . pressed rage he opened his eyes and gave \ me a look in which fear and fury were sl range iy blended i am not without superslilion and for an instant i quailed under that look as . the thought lhat lhe black unshapely brute be , fore me might be lhe spirit indicated by his name with a muttered growl at my lolly i threw the idea from me leaped up seized , the reins with a lash and a cry made him j spring to his feet — mounted him as he rose i and struck the spurs into his sides he reared and wheeled bul finding lhat he could nol get rid of me and being unable to stand tbe torture i of the spurs which i used freely it was no time lor mercy !) he gave iwo or three plunges and then bounded away at lhat dreadful leaping gallop that pace which seemed peculiarly his own i tried to moderate his speed with the bridle ; but found to my surprise lhat i had no command over him 1 knew at once that some j thin was wrong as with the bit 1 had in his mouth i ought to have had the power to have broken his jawbone i stooped forward to as certain the cause ; the loose curb dangling at the side of his head gave satisfactory explanation he had it all his own way now ; he was fairly oft with me ; and all i could do was to bear bis head as well as i could to prevent him from stumbling however as it would have been bad policy to let him know how much he was master i gave him an occasion al touch with the spur as if wishing him to accelerate his pace ; and when he made an extra bound i palled him on the neck as if pleas ed with his performance \ watery cloud was passing over the lace of the moon which rendered every-th.ng dim and indistinct as we tore away down a grassy slope ; the view terminating in a grove ot tall trees situated upon a rising ground beyond the dark outline of the trees 1 saw nothing as we neared the grove satan slacked his speed this i thought he did with an intention to crush me against the trunks of lhe trees to prevent him from doing this 1 struck him with the spurs and again he went like fury s he burst through the trees 1 flung my head forward upon his neck to prevent myself from beim swept off by the lower branches in do in this the spurs accidently came in contact with his sides he gave one tremendous leap forward the ground sank under his jet-the horse was thrown over his own head-l a5 jerked into the air and amid an ava.anche of earth and stones we were hurled down a per pendicular bank into he brown swollen trtm of the clyde owing to a bend in the r ve the force of the current was directed again this particular spot and had undermined it and ll.hough strong enough to bear a man or a horse under ordinary circumstances yet down at once it thundered under the desperate eap of satan however it did nol signify as noth ing could have prevented us from surging into the river at the next bound a large quantity of rain had fallen in lhe up j per part of ihe shire ; and in consequence the river was full from bank to bank i was j nearly a stranger to the place ; indeed so much 1 so lhat i had supposed we were running from the river this combined with ihe suddenness ' of the shock and lhe appearance ot a turbid j rapid river sweeping down trees brushwood branches hay corn and straw belore it with resistless force — was so foreign to my idea of calm peaceful clyde that when i rose to the surface i was quite bewildered and bad very serious doubts as to my own identity i was aroused from this state of of bewilder ; men by the snorting and splashing ofthe horse ; he was making boid attempts lo scale the per pendicular bank had i been ihrown into the body of the stream i must have been swept a way and the animal must have perished but , iu all heavy runs of water sail or fresh ihere i is what is termed the eddy stream running ; close in shore in a contrary direction lo the ; main body of water i have seen highlanders ; in tbeir boats catching fish in the eddy-siream of he gulf of corrievrekin within a short dis : lance of he main tide which had it but got lhe slightest hold on their boat would have swept them with fearful velocity in the jaws of ike roaring gulf i was caught by this eddy ; which kept me stationary and enabled me by a few strokes to reach the horse's side to , cross the river or to land here was alike im possible ; sol took the reins in my right hand j wheeled the horse from the bank and dashed at once into the strength ofthe current away ' i we went satan and 1 in capital spirits both : , ! not a doubt of our effecting a safe landing ever i l crossed my mind and the horse evinced his certainty upon that subject by snatching a bite ! out of a heap of hay that floated at bis side ■\ and eating it as composedly as if he had been i in lhe stable i we soon swept around the high bank which ; i had caused our misfortune : and came to a lev j \ el part of the country which was flooded far ; up into the fields i then struck strongly out j i in a slanting direction for the shore and soon j ' had the satisfaction of finding myself once more j j upon the green turf satan shook himself and \ pricked up his ears and gave a low neigh i \ , then stroked him and spoke kindly lo him — j he returned tbe caress by licking my hand — ■! poor fellow ! he had contracted a friendship for j i me in water — a friendship which terminated on i ly with his life ; and which was rendered the i more valuable by his never extending it to an other living thing the mammoth cave of ken tucky the subjoined interesting extract rela ting to this great natural curiosity is ex tracted from willis's letters in the new york home journal : col croghan to whose family it be longs was resident of louisville ken \ tucky he went to europe twenty years j ago and as an american found himself frequently questioned of the wonders of the mammoth cave a place he had nev er visited and of which at home though living within ninety miles of it he had heard very little he went there imme diately on his return and the idea struck j him to purchase and make it a family in j heritance in 15 minutes bargaining he bought it for 810.000 though shortly after | he was offered 100.000 for his purchase • in his will he tied it up in such a way that j it must remain in his family for two gene i rations thus appending its celebrity to his name there are nineteen hundred acres in the estate three square miles above j ground though the cave probably runs un j der the property of a great number of other j land owners for fear of those who might j dig down and establish an enl ranee to the cave on their own property a man's farm extending up to zenith and down to the nadir great vigilance is exercised to pre i vent such subterranean surveys and mea | surements as would enable them to sink | a shaft with any certainty the cave ex | tends ten or twelve miles in several direc i tions and there is probably many a back j woodsman sitting in his log hut within j 10 miles of the cave quite unconscious j that the most fashionable ladies and gen tlemen of europe and america are walk j ing without leave under his corn and po ; tatoes ! i the equable air and the good health of the miners who were at one time em ! ployed in digging saltpetre from near the , entrance stai ted an idea some time since that a hospital for consumptive patients might be profitably established in the cave stone-huts were accordingly constructed in the dark halls beyond the reach of ex ternal air and among those who tried the ■experiment were two consumptive gentle men who with their two healthy wives passed six weeks in hideous seclusion from day-light one of the gentlemen died tiiere.°and tbe other received no benefit — but the devotion of those voluntarily bu ried wives should chronicle their names in the cave's history another patient who went in and remained some weeks was attended by friends and a servant but his end approaching the death scene in that dark and silent abyss became so appalling that they fled in terror friends and servant and left the dying man alone nothing could induce them to re turn and when others went in the poor man was found dead with an expression of indescribable horror upon his features those who have seen these dreary huts miles away from the sunshine who have smelt the grave like air barren of the per vading vitality which vegetation gives the atmosphere above ground and who have realized tbe intense silence and darkness : that reign there like monsters whose pres j ence is felt can appreciate the horror of ! being left alone at the last hour in such a 1 place tbe sideavenuesof the cave into which ! visitors are not usually taken are said to . be labyrinths of interminable perplexity and the guides are instructed to let none enter them alone a gentleman who left bis party a year or two ago and ventured to explore for himself lost his way and was only found by stephen after many long and vain searches he had stumbled and put out his lamp and had been forty three hours alone in the darkness when discovered he was lying on his face be numbed and insensible stephen brought him out several miles upon his back and he recovered — but he had the experience of a death in darkness and solitude the mammoth cave is as large as a county but having another county on top of it it is not represented i believe in the kentucky legislature in the county's literature it will be strongly represented some day — for there is scenery for a mag nificent poem — a new dante's inferno — in its wondrous depths it is a western prairie of imagination — still wild and un occupied old billy making his will old bill l was aclcseandcute one on em he married about twenty years since the daughter of mrs g , who had but one other child — a son she had about twenty " woolly heads of which number she gave her son lem h , three and living at old billy's house she had not thought proper to give him any property at all he had the use of the servants and his good mamma-in-law thought that was enough but the old lady was very kind-hearted and credulous and yet with all these good qualities in his favor old billy had planned and plotted for years in vain trying to induce our mamma as he called her to give him a title to the darkies at last a new idea found its tangled way into his organ of acquisiteness old billy was attacked very suddenly and very severely with cramp cholic he went to bed rolled groaned grunted and tumbled contracting his arms and legs his wife wanted to send for a doctor oh ! mely it's no use i can't revive it i'll suspire fore night espatch cato for captin murry to write my last wil i in testament captain murry came and found the dy ing man in great pain ; his end was at hand after the captain had mended his pen and placed his writing lixens all ready for use the sick man whined out in a faint weak voice " mely ax our mamma to come in the old lady came greatly distressed and sobbing oh mamma whispered old billy in a husky tone i'm ended — and 1 don't know how to go bout making my will — can't you tell me what you're gwine to do wid dem niggers ov yourn ? you needn't be afraid to give them to me ; i'm gwine to give the most of em to betsey any how betsey was old billy's only daugh ter and a namesake and great favorite of the old lady well mr l , you've always been mighty good to me i'll give em all to you and you can just place em on your children to your own liking put dat down captin murry thecaptain beingsomewhat acquainted with the forms in such cases made and provided wrote a bill of sale and silently motioned to the old lady to sign it when she did so the dying man exclaimed — " witness dat captin murry the captain signed his name as witness to the paper and laid it at the back of the table next to the bed and prepared to write the will then seeing the dying man so quiet he thought it was stupor and called out to rouse him — i'm ready to write now sir old billy turned in his bed took up the paper and asked in a voice wonderfully improved — " is dis a good biller sale captin mar ry ?" " certainly — i think so well mely look bind the press and bring dat ar bottle ; may be captin mur ry would like to take a little on it the captain barely touched it to his lips then setting the bottle on the table asked " what shall i write v " why captin i feel siderably lieved i'll espone it a day or two then sitting up on the bedside he reached out his hand to the bottle and the comfort commenced running down his ca pacious spirit-duct at a rate that if con tinued as long as the mor;il law would have made a common fi-v pond of the at lantic ocean then slipping the bill of sale into his pocket old billy exclaimed in a full strong voice — well captin if 1 keep on mendin i'll go up to carlton in the mornin and have this here biller sale corded then let lem h be botherin me i'll teach him who them ar diggers belong to captain murry " vamosed and even now he goes into convulsions if any man mentions the writing of a \\ ill premium for rice the agricultural society of south carolina has awarded the premium for rice to john h tucker esq being the greatest yield on 10 acres the,prod"ct being s5s uihe-s t0 105 acres aod 13 compasses " stranger has it lit ?" we have often thought that to a per son who saw a train of cars in motion for tbe first time the sight must be most mi raculous and astounding as jack down ing once said twas so queer to see a hull jot of wagons chuck full of people and things agoin off at that ere speed and no hoss to draw em a genius of the sort referred to lately made his ex perimental trip he was a greenhorn a genuine backwoodsman who feared noth ing in the shape of man or beast but any thing that he could not understand puz ' zled him even more than it did perhaps tbe ordinary run of his fellows well he ; came to cartersville a short time since i for the purpose of taking his first railroad trip he'd hearn tell on em but didn't be lieve he said half the nonsense folks said about em when the cars arrived at the place our hero was there patiently waiting and much excited and elevated in anticipating his intended ride as tho cars approached.be stood gazing with won : der and awe at the engine puffing and smoking following the others as soon as the cars stopped he hurried aboard with his saddle-bag on his arm and seated himself near a window then looking around at the passengers manifestly much surprised he put his head c!lt ofthe win ■dow to see the critter starif while in this position watching with much anxiety the whistle sounded our hero much sur prised and evidently a little alarmed drew back his head with a motion that might be called a jerk and turning to a gentleman sitting near him said : " well stranger did you ever hear such a snort as that v " the engine ?" suggested the other " wei i don't know what it is but — hollo how she goes !' guess you are not acquainted with railroad travelling ?" " hang it no ! hain't they runaway ? — creation how it jerks !" " it's all safe enough you may rely the [ cars are starting that's all ; well stranger i ain't afeared you know but kinder surprised like that's all said the mountain boy j half ashamed t golly ! stranger did ! you hear that ere snort it beats dad's jackass and he's a roarer an no mistake whew how it does puff somethiu bus i tin i'm sure oh fudge it's all right.^said the oth er setting himself for a nap " 1 swow ! 1 don't see how you can i sleep darned ef i do !" | nothing like getting used to it said i the other * you've heard of the eels that j had been skinned so many times they ra ther liked it and used to come ashore eve ; ry few days to get their hide taken off haven't you " your gassin stranger the bell rang the engine moved off away went the cars at rapid speed and before our hero had recovered from the shock which the snort produced lhe ; cars were moving slowly over etowah bridge discovering a change in its i gait he popped his head out of the win dow again " to see how it moved saw that he was some distance from the earth and supposing the critter was flying swooned and fell speechless several gentlemen sitting near caught hold of him raised him up shook him and rubbed him until he revived a utile " this man's crazy suggested some of the bystanders sagely " no he's not answered he who had before spoken he's frightened " frightened ?" " yes scared half to death " about what ?" " the cars ; he never was in a train before ; he told me so a hearty laugh ran through those about the fainting man which had the effect to arouse him to consciousness or at least to partially do so for his breath began to come and go more regularly and at last he opened his eyes as large as saucers and seeing several of the gen tlemen who had just come to his assis | tance about him he looked up most be i seechingly in the face ol one of them and ' said — " stranger has it lit ?" — flag of the union yankee curiosity — as a sailor who 1 had lost an arm was travelling through 1 the country he stopped at a house for re freshment ; the curiosity of the landlord was excited to know in what manner it was lost i'll tell you said jack if you won't ask me any other questions '. about it the landlord agreed " well then said jack was bitoff the yankee would nut forfeit his word but anxiously replied : " darnation don't i wish 1 knotted what bit it off i horse jockey and lawver — " what is your occupation ?" " horse jockey sir what was your father's occupation v trading horses sir did your father cheat any one while here /" i suppose he did cheat many sir " where do you suppose he went to ?" " to heaven sir " and what do you suppose he is doing there v " trading horses sir " has he cheated any one there ?" he cheated one i believe sir " why did they not prosecute him ?" because they searched tbe whole kingdom of heaven and could not find a lawyer go it bobtail h<v gaining on you is now rendered or ought n be — pro ceed robert's extremity ve gt ritleman in the rear is approximating to an inconve nient vicisitudeof the longitudinal appen dage which subtends the lower extension i of your caudal elongation
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Title | Carolina Watchman |
Masthead | The Carolina Watchman |
Date | 1852-09-09 |
Month | 09 |
Day | 09 |
Year | 1852 |
Volume | 9 |
Issue | 19 |
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Creator | J. J. Bruner Editor and Proprietor |
Date Digital | 2008-10-30 |
Publisher | J. J. Bruner |
Place | United States, North Carolina, Rowan County, Salisbury |
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Source | Microfilm |
Digital Format | JP2 |
Project Subject | State Archives of North Carolina Historic Newspaper Archive |
Description | The Thursday, September 9, 1852 issue of the Carolina Watchman a weekly and semi weekly newspaper from Salisbury, North Carolina |
Rights | Public |
Language | eng |
OCLC number | 601556562 |
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Title | Carolina Watchman |
Masthead | The Carolina Watchman |
Date | 1852-09-09 |
Month | 09 |
Day | 09 |
Year | 1852 |
Volume | 9 |
Issue | 19 |
Sequence | 1 |
Page | 1 |
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Creator | J. J. Bruner Editor and Proprietor |
Date Digital | 2008-10-30 |
Publisher | J. J. Bruner |
Place | United States, North Carolina, Rowan County, Salisbury |
Type | Text |
Source | Microfilm |
Digital Format | JP2 |
Project Subject | State Archives of North Carolina Historic Newspaper Archive |
Description | The Thursday, September 9, 1852 issue of the Carolina Watchman a weekly and semi weekly newspaper from Salisbury, North Carolina |
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watchman i"1 v d ; aks_payable in i advance two dollars ■. ii for the f.rst.andcocts i;1„ser.,on courtorders er than these rates a bb i yy ixtue mill i 1 the pleasant village ol i e utile girl whose true i — lizzie slone lhe i whom everybody loved — ■so pretty lively and ■: being so sweet gentle ■,.„,_. lizzie had iwo bro herself who were whom she was very ■to ■and played in per h sunny atitumn forenoon ■they bad h played in lhe yard in h mrs stone h woman looked on in their sport b t.-i v ica by themselves after one last merry eaving she said to lizzie — i go home with alice and h with them as lar as the stop there ; and come oui laughing and frolick slood in be little iront h looking alter ihem as and thinking what she smiled at liz i ol laking leave of ber io be gone so short a time — oui her mother even tor ing her lovingly and h a voice as sweet and of adove now as mrs she said solily to en years since god gave ■never has yet caused me h so much along he road k flowers and ber v ,- nearly dark when hey reach i ii when the girls came lo h . many things to tell each h invitations to give so many h was no wonder that tbey i i 7 lizzie could not let her cou i from ihem in her loving h . that her brothers grew a . h george the eldest said — i h m'l see bui thai ned and i u in your kissing or you'll i i elia blushing and laugh h iheir cousin and ran last h wards their home the boys h and lizzie after watch h 7 and thinking bow good ; i her such amiable cousins h and such dear parents to h nl into the mill she found h . mosi frightened by the din ' h daikness ; lor night was h she called iht father's name h . bei the machinery made so i -•.- thai she iiu not hear thinking ____\ tie turned ui_u heme alone ■. . hid often safely taken over ; h greal water-wheel but to j h e was bewildered — lost her fooling j h . off on the wheel wliich whirled her ' h « i;i tearing her in a shocking : h ed lhat jusl at thai moment ; h lhat lizzie lad been sent i ped the mill and began h led by her cries be came i re lound what had occur i h vou badly hint my daugbter ?" he ask j h am terror h i seem to be all crushed to i i i annol stir but 1 think 1 shall live i leave me here and go for h hood was soon roused and ma il ith saws and axes lo lhe mill h tl on ly one or two could woi !•: _ away lhe strong heavy . il would be some hours before be taken from lhe cruel place w is held so fast and crushed so ! said i hat to move the wheel rward might kill ber at once m s stone came one of lhe men let o lhe wheel so that she could when she saw lizzie's . ; the bleeding arms held towards ihe shrieked and cried bitterly hut liz j .,.- sweetly and cheerfully - ken in her life and said — . mother ! they will get me _ keep up good courage and me ntinued to talk hour after hour li kept cutting and sawing the ■so she cheered and comforted . her poor brothers when they mill te her voice grow very low and indistinct tltogelher ; the doctor iooked - ie had tainted away and thev upon her as soon as she re - v comforting things and til 1 brothers not to cry — not suffei so much pain as at was sure she would live to me v midnighl when tho last timber ■was sawed away and a workman • up and laid her in her lather's tin ol being moved caused the lint again and she did not revive en carried home when she - ■t j l -• she found herself on her own v h her dear lather and mother and d lizzie's wounds and im to make her sleep bul r father and mother lhat she could - i well when he heard she pros mr stone groaned and covered ith his hands and for a few mo leaned her head on her hus r and cried then lifting her _ ber hands she said thy ■■" '-" and went and sal down j lizzie's side and watched her till w ' ""<** girl remained sleeping most .*• she would olten wake and the carolina watchman j j bruner ) } " keep a check upox all voce editor 4 proprietor ) rulers ( new series do this a?*d liberty is safe \ gen i harrison ( volume ix number 19 salisbury n c thursday september 9 1852 ask for water but she then seemed hardly to know where she was or who was wiih her — her cousins alice and celia came to see her but she did not recognize thern and they went away sobbing bitterly early in the night however she awoke and seemed better she knew all about her and smiled on them but said she must leave them veiy soon she told her father lhat she want ed to hear him pray once more ; and mr stone knell down by her bedside and asked god to lake safely home the little daughter he had given ihem and thanked him lor leaving her with ihem so long then lizzie said to her mother " will you sing me jusl one verse of the hymn i love so much ■jesus sought me ?' " her mother tried but she could not sing for weeping ; and lizzie said " never mind where 1 am going there is beautiful singing yet it seems lo me 1 shall hear no voice so sweel as yours mamma why do you cry ? only think mamma if i should live now how > crooked and sickly i should be 1 might be a hunchback and give a greal deal of trouble and sorrow to you all will it not be belter ; lo bury up ihis crushed body and let he plea sant grass grow over it and have a new glori ous body such as the angels have ?" as she spoke these words she smiled and did uot weep ; but when afterwards she asked lor a faithful bouse dog and her pretty mai tese kitten and ihey were brought lo her she bursl into tears '* good bye old bose ! good bye kitty !" said she *' i cry mamma lo j pari from ihese because i never never shall see them again ; for tbey have no souls poor things but you and papa will come to liea ven belore many years : and you too broth ers it you are good boys a little while alter this she said " georgie \ give my love lo alice and celia and tell ihem \ lhat 1 am glad 1 kissed them so many times last night eddie take care of my flowers ; ; and boys don't miss me too much in your play i after lying very quiet lor some moments she i again spoke and said : " mamma are lhe shutters open and has i the morning come very brightly ?" " no my daughter her moiher answered | " il is sliil dark night " oh ihen said lizzie " it must be the windows ol god's beautiful palace i see with the pleasant light shining i brough 1 am al most there ! good bye mamma and papa aud brolhers — good bye and with a smile spread over her lace lizzie stretched out her arms looked upward and so died when lizzie lay in her cofiin lhat smile was on her sweet face still — brighter and pur er than lhe while roses that lay upon her pil low — and mrs slone tried not lo let her tears fall upon it ; for she said •' god has taken back a little angel he lent me lor a few years and why should 1 weep for my happy happy child !" the moonlight ride a number of years ago a gentleman in j clydesdale offered me a situaiion ot head j groom which i accepted he had one horse \ which was kept in a stable by himself and j was without exception the ugliest and most j savage animal ot his kind i had ever seen — j there was nol a single point of a strong or fast i horse aboul him he was black as charcoal ; j — he was named saian and richly did he de j serve the name he would fly at you like a dog with his teelh ; attempt to beal you down j with his forefeet ; and strike around a corner al you with his hind ones he had beaten off all the rough riders grooms and jockeys in that j pari of the country after being at tbe place a few days i was \ asked by the gentleman if i thought i could make anything of satan i replied that if he \ beat me he would be the first horse that had ever done so ; bul still i considered him to be . by far lhe most savage i had ever seen " try him to-morrow at one o'clock said he as he turned lo go away : " i will have a lew iriends with me to see how you succeed 1 determined however to try him that night and without any witness to see whether i sue , ceeded or not my room was over the stables and as the moon did not rise till eleven o'clock i threw myself upon the bed clothes and contra ry to my intention fell asleep when i woke it was twelve the moon was shining brightly and rendering everything as visible as it it ; were day i went down to the stable with a bridle pre pared for the purpose and heavily loaded whip in my hand 1 knew lhal it would be impossi ble to saddle him ; and indeed 1 would be sa ler on his bare back in the event of throwing himself down i opened the stable door gen tly and ihere ho was prone on his side his legs and neck stretched out as i had often seen , horses laying alter sore fatigue i clapped my knee upon his head loosed ihe collar that bound him slipped the bit into his mouth buckled lhe throat band raised him to his leet and backed him out and leaped upon his back belore he i bad lime to get his eyes wide open but open | them now he did and that wiih a vengeance ; he pawed and si tick the walls with his tore feet till the fire flash from tbe stones and then he reared till be fell back upon the pavement i was prepared for this and slipped off ot him | as he went down and then leaped on him a j gain as he rose i had not as yet touched him with whip bridle orspurr : bul now i gave him the curb and ihe spur at the same instant j he crave one mad bound and then went oft at | a rafe that completely eclipsed the speed ofthe j fleetest horse i had ever ridden he could not j trot bul his gallop was unapproachable and j i consisted of a succession of leaps p^med j ! with a precision velocity and strength absolute j ly bewildering . , ! he fairly overturned all my preconceived no i tions of a gul horse on he thundered nil he i came under lhe shadow of a firwood and then whether out of mischief or dread of the dark ne*s he baited instantaneously his forefeet so close together that you might have pul them in to a bucket owing to the depression ot bis shoulders for he had no more withers than an as,__the way lhat he jerked down his head and the suddenness of ihe stop a monkey al though he had been holding on with his teeth musfhave been unseated for me i was pitch ! ed a long way over his head but alighted upon j a spot so solt and mossy lhat it looked as if ! some kind hand had purposely prepared it for j me had i been lhe least stunned or unable j to gain my feet lhat instant he would have torn me to pieces with his teeth and beaten my mangled body into the earth with his hoofs — bu i at once sprang to my feet and faced him i could have escaped by leaping into the wood ; bul my blood was up my brain clear and my heart gave not one extra pulsalion there he stood upon his hind legs nearly upright beating the air with his fore-feet his mouth opened his upper lip curled his under one drawn down his large while teeth glancing like ivory in lhe moonlight a soon as he saw me upon my feet he gave a yell such as i had never heard irom a horse before save once and which i believe is never elided from lhat an imal except under the domination of frantic rage or fear this unearthly cry aroused every thing li v ing wiihin hearing an army of rooks start led from iheir encampment in the wood cir cled and wheeled between us and the moon shading her light and filling the midnight air wiih discordant screams this attracted the attention of satan and bringing his fore-feet tothe ground he pricked up his ear and listen ed i sprang forward and seized him by the mane and vaulted upon his back as i stoop ed forward to gather up the reins which wero from his head he caught me by the cuft of the jacket — luckily il was but the cuff — and tore it up to the shoulder instantly he seiz ed me again ; but this lime he succeeded rath er belter having a small portion of the skin and flesh of my thigh between his teelh the intense pain occasioned by lhe bite or ralher bruise of a borse can only be properly judg ed by those who have fell it 1 was the madder of the two now ; and of all animals an enraged man is the most dangerous and i most fearless i gave him a blow between ihe ears with the end of the whip and he went down at ouce stunned and senseless with his legs doubled under him and his nose buried in the ground 1 drew his forelegs from under him that he might rise the more readily and ihen lashed bim into life he turned his head slowly round and looked at me and then i saw the savage looking glare of his eye was nearly quenched and lhat if 1 could follow up the advantage 1 had gained i should ultimately be the conqueror i now assisted him to rise mounted him and struck j at once with whip and spur he gave a few bounds forward and a stagger or two and then fell heavily upon his side i was nearly under him ; however i did save my distance although that was about all i now began to feel sorry for him his won derful speed had won my respect ; and as 1 was far from being naturally cruel whip or j spur 1 never used except in cases of necessity : i so i thought i would allow him lo lie for a j few minutes if he did not incline lo get up j of himself however as i had no faith in j the creature i sal down upon him and watch ed hitn intently he lay motionless with his , eyes shut ; and had it not been for the firm . and fast beat of his hearl i should have con sidered him dying from lhe effects ofthe blow but the strong pulsation told me there was pien i ty of life in him ; and i suspected he was lying j quiet meditating mischief i was right ev i ery muscle began presently to quiver with sup . pressed rage he opened his eyes and gave \ me a look in which fear and fury were sl range iy blended i am not without superslilion and for an instant i quailed under that look as . the thought lhat lhe black unshapely brute be , fore me might be lhe spirit indicated by his name with a muttered growl at my lolly i threw the idea from me leaped up seized , the reins with a lash and a cry made him j spring to his feet — mounted him as he rose i and struck the spurs into his sides he reared and wheeled bul finding lhat he could nol get rid of me and being unable to stand tbe torture i of the spurs which i used freely it was no time lor mercy !) he gave iwo or three plunges and then bounded away at lhat dreadful leaping gallop that pace which seemed peculiarly his own i tried to moderate his speed with the bridle ; but found to my surprise lhat i had no command over him 1 knew at once that some j thin was wrong as with the bit 1 had in his mouth i ought to have had the power to have broken his jawbone i stooped forward to as certain the cause ; the loose curb dangling at the side of his head gave satisfactory explanation he had it all his own way now ; he was fairly oft with me ; and all i could do was to bear bis head as well as i could to prevent him from stumbling however as it would have been bad policy to let him know how much he was master i gave him an occasion al touch with the spur as if wishing him to accelerate his pace ; and when he made an extra bound i palled him on the neck as if pleas ed with his performance \ watery cloud was passing over the lace of the moon which rendered every-th.ng dim and indistinct as we tore away down a grassy slope ; the view terminating in a grove ot tall trees situated upon a rising ground beyond the dark outline of the trees 1 saw nothing as we neared the grove satan slacked his speed this i thought he did with an intention to crush me against the trunks of lhe trees to prevent him from doing this 1 struck him with the spurs and again he went like fury s he burst through the trees 1 flung my head forward upon his neck to prevent myself from beim swept off by the lower branches in do in this the spurs accidently came in contact with his sides he gave one tremendous leap forward the ground sank under his jet-the horse was thrown over his own head-l a5 jerked into the air and amid an ava.anche of earth and stones we were hurled down a per pendicular bank into he brown swollen trtm of the clyde owing to a bend in the r ve the force of the current was directed again this particular spot and had undermined it and ll.hough strong enough to bear a man or a horse under ordinary circumstances yet down at once it thundered under the desperate eap of satan however it did nol signify as noth ing could have prevented us from surging into the river at the next bound a large quantity of rain had fallen in lhe up j per part of ihe shire ; and in consequence the river was full from bank to bank i was j nearly a stranger to the place ; indeed so much 1 so lhat i had supposed we were running from the river this combined with ihe suddenness ' of the shock and lhe appearance ot a turbid j rapid river sweeping down trees brushwood branches hay corn and straw belore it with resistless force — was so foreign to my idea of calm peaceful clyde that when i rose to the surface i was quite bewildered and bad very serious doubts as to my own identity i was aroused from this state of of bewilder ; men by the snorting and splashing ofthe horse ; he was making boid attempts lo scale the per pendicular bank had i been ihrown into the body of the stream i must have been swept a way and the animal must have perished but , iu all heavy runs of water sail or fresh ihere i is what is termed the eddy stream running ; close in shore in a contrary direction lo the ; main body of water i have seen highlanders ; in tbeir boats catching fish in the eddy-siream of he gulf of corrievrekin within a short dis : lance of he main tide which had it but got lhe slightest hold on their boat would have swept them with fearful velocity in the jaws of ike roaring gulf i was caught by this eddy ; which kept me stationary and enabled me by a few strokes to reach the horse's side to , cross the river or to land here was alike im possible ; sol took the reins in my right hand j wheeled the horse from the bank and dashed at once into the strength ofthe current away ' i we went satan and 1 in capital spirits both : , ! not a doubt of our effecting a safe landing ever i l crossed my mind and the horse evinced his certainty upon that subject by snatching a bite ! out of a heap of hay that floated at bis side ■\ and eating it as composedly as if he had been i in lhe stable i we soon swept around the high bank which ; i had caused our misfortune : and came to a lev j \ el part of the country which was flooded far ; up into the fields i then struck strongly out j i in a slanting direction for the shore and soon j ' had the satisfaction of finding myself once more j j upon the green turf satan shook himself and \ pricked up his ears and gave a low neigh i \ , then stroked him and spoke kindly lo him — j he returned tbe caress by licking my hand — ■! poor fellow ! he had contracted a friendship for j i me in water — a friendship which terminated on i ly with his life ; and which was rendered the i more valuable by his never extending it to an other living thing the mammoth cave of ken tucky the subjoined interesting extract rela ting to this great natural curiosity is ex tracted from willis's letters in the new york home journal : col croghan to whose family it be longs was resident of louisville ken \ tucky he went to europe twenty years j ago and as an american found himself frequently questioned of the wonders of the mammoth cave a place he had nev er visited and of which at home though living within ninety miles of it he had heard very little he went there imme diately on his return and the idea struck j him to purchase and make it a family in j heritance in 15 minutes bargaining he bought it for 810.000 though shortly after | he was offered 100.000 for his purchase • in his will he tied it up in such a way that j it must remain in his family for two gene i rations thus appending its celebrity to his name there are nineteen hundred acres in the estate three square miles above j ground though the cave probably runs un j der the property of a great number of other j land owners for fear of those who might j dig down and establish an enl ranee to the cave on their own property a man's farm extending up to zenith and down to the nadir great vigilance is exercised to pre i vent such subterranean surveys and mea | surements as would enable them to sink | a shaft with any certainty the cave ex | tends ten or twelve miles in several direc i tions and there is probably many a back j woodsman sitting in his log hut within j 10 miles of the cave quite unconscious j that the most fashionable ladies and gen tlemen of europe and america are walk j ing without leave under his corn and po ; tatoes ! i the equable air and the good health of the miners who were at one time em ! ployed in digging saltpetre from near the , entrance stai ted an idea some time since that a hospital for consumptive patients might be profitably established in the cave stone-huts were accordingly constructed in the dark halls beyond the reach of ex ternal air and among those who tried the ■experiment were two consumptive gentle men who with their two healthy wives passed six weeks in hideous seclusion from day-light one of the gentlemen died tiiere.°and tbe other received no benefit — but the devotion of those voluntarily bu ried wives should chronicle their names in the cave's history another patient who went in and remained some weeks was attended by friends and a servant but his end approaching the death scene in that dark and silent abyss became so appalling that they fled in terror friends and servant and left the dying man alone nothing could induce them to re turn and when others went in the poor man was found dead with an expression of indescribable horror upon his features those who have seen these dreary huts miles away from the sunshine who have smelt the grave like air barren of the per vading vitality which vegetation gives the atmosphere above ground and who have realized tbe intense silence and darkness : that reign there like monsters whose pres j ence is felt can appreciate the horror of ! being left alone at the last hour in such a 1 place tbe sideavenuesof the cave into which ! visitors are not usually taken are said to . be labyrinths of interminable perplexity and the guides are instructed to let none enter them alone a gentleman who left bis party a year or two ago and ventured to explore for himself lost his way and was only found by stephen after many long and vain searches he had stumbled and put out his lamp and had been forty three hours alone in the darkness when discovered he was lying on his face be numbed and insensible stephen brought him out several miles upon his back and he recovered — but he had the experience of a death in darkness and solitude the mammoth cave is as large as a county but having another county on top of it it is not represented i believe in the kentucky legislature in the county's literature it will be strongly represented some day — for there is scenery for a mag nificent poem — a new dante's inferno — in its wondrous depths it is a western prairie of imagination — still wild and un occupied old billy making his will old bill l was aclcseandcute one on em he married about twenty years since the daughter of mrs g , who had but one other child — a son she had about twenty " woolly heads of which number she gave her son lem h , three and living at old billy's house she had not thought proper to give him any property at all he had the use of the servants and his good mamma-in-law thought that was enough but the old lady was very kind-hearted and credulous and yet with all these good qualities in his favor old billy had planned and plotted for years in vain trying to induce our mamma as he called her to give him a title to the darkies at last a new idea found its tangled way into his organ of acquisiteness old billy was attacked very suddenly and very severely with cramp cholic he went to bed rolled groaned grunted and tumbled contracting his arms and legs his wife wanted to send for a doctor oh ! mely it's no use i can't revive it i'll suspire fore night espatch cato for captin murry to write my last wil i in testament captain murry came and found the dy ing man in great pain ; his end was at hand after the captain had mended his pen and placed his writing lixens all ready for use the sick man whined out in a faint weak voice " mely ax our mamma to come in the old lady came greatly distressed and sobbing oh mamma whispered old billy in a husky tone i'm ended — and 1 don't know how to go bout making my will — can't you tell me what you're gwine to do wid dem niggers ov yourn ? you needn't be afraid to give them to me ; i'm gwine to give the most of em to betsey any how betsey was old billy's only daugh ter and a namesake and great favorite of the old lady well mr l , you've always been mighty good to me i'll give em all to you and you can just place em on your children to your own liking put dat down captin murry thecaptain beingsomewhat acquainted with the forms in such cases made and provided wrote a bill of sale and silently motioned to the old lady to sign it when she did so the dying man exclaimed — " witness dat captin murry the captain signed his name as witness to the paper and laid it at the back of the table next to the bed and prepared to write the will then seeing the dying man so quiet he thought it was stupor and called out to rouse him — i'm ready to write now sir old billy turned in his bed took up the paper and asked in a voice wonderfully improved — " is dis a good biller sale captin mar ry ?" " certainly — i think so well mely look bind the press and bring dat ar bottle ; may be captin mur ry would like to take a little on it the captain barely touched it to his lips then setting the bottle on the table asked " what shall i write v " why captin i feel siderably lieved i'll espone it a day or two then sitting up on the bedside he reached out his hand to the bottle and the comfort commenced running down his ca pacious spirit-duct at a rate that if con tinued as long as the mor;il law would have made a common fi-v pond of the at lantic ocean then slipping the bill of sale into his pocket old billy exclaimed in a full strong voice — well captin if 1 keep on mendin i'll go up to carlton in the mornin and have this here biller sale corded then let lem h be botherin me i'll teach him who them ar diggers belong to captain murry " vamosed and even now he goes into convulsions if any man mentions the writing of a \\ ill premium for rice the agricultural society of south carolina has awarded the premium for rice to john h tucker esq being the greatest yield on 10 acres the,prod"ct being s5s uihe-s t0 105 acres aod 13 compasses " stranger has it lit ?" we have often thought that to a per son who saw a train of cars in motion for tbe first time the sight must be most mi raculous and astounding as jack down ing once said twas so queer to see a hull jot of wagons chuck full of people and things agoin off at that ere speed and no hoss to draw em a genius of the sort referred to lately made his ex perimental trip he was a greenhorn a genuine backwoodsman who feared noth ing in the shape of man or beast but any thing that he could not understand puz ' zled him even more than it did perhaps tbe ordinary run of his fellows well he ; came to cartersville a short time since i for the purpose of taking his first railroad trip he'd hearn tell on em but didn't be lieve he said half the nonsense folks said about em when the cars arrived at the place our hero was there patiently waiting and much excited and elevated in anticipating his intended ride as tho cars approached.be stood gazing with won : der and awe at the engine puffing and smoking following the others as soon as the cars stopped he hurried aboard with his saddle-bag on his arm and seated himself near a window then looking around at the passengers manifestly much surprised he put his head c!lt ofthe win ■dow to see the critter starif while in this position watching with much anxiety the whistle sounded our hero much sur prised and evidently a little alarmed drew back his head with a motion that might be called a jerk and turning to a gentleman sitting near him said : " well stranger did you ever hear such a snort as that v " the engine ?" suggested the other " wei i don't know what it is but — hollo how she goes !' guess you are not acquainted with railroad travelling ?" " hang it no ! hain't they runaway ? — creation how it jerks !" " it's all safe enough you may rely the [ cars are starting that's all ; well stranger i ain't afeared you know but kinder surprised like that's all said the mountain boy j half ashamed t golly ! stranger did ! you hear that ere snort it beats dad's jackass and he's a roarer an no mistake whew how it does puff somethiu bus i tin i'm sure oh fudge it's all right.^said the oth er setting himself for a nap " 1 swow ! 1 don't see how you can i sleep darned ef i do !" | nothing like getting used to it said i the other * you've heard of the eels that j had been skinned so many times they ra ther liked it and used to come ashore eve ; ry few days to get their hide taken off haven't you " your gassin stranger the bell rang the engine moved off away went the cars at rapid speed and before our hero had recovered from the shock which the snort produced lhe ; cars were moving slowly over etowah bridge discovering a change in its i gait he popped his head out of the win dow again " to see how it moved saw that he was some distance from the earth and supposing the critter was flying swooned and fell speechless several gentlemen sitting near caught hold of him raised him up shook him and rubbed him until he revived a utile " this man's crazy suggested some of the bystanders sagely " no he's not answered he who had before spoken he's frightened " frightened ?" " yes scared half to death " about what ?" " the cars ; he never was in a train before ; he told me so a hearty laugh ran through those about the fainting man which had the effect to arouse him to consciousness or at least to partially do so for his breath began to come and go more regularly and at last he opened his eyes as large as saucers and seeing several of the gen tlemen who had just come to his assis | tance about him he looked up most be i seechingly in the face ol one of them and ' said — " stranger has it lit ?" — flag of the union yankee curiosity — as a sailor who 1 had lost an arm was travelling through 1 the country he stopped at a house for re freshment ; the curiosity of the landlord was excited to know in what manner it was lost i'll tell you said jack if you won't ask me any other questions '. about it the landlord agreed " well then said jack was bitoff the yankee would nut forfeit his word but anxiously replied : " darnation don't i wish 1 knotted what bit it off i horse jockey and lawver — " what is your occupation ?" " horse jockey sir what was your father's occupation v trading horses sir did your father cheat any one while here /" i suppose he did cheat many sir " where do you suppose he went to ?" " to heaven sir " and what do you suppose he is doing there v " trading horses sir " has he cheated any one there ?" he cheated one i believe sir " why did they not prosecute him ?" because they searched tbe whole kingdom of heaven and could not find a lawyer go it bobtail h |