Mississippi Democrat. (Carrollton, Miss.) 1844-18??, 1845-12-10
FROM THE N. Y. SPIRIT OF THE TIMES.
The Knob Dance Tennessee Story.
DICK HARLAN's STORY.

4hAts IIUtUFs 1OuF mississippi IEleHu /
" In the Swamp" in spite of his pathetic
appeal MOTTO 'crowd the mourners, seems
very much inclined to do that same 70
considerable extent. He crowds Old
Knox Just leetle closer to Louisville, !
Charleston and Winchester, than ever
expected to see it. It makes the old town
quite FESTIVE, it does. He saws Knoxville
is 200 miles from each of the places above
named. Now that's hot! Biographies
wouldn't sell in that swamp if they hap
pened to insinuate that the man thar was
wrong, perhaps, few hundred miles. |
think if he was to occur in this rootin,
somebody would see one dead man tWice if
they never saw two dead men at one time,
and he would " see the elephant" sure!
His sketch is good and true, though, all
save placing US so near where somebody
lives. Wonder if he was at 4" ara frolick
while he was in East Tennessee? reck-
on not, or you would have hearn tell of it
before now in the 3 Spirit of the Times.
My friend Dick Harlan tells of one that
took place somewhere in the neighhor-
hood of Stock creek, that crowds the
mourners." Hear him bust!
You may talk of your bar hunts, Mister
Porter, and your deer hunts, and knottin
/ tigers tails thru the bung holes OF barrels,
an cock fiGn' and all that, but if a regular
bilt froIiek in the nobs Of "Old Knox" don't
beat 'em all blind for fan, then Pm no
Judge of fun, that's all! said fun, and
say it agln, from KISS that cracks like q
wagin-whip up to a .fte that rouses up all
out-doors-and as to latin, why they an
rented latin, and the last latf will be heerd
at a Mob dance about three in the morn
ing! Pm iist gettin so can ride after The
motions Imade at one at 10 Spraggins's
few days ago.
III try and tell you who 10 Spraggins
is. He's a squire, a school comishner.
loyerlooker Of mile of Mob road that
leads torardS Roody's stMhou'a-a fid-
tieT, a Judge of a moss, and a l,z9 itlkisself!
He can belt six bits worth of corn. juice
at still house rates, and travel!-can out
shoot and out lie any fellerZom the Smo-
ky Mounting TO Noxyille, aid If they'll bar
one fellow in Nox, Iii say to The old Kahn
tuck line! (I'm sorter afeerd of him for
he lied a jackass to death in two hours ,
can make more spinnin-wheels, kiss
more Rpinners, thrash more wheat and
more men than any one eyed man know
on. He hates a circuit rider, a niger,
and shot gun--loyes a woman, old siedge,
and sin in eny shape. He lives in a log
hous about ten yards squar; it has two
rooms, one at the bottom an one at the top
of the ladder-has all out Of doors fur a
yard, and all the South Tor its occupants at
, times. He gives ffoliick onst in three
: weeks in plowin time, and one every Sa-
, turday mite the balance of the year, and
] only asks a picayune for a reel, and two
5 bits for what corn-iuice you suck he
: throws the gals in, and be&too in the
hay, if you git too hot to locomote. 'Hhe
supper is made up by the felers; every
one fetches sumthin; sum a lick of meal,
sum a middln of bacon, sum hen, sun
possum, sum punkin, sum grab of Ia
ters, or a pocket full of peas, or dried ap
Piles, and sum only fetches good appetite
and skin chock full of parlIcu ar devitry
Z and if thar's been a shutin match for beef
: the day before, why leg finds its way L
. JOS, sure, without eny help from the bal
! lance Of the crilter lie gives Jim Smith
= the storekeeper over Bays mounting,
= ararnin TO fetch skane of silk fur fiddle
strings, and sum Orleans" for sweelnin
or not to fetch himself; the silk and suga
has never failed to be thar yet. Jo the
!, mounts Punkinslinger bar backed, abou
- three hours afore shutdown, and gives a.
the gals item. He does This leetle {
the slickest-jistr rides past in peart racl
ID singin,
S. 20 me; frog with a. fiddle on his back,
n A axing his way to the fr-o-l-i-c-k,''
ID That's enuf! The gals knows that ain
iackass, so by shutdown they came poul
in out of the woods like ants out of q
or old log when tolher eend's afre, jest q
a. fine as silk, anG full o. fun. fixed out in a
1t sorts of fancy doins, from the broad-stripe
as homespua to the sunflower calico, with til
a. ihunder-and-lightin ground. As for sill
at if one had silk gown, she'd be too sma
as 10 wear it 10 10 Spraggins's, forf she di
a. she d 90 home in her petticoat-tale sarti
ii. for the homespun wud tare it off of h
quicker N wInkin, and if the sunflow,
calicos didn't help the homespnns, the
to wouldn't do the silk eny good 50 you 81
es that silk is never rattiin about your ears
Mob dance.
The sun had about sot afore / got q
things fed an had Bhrkm'll saddled, lyon
larn directly Why call my pony Barkmt
but an owl couldn't have cotch rat aIo
+ was in size Of JOS with my gall, ~
SAVERS, up behind me. She Rugged
nifty tie she was $50 feerd Of f'sttaag
&c that drafted poney.'' She said $