Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1850-07-05
Wonderful Log Rolling at the West.

An Englishman who was lately travelling on the
Mississippi told some rather tough stories about the
London thieves A Cincinnati chap named Case,
heard these narratives with silent, but expressive
humph and then remarked that he thought the
Western thieves beat the London operators all hol
low.
How so 2 inquired the Englishman, with surprise.
Pray, sir have you lived much in the West q
Not a great deal. I undertook to settle up a
business at the Desmoins Rapids awhile ago, but the
rascally people stole nearly everything | had, and
finally Welch miner off with my WIFE
Good God said the Englishman. And you
never found her q
Never to this day But that was not the worst
of it,
Worst! Why, what could be worse than stealing
a mans wife ?!
Stealing his children, should say said the i'm
placable Case.
Childernh
Yes; niger woman: who hadn't any of her
own, abducted my youngest daughter and sloped and
jined the lngins.'
Great heaven! Did you see her do it q
See her Yes, and she hand'nt ten rods the start
of me but she plunged into the lake and swan off
like duck, and there warn't canoe to follow her
with
The Englishman laid back in his chair and called
for another mug of af-an-af, while Case smoked his
cigar and looked at his credulous friend at the
time most remorselessly.
II shan't go any further Vest think at
length observed the excited John Bull
should not advise one to 60 said Case, quietly
My brother once live there but he had to leave, al
though his business the best in the country
what business was he in, pray p
ELumberng-had a mill
And they stole his lumber q
Yes, and his saw logs too.'
Saw logs y
Yes, whole dozens of fine black walnut logs were
carried off in a single ght-
True upon my honor, sir. He tried every way to
prevent it had men hired to watch his logs but it
was all of no They would whip 'em away as
easily if there has been nobody there. They
would steal them out of the cove and out of the
mlways.'
Good gracious
Just to give you an idea how they can steal out
there continued Case, sending sly wink at the lis
tening company, Just to give you an idea-did you
ever work in q mill 2
Never.
well, my brother, one day, bought an all fred
fine black walnut log-four feet three at the butt
and not knot in it. He determined to keep
that log any how, and hired two Scotchmen to watch
it all night. Well they took small demiiohn full
of whiskey with them, snaked the log up the side hill
above the mill, and built fire, and then sot down
on the log to play keerds just to keep awake, you
see. Twas monsus big log-bark two inches thick
Well, as was sayin they played keerds and drank
to sleep a-straddle of the log, About mnet after
daylight; George went over to the mill to see how
they got on and the log acas gonen
And they setting on it 2!
Setting on the bark! The thieves had drove an
iron wedge into the butt eend which pinted down
hill, and hitched yoke of oxen on, and pulled it
it right out leaving the shell and the Scotchers set
ting a-straddle of it fast asleep.
The Englishman here rose, dropped his cigar stump
into the spttoon, and looking at his watch said he
thought he would go on deck and see how far we'd
be down the river before morning.
FIT THoUGHrs-Let your thoughts be fit or suita-
BILE to the subject. Every day have high thoughts
of God-lower thoughts of SELF kinder thoughts of
your brethren, and more hopeful thoughts of all
around you.
WANTED TO KNow.-If steam ships are used in
avigating the " sea of troublesn
II ships in stays" are addicted to "tight lacing
1t it is owing to the rate of nterment being cheap
| that so many are g buried in oblivion
Whether the sun shone during the & dark ages"
| How cupid, being blind, manages to aim when he
shoots his arrows.
Whether the " tale which the ghost of Hamlet's
father could unfold was g founded on fact"
The elevation of the pinnacle of fame" above the
ocean.
The extreme length of the g long parliament"
Hydropathic treatment would be likely to cure
the :: eruptions' of Mount Etna.
The militia officers are not the proudest men in the
world we always believed and the following anec-
dote goes far to prove that their humility is occasion
ally initiated as we'll in its perceptive sense:
Cuff said one of these dignatries to negro al
his side, as he prepared to swallow his fifth invoice
of hardware Cuff you're good honest fellow
and l like to compliment man whats's lived ar
honest life, if he is black-you shall take glass O
sumthin to drink with me- Ell g
I well captain replied Cuff, wiping his mouth
with the neither end of his shining coat sleeve rs
berry dry, so wont be ugly bout it. Some niegers
is too proud to drink with milishy ossifer-but
think milishy ossifer-when he's sober-is lis a.
good as ngger-specially if de nigger's drg -