Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1853-12-09
Zion. heslie coomba.

| Few men have ever gone 10 Congress with more
| fun and popularity than the Hon. Leslie Goomos'
of Kentucky. In the way of anecdOte, he IS I'M
eoualIed, while his mode OF telling stories impaTtS
| a lone to them that no one appreciate who has
| not made his acquaintance.
Among the characters that Mr.. Coombs knows
| like book, is old Major Luckey, whose taste for
4 Dragging amounts, at times 10 The sublime. When
ever tile Major has stranger in the nelghborhood,
| lie "opens wide, and spreads HIMSELF" aud with
success that leaves us nothing TO desire. The lol-
lowing scene took place between the Major and
Col. Peters, ga late arriYaH from Illinois:
"Major, l understand from Gen. Coombs, that
shortly after the Revolution you visited England;
how did you like yo r jauntY'
e'Capitally! had not been in London five hours
before Rex sent for me toplay whist, and devil
of time we had Of it"
"Rex! what Rex" II. ts.
"Why, Rex the King-GeoTge the Third. The
game came off at Windsor Castle-Rex and play
ed against Billy Pitt and Ed. Burke-and ii result
ed rather comcally." $50 ..a
"Aswe were playing the last game, Rex said,
IN rather familiar manner, 'Mnjor, suppose you
know Charles Washington, do. you nott' NO
sir says l. Il do not; but tell you who do know:
George Washington the Father OF his Country.'-
Father be d-d,' says he, he was cursed
rebel, and had served him right, he would have
been hung long ago. .r.-,
This, OF course, riled me, and 10 that degree,
that just drew back and gave him blow be-
The next moment Pitt umd Burke mounted me,
aud in less than Ten minutes my shirt aud breecheS
were so torn that looked like Lazarus. This gave
me rather dIStaste for Engli h society," SO the
next mo. nirg set sail for America. Six weeks
afterwards landed at Washington. The first
person met, after entering the city, was O."
..Why, that ID old federol.st, Quincy Adj
ans. lie wanted me 10 play nine-p pins with him,
and did 50 Won 5000 at two shillings game,
md then had q row, - ~ tr-.. .aff
''Abuut what?'
ale wanted 10 pay me off in continental money,
worth about shilling peck; l got angry, and
knocked him down, Jim came and dragged me
OF 10 the white House"
E'What Jim?'' .. .i
a., by, Jim Madison. went, played euchre
fer two hours, when Tom came i'll and IDSIs.ed
that should go home with him."
"What Tom?'
"Why, Tom Jefferson. Jim however. would
not listen to it, and the consequence that they
went into fight. In the midst of itthey fell over
the banisters and dropped about fifty feet When
1 left they we're giving each other b-ll in the
coal cellar How 1t terminated never could learn,
as Just then 'MartLa' ran in and said must nc-
company her upto Mount Vernon 10 see George"
'tWhat Martha do you meanF'
'tMartha Washington, wife 10 George, the old
boy that gave ieSSy to the HeSSianS.'
About here, CoombS said the stranger began TO dis
cover that he was 'tswallowing things" The
next stage that came along he took passage init
for an ad ;acent town..
The Major we believe is still living, and still
believes that the walloPing he gave LOUIS the
Eighteenth is the d-deSt best thing on record
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