Meigs County telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy [Ohio]) 1848-1859, 1853-06-14

thor to Sc. high price upon the MS. a
once. for if Barnum is not soon after it, he
is not The :" Prince Of Humbugs" that he
gets credit for. 1t is the only way he car
" make il pay" A hir, is sufficient.
Since perusng The foregoing, we have
discovered in the Circlevlle Herald The fol-
lowing papable HIT as an offset 10 the "grca
old sunset" Il is rich and racy, and de.
serves 10 90 into The hands of Barnum along
with the MS. Of the original IL Wag'
staff" has not made dead sci " on Box
& Cox" we will quit the business Of guess.
ing. Here is gem The second
From the Cox-cum Flagstaff -WAGsrAFF. Editor.
ga Great Old " Hen-Sct!
dedicated to 'Box and Cox" OF the Ohio
StateSman.l
What s,orm(ul hen.set was lha. Of
last night! How glorious the storm, and
how splendid The seltin' of the hen We
do no, remember ever 10 have got squnl
a, the like on our round globe. The scene
opened in the West by the hv(aluIn mar
coming 10 town with the rooster thai lays
eggs! Every feather in his tail was full of
golden inlerpenetraling luslre, which col.
ored the foliage and frightened every object
into its own rich dyes As The excitement
go, up, the coIors grew deeper and richer
until the golden uslre Of the chicken was
transformed into slorn.cloud, full Of the
finest kind Of lightning, which leope in dazd
zling zigzags all around and over the hen.
coup. The next thing we knew the wind
arose.' Wind often accompanies such
symptoms.) The slender shrubs and giant
lrees made obeisance TO its majesty Some
even ac;ed the fool and snapped shorI off
just as the poor dominic raised-lhe wind !
The strawberry beds and grass plolS turned
up their whites 10 see that The fools were
not all dead yet. About this time Mrs.
Zephyrus marched BY As The rain came
on, pools were formed, and the cutters hur.
ried away This is The first instance on
record OF cutters leaving town. Thunder
roared grandly,' pigs squeaed, children
squalIed, geese gabbed, and goslins aoun
dered The South and East received the
copious shower, and the Yves, all at once
bright encd up, in long, polished belt OF
azure, worthy half column Of some
: Coz combs nincompoopcry.
"' Presently cloud appeared in The
Gzure belt in The form of quarter section
Of gingerbread. 1t became more and more
vivid until i. got The vivides. kind, reveal.
ing strange forms of peerless fowls, dough.
sugar.cake horses, and glCries rare
and grand in the mundane sphere. Ii, re-
minded us Of Wcu.hersquin's splendid verse
in his Excursion
The appearance instantaneouSly disclosed
feller badly legged, but worsely hoSed;
Who stood with eyes aStretched and hands
arosed,
To see the "Grand Old Sunset" done so
brown
BY the Editor who lately came to town.
"' But il all vanished 10 give place 10 an,
Other isle, where the most beautiful flub.
dubs appeared all through The distant and
purified uir.
The sun, wearied with the elemental
commotion, sank behind the green plains Of
the Wes,, perfectly satisfied lha. there was
some green things left. The great eye
in heaven however, went not down with.
ou, TWO or three hyslerical blinks, as much
as 10 say-'Now you're doing it, Messrs.
Box and Cox!' The rich flush of the un-
earthly light had passed, and the rain had
ceased, when the solemn church bells peal.
ed and as ii was nearly supper time, the
cooks their potatoes and onions also peeled,
and it was peeng kind Of tire. Chill
dren laughed again, and Cox hens and
babies crowed as if nothing had happened.
This mixed with The carol of birds would
have made the hing sublime, il it had not
been for the forked and purple lightning of
the skies, still darling illumination around
Mister Sarling's College, and some other
shan,ies, as if people had nothing 10 do but
dodge its attempts 10 rival the shingles and
leap into other folks winders.
4" A taller 'candle is lighted. The piano
strikes up and so does the cussed cats !!
: We feel i. is good 10 have home, good to
be on the earlh,' and good 10 have a good
time generally. And as we can not refrain
from reminding our readers Of everything
wonderful and astonishing in The corpora.
lion, we have begun and ended our weekly
eIching Of hen.seI, which comes so rarely,
tina, lis glory should be made more glo'
rious still, by being committed 10 immoral
type.