New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1855-11-03

Water streets prided himself
his acquaintance with the vaSs ~ &C. - oA
but ms knoWiedge Of country matters was I;m;,
Tea. Mr' opriggins, having rather outrun the
constable, found himself ons safnmer ~, ~ ~ =
situation to undertake his usual iaunt ~ Sar. -
toga or Newport, and bethought hinlseIf n 80
invitation which he had formerly received fro,r,
his uncle, Van Brommel, the hearty oldfarmer
to pay him visit at Pumpkindale To Pumns5
kintaie MIR. Spriggins repaired, with the ex
press resolution ef astonishing the natives
This. with the aid Of bis yellow kids, embroidered
waistcoats, brilliant neck ties, patent leather,
French phrases and fashionable air, he certainly
succeeded in doing. He eve1. made some i'm
preston by attractions, on the feelings Of Miss
| Rappleway, a young lady visitor, who had pre-
viously been on amiable terms with Cert Van
BrommeI, the farmers oldest son. Cert sulked
and swore in private, but fear of his father kept
him from publicly showing his resentment -
One day, however, an idea occurred to him,
which he turned to account for getting rid of
his rival Cert invited his cousin to go ont
with him pigeon shooting, and Adolphus, though
his taste did not lie much in that way, consented
to go as means of killing time. They set out
accordingly with arms, ammunition and pro-
visions for the day, which last were carried by
Cert in small tin pail About two miles from
lhe mouse, they came to a pasture field, bor-
| dered by extensive woods. A score of COWS
Van Brommel was noted cattle oreeder-were
| feeding at one side Of the pasture
See Dolph," said Cert, the pigeons are
in the woods yondsr. Now, if you will just
stand awhile on that tat corner Of the field 80
| that shall know where you are, / will 90 into
the woods and drive the pigeons over 10 you,
| and you can pop them as they come out. You
keep the pail, tco, and we'll have dinner there
by and bye" &
spriggins agreed to these terms, which ex-
actly suited his easy notions Of sport, and while
o. l. - -.
fat rock which had been pointed out to him
No sooner had he placed himself upon it than,
to his amazement, all the COWS in the pasture
rushed frantically towards him, lowing loudly,
kicking up their heels, pushing one another,
and behaving as though they had been sud-
denly smitten with insanity. Adolphus stood
paralyz zed, expecting to be gored to death, or
trampled under foot. But instead of that, the
COWS merely formed q circle round him. stamp
ing, believing, shaking their horns, and glaring
at him with their great eyes, in an unaccounta-
BILE manner. He shouted in terror to Cert, but
received no answer He dared not leave the
rock, or even fire his gun to attract his Cousins
attention, for, at the slightest movement that
he made, there was general stir among the
COWS, q shaking of a formidable array of horns,
and an impatient stamp and mnrmar, as if pre-
paratory to rush. Spriggins was utterly be-
wildered. To do him justice, he would very
likely have faced a loaded pistol ten PAGES
without finching. But this novel danger was
of such a strange and frightful character that
he was totally unnerved. He stood motionless,
waiting for his cousin or somebody else to
rescue him, and the COWS, with equal patience,
kept up the seige until their wretehed prisoner
was ready to drop with terror end exhaustion.
At last late in the afternoon, the burly form
of old Van Brommel presented itself to the de-
lighted eyes of Adolphus His uncle came
slowly through the field with tin pail on his
r..I, y IL
of him than they deserted and tore furiousiy
towards his unele, who shpuldered his way
through them with the utmost uncoucern
Goodness gwacisus, uncle" gasped poor
Spriggins, g what's the meaning of this extwa-
ordinary conduct of these dwedfui animals 2"
And he relsted with considerable agitation
the history of his captivity among them His
uncle roared and shook his sides with laughter.s
"HaU! hawi haw! do tell now! You'vo
been standing on that ere stone all day, fright
ened by the keows, Hoi no 4! hoI bless your
soul, Dolph, the keaWs are good critters. They
wouldn't hut baby. Thought you were COM
ing to salt 'em. Haw! haw! haw! Wal, now,
if that amt the best joke I've heerd on" And
again the stout old farmer laughed until the
tears poured down his cheeks. ..
sSalt them! /" exclaimed the mortified Sprig-
gins. ss.You don't mean to say that you salt
your beasts alive! ~ 4 ,3s-z
g Yes, l do, Dolph," replied his uncle. '' Look
here, and you'll see"
So saying, he dumped the salt out of his pail
in small parcels over the rock. There was q
general stamp and below, and o simultaneous
rush towards the sayary condiment, which
twenty tongues we're soon busily engaged in
licking. itls
ssT6ere, Dolph, you know how keows are
salted alive now," said old Van Brommel.
a You'd never ha' learned that in Wall street.
Ho ho !! ho!"
oJ to5t ttal
fallen. The story Of his adventure was soon
about, and there was great joking and sngger-
ing at the supper table. the fair Rosalia herself
not being able to refrain from joining in the fun.
The next morning Spriggins discovered that he
had urgent business in the city, and he has
never since been seen in Pumpkindale, though
his cousin Cert cordially invited him to his we'd
ding that fall Spriggins now is wont to speak
of country life as s' extremely vulgaw," and on
one occasion, (when the sport of pigeon shooting
had been casually alluded to,J he went so far as
to pronounce it Z" an atwocious humbug."
BLESSING TO THE CoUNrRY.-A lady now
on visit to Paris, Tenn, has written to friend
here some particulars of q remarkable and most
exemplary matron Of that vicinity, which partic-
ulars have been communicated to US as worthy
of place in our columns
The matron in question is Mrs. D., now
eighty seven years old She had twenty three
LIVING Ghildrens ana pfayed 60 tae gouu Iofu "
give her one more, TO make the round and good
" number of two dozen. Besides these, she has
raised fourteen orphan children. She has edu-
Gated thirty ehildren-her own and portion of
the Orphans and for many years sent nineteen
children to school in Paris, and their dinners
with them. She says that none of those she has
reared and educated have ever disgraced her or
themselves The girls have all married well,
and are rich. The boys have all done well
one of her orphan .proteges has heen in Con
there are sundry colonies. etc., among them.
and all are highly respectable:
q ~ 81 2 Indianapolis Jour.
A correspondent of the N Y. Tribune, writing
from Paris by the last steamer says:
One of the most noted promenaders of the Pa
risian boulevards at this moment is the Hon.
Mike Walsh, of New York. Mike looks sadly
out of place with his dignihed walk and strange
toilet, and doesn't seem to take readily 10 Pa
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