New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1855-08-21
How Mr.. sparrowgraas went down Stairs.

otaln HiVh tears the atsar-stone
Louisville Journal
Aow ny sparrowgraas went down Stairs
one evening Mrs g. had retired and I was
ousy #flting' when it struck me that a glass of
ice water would be palatable. So / took
cahoie anu pitcher and went down to the
pump, Our pump is in the kitchen A conn
try. pump in the kitchen is more convenis1.t.
but well with buckets is certainfy more Tic,
turesque Unfortunately our well water has
not been sweet since it was cleaned out.S First
had to open bolted door that lets YOU into
the basement hall, and then went to the
Kitchen door, which proved to be locked Then
remembered that our girl always carried the
key to bed with her, and slept with Il undar
her pillow. Then retraced my steps; bolted
the basement door, and went up into the dining
room. As is always the case, found when [
could not get any water, / was thirstier than
supposed was. Thea thought would wake
our girl up. Then concluded not to do it.
Ihen thought Of the we'll, but gave that up
on account Of the flavor. Then opened the
closet doors-there was no water there; and
then thought Of the dumb waiter! The nov
city Of the idea made me smile; took out two
OF the movable shelves, stood the pitcher on the
bottom of the dumb waiter, gos in myself with
the lamp; let myself down until 1 supposed /
was within foot of the floor below, and then
letgot
We came down 30 suddenly, that I was shot
out Of the apparatus as if it had been a oata-
putt. 1t broke the pitcher, extinguishea the
lamp, and landed me IN the middle Of the kitch-
en- at midnight with no fire, and the air not
much above the zero point The truth is i had
miscalculated the distance Of the descent-in-
stead Of falling one foot had fallen five. NY
first impulse was to ascend by the way came
down, but found that impracticable. Then /
tried the kitchen door, it was locked; tried to
force it open; it was made of two inch stuff and
held its own. Then hoisted the window, and
there were the rigid iron bars. If / ever felt
angry at anybody, it was at myself for putting
up those bars to please Mrs. Sparrowgrass
put them up, not to keep people in but to keep
laid my ehssk sgsinst the ice cold barriers
and looked oab ct the sky, not star was visi-
BILE; it was as black as ink overhead Then I
thought of Baron Trenck and the prisoner of
Chillon. Then made noise! Ishouted until
/ was hoarse, and ruined our preserving kettle
with the poker. That brought our dogs out in
full bark, and between US we made night hid
eous Then thought heard a voice, and lis
tened--it was Mrs. Sparrowgrass calling me
from the top of the staircase. I tried to make
her hear me, but the dogs united with howl,
growl and bark, so as to drown my voice, which
is naturally plaintive and tender Besides,
there were two bolted doors and double deaf
eneu nOOTS DeGWeen us now cOuIu sne recognize
my voice even if she did hear it Mrs. Spar
rowgrass called once or twice, and then got
frightened; the next thing l heard was sound
as if the roof had fallen in, by which l under
| stood that Mrs. Sparrowgrass was springiDg the
rattle. That called our neighbor, already wide
| awake. He came to the rescue with bull ter
riers Newfoundland pup, lantern and re-
volver. The moment he saw me he shot at me,
but fortunately just missed me. l threw my
self under the kitchen table and began to expos
tulate with him but he would not listen to rea-
son. In the excitement l had forgotten his
name, and that made matters worse. 1t was
| not until he had reused up everybody around,
broken in the basement door with an axe, got
ten into the kitchen with his savage dogs and
shooting iron, and seized me by the collar, that
he recognized me-and then wanted me to ex-
plain iti But what kind Of an explanation
could make to him? l told him he would have
to wait until my mind was composed. and then
| would let him understand the whole matter
| fully But he never would have had the par
ticulars from me, for do NOT approve of neigh
bors that shoot at you. break in your door, and
| treat YOU in your own house as if you were
| iail-brd. He knows all about it, however, for
| somebody has told him; somebody tells every
body every thing in our village. Putnam for
June. ..4=z.
| SHARP BErTING--The editor Of the Albany
Register gives the following as the result of his
| experience in betting on elections .. " o we're
great jackson man,we were, ,the last time the old
| General ran for the Presidency, and whenever a
General jackson runs for that office, shall be 30
/ again, We lived in the country then, and had
| a neighbor who was on the other side OF the
political fence, who was great dealer n IN
horses. Well, we got into IN argument Wlth
him one day, and SO sure was he of success that
he offered to bet a. horse agaist $50 that the old
hero of New Orleans would not be elected. we
took the bet. The argument being one that had
4 no end, was renewed from time to time with the
same result, until five horses on one SIDE ana
$3.50 On the other were staked on the Issue OF
| the eleetion. We won. But we had togee 10
Jas;anate the an .uals and such lot OF horses as
was rendered in psy ymsnt of the bet Vas sight
To see If there was az aiiment to which morse
Efesh ia subject that was not exhibited by one OF
these five horses, we should like TO De lnlorheo
of its diagnosis There was ring bone, st'u spawn
and stringhaIt, and blindness, and heayes, am.
one venerable cid roadster had all these, and in
addition was as deaf as post. We kept them
| neek as a collection of curiesltles in the ami
na1 Jine. and then sold them at auction. Ac-
cor,snc To our recollection, four Of them sold fol
SAn = The aggregate, and we gave q tin -peddlaI
g10 Tar taking the other. We haysznot bet on
elections since, and don't want to win any more
1 horses. sz..=,y
| Iron manufactures have of late years made
gratifying progress in Ohio, as the following
STATISTICS of the interest in that State gathered
4 in the year 1865, wild show: Pig Iron-farnaces
| s5 tons of iron ore used, l40,6l0; tons Of pig
iron made, 52,65s; bushels of coal consumed,
Cos 900; bushels of coke and charcoal, 0o0
operatives employed, 2,4l5; capital inv Invested,
Al 500 600; value of products, $2,0o0,00o Iron
castings--factories 1888; pig metal a iron and ore
used, Il 600; castings made, Ss, 600 tons coal
consumed. $4,000 bushels; coke and charcoal
nsed. 355.I2D bushels; operatives employed,
9T5S. capital invested. 81, ,ooo, 600; value of
nroJnots. rs, ,20o, 600 Wrought htiron-factories,
used ssaS @ Sas s5ssss SlGsns ssks ssOG s0G
eba , rcoal used, 1866 800 bushels; operatives en-
poyed 7os wrought Asa iron oIG produced, i 4ale @
ducts, IL SOC, ,o00 This exhibits a total Of
2S5 establishments, producing to the value OF
$1,000 ,000, with capital of $4,5oe,ooo, ana
employing 1851 operatives.
FUNDS WANTED.-By a notice Ia our paper OF y
this morning, it will be. seen that the FUNDS OF
the Can't-Get- Away Club have become SO re-
dueed, as to render necessary cali upon ouE =
c;f;zens at large for contributions 10 enaole Il