The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1856-11-27
A SAN FRANCISCO AUCTIoNEER.

SAN FkANClSCO AUCltONEEh.
The reporter Of the San Francisco News
furnishes that paper with the following re.
port Of speech made by a California auc.
tioneer:
Ladies' and gentlemen, I now have the
honor Of putting up a fine pocket handker.
chief a yard wide. yard long. and almost a
yard thick; one half cotton and t'other half
cotton too; beautifully printed with stars and
stripes on one Ede, and the stripes and stars
on t'other. It will wipe the dust from the
eyes so completely as to be death to dema.
gogues, and make politics as bad business
as printing papers It's great length, breadth,
and thickness, together with its dark color,
will enable it to hide dirt. and never need
washing. Going Mt one dollari seventy. five
centsi fifty centsi twenty five centsi one biti
Nobody wants i'll Obi thank you, siri
"Next, gentlemen--for the ladies won't be
permitted to bid on this ARTICLES a-real,
simon pure. tempered highly polished, keen
edged Sheffield razor; bran spankin new;
never opened before to sunlight, moonlight,
starlight. daylight or gaslight; sharp enough
to shave lawyer, or cut disagreeable ac.
quaintance or poor relation; handle Of buck
horn, with all the rivets but the two at the
ends pure gold. Who will give two doliarsi
one dollari half a dollari Why, ye long
bearded, dirty faced reprobates, with not
room on your phizzes for Chinese woman
20 Liza I,s,, <fFar;,,, cor, a h.ro.;r al half a
dollari Well, will throw in this strop at
half dollnri razor and stropi recent patent;
two rubs upon it will sharpen the city at.
torney; all for four bits; and piece of soap,
sweeter than roses. lsthers better than a
schoolmaster, and strong enough TO wrsh all
tho stains from California politicians con.
science, all for four bits Why, you have
only to put the razor strop and soap under
your pillow at night and wake up in the
morning clean shaved. Won't anybody give
two bits, then, for the lott 1 knew would
sell EN-.
"Next, ladies and gentlemen, offer three
pairs socks. hose stockings or half hose. just
as you're mind to call them. knit by a ma.
chine made on purpose, out of cotton wool.
The man that buys these will be enabled to
walk till he gets tired and, provided hi,
boots are high enough, needn't have any
corns; the legs are as long as bills against
the corporation, as thick as the heads of the
members of the legislature. Who wants 'em
at one half dollarl Thank'ee madam, the
money.
Next offer you a pair Of boots; made
especially for San Francisco, with heels long
enough to raise q man up to the Hoadley
grades, and nails to insure against being car
ried over by land slide; legs wide enough
to carry two revolvers and bowie knife, and
the upper of the very best horse leather. A
man in these boots can move about rs easy as
the State Capital. Who says twenty dollar.'
All the tax payers ought to buy pair tc
kick the council with; everybody ought te
have pair to kick the legislature WITH ant
they will be found of assistance in kicking
the bucket, especially if somebody should
kick at being kicked. Ten dollars for legs
uppers and soles! while souls, and miserable
ones at that, are bringing twenty thousand
dollars in Sacramento Ten dollars! ten dol
larsl gone at ten dollarsl
"Next is something that you ought to have
gentlemen,.a lot of good gallowses-some
times called suspenders. know that some
of you will be furnished at the States ex
pense, but you can't tell which one, SO buy
where they're cheap. All that deserve hang
ing are not supplied with a gallows; if So
there would be nobody to make laws, con
denim criminals, or hang culprits until new
election. Made of pure gumelastic-stretch
like judges conscience, and last as long a,
a California officeholder will steal; buckets
of pure iron, and warranted to hold so tight
that no mans wife can rob him Of the breech
&c; are, in short, as strong, as good, rs perfect
as effectual, and as bona fide as the ordinance
against Chinese shops On Dupont street
goxe at twenty five cents"
EXECUTION IN MIssIssPPI-UNusUAL SCENE
William Robertson, who murdered Franklin
Williams, with the aid Of the murdered mans
wife, was executed at Holmesville Miss, on
the 9Th inst. The condemned man, it appears,
addressed the crowd from the scaffold, en-
deavoring to awaken their sympathies in his
behalf, and closed his long and iucoherent
harrangue with an appeal to them to mani
fest desire that he should be remanded to
jail and have new trial; in furtherance oil
which he requested those in favor Of his
proposition to stand aloof from the crowd,
as he felt assured the sheriff would not pro
coed with the execution II the popular senti
ment should be found to be against it. The
apparent acqriescence Of the sherif to
this startling and unusual proceeding stirred
the crowd to an exhibition Of some little ex
citement, and cries Of new trial" hang himl'
"hang himl" were heard on both sides. and
for moment we feared mob law would run
riot around the very precincts Of our court
Of Justice.
The announcement Of the Sheriff, howev'
err, made to the prisoner that he could expect
nothing from the people, in this emergency,
however much his own or their sympathie,
were evinced for him. and his proceeding at
once with his duty accordingly, quelled the
rising tumult, and it was not until this mo-
ment that the prisoner appeared to look
death in the face His cheek blanched--hii
frame shook with tremor--his limbs trembl ed