Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1857-09-18
Ho" SUIT LOvengoOd Exploded.-TIis Experience with

How SUIT. Lovengood E1ploded.-IIis Experience with
Soda Powders.
Sut related the story thus George, did YOU ever
see Sicily Burns? Her dad lives at the Ratl Snaik
Springs nigh to the Georgy line =, Yes, a very
handsome girl. Handsome that wurl don't kiver the
case it sounds like calling good whskey water when
ye ar at Big Spring and the still house ten miles off an
hit a ranin, and yer flask only half full. She shows
amung wlmen like sunfOwer compared tn dog fen
mel an smart weed jimsin. But thar amt no use
tryln to describe her. Couldn't crawl thru a whiskey
barrel with both heads stove out if it wu hilt study for
her, an good foot holt at that She weighs just two
hundred an twenty-six pounds. She never got in an
arm cheer in her live and you lock the top hoop of
churn big dog collar round her waist I've seed
her jump over the top of split bottom cheer and never
show her feet ketch her dress unto it, She karried
devil enuf about her to fill four hoss Vaughn bed with
skin white as the inside ov frogstool cheeks an
lips as red pearche's gills in dogwood blossom tme
an sich smile Oh, be drafted eff it is eny use talkn
That gal cud make murder old Bishop Soul hissef
or kill not to speak of dad eff she is hinted that
she wanted sich thing dun.
"Wel. to tell it all at onst, she war cal all over
rum the pint ov her toe nails tn the longest har the
hiest knob her hed-gal all the time, everywhere-
and that the exctnist kind. Ov course leaned up
to her close as dar tu in spite long legs. APP
petite fur whskey my shurt sCraped and sads actin
hosS, she sorter leaned tn me, | was beginning tn
think was jist the greatest and comfortablist
yearth, not exceptin Ole Buck, Bringham Young,
with all his radial culered, wrinkled wimmin cradles
full of babies an his Big Salt Lake thrown in. Well,
wun day cussed deceivin paaverin, stinkn Yankee
peder, all jack-nite and jaw cum to ole Burnses, with
load apple parers calicke1s, ribbons jews-harps an
s-O-dy powders. Now, mind I'd never hearn tell
that truck afore be burned ef don't want it to
be the last-was rife powder-was nor perkussion-
three times as smart and hurts was, heap wus. Durn
him. Durn all ankee pedars and durn their princi-
pills and practisis. wish [ had all the sody powder
they ever made III his cussed paunch, an slow match
fixed tn him. an had chunk Ov fire, the feer what
found peace him big enuf tu feed cockroach ought
to be King the Sultuns harem thousand years for
his luck They ant human, no how The mint at
Filadey is thar Heaven they think their God eats half
dimes fur breakfast hashes the eavins fur dinner, and
swallows q cent and dried appl for supper, sets
stampin machine fur throne, sleeps on crib full Of
half dollars, and measures men like money by count
They haint one them got soa but what kud dance
jig in kabbage seed, and have room fur the fiddler
We'll, Sicily she bought tin box ov the sody from
him, and hid it away from her folks, savn it for
| happen to pass next day, cOurs stopped to enjoy
look at the tempter and she mighty luvng to me,
put wun arm round my neck, an tOther wun whar the
circingle goes hass, tux the 'inturn with
her left foot, and gin kiss. Says she Suty love,
I've got some thin fur ye sensashun be
leved it, for begun tn feel it already. My toes felt
like little minnners nibn at enl-a cold streak
up and down my back like lizard with turkey
hen arter him in setn time my heart felt hot and onsa
limited at needsisity fur sch operashum. Then she
poured ten twelve blue papers the sody inter big
tumbler, and about the number white in
ter luther tumbler and but nj onto pint water on
both Of them, and stirred both up with case knife
looking as solemn as ole mule in a snow storm when
the folders all gin out She hilt wun while she told me
to dring luther, swaiawed it at run-tasted sal
ty like, thot it part of the sensashum. But wur
mistaken, all Ov the cussed Internal sensashun wur to
cum, and it wurnt long at it hos you'd believe me-
futb T A.
flst hnss fashion,
g In about wun moment an half thot I'd swalered
thrashng machine in full blast u cupple ov bull
dogs and they had sot into ftin | seed that w1lr
cOtched agin-sanle family dsperson to make cusscd
fools ov themselves every chanceso broke for nv hoss
stole look back an thar Sicily lay OF the poarch
screemn with af1n her heels kckn together like she
tryin to kick her slippers off. But had no time
tu look then and thar road Ov foam frum the
hous tn the hoss two foot wide an four inches deep
looked like it had been snowin-poppin an hssen
an blin, like tub ov hot soap suds | he'd gethered
cherry tree limb run, lit astradde ufmy hoss
a whippin an a kckin like mad This with the scarery
noises | made Gur [ WIS a whislin an hissen and
sputterin outer mouth nose eyes, like steam engne
sot him rearn and cOvertn like he skeered out ov
his senses Well he went. The foam rolled, and the
ole black hoss flew. He st mzzled-scared nj tn DEATH
and |. So agreed on the pint the greatest
distance in the smallest time.
Il am fur Doctor Goodmans at the Hiwassee Copper
Mines, Iu get something Iu SIOp IlC eA Ill
nards. met a secr1it rider on his travels towards
fried chicken and hat full ov ball biskits AS | cum
tarn along he h up his hands like he wanted tn pray
for me, but preferred phsc tn prayer in my pecu-
ier situwashun at that time, jist rolled along. He
tuck skeOr as | cum nj on tn him, his faith gin out
and he lodged hOss sadilbags, overcoa inter thick
iist like you seed terkl take water of log when
tarin big steamboat Gums along. AS he PASSED ole
man Burns Ciciy hailed him, aud axcd him if he'd
met any body in hurry gwine up the road. The poor
man thought perhaps he did and perhaps he dden but
he seen site, spoOk, Nv ghost Nv ole Beelze-
bub himself ur the komt he dden adactly know which,
but takn all things tugeher an the short time he'd for
preparashun he thought he met crazy ongegged sha-
kin Quaker, fleeing from the wrath tn cum, black
and white spotted hoss, a whippin ov him with big
brush an he had a white beard what cum frum nj into
his eyes the pummil of the sadd and then orkedsn
went tn his knees and then sometimes drapped in bun
ches as big crows nest tn the ground, and hearn
sound like rushn nifty waters he wurmt eXcersed
about it enyhow. Well guess he wur, and wur his
fat hOss, wur ole beckey, wust exercised Ov EN- Wur
|, myself Now George, all this beared and spots on
the hOss steam, fire snow, were tails, is
ouCacOns humbub 1t all Outen my nards, drop
pin out my mouth without eny vOmitin efurt, and
eff hadent I'd busted into peCes than thar is
aigs in big catfish The LovengOods are all countoun-
ded fOlls, and dad't amt the wust of en-.
An Austrian View Of Indian Difficulties.
From the Trieste Zetung.
However much the English may have sinned in India
is impossible to consider their present position without
experiencing feeling of admiration. Surrounded by
treachery and mutny menaced by doubtful friends as
mich as by omen and deadly enemies, small band brave