Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1857-01-22
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Jhere IS no denying tnat tnere Is claSS
Of individuals who seem to think that there
nothing in life so desirable as being init.
mately acquainted with prominent public
characters We have read of many such, but
Maj. Luckey, as described in the following,
is most decidedly just "a huckleberry above
the persimmon' of many of them.
Whenever the Major has stranger in the
neighborhood, he opens wide and 'spreads
himself" aud with success that leaves us
nothing to desire. The following scene took
place between the Major and Colonel Peters,
..late arrival from Vermont. ..
"Major, understand from Gen. Coombs
that shortly after the revolution you visited
England. How did you like the jaunt ?"
i"Capitallys hadn't been in London FIVE
hours before Rex sent for me to play whist,
and adeuced of time wo had of it."
st"Rex What Rex?"
"Why, Rex the King-George the Third.
The game came off at Windsor Castle, Rex
and playing against Billy Pit and Ned
Burk, and resulted rather comically."
elbow so? ?"
ts.As We were playing the last game, Rex
said in rather familiar manner, "Major, [
suppose you are acquainted with Charles
Washington, are you not =
"No, sir.ee," said |, II am 'not-but tell
youwho am acquainted with-George Wash
ington, the Father of his Country
"Father of Rebels" says he. "IIe was a
cursed rebel, and had l served him right,
would have hing him long ago."
s'This, Of course, riled me to that degree
that just drew back and gave him blow
between the eyes, that felled him like bull
lock. The next moment Burk and Pitt
mounted me, and in less than ten minutes
my shirt and breeches were so torn and tat
tered that / looked like Lazarus. This gave
Inc. rather dstaste for English society, so
the next morning set sail for America. Six
weeks after, l landed at Washington. The
first person met after entering the city was
O.
Q!-what o."
: "Why, that old Federalist, Quincy Adams
He wanted me to play nine-pin with him. 1
did so, and won 5000 at two shillings game,
and then had row."
s:About what :"
sHe wanted to pay me of in Continental
money, worth ashilling peck I got angry,
and knocked bim into spittoon While l
still had him down, Jim came in and drag
ged me off to the White House"
"What JIM"
sWhy, Jim Madison. I went and played
euchre for two hours, when Tom came in,
and insisted that should 60 home with him. !"
"What Tom?'
"Why, Tom Jefferson Jim, however,
woald not listen to it, and the consequence
was that they went in to fight. In the midst
oft, they fell over the banister, and dropped
about fifty feet. When I left they were CIV
ing each othor 'sfts'' in the coal cellar
How it terminated I never could learn, as
just then Martha ran in and said l must ac-
company her to Mount Vernon to see George" I"
"What Martha ?"
"NIartha Washington, wife to George
Washington, the old boy that gave Jessey to
the Bloody Hessians."
About here, Coombs said the stranger be-
santo discover that he was swallowing things.
The next stage that came along he took pas
sage for an adjacent town. The Major, We
believe, is still living, and still insists that
the wolloping he gave George Rex is "the
greatest and best thing on record