Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1857-11-28
ago, he told me shat this was his first and
last courship. lie never could scrape up
courage enough TO 90 back.
A Hanny Rnrlesnne.

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A Happy BurlesQue.
! If Matt Peel, of the counterfeit darkey
fraternity, had been upon the levee yester-
day, he might have got happy wrinkle in
his line from the performance of the genu-
inc colored gentry. The carte for this cn-
teftainment was a burlesque auction sale
One of the darkey men, selected for his
tonguey qualities, mounted a box, and in
! good set auctonccr phrase announced to a
large asscmblage of idle negro laborers that
he was now about to offer them, for cash,
"to de highest bidder in dis crowd, fus
rate boy, a l, soun and healty, warranted
not to cut in de eye, balk in de step, nor
steal chickens dat don't long to him also
'ditional, dis boy wars only par shoes year,
an dcy's good at de eend of it, takes kccr
on his close partickler, an nebor goes
cortin donkgo to sleep ober his work, is
spectful an bedent; is six foot tire inches
high, weighs two hundred and twenty poun,
an can do homework in house or iieP dan
any. order two niggcrs; sides he eat less
dan order one niger Step up hyar, Sam,
an show yourself to desc gcmman! Lbcly
now! Der he is, gcmmenl NIirc him
for yourselves ~
! Ana the sable auctioncer pointed with
| triumphant gestures to the subject of eX-
trayagant culogium-a scrubby, knotted,
runted, gray headed specimen of field hand,
about four feet and Il half high, who mount
ed the box beside him, amid vast roars of
laughter from the crowd
" Oar he is, gcmmcn famine him an
start him at suffin, for he mus be sole =
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gcmmcn mounted the stand and proceeded
to Canine him. One violently pulled
his mouth open, and reported- -"dis niggcr
not sound-onc jaw toof done gone" An
other tried to straighten out lock of his
wool, with-"don't like dis-h'ar llink too
much-niggcr lazyw Another pretended
to discover something besides ideas running
through his wool, and concluded "nigeers
head too poplar" (populous) Another
said, "nigger's foot too long an slim--lone
foot Niger will steal and run way; long
foot niger amt wort Jail fees" Another
=" niggcr's toc-nails too scratch
paint Off my parlor floor. No wants dis
nigger Yah lily ah! Yah Yah!
"Well, gcmmen! is you done looking at
dat nigger? Is you satisfy? Hc'sa prime
lot! What do you say for the boy? Start
him at sufin He's got to be solc--prump-
tory sale"
"1'en cent? came from the laughing
crowd "Tcn cont!-tcn cent! Going
ut ten cent-tcn-tcn-ten"
Gone dime," from the crowd. "Tank
you sar One dime, one dime--g-o-i-n' at
one dime-d-i-m-o? Too bad, gcmmen,
make me Sacfize dis article dat way Saw
'lebcn ?'
Gone bit" from the crowd. "Much
'bliged, sarl one bit-onc t-bit-bit--
goin'-gom m-won't nobody say 'lcb
en- for dis a ], warranted" &c, boy
goin' at one bit-goin' g-o-i-n' gone at ten
cent? Yours, sar, an a dog sight more
dan he's worth !" And he "lnockcd
down" the property to the quasi purchaser
with tremendous blow ON the head with q
barrel stave hc used as hammer, which
broke it in the middle, and "kncckcd down
the sold party OF the box without his appa
rently feeling the blow, so massive was the
conformation of his Uranium. That was
the greatest auction sale that ever we saw
I-True Dclta
A COOP NAME.-Somctime in 1888 O,
~, gentlemen in Tennessee became in.
volvcd and wanted money lie had proper.
ty and owed debts. His property was no,
available just then, and off he posted to Bos
Ton, backed BY the names of some of the
best men in Tennessee. Money YVES light
and Boston bankers looked closely at TIE
names. Very good" said they but, but
do you know General jackson I" Could
you get his endorsement? "Certainly p
"4es, buthei not worth one tenth as smucll
as either of these men whose names | Offer
you" (" No matter; General Jackson has
always projected himself and bis paper
and we'll let you have the money upon ;he
strength Of his name" In few DAYS the
papers with his signature arrived. The
moment these Boston gentlemen bankers
saw the tail A, and long ], ofAndrew Jack
son, our Tcnnessean says lie could have
raised hundred thousand dollars upon The
signature without the slightest trouble. So
much for an established character for hon.
esty, However men may have differed with
Andrew Jacksonpolitically, no mau could
deny him the merit Of being an honest man
Eyeniaa Gazette.
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