Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1857-11-11
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town of Dover, which is situated on the n
Cumberland river, in Middle Tennessee, p
there lived, some time ago, an eccentric :
and Incorporate old bachelor by the name 5
of Kingston. On one occasing, when pos
trated on his bed by excess and suffering
acutsly from those things and horrors Pc
culiar to his situation, be sent for one of his
old boon companions to come and visit
him. Shyrack, for that was the others
name, came duly into Kingston's room.
whats the matter, Kingston ?"
"Shyrack, shut the door,"
eyes, my dear fellow"
CLOCK it."
nEh ?"
CLOCK the doorw
"Certainly my dear boy"
"Shyrack, I'm going to kill myself"
"My dear fellow let me entreat you not
to do it."
81 will"
"No, no-oblige me, and don't.
"Must do itp
"Don't-itll be the death of you!
Shyrack was quite cool and j~ocose, little
dreaming that SO terrible an event was ac-
tually going to take place.
Kingston had, as the last eccentric act
Of his life, taken a chisel and mallet to bed
with him, and now, with desperate resolve,
he seized the extraordinary tools of death,
and in an instant drove the blade of his
chisel into his breast.
The hair rose upon Shyrack s head, and
fright spread like a sheet of snow over his
face.
"Kingston ! Kingston !! my dear fellow
you id rascal Kingston do you
want to have me hung? Hold on don't
l you die till l call somebody p
Shyrack ran to the door and called like
a mailman to some people across the street
"Hallo! here say! you mister all you
stupid people make haste over here, OF
there will be a murder p
The people crowded into Kingston
"Don't die, Kingston !! Don't chise
me that way! Don't die till you tell them
who did it W
81 did it myself" said Kingston, faint
ly.
"Thore, thatn do; now my dear fellow
y you may die" replied Shyrack, taking
" long breath and wiping the perspiratiol
IL from his forehead.
And Kingston did die, in that extraor
binary manner, leaving his fate to be recol
OF ded as a suicide, that was almost a mul
u der.
A CROOKED RIvER.-Speaking of th
River Rio Grande, a recent writer says =
0l Imagine one of the crookedest things j
' the world, imagine four more twice
.; crooked, and fancy to yourself large rive
-, three times as crooked as all of these pr
together, and you have a faint idea of Il
!" crooked disposition of this crooked rive
There is no drift wood in it, from the ia
that it is so crooked timber can't find
way far down enough to lodge two sic
together; but few snakes because it is n
Aw- straight enough to swim in, and the fish o
all in the whirpools in the bends, becau
they cannot find their way out. Birds f
u quently attempt to fly across the river, a
light on the same side they start from,
Jug ing deceived by the crooks. Indeed, J
us may be deceived when you think you
O!s across and some of the boys say it is
twisting there is but one side to it.
men. Pairs DREAM.-Two sons of the gr
lstry and glorious isle met a day or two sin
fill and thus colloquized:-
"Good morning, Pat"
"Good morning, Dennis"
Dennis-"How is it with ye, Pat !?
their same in a squandary."
10 il. Pat-"Bedad but it's all rich ye
without knowing it, for it's in that 81
As in 1 am. It's a provoking dhrame I've hs
,able Dennis-"A dhrame? Was it a E
their or q bad one?'
Pdt-"Bad luck, but 1t was q httl
ustrv both. l dhramed 1 was with the P
as on who was as great a gentleman as any
in the district, and he aked me won
rife drink. Thinks I, would a duck sw
the and seein' the Inishowen and the suga
olina, the sideboard, l told him | wouldn't 7
Oom,t taking a wee dhrop of punch"
J, and "CoWld sr hot 2" says the Pope.
This "'Hot,' says | and with that he
find ped down to the kitchen for hot water
( rich before he got back l woke up. It's
moist thressing me to think I didn't tax