Weekly hawk-eye and telegraph. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1855-1857, 1857-05-06
A Suckers Visit to the Theatre.

The following "good thing we find in
the Rereilie:
DWELL have been thar jim" said a suck
err to his crony.
"Whar, down to st. Louis?' inquired
jim.
well, no whar else was the answer,
"and I've seed some of the durndest things
you've ever heered on in the hull animal
creation"
What wur they like?' inquired Jim Of
the sucker.
"Oh, all sorts of doiags mixed up sortcr
every way; but the thing that just tuck me
straight were scein' q .fgiRg acomdn AFTER
the fatboat wur hitched, sot looking round,
and pooty soon seed or big boss bills, stuck
ayin houses, that fellor named Dan Soos
war going to cut up the fullest kinds of shin
dies / war naturally bound to find out what
it war like, and so | axed TELLER readin' it,
and he laughed-he sud it was only the
Me-ater Says l, that 5 a show, amt it?
nuther, but all sorts Of q handsome show,
held in place as big as our county seat
court house. Jest made up my mind that
Id 90 ten cents strait | found out whar
they kept it, and up | goes, but thar they
quarter That staggered me, but | gin it.
Root or die when you re in for it, SEE |, so
up goes the alliredest lot Of stairs ! tho't
arter a spell Id come out somewhar neer the
moon; but by travelin' 8 spell got up whar
meetin house with three galleries. and lit up
like all out doors in day light a lot of fell
lers fddled away n spell by themselves, but
I 81 ,k eli Has,
Soos war, and Jest as war goin to ak
chap whar the show war, up rolled the hull
side of the house, right aiore me, and out
sid a gal on her tiptoes, whirhn' about like
if she couldn't keep down on the yearth.
The way she handled her pins jest sot me
rearin--it beat Mary Sellers all holler, and
she amt slow | axed Teller next me who
she wur, and III swar if he didn't say it wur
Dan :Soos. which, instead Of being mans
name wur French for dancin' woman l
didn't notice at first, but artcr spell seed
the reason she couldn't keep from jumpin'-
it made my hair kind O rise--she wur not
only angel lookin crestur, but .Iim-you
can blieve it or not, hess hy--Tll declare
she had Wings
Here" says Jim, "yoa kin jest take my
hat
Il knowed nobody would believe me"
said the sucker, Il swan seed her take
holt on the tip of her wing, spread it out and
Jest ay like u bird clean across the hull side
OF the house a Teller war chasin hur, but
he couldn't shine; she shuck her toe at him,
and slid right out of sight
"Thar, says Jim, that will do; know'd
you could do pooty well lynn, but the last
eftert kin take the cakes.
=" amt goin to tell it any more but I'll
swear ! seed 1t. L.
"Seed thunder!'' shouted jim. You
seed what the doctors call a oItactor COLI,
sion
AN INDIAN RErusLIc-Hey. Thos. S. vii
Hanson, a missionary, writes to the St Paul
Times an interesting account of the new In
dian Republic of the Dakotas in Upper Min
nesota. He says:
"A year ago less than dozen families of
them in this neighborhood were living in log
cabins-none in anything better, and think
occupied even so good shelter, in this neigh
horizontally At this time, besides two
framed houses, there are not less than fifteen
log cabins of the kind spoken of, in this
neighborhood, occupied by Dakota families.
Most OF these are furnished with stoves, and,
IN regard to comfort win compare tavorably
with the first dwellings erected by the agri-
cultural population of Ohio. Indiana and
Minnesota The glass and sash for most of
these dwellings have been furnished from
their civilization fund, and the logs for about
half of them were hauled by men aud team,
furnished from the same fund, and they have
been assisted in getting the sawed lumber
used about them. Almost all the other
labor expended on them has been performed
by the Dakotas themselves, with some assist
ance and instruction