Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1858-02-19
From the South Carolinian.
Dan DOOIy at the Concert.

| From the South Carolnian.
| Dan Dooly Concert.
heerd that cotton had riz so tuck load to Coum
by, and when had got thar heerd powerful fuss a.
bout Thalbergs concert they called it. Ihad no idee
what ThalbergS concert war, and ben mighty anx-
shus to know what it looked like left Cotton Town and
started down street to hunt it up come to one of the
ahredest biggest houses ever did see, where hull
crowd was standin round l kinder tuck one of em
aside and says Mister you tell me whar to find
Thabergs concert? Here, rite here" says he "est
walk up stars and you'll find the eeant in the room to
the left" Eleantn says So it's whar they show
wild beest is it, arter all? wonder what in the name
of thunder they'll call it next? First time ever heerd
an elefant called concertr'
| AS the people war scrougen powerful, thought
I'd better start up, but felt awful sktsh of them steps
for you'll bleive me, they jest as full of holes as
they could stick They looked like what the candvdates
over our way would CALL the useup shield of bleedn'
Cansus." But war nifty keerful and slept close to
the edge whar it stoutest. expected the cussed
thing would brake down moren hundred times but it
war standn' when left. When got to the door, a
nifty perte man axed me for my ticket " Ticket ?'
ses l. Why Mister, it amt lexion, is it it?-cause
1t 1t 49, amt qualerfde to vote-I don't live i'll this
district. He didn't pay no tention to what sed but
ansered rite short Well, hand over your dollar and go
n. I" Good grashus ~ says q pay hull dollar to
to go in thar! You are jokin', amt you? Why [
seed an eletant wunce, and didn't Civ but sebenpense
neehur." seed he was arter cheetin me- and the way
exposed him ried him. can tell you. He looked as
mad as muzzed mule in corn patch an told me to STAN
back an let the ladies pass. give way to the ladies'
Il always does,) an when what he couldn't see
round got between u.s. Jest went in free gratis fur
nothin. reckon when that lady got outen the door
he was sorter sprised at not fndin' me thar
Arer felt sure that the feer at the door warn comm
to look for me- held up my he'd begun to look about
thaut 1t war tu purity place to keep varmints in
Sum OF the ltes hangin little stick from the
top OF the house-they strung all around the stick
in glass balls, and puzzled my he'd to know how they
| 1r4h 4hor
bunin jest as good as tar-literd They nifty smart
people in Coumby, for don't bleve anybody else could
make brass blaze that way Way up at the fur eend
of the room, seed sumhing like table with two CRATE
big things settn on it, and swar couldn't tell wether
they alive They warnt eelants I knowed :;
but they had thar mouths open and CRATE of teeth
shnin so knowed they must be sum kind of beests-
They cub-footed, and looked as shiny as if thar
masters had jest CREASED 'em Bimby nifty purity
young lady cum and sot down close by me. She was
drest nifty NICE and couldn't keep from lookn at her.
seed her keep ookin down at her feet nifty onesy like
and arter little | looked tu. P-hew y l said, and
started like skyrocket for jest as shure live thar
was black snake about half yard long, sorter uuied
up at her feet spose it had got away from the man
what kept the eefant and other animated critters.
felt the har on my he'd rise up on eend but it want
eordn to human natur to leave feler-crtter in dis
tress, jest thaut I'd ketch it by the tale and sling it
up on the table with them shiny monsters. fotch it
jerk, but it co. for it had pulled up so among
the adys close that it wouldn't let 60 cepng they let
go tu She jumped up and sorter screamed for human
natur could stan it no longer. When she jumped up
the sarpnt slipped outen my hand, and laid eyes
it again "Ill my seat, says she to the eler
what come with her and her voice trimbed, for she
was dreadful skeered. The never said nuthin, but
held his he'd down, and shuck like he had the thurdday
ager. He war skeered than her. thaut somebody
ought to say sumthin to her. said would. Miss
> Pm gwine to muve tu )" and did.
; Just as sot down, all the people began to stamp
down on the floor as if the what made the house
did not finish the job but left the nails to be druv in the
floor and they drivn em in with thar shuse They
made sich dreadful noiZe two men runnin outn
little room back thar and jumped up the table whal
them animals war, spect they thought they wur broke
luse One OF the fellows sot down by one on em anG
put his hand in its mouth it did not bite, but tell you
it growled awfuy The other eler stood up thar and
sung sumthn in Dutch or other hethin tung. Ar
ter WHILE they run back and just they left
the people got up thar noize agin So out cum one O
the ees and of the purtiest young adys die
see. She war all drest up in white, with big red holy
hook on her busim. I thought shure they war gon tC
be married but they wasn't. He went to payn with
that criter, and sung sum more Dutch. Bimby two
em got to singn at wunce and young feler what sol
next to me laed and said they went it la screact
l. owl and la bull yearin."
Il whats they doin mister?' said I. "You can look
at the program" sais he, handn me strip of paper
T. The pro-what p sas I. He crumped the paper up
e and said sumthin about greenhorns looked up anc
thar sot feer rite before me- (true gospe with
pair of horns GROWN his eyes, but they warn greer
tho they had brass rings round em like our ole Sock
never felt mazed aore in all my born days present
y he tuck EN- down. and then found out that he
shammin and did not have horns at all. told the
e young chap that the man with horns humbug
e that seed him take em off The way that young fel
o Ter lafed outrajus. tel you if anybody tC
laf at Dan Dooy that way they'd feel the waite of h
n fist.
Bimeby one of the felers cum out an had reg'la
battle with of them bgmouthed critters on the ia
BILE. Anuther cum out an ddled fur him, to cheer hin
on, reckon The fiddler handled his DO nifty purity.
s felt like cuttn the pigeon wing, but wur eered
that eler at the door, The what fit with the bees
c. banged it out soundy. tell you, he made it rore
IL don't think it will be able to eat with them ee
e agn. 1t didn't to please the people, that he whip
ped for they hrode punches of blossoms at him.
spose they way up thar and couldn't git anything
4 else to chunk him with But the what throde tn
blossoms got shamed of it and sot down quick befor
d anybody could see him. They got mad with the fiddle
r. before he was dun, and chunked him too.
Sum of them eers had to stay out thar all the time
1t s they'd leave the people would make sic
e a noize they'd have to rite back. seed fe
ers go fast to sleep and the stompn would wake em uI
and then they'd stomp louder than any body else Whe
O. the people begun to leave out nifty keerfu an
y made the talest kind of tracks for Cotton Town.
r BUNKY.
to COMMERCE OF ST. LoUIs.-An annual statement Q
the trade and commerce of ST. Louis for the year 1857
reported by the Secretary of the Chamber of Commerce
has been published. 1t gives full view of the bushes
of that growing city, with full particulars to the pre-
ID ducton, export trade consumption and market value
j. for each month"; of the prominent staples viz l. Flour
quantity manufactured at each of the sixteen large -four
p ing mills. IL. Tobacco. III. Hemp. ~. Baggine
= v Rope. VI. Wheat VII Corn. VIII. Oats
N X. Whiskey. X BarrelIed and bulk Pork. XI: Lard
~, XII. Bacon XIII. Hay. XIV. Hides. XIV. SU
and MolaSspS XVI Coffee Among thp rpcnint