The Council Bluffs nonpareil. [volume] (Council Bluffs [Iowa]) 1857-1867, 1858-03-06

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which / have $50 freely described; and be
now stood looking over the fence, = the
back Of his friend.
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yelled out the enraEed Gale, 90 lle sprAng to
his feet and made for the house; sI'lI fl
your Hint!'
But Nat didn't want the flint 6xed, and
therefore made his way with great celebrity
up the road. saa ID
Soon after, there appeared upon the
green sward, rendered sanguinary and sa-
cred by these conjngal endenrments, a lame
man, who wore shocking bad hat, and who
had taken possession Of fowling-piece
loaded with buck shot. 1.-THE lame man
meant to shoot Nat, he reckoned without
his host. That worthy, thanks to q long
and thin pair Of legs, was ont of gun-shos
range. agsa8 - IS !.
Gale from that time forth, and until he
filed the grave, which ne now occupies so
we'll, eschewedd.y joking, and wns always
sensitive on the subject Of mops. siaa z
s2 THE YANYEE PEDDLAR. a g
The Importance Of importing your own
stock, if you are going into the wool busi-
ness, is very emphatically enforced in the
follewins capital story, that comes to Us
from very agreeable correspondent: !
"Some years ago ! was travelling on the
Eastern shore of Maryland, and stopped
for the Eight at the house of gentlman BY
the name of Jones. He was not ut home,
but his wife, received me very politely,
though was in the capacity Of a travelling
merchant, peripate,ic yender Of notions,
vulgarly called a pedlar. She made few
purchases of articles useful in the family,
and might have bought more. had not Mr..
Jones returned unexpectedly and 1T once
commenced abusing me most roundly, and
said he didn't want any pedlars about his
house. gave him back the change in his
own coin till he cooled down, when asked
him what made him mad at all gentlemen
in my line of business?' He told me: h.s
ga few months ago Yankee pedlar was
about here selling his tin-ware, and taking
pay in anything he could get. Ny neighbor
farmer, Mr.. Brown, had very trouble
some ram one time he jumped the fence
and got into the wheat, and another day in
to the corn, and was always where he had
no business to be. One day, just as the
farmer had got him out and tied him up,
this peddlar came along, and wanted to sell
his tin-ware. Mr.. Brown said he would sell
him the old ram, and take his pay in TIM
The pedlar took him up, offering him two
dollars worth of his truck for the ugly old
sheep; the farmer agreed, picked out his tin
things, the pedlar hoisted the ram, with legs
tied, into his COMPOUNDED old cart, and
drove right along here to my house, and had
the impudence yes, the scoundrel had Ito
tell me the ram had been imported from
England by order of one of the rich farmers,
Jetfers, down the country, and he had agreed
to take it to him it had cost $500 on land
ing, and he was to have $3.50 for it when he
delivered it to Mr.. JefFers, but he was so
tired of having the plaguey thing in his
wagon that he would take 800 for it the
frst chance he could get. Twas quite anx-
ious to improve my stock, and thought this
SO fine an opportunity to buy an imported
full-blood, as the rascal warranted it to be,
that paid the fellow 500; and he cut the
strings and let the ram run. Sure enough,
he did run, full split, right over the fence,
and after him, and my niggers coming
on. In fifteen minutes my ram, niggers and
fetched up in Browns yard, when 1 found
that had been sold MS well as that rascaIly
old sheep. Before got back the pedlar had
sold ten dollars worth Of wooden nutmegs
and nonsense to my wife, and had gone of
to parts unknown. Henever camo this way
again: and If you are one of that sort you
had better put up your traps and be NOV
ing"
"Finally prevailed on him to let me stay
till morning and to accept few Yankee no.
tions without fee or orreward. But he win new
er forget that $l0o and his neighbours ram.' -
ABOLISHTNG WOMEN.
DR.. Harriott X. Hunt is, much to her own
regret, a woman. She is by profession, q
and resides in Boston. II
DIR. Hunt is one of the dozen women in
the United States who pine because Nature
did not make them men. This unfortunate
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their lives. What avail the privileges. i'm
munities, attentions, and advantages accord
ed to them by the gallsnsry of the rougher
sex, SO long as they may not goto Congress,
enlist in the militia, be watchmen and con-
stables, wear pantaloons, or even vote?
Impressed with an indignant sense of these
disabilities, Mrs. DIR. Hunt is seeking legis-
lative relief. Unlike her compatriot, Lucy
Stone, she does not despise the power Of the
State, or altogether refuse to pay her taxes.
She brings her case before the Legislature
of Massachusetts. That body has appointed
q joint Select Committee to consider and
report whether or no DR.. Harriet and the
rest of womankind shall be admitted to the
ballot-box. = This Committee, as We learn
from the Boston papers, has held a public
hearing in the State House, where DIR. Hunt
"expressed her disgust at the freedom al
lowed to men to vote, while women are de-
barred the privilege" In this s'disgust,' .
she was ably sustained BY Hon. Samuel f..
Sewall and Wendell Phillips. The Commit
eelistened patiently, and appointed another
day when it will listen etill more. pa
Mrs. DIR. Hunt mistakes the best way to
approach the object she has in view. Instead
Of demanding the privilege Of suffrage,
which she would not care for after she had
it, she should 60 Mt once to the root of the
matter. Let her demand the passage of .
bill in the following words :.,...3-...l,. ~ S
''Be enacted, That all women shall become men |;
this act to take enecs Immediately = fss kas te
Nothing short Of such comprehensive
and thorough proceeding will answer the
expectations Of DR.. Hunt and her small band
Of female reformcrs. @tas
Nevertheless we will not promise to sup.
port the measure. oconfcss tho truth, We
do not wish to see women abolished. We
would rather not do without them. If they
were all like DR.. Hunt and Lucy Stone, we
might think differently. But the other sex,
We are free to say it, seems to usworth pre-
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