Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1858-10-26

PenIS v pOI Iue ptlCe Ol OlQ GRASS
ELECTION SCENES IN NoRTH CAROLINA Acor-
respondent of the Pendleton, s. O. Messenger,
reporting q trip through Spartanburg to North
Carolina, gives some illustrations of t'election
times" which may be interesting and sugges.
tiye:.
Arrived at the election ground, there was a
sight wort seeing. Apple brandy ruled There
were about as many women as men on the
ground. This is a peculiar feature in North
Carolina gatherings women nearly all at
tend, and it results beneffciallY sometimes.
once saw fellow getinto q fight at one'of those
elections, while his wife was along with him.
The front yard of the loggery had been graveled
his shirt and pitched in, but was soon made to
bite the gravel. Hero No. 2 jumped on him,
but was nosooner on than off, for our frst-named
hero's wife gathered hoop pole and such
lammiug as hero No. @ got it has not benny
fortune to see since All hands stood off and
saw it well done. Hero No. Twas sight. I'm
agine mans back full of coarse grayel-gouged
throughAthe skin.
In approaching the election ground, young
men and women could be seen sitting on logsin
the woods, eating ginger cakes and drinking,
cider and brandy. Heap of land to the acre
there. One fellow jumped out of a shanty there
where they kept their apple brandy, and .swore
that he could whip the man who had anything
against him. Everybody seemed TOO drunk to-
take much notice of him. Two fellows got to
scnfling on a large scaffold, and down it came,
causing a general row. Some were knocked
down by the falling ofsthe scaffold, and, suppos.
| ing somebody had knocked them down, pitched
| in promiscuously. Ithoughtiitwas time for a
peaceable man to leave so 4 took the road"
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AN5INEERNAI REToRT. Somebody, to thewri-
fer of this unknown, tells Joke that may be
deduction for the risk of its being old:
Ina small town, in one of the counties of Ohio,
stranger rode up to the door of o tavern, and
having 6ismounted ordered a stall and some oats
for his horse. A crowd of loa[ers-that class of
independent citizens, who are never equal to de-
| cent men. on an election day--swarmed
about the bar-room aud steps, waiting to be
invitedsup to the counter. Among this crowd
the strangers 5businessswa at; once the subject
iof impertinent speculation. One more inpu-
ldent fellow than the rest, made free to inquire
'tof the,travelergwhat occupation he followed, to
which the latter replied that his business was.a
Isecret at present but that he would make it
known before leaving. town.
Having spent day or two looking around,
/ visiting places where whiskey was sold, and
Imaking fariousinquir assto the amount re-
tailed. thenumber Of habituals sdrunkards in.the
Eplace, the number of dogs kept BY the men
Whose children never went to school or had
enongh to eat, in short after making complete,
moral inventoFYsof the town. he concluded to,
Eleaye, and having mounted his horse was about
i TO be of, when his inq1isitiye friend, urged on
lby his associates stepped up aud saids See
There Captain, compromised to tell us your bnsi7
ness before you left, and We like to heastrom
lyon on that point
'siFetl---n said the stranger-'T am an
Agent for the Deyil-Tm hunting location for
l.h4ll, and am glad I have found place wlners
lit will not be necessary to remove the present
1uhabItantsln
a TIsIY Low PrI6ef ViIlow aud NFoods CABS on hand
win sen at reduced g. siSss out
anglA sss.s.EsA9sb eaSO..