Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1858-02-17

Iightid with what they call gas, kind NV moth
in, like the ar, which smells very loud when il
tint lghtid, but when it is burnin, makes every
thing like broad day. Then thar is lookin-glas
sis, framed in gold, big is the side Nv con hous
and picktchers and painiins, and q splendid bar.
room and eatn shop filed with tables, and mt
nipgers and people and trunks and hacs and cir.
kuss waggins, (Which is called hominy busses,,
omn and goin and takn and snokin and drink
m and eatin and chawin tobacker and goin ~
stars and comm dnun and ringin NV bells, than
YOU uvver heerd nv. | kuddent eat nOthin tn.
night got thar, for lookin. They've got thing
thar TO tell when supper is reddy which it j.
called gong, roun peece of sheetiun a little
piyger'n the he'd nv fowr barril. A nigger
comes along hodn Nv the dredfl thing in one
nan by string Nv twine, and in the other han
le's got a kunsern with handil sumthin like
he hsndil NV a skroo driver with the lite eend
Nv it stuck into trabbsll. He knox the gong
with the trabball, and jes' tell you it soun's
mo- like the day Nv Judgement wus comm than
ennything uvver heerd. :. When | fust heerd
it, my har riz rite up like teeth in wool card,
and | wus a heep mo- sxeesed than when the
lcarrdge drivers was g loilerin 40 at the deep
10. But seen no body didn't mine 1t nuvver
let on, and you is the fust | has sed word to'
about it. Don't tell emmy of them boys at Kurds
vii about it. / kuddent help thinkn' what a
tine thing that ar gong would be to skeer crows
out Nv q con-feel with.
went to bed rite erly, for my eyes wus
akin and my he'd Sizing. Mr.. Ballad, the
tavern-keeper, was mighty kline and perte-
Says he, "Mr. Addums am a goin to put you
in high posishun, whar you can see every
thing" Says, l, "rm obleeged to YOU" and
follered nigger up stars untwel We went eileen
out Nv site, and he put me in long, narrer
room, with q roun winder whar / could see
when day come, the tops Nv millyun Nv houses
with the smoke risin out NV the chimbleys and
u peese NV the river which rose in the mite
like lion. The washstan NV the room was
reeal mogny, but it didn't have no marbul top
sioh as has sense seen, the cheers wus good
cheers, nothin extra, thar war carpt on the
TO- no fire plais (but it warnt cole) aud the bed
mighty low doun to the groun, like trundil
bed. But the sheets wus linuen and dlishus.-
The pillars is too big.
II took me nigh our to git to sleap, and then
| didn't sleap but KEEP a wakin and a junpin,
my hart beetn and thinkin about my trunk
and what war in it, You kno. 1t come in the
nornin', is tole you beto, and it wus thar, safe
and soun inside the trunk. Nobody hadn't tech-
ed it.
Billy the peepel in Richmun nuvver sleap.-
Ottn is jumpt up in the bed in the mite, they
WINS comm and gon', travlin up and doun the
passags, treddin on the heels Nv thar boots and
| a maxim Nv too much noise. The Lord only
nose what they war doin, and how they does
| TO do without sleap beets my time. Kuntr'
peepel is bleegst to slesp some me ptickly. |
don't see no use of havin Nv beds eff peepel don't
sleap.
Bout lite, or a little after got up, wasn't my
fase, and eet brekfus with the psssinjns goin OIL
the car. Tried to git tansy dram befo | eet
but they didn't have none at the bear, fine as it
wus. Ennyhow, had appytight, and laid in
some spar rib with aags TO match,-etceIry.-
Smokt fine seegare al opens to keep up my
cracktpr but had ruther Nv had spipe with some
pla 9 trash ut nuthin atall.
| Holdin Nv my puppus in view, | throde away
about inch aud hall Nv mt seegare and set
to ,zniss Fust inquired fur the Guvner.-
! They tole me, but toie me not 10 90 thar nntel
| 10 o'clock, aud plegg take n ali had to wait
| Well. the Guvner lives in right deaSent sort Nv
| Il SQUARE houS in one cornder nv the Captul
Yard. and wnen got thar at 10 o'clock hr
warnt thar So asked tor ole Mr. Richly. whar
lie lived, and they teilin and tolrin NV thar
dreck>hns got into Main street, whar thar wus
su lnenny sines aud things that got lost. Then
sees young man, dark c"mpected Teller he
were, and NV them swelld faces which COMES
nv drnkin Nv whisky Or havin Nv tooth-ake. l
says To him, says
kin yon tell Inc whar the Inquirer Offs Is
wlar Mr. Richly lives2"
AID he loukin Nv me plum in the eye, didn't
say nothin. Pres'ly he remarked, he says, very
parlite, says he: .,
You see that ar tall hous over thar with the
flag fyn from the pole" | says, Yes
Well" he says, that's the Merryk'n hoteiI'
and YOU lis 20 down the side Nv it till you come
to anuther pole, somethn like that on top the
hotel only the flag aint thar, but the streaks Nv
the flag is wrapped round the pole, painted like.
That's the Inquirer Otis, certin"
| goes down and when gifts to the pole,
knox. They says, "Come in, and openln Nv
the winder see heap Nv lookin glasses, two
or three likely m'atter boys, with kombs in thar
har and apurns on, and feller standin befo
glass twin Nv sumethin round his neck.
Are this the Inquirer Offs z" | says.
The m'atter boys they latft, but the feller at
the glass says, ~,
"Yes, this is the Inquirer Offs. What kin We
do for you2" he says.
II want to see the editor"
"Well, he aint here"
"Whar is hes"
"He's ded aud berrid -berrid bout d fortnt
ago." ~,
That illustrated me gool eel, and | didn't
know what To do, but jest TO be sayn solnethln,
says:
"What did he die uv2"
well" he says, II can't say that | izzackly
kno. but ef YOU want to subscribe, I'll take 20
mummy Jest rs ef he wus llvln."
tole him, "No, | didn't rede mighty well,
and hadn't no mummy 10 spare
With that tollerd cunsderbul Nv talk be-
twixt us he apeerin very ankshuS to md ouI
nv buziniss, and | not lettin on. | has sense
learnt that that warnt no Inquirer Of1s atal,
but BARRIERS shop. So didn't see the Guv
ner, nor Mr.. Richly nuther.
| Arfter lett the BARRIERS shop, feckin went
into twenty bear rooms lookin tur editors, and
bein constantly fooled; fur the pecpel NV Rich
,nnn has no better cents than to think il mighty
funny to fool foax from the kuntry But dd
oit tn see some editors, and had some chat with
nm INT As wus afraid to let out about my
skeam. didn't learn uothin what wanted.
Ben satistide couldn't do no business, start
ed roun to sea the curostes. They toie me Rock
It's wus pritty pias, and l went thar, and seed
number Nv sale vesslls, which Is ainuSzln 10
man what nnvver seen nun befo, but amt 8"
mighty prilty either. The merchants inills, in
INV apinyun, is the best lookin things in Rich
nun. By George they Is busters. Billy, thar
j, mo brix in one NV them mills than in FomviI
and Clry put together.
b.erd thar was some fine grave yards in the
subhnbs nv the city, but didn't 90 to nun Nv
um pretearlng srcus which thar warnt emmy
| in town.
The Capitul bildin, whar they make the lors,
.;nt i. hausum is The lxchaing. Inside Nv it
rhsr i, likeniss in white rock Nv GInrul Wash
;ngtun witI, kane in his han ami pow pint,