New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1859-11-03
Match Making.
columns.

The fever for match games has risen to such
hight, that even the potato peelers of Milwaukee
have caught the Infection Read the following
challenges, which we find in the Utica IN. W
Telegraph:
'.To all the potaty peelers in giniral Attention
the hole Twill bet two pigs, a hundred dollars in
money, spahteen Of whisky, the championship of
the world, interest in my cart, and another dol
lar in money, that my lawful wife Bridget O'Dor
key, can scully out any woman living, with her ILL
giant potaty peelng, be jabers! The match to
come off ather before or after any one takes up the
challenge, according to the rules of the game, with
two judges and RETRY whose duty it shall consist
in deciding fairly for Bridget ODorkey. Now come
on ,,.a "P n,pi.1 eDoEkEY, Baker"
and James Ryke, the supposed father of her ten
children, sent Patrick the following:
To Patrick and Bridget O'Dorkey: To hill wild
yer potaty peelin'! An for ten years tweed, has
Molly peeled the Elegant praties of Doombledee,
and now she eleyates the challenge and will peel
potatys wild Bridget at the town hail. one week for
to-day, thousand potatys, all of big, and no
bilin' in salt water to start the skins !
The match came off according to appointment,
the judges agreeing to eat the potatoes with salt as
fast as they were peeled. Great excitement en-
sued, Bridget arrived in the hall with her seven
moved peelingly for time, when Bridget stopped
to pull up her stocking, fell behind, while soon,
Molly was stopped by her husband for FIVE cents,
WHICH gave bridget Tile StaTt.
On the 997th potato they were even, when flea
giving Molly stab, caused her to stop half min
ute, but long enough to lose the game by quarter
OF potato. The Judges were SO full by this time,
that they had to be rolled over couple of salt
barrels before they could walk. Brdgets friends
caused her to be presented with large Rohan po-
tato, punched full of quill holes and intend giving
her potato supper in few days.
EFFECT OF THE EXPLOSION OF LOCOMOTIVE
The Indianapolis Journal gives an account of the
explosion of the locomotive on the Bellefontaine
road, few days ago. by which the engineer and
fireman were killed, and says of the terrible power
of the explosion:
The engineer was found on his feet, with the en-.
CINE, leaning against it, and must have been with
it when it made the frightful leaps from the spot
where the explosion took place to where it finally
rested. 1t first jumped forward about one hundred
feet, and made hole in the ground by the side of
the track, deep enough to bury itself in, and
second plunge took it about fifty feet further
where it rested on its driving wheels, leaning
little to one side and just far enough from the track
to be out Of the way. The forward truck of the
engine was thrown back on the tender and the
TWO forward freight cars and their contents were
shattered to splinters. The railroad track was
.orn up the rails twisted and ties scattered. The
-.ehder was made complete wreck and the un.
derworks of the engine broken into mass Of small
pieces almost indistnguishahle.
} now tne engineer could have remained at his
, post we might say, with the engine making the
Iear!ui ana almost Incredible leaps that it did is
mysiery. he was found in the same place and
nearly the same position, when dead as he occn
pied when living and on duty. 49,
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