Kenosha tribune & telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1856-1859, 1859-05-19
How Big Darkey Jake Was Cured of
Butting. f 4

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How Big Darkey Jake Was Cured o
Butting af a
SOME years since I was EMPLOYED n
warehouse clerk in large shipping
house i'll New Orleans, and while in tina
capacity, the following funny scene &C
Cured =
One day vessel came in, consionet
to the house, having on board large
lot of cheese from New York. Durins
the voyage some of them became dam
aged by bilge water, the ship having
proved leaky, consequently the owners
refused to receive them; they were
therefore sent to the consignees ofthe
ship, to be slowed until the case could
be adjusted. | discovered, few DAYS
afterwards, that-as to perfume they
were decidedly too fragrant to remain
in the warehouse in the middle of June.
and reported the same to my EMPLOYERS,
from whom | received orders to have
them overhauled, and send all that were
passable to Beard & Calhoun's auction
mart, (then in the old Camp street The
ater,) to be disposed of for the benefit
the underwriters, and the rest to the
swamp. | got a gang Of black boys to
work on them; and when they stirred
'em up, I" Be the bones of MolI Kellv's
quart pot! but the smell was Elegant en-
tirely." l kept respectable distance
believe me, for STRONG niggers and
STRONG cheese, on a hot June day, Just
bangs all common essences-incuding
a certain warmth read about.
Presently the boys turne d out an i'm
mense fellow, about three feet six INCH
fas 6 across the stump" from which the
box had rotted. In the center, space
about ten inches was very much decay
ed, and appeared to be about the con
sistency t'mush, of blush tint, which
was caused by the bilge water. The
boys had just set it up on its edge, on
a bale Of gunny- bags, when noticed
over the way big darkey (then on sale)
from Charleston, S. c., who was noto-
rious for his butting propensities hav-
ing given most Of the niggers in that
vicinity a taste Of his quality in that
line. | had seen him and another tel
tow, the night previous, practising
they would stand, one on each side of a
-hydrant some ten yards distant, and
run at each other with their heads low
cred and clapping their hands on the
hydrant, they would butt like veteran
rams. A thought struck me that | might
cure him of his Dragging and butting,
and have some fun also: so / told the
boys to keep dark, and l called g Old
Jake" over.
"They tell me you are great fellow
tor butting, Jake?"
81 is some, massa,-dats fac.
done butt dewool 'tirely or fof old pete.s
head last night, and Massa Nichls was
gwine to glib me goss. kin jiss bang de
head OFF any niger in these parts, my
self,-I kin?''
"Well, Jake, I've got little job in
that line for You, when you havn't any
thing else to do
'1se on har% for all dem kim oh Jobs
myself, II is"
"W ell,-you see that large cheese
back there?"
81 does dat. | does myself" @
Snow, if you can butt dent III it
you shall have it."
"Golly, massa your foolin, dis Mig
ger?"
''No, I'm not, Jake,-just try me-"
''Wot! you gib me de hull Oh dat ar
cheese, if | butt dent in um?"
eyes" ......
Ode Lor. III bust 'em wide open,-I
will, meself. Jess stand back dar, you
Orleans niggers, and clear de track for
Ole Souf Carlina, case Tse comm my
self,-I is"
And old Jake started back some fifty
feet, and went at it with a good quick
run, and the next instant heard dull,
heavy sound-a kind Of SOILS, and old
Jake's head disappeared from sight,
with the top just visible on the other
side as he rose with his new-fashioned
necklace, the soft, rotten cheese oozlng
down all round him as he settled down
so that just his eyes were visible. FROM
the center Of it Jake's voice was scarce
ly audible and half smothered, as he
vainly tried to remove the immense
cheese.
5000! er de Lor! Mass-took UNI
orr, O-o-o-o !bress der Lor! Lif UNI upi
Gor-a-migbty! I"
Meanwhile, I was nearly dead my
self-having laid back on cotton bale
holding myself together to keep from
bursting, while the boys stood around
Ole Jake, paying him off.
ODE Lori how de nIgger's bref smell
You doesn't clean your teef, Ole Jake?''
IL say,-you didn't make more dan
four times dat ham, die you, ole hoss?"
well, you is nasty buggar,-dats
a fac ~
"Well, you is the BIGGEST kline Of
Welsh Rabbit, --you is -
"Whar you git your bar grease?"
And thus the boys run Old jake now
half smothered.- whe took compass
sion on him, and told them to take it off:
Jake didn't stay to claim his prize, but
put out growling,--
"Gor-amighty. | done got sole dat
time. l'se case Of yellow feber,--I
is, myself"
Old Jake was never known to do any
more butting IN that vicinity after that.
A NEW 'HooP" DlsEAsE.-A new
disease has made its appearance since
the introduction of hoops 1t exhibits
itself only IN cold weather, and then on.
ly discoverable i'll cities where the build
ngs are warmed by furnaces. Two Ia.
dies were standing over a register the
other day talking and laughing, when
one, endeayoring to sit, was suddenly
attacked and screamed violently. The
other soon also tried to sit, and was at
tackled in the same manner. The ex-