White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1859-10-06

that sort of stuff cowhide, bu. it sounded
to us moro like bull-tonguel lie went
onSto tell Us "as how" if we ever again
took his name in vain, he would "whal.
us like Ill.," if he had to come into
our Office to do it We we're terribly
scared but we recollect that we had the
presence of mind to tell him that, Just as
like as any way, we should be stirring
him up with sharp stick before long
and that, while we were doing it. we
would remember that we were earning a
whaling" from the mighty "Heed, by
CD" the ''lawyer by profession, I" and
brick-layer BY practical
But the show had just begun. At this
crisis. up rushed big. strapPing fellow,
apparently about halfnigger, Tin his ma
ture all niger, drunk. of course. and al
the least calculation as large as two Of us.
We thought. in the beautiful language OIL
Millions " Paradise Lost -
80, whar did you come from,
Knock Niger down."
We are sure Byron must once have been
placed in a similar situation with our
self, to have conceived such an idea as
"Tbs .F4s.vnan eams down like wolf On tn. fold,
His cohorts all cleaning with prrpIs and sold:"
The purple was on the end Of his nose,
and the gold was-somewhe else! The
Captain Immediately grew more blus.ery.
1t was evident that the newcomer was q
parsonage Of Importance, and that, like
Roderick Dhu-
some blast upon his bugle horn,
Was worth thOsSand men,"
He tappel the Captain on the back, told
him to go in. and demanded to be shown
that " old Sol. Miller" anil he would 10
terrible things with him. But the Cap
tain took care not to "go." even though
his "rigb; bower" did guard him. lie
had been seen to beckou to this fellow.
when he saw us leave the Court House
and was heard to say to some one: leone
on, there's Sol. Miller; III show you
some finn ~ BY the way this drunken
brute came up. it was pretty evident that
his services hal been engaged for the oc-
casion, anil that he knew what Ire was to
do. and who be was to do it to. This
bulldog rGoices in the eupboniOus. clas-
steal anil socsuDatical" name Of Jim
Miller! lie was inflicted BY the Grand
Jury, last Spring, for gambling and
horse racing; AMI we presume he was
thus working out $3.50 fee due '.Heed.
by Cd" the Lawyer by profession. ~
for defending him upon some Indictment
for violating the laws. The Pro Slavery
Democracy, at their late Convention.
showed their appreciation Of this fellows
worth. by voting for him rs o candidate
for the Legislature : anil he came within
few votes Of receiving nomination.
We viii go our pile on it, that II was
Heed who proposed his name. This was
the first time in our life that we felt aslia-
med Of our name. The fact y. IL Jim
Miller don't soon get killed or hung. or
die with snakes in his boots, he must Ell
ther have bis name changed, or we'll
change ours!
But If tbe Captain bad his hired bullies.
we had friends there. and persons came
rushing in on both sides. There was a
fair prospect for more fun than Heed,
by Cd" had sDticipsted-in fact. it
was so funny that he could not tell where
the laugh came in, and therefore didn't
Taught Some three or four persons rob
bed us of our name, acknowledged that
they were cold Sol. Miller" and invited
black Jim Miller to walk in. We began
to think there might be a.number of old
Sol. Millers "lying around loose" and
accordingly became disinterested spec
tator Of the progress Of the war. "Hecd.
By Cd" and his tool Jim, soon found
the crowd too hostile for them. and me-
chemically Cor intuitively) edged their
way towards 8 neighboring doggery.
which they entered. and there found q
more congenial atmosphere. This insti-
tuition is carried on by one Blind Bar
temius," relative Of Heed. who Is rela-
ted to. or has in his employ. all the bull.
lies and doggsry keepers in the neighbor-
hood. When we left town, they were in
there carousing. and heaping sxscrations
upon the head Of "old Sol. Miller" The
renowned Jim Miller. who was 90 anxious
to swallow rs alive. although he was Sc
veral times within reach Of rs. we do not
suppose recognized rs. and cannot to this
day tell what we look like. II sent ont
to hunt rs up, he would Ia all prObsbili-
ty look for little. old man, with hump
back and bald head-such an one Is Is
described in Watts Hymns
%Els had no wool On The TOP II his bead,
Al ths place shsr. d wool o.sht 70 govT-
or in Charles Wesley's Revival Hymns
"a iitfIs 90 nna came Fiiins bxs