Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1860-11-08
Life in Egypt; By a BOok-Ped-

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| had been ordered into the twenty ,oun.
ties known as Egyp,,in Southern lilinsis,
to sell out our rems iRing stock of Douglas
pictures and lives. 1t was not u pleasant
propect, nor did it look to be proftable.--
But one must obey orders and wrote to J.
F. at Vincennes to rig me up an estAbl,sh-
ment suitable, and picked out 4 proper
quantity of olu clothes. selected o route
given Messrs. Phillips, Piatt, g. Schenck
through the hardest part of the bsnighlsd
region, and, or ths goth Oct. last, lett Gin
cinnati for the scenes Of my labor.
The express train stopped at lawrence
vile 8 alton at 2 o'clock, .. m, the latter
part Of about US dark night as Egypt night
ever hope Tor. Whio feeling about Tor my
wares, or seeing wus cut Of the question)
the voices Of the three unhappy stum,ers
sent down as missionaries to snlightsh the
natives. Alter l had secured ny stock J
Joined them. Where to 60 wss Then the
question that sgitated the country We
might at any moment have more rain, and
il was necessary to find shelter other thar
the s,ation-house. Fully impressed with
this fact, the political teachers made an at
tack on what seemed to be tavern, som.
hundred yards from the railroad. The heavy
knocking brought. for some time; no re-
sponse. Al last window wen, up, and an
ugly lvoce demanded our business. This
was stated to be lodging for the night.
"Can't git that here" was The unpleasant;
response.
"Why not; 10 no, this hotel"
"Well, 1t was last week, but IT'S gone
up" aud down slammed the window, a.
Hood would have said, with wooden damn,
that served as a previous question. closing
up further debate. Mr. Phillips said that
the town was at least two miles away. Far
or near, nothing was leiirus but to seek il
land so we irudged away. We had not
made more than half a mile before Pistt
gave out, and announced gravely that in
that road he and grief would sil on hand
trunk until the committee with a band OF
music. waving great banners, should come
out and meet them. II vas useless to
renonstrate; and nothing but an offer on
my part to carry said hand-trunk, leaving
him to transport said grief movedtho orator.
He begged me to handle the luggage care.
fully, as |, contained his speech and clean
shirt. AftG tedious time Of wearisoms
stumbling, we made the town, and fouLd
the sign post tina, indicated so faithfully
cheap indigestion, bad whisky, end bed
bugs. We sssailed the house with furious
knocks, and in q reasonable time heard
some one within, and soon the din glimmer
OF tallow dip mae darkness visible. AL
slender specimen Of weak humsnity again
gave US the pleasing information that this.
too, hsd been . tavern In days gone by, but
like the one at the station had "gons up"
or rather, to Judge from appearances, had
gone down. found the honorables gentle
mans trunk. containing that speech and
shirt. entirely too heavy for further trans.
portation, snd 80 pushed BY the nocturnal
luminsry made up Of taI.ow and sgue.
al guess" ! ssid. giving my best speci-
men OF Yankee vernaculsr, eve can find
room to lie down IL tho whisky and grub
are out" si'a
A silent assent YVES given to this propo-
sition. and we were shown to large room,
where the remnant Of scms beds gave evi-
dsncs Of departed glory. Here, for fvo
long hours we fought the real owners Of
the premises, and, alter daylight, discovered
that we narrowly missed an excsllsnt house
Of sntsrisinmspt, kept = few PAGES further
on BY . good publican Republican. The
commit,se was grisvsd q. the manner their
had fsred, and said that they
had been expected BY the noon train, when
The proper "percession" would have con-
lucted them 10 glory 70 the meeting.
found my vehicle just the thing 90 far
appearances wsnti A sort Of spring g-cart,
ID two III matched wheels. sufficiently pro
10 make one cross eyed wss at
achsd to an old blind horse. so poor that
10 might have served a. . rat.rsck. My
,nly objection TO the turn out was, that II
sr "a - hpaak