The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1867-09-17

~ eSeeia iuaur IrUm WHICH We extract t!c follow
ing:
grLB THAT cUr BOTH w4rH.
~ Thursday, June Sd, 1858. was in the ofic,
of tho LawrcnceYle Herald of Freedom. when ,
10y came in with the report:
,SThere has Just been fight ZIP town"
o1t S nv vas 9ro such ma an r eyeray affair that did no
| another messenger entered and said
There's man killed"
Even this excited little attention in those time.
Of yinlenca. But suddenly yoica was heard fiou
| the ntreoi "
Jim lane has killed aaus Jenkins, and mol
ftah gathered AROUND his house to hang him."
There was no more indiforonce; the uuarmed
ran Tor reyolrers; and we all hastened to Lanes
house, half mile away. Around it were Two uI
three hundred excited men, few proposing tc
lynch Lane. but the majority declaring that liz
should be tried by duo course or law. Among thI
| former VAS the nutorious cr-sheriif Jones, who
renee two years earlier. During the comparative
quiet which now prevailed, he frequently ysitet
the CITY,. In the midst Of his loud talk, sherif
Samuel Walker quietly remarked:
Look here, Jones; be careful how YOU recon.
mend hanging. These people are good deal cx-
cited already, and if they hang anynn,Iy, will b.
very likely to hcgin with yon !"
Tho visitor instantly apoioeizeL for his intru
sion into Lawrence affairs. and took the first stag,
for Leeompton.
WESTERN rRoSINcIALIsNa.
I'm Kansas ono heard the slang and provincial
isms OF every section OF the country, bcRido somt
indigenous to the soil. The importatidns Sert
chiefly from Missouri, which had furnished more
than half the entire population. Most reader.
&rom the buckeye trea,l Illinoians as Suckers,
ipdIanians as "HoosieLs," and Michganders 81
Wolverines" Early Californians cliristoned a,
that they had been vomed forth from that prolific
State. And however shocking to ears polite
the sppellation has adhered to them ever since
their pet home phrases. One morning at bieal.
fast q squatter host Of mine remarked:
These molassea is sTeeter than any maple mo
This unique use Of tho national saccharine only
in the plural, not uncommon in the Southwest
originated IN pennsylvania. I heard another Mis-
souTian reply to inquiries touching his health:
~ had tho shakes last week, but now have eot
shut OF them"
A third, ussing concerning his crop Of corn, re-
sponded:
eyes, l raised power OF it. 1 have fed hen,
10 my cattle and got right smart chance left"
hural Mlssoqrians never carried burdens, but
always packed. or 'toted' them. Among other
.'crapped" IA corruption Of croppodj Ia sometimes
drou and startling. General Marcy tells of an Ar
kansan u5a Who Pointnstoa little man with huge
"Cap. don't you reckon that that thar little man
has ss; bit over srapned his solf1"
obsolete through thu Esst, is common-tho Nest
nais Srn fsrmor usually saying, II have Just sold
Tho New Englandor shouts to distant friond:
erner cries: 10000 JohnI" y "'''
Immigrants from tho East were very merry al
| the expense Of their Missouri neiphbors. In
etreet discussion O lounger was defending al
| correct tho rural Southorn phrases funs'
and "iou 'uns." One Of the bystanders asket
him:
| "Are yol o grammarianf"
| '.Whtohf" was his beHildered inquiry.
"Are you q grammarian? %
| 'Why, no, I'm hfissourian I"
1t was distinction With difference. Bnt thi
fun is not all on one side. I remember an oil
Mlissourian who was brought in contact with man,
line through his neighborhood. Said he:
! I've lived ON the frontier all my lie. kno,
English and the sign-lRnguage. and have picke
| up q smattering OF French, Spanish Choctaw AM
Delaware, but ono language can't understand
aud That is this informal New York langhageT'