The native Virginian. [volume] (Orange Court House, Va.) 1867-187?, 1868-05-01
PROV THE DuxBURr LlMsHELL.

L MUM Bfto his BtAuISeh
As longingly 1 roam.
(PRoN rHE DUxBURY eLAMsHELL.) ia
Great Excitement fin Duxbu-
ry and surrounding Towns
wonderful N MT a i X 1 II e
Performance of a n aged,
gifted, respectable cOIOred
Iady-We estOn OutdOne-Nkas-
sachusetts A o u q d. IN e
Spirit Of Prophecy revived
Electric Sym pathy of Great
Brttain--Characteristic Dis
| patch from MIR. Summer, &C.,
&C., ETC., etc. sd q yrio2 n
The Nation has been intensely excit.
ed of late by various exhibitions of the
power of physical endurance which sc
emiEently distinguishes the great A.
merican people. Walking, trottlng
riding, rowing, sculling and skating
and have been order of the day, and
the matchless performance, of.our free
born citizens in these several exercises
have provoked the extreme Jealousy
and enmity of all Europe and added
immensely to the fame of the Nation.
IJ has been reserved, however, for
the enlightened town of Duxbury to
eclipse ali of these exploits, and for a
female OF the hallowed African race to
bear away the proud palm, which, in
after ages, shall attest to an admiring
word the greatness and glory of the
Nation. .I -f.- H.,.. t.Iv ~ .,nr
To avoid circumtautology and come
at once to the profound subject matter
OF the case in hand, we will state
which we do by autl,ority--that, fired
| by the glorious walking. trotting and
billiarding deeds of her heaven-born
conntrymcn, as recorded in the public
prints of the day, an aged citizeness OF
| our town has outvahquished them all.
To be explicit, Mrs, Uniona Stinkly-
| 4 native Of the rebel district of Georgia
and whose original name was Sooky
Toombs, formerly slave of the rebel
Robert Toombs,) but who was rescued
to freedom by Secretary Seward, when
he left off schoolteaching in that be-
niyhted region, and who has resided in
our town for many years past, Is the
| person VIC allude to, which We do with
humble reverence and by express per-
mission, ,.as we have aforesaid above -
| Miss Toombs was married, soon after
/ her settlement in our town, to the Kew.
| Dassturd Stinkly, colOred Universal
ist preacher and a large dealer in paint
| ed pails,1 the hoops of Which were pecu'
| liariy fine and were always regartledas
an honor to the Nation, being stamped
1 with the American, Eagle in clever
| places. After lms death, which occurred
at an evangelical Abolitionist Clam
bake, where he ate too freely and dranl
\ cider that was sweet, Mrs, Stinkly
though in good ey-cIrcunstanceS
accepted the place (being without chill
dren Of her husbands) ofstovc-cleanci
and general chore-doer in the family o
the Hon. Egregions Il. Sole, .Ex-Se'
lectman of Lynn, where he amassed
large fortune in the monkey-entrai
importation business, the same being
manufactured by Mr.. Sole, by ma
chine of his sowninventiOn, into string
for the sacred boss yiOls Of the princi
pal brass bands of the leading fashiona
BILE Churches and lagerbcer cellars o
Boston and New York.
1t will thus be seen that the antece'
dents Of Mrs. Stinkly peculiarly fitted
her for the high task in which she has
engaged and which rebounds SO muci
to the credit of our town and the glory
of the Nation. Being a widow of :
colored clergyman and the confidentia
stove cleaner of a manufacturer of sa
cred bass-viol strings, she felt it to be
her dooty' to take upon herself the ar
dous and truly loyal national perform
ance, which she has undertaken solely
to save the life of the Nation, nov
threatened by rebels. Copperheads and
the brutal, beggarly beastly Andy
johnson. In word, she has under-
taken to do whatno female of the white
race ever. did or ever will do-namely
to go AS hours without opening her lips
| save only once In each hour and then
combining herself strictly to a single
sentence not exceeding ten woids!
This cwful test of American, Nation
| al. loyal, Union, feminine endurance
was begun on Sunday noon, the 9th
| inst. at the residence of Hon. II. Sole,
| as aforesaid, and has continued up to
this time in the most National, truly
| loyal, free and successful manner
Probably the history ofthe whole world
| does not record such an instance, and
hence we do not wonder or marvel at
| the enthusiasm occasioned by it.
So soon as it was known that Mrs.
Stinkly was engaged in her hard and
tiOi -SiiCA NSShaS "tSo N%N
pressed by the females other own color
| and the elderly unmarried women of
the white race to witness the unparal-
lelled performance; and, yielding to the
prayers of his fair country women. es-
pccially the loyal colored portion of
them, the Hon. Egregious Il. Sole, EN-
Selcctman of Lynn. consented to have
her removed from his own chamber,
where she lay sweetly in white night
cap with double -frills, to a large plat
form, 40 feet high, which was erected
near the Town Hall in 81 minutes and
8 seconds by the carpenters employed
by the Free Love Association of this
township. An exact facsimile of the
Catafalque, which bore the remqins of
the sainted martyr, A. Lincoln, to
Springfield, was built for her to lie up
on, which she does with her extremi-
ties, especially The lower, stretched wide
apart, in gentle and womanly imitation
of the National Bird, when Stricken by
the inhuman archer's Shaft, he lies
prone upon his stomach on the plain.
For refreshment, during the trying
task, 8 gallons of double-proof sarspa-
rilla pop, two half-pecks Of dough-nuts
and 8 imperial quarts of roasted clans
were placed with easy reach of her aged
and loyal hands. Also copy of the
American Bible, a package of easy