The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1868-12-28
ALABAMA.
A Lively and Picmrssque Market
Place.
correspondence of the Courier-Journal.I
MONTGOMERY, December 10.

Everybody goes to market, as mat,
ter of course-yOung and old, rich and
poor, black and white, high and low,
dignitaries of the church and keno
players, blushing brides and bruised
and battered nynlphs du pare, keen-eyed
policemen and negro chicken thieves,
old decrepid octogenarians and laughing
children-all jostle each other in every
direction. Some are there by appoint
ment to meet engagements of business
or pleasure; others 60 to see and be
seen, while others go TO see how small
lot of provisions can be carried away
for the few dollars they may have to In
vest, while all around steady stream
of conversation is going on that really
rivals the scenes enacted at the tower OF
Babel previous to its destruction. That
Won may have faint idea of it, permit
me to forward you few floating para:
graphs as they fell upon my ear in rapid
succession:
"Never made better bargain, sir.
The stock sold last year at" -
"Four bits ticket, cheap enough,
and YOU ought to hear Johnny Reddin
sing the waller gal that winked at me,
and Nelly Whitney after that"
"Knocked down both niger police
mes. was thar and Joe said"
"The Conference will reappolnt Broth
er Matthews beyond doubt. His sue
cessful labors the past year have result
ed in"
The sweetest baby you ever saw: 1t
knows it's papa as sosn as 1T sees him,
and mother says that"
"He wasn't worth d-n; bolted
on the first race, and was spawned at
that. Why, only two months ago he"
Found faith in believing, and has
since stated that"
"Petticoats done up that way always
look so neat, and then with six yards
Of"
"Benzine, or pine top, you bet. Such
liouor is enough to bust up Bible so
ciety, and, besides"
"The bill makes suitable provision in
the first and fourth sections for -"
"a nigger baby, about three months
old. It's mother, you see"
"Boiled it for about two hours with q
mess of turnip green's, and was so hun
gry that eat most all of it; and then
l."
"Prayed SO earnestly to know my du-
ty; it was solemn scene. soon
found =" ...t
GJoe hilt three aces an queen. He
had the dead wood on 'em, sure WELL
"She loved him very dearly, but,
bless you. he didn't kHow it. She used
to kiss his phstograph, until, one
aThe Internal bile busted. Jewhilli-
kens didn't it bust' fused a plaster
of soap and sugar, and the moment II
began to draw | had -"
Twins the first year. Yes, you're
right. She was happy woman, ana
last evening l found her -
"Drupk in the calaboose. All the
noiicemen in the city couldn't stop her ;
she is the worst card in the deck, and as
soon as she gets out she'll 60 to"
"The Baptist Church. Ellen will be
one of the bridesmaids, and she VIII
wear "a"
"Stope-pipe hat, full of watch-hsuse
dents. He wanted me to 60 on his bond'
and /" u.-
"Put in five breadths, and aunt Mary
afterwards was kind enough to
"Cboke the son of tinker till he
fairly hellered. ran down stairs
and" 7
IF you come rousd about seven L
shall be quite alone, and we can
then" ,, a-
"Take a little bot whisky punch over
to Jobnny Lawler's; but l prefer
st-aight drinks, because find"
"Tbe ways of the Lord are truly won
dsrful and past fiading out. Last year
II ond
the next morning" IT..
' SGot nv bankrupt certificate, and BE-
fore the week was ont"