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Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1868-03-05

A MONKEY TEAcHER.-In my drinking
days I had friend who had monkey,
which he valued at high price. We al:
ways took him out on our chesnut parties.
He shook all our chesnuts for us, and when
he could not shake them off, he would 60 to
the very end of the limb and knock them of
with his fist. One day we stopped at a
tavern and drank freely. About half q
glass of whiskey was left, and Jack took
the glass and drank it's contents, the effects
of which soon brought him into full opera:
'tion-skipping, hopping and dancing most
entertainingly. Jack was drunk. Being
six in number, it was agreed that we should
come next day and get Jack drunk again
and have sport all day: I called in the
morning at my friends house, who went af-
ter Jack. But instead of being as usual on
his box, he was not to be seen. We looked
inside, and there he was crouched up in a
heap. "Come out here" said his master.
Jack came out on three legs, applying his
fore paw to his head. Jack had the head.
ache. He felt just as 1 felt many morn
ing. He was sick and couldn't 60. So we
put it off three days. We then met, and
while drinking, glass was provided for
Jack. But where was he? Skulking be.
hind the chairs. "Come here Jack" said
his master, "and drink" holding glass
out to him. Jack retreated; and as the
door opened he slipped out, and in mo
ment was on the top of the house. His
master went and called him down. He
however refused to obey. My friend got a
cowskin and shook at him, which the mon,
key disregarded, and continued on thu
ridgepole, still obstinately disobedient.- -
His master got gun and pointed it at him
but unsuccessfully. Jack slipped over tc
the back of the building. He then got two
guns, and had one pointed on each side Of
the house, when the monkey, seeing his
bad case, whipped upon the chimney, ant
got down in one of the fues and held on by
his forepaws. My friend kept that mon
key twelve years afterwards, but could new
er prevail on him to taste another drop O.
whiskey.-Lattle Cleaner.
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gttisrellaueuns Artitles.
STRIKE AMONGST THE WHARF EMPLOY

STRIKE AMONGST THE WHARF EMPLOY
EEs-INTENsE ExCrTEMENT.--Yesterday
for the third time, ''strike" took place a
mongst the colored men in the employ O.
the stevedores of this city. By 6 O'Clock
in the morning they commenced to assem-
BILE in large numbers at the corners of tht
Bay and those streets which lead down tt
the principal docks, and a half hour later
the evidences of well concocted scheme
for the interruption of legitimate labor be
gan to crop out. As as the usual hou'
for the commencement of their duties ar
rived, the negroes generally announced then
determination not to work unless their wages
were advanced from two to three dollars pei
diem. All remonstrance on the part of then
employers proved fruitless, save with few
and these were Immediately assaulted by
the ''strikers," and borne forcibly away
from the ene-of their labors. -.
When it was discovered that trouble was
likely to ensue, Capt. Stewart, Of the "Win
throp," and others reported the facts tc
Mayor Burns, who Immediately took steps
to prevent further difficulty by sending g
temporary guard detailed from the city po.
lice, down to the Atlantic wharf, and sub
|sequently applied for and obtained de-
tachment of soldiers from the Citadel, who
were sent from the City Hall.
In the meanwhile, the negroes, excited
by the circumstances, focked around the
"Winthrop," and used threats not only tc
those who had declined to cooperate with
the ''strikers," but to the officers of the
ship. So far did they persist in their riot.
Gus demonstrations, that Captain Stewart
was compelled to announce his determine.
tion to retort with force unless they disper.
sed. To this the ring-leader, Harrison Car,
riere, replied with the most violent and bias.
phemous abuse, and was finally taken into
custody by the police and carried to the
guard house. His place was promptly sup.
piled, however, by John Thomas, who con-
tinued to arouse the mob to violence, when,
fortunately, Mayor Burns appeared on the
scene and ordered him also under arrest.
He was seized by the guard, but before they
could take him from the dock, the crowd
rushed forward and made an attempt to res
cue him. Mayor Burns personally inter!
vened, and proclaiming his authority, sue
ceeded in arresting the mob and having the
prisoner conveyed to the guard house.
The exhibition of this summary way of
dealing with offenders against the peace by
his Honor the Mayor, had salutary effect,
and by three o'clock in the afternoon the
excitement had completely subsidized, and the
"strikers" gone peaceably to work, without
pressing their unreasonable demands.
Charleston Courier, 25th ath.
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Ma,uasp1ss department.
SUM NATRAL HISTORY.

Next to the monkey, the crow hsz the
most deviltry to spare. They are born
very wild, kan be tanned az easy az the
goat kan, but tame crow is aktually worse
than sore thumb.
If there il emmy thing about the house
that they kant git into, it IL becauze the
thing amt big enuf. I had rather watch q
distrikt skool than one tame crow. Grows
live on what they kan steal, and they will
steal emmy thing that amt tied down.
They are fond Of meat vittles, and are
the first tew hold an inquest over depar'
ted horse, or a still sheep. They are a
fine bird tew hunt, but hard one to tew
kill; they kan see you 2 miles first, and will
smell gun right through the side ov a
mountain. ......
They are not songstirs, although they
hav good voice to cultivate, but what tha
do sing, they seem to understand thorough
"; long practiss haz made them perfekt
The crow IL tuff bird, and kan stand
the heat like blacksmith, and the cold like
o stun wall. .....
They bid their nest among a tree, and
lay twice, and both eggs would hatch out
if they waz laid in snow bank-there aint
no such thing az stopping young crow.
Grows are very lengthy-I beleave they
live always; I never knu one to die nat
raj deth, and don't beleave they kno how.
They are alwuz thin in flesh, and are
like an injun rubber shew; poor inside and
out.
They are not considered fine eating, al
though have read somewhere of billed crow,
but still I never heard ov the same man
hankering for billed crow 2 times.
This essa on the crow IL copied from
natur, and if it il true I aint to blame for
it-natur made the crow, l didn't.
Hens lead me to remark, in the fust
place, that thus far they are suckcess.
They are domestick, and occasionally are
tuff.
This is owing to their not being billed Of
ten enuff in their yunger daze but the hen
amt tew blame for this.
Billed hen is universally respekted.
Thare il crate deal Of originality, tew,
in the hen exactly how much kant tell,
historians fight so much about it. Some
say Knower had hens with him in the ark,
and sum say he didn't. So it goes, which
and luther.
T kant tell you which waz born first, the
hen or the egg; sometimes l think the egg
waz, and sometimes think don't kno,
and kant tell now which iz right, for the
life ov me.
Laying eggs IL the hens best grip.
A hen that kant lay eggs-is laid out.
One egg is considered fair days work
for hen. I have heard ov their doing
better, but don't want hen ov mine tew
do tit is apt tew hert their constitushun
and bylaws, and thus impare their future
worth.
The poet sez beautifully
Somebody haz stole our old blew hen,
wish they'd letter her bee,
She used tew lay eggs day,
And Sundays she laid B."
This sounds trew enuff for poetry, but 1
will bet Is thousand dollars that it never
took place.
bet stands epe.,-tiilll III Eth -ov
next November, at half.past twelve o'clock.
Josh. Billings.
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ia A lady found occasion to call upon
q dentist to have her teeth filled. Among
those filled were two front ones, and when
in a pleasant mood the lady's face shone
with smiles, while polished gold glittered
from the upper incisors. These were OBJ
served with admiration by her little niece,
who, by-and-by, seriously remark ked: "Aunt
Mary, I wish 1 had eopper-toed teeth like
yours"
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pINDARs OR GROUND PEAS.

We have seen, in some of our periodi-
Gals, directions how to plant and cultivate
the pindar, and as we have made this arti=
Gle by the acre, and seen fields of them, we
differ from the writer. ...
Our direction is. heap up land deep and
thorough, so as to pulverise thoroughly the
land-of course, there are lands better a.
dapted than others, light earth; not the
heavy clays, would beour choice-then run
e4eEerovp-thhrea-aurtai Of e. irulff e-fear-fsst-and
bed thereto with light furrow, making a
fiat bed. If the pindars be not hulled,
break in two, so that moisture may more
readily reach the pea, and after opening a
furrow with q narrow plow, bull tongue, Oh
even piece of hard wood, shaped like q
bull tongue, drop the seed, two in place,
two feet apart, about the time of corn plant
ing, if not hulled- if hulled, later, for frost
will kill-then cover about two inches deep.
When the pindar is up, scrape as for cot.
ton, then dirt as for cotton, keep clean,
earth stirred with cultivator or sweep, and
do not molest the branches, or put earth on
limbs.
The bloom is always just above where q
root puts from the limb on which the pin
dar is formed, the bloom is above the pindar
on the rootlet in the ground, andit is just
as wise to cover the bloom on the potatoes
as to cover the bloom on the pindar. We
have seen large fields where the pindar was
dropped in the same hill where corn was
dropped, and both cultivated together. A
friend, now deceased, who planted some two
hundred acres of corn, in Mississippi, as
sured us he fattened his pork in his corn
field, where he always had pindars with his
corn, and, though cotton planter, made
meat for sale.
We have had sows too fat to breed, from
our pindar patches, and we never cover
vines, and always give about four by two
feet as distance.-Ed. Southern Farmer.
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ndH At school examination young
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the teacher that he must gesticulate accord.
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w. II. McCORKLE '"'' g

HEREBY informs ALL PERSONS who want
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Yours, N. M. L.
Bazzyil1e. O,anoe Co., N. Y.

We believe the hair forming in hard balls
caused the death of the calves. We have
saw instances of grown cattle being killed
in the same way, and upon being opened,
large hard balls fhair were found in their
stomachs, the hair being perfectly ipdiges-
tible, clogged up the passage and caused
death.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1868-03-05

sE Sum men are crate by chance, but 1
know darned site Nv EN- that are mean
from choice. ...
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1868-03-05

was they did not offer them in small tracts.
Let them pursue the plan suggested, and
they will find ready sales. .
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WHAT KILLED THE CALVES. Last May
we lost two calves about three months old,
think, from sucking each other, and thus
getting hair in their cuds. We opened one,
found cud hard, and full of hair, coated over
with curdled milk; ; they were in clover pas
ture, did not eat much they were fed about
twelve quarts of warmed, skinned milk per
day. Seemed well at morning, refused to
drink; died at night: appeared to have strug-
gled, and bruised themselves very much
one was seen to run round and round and
froth at the mouth few hours before death.
Now some think the hair did not kill them
because they never knew it to, and they had
often known two or more to run together
where they could, and did suck each other.
I would like to have your opinion on this
perhaps it would be interesting to some OF
your other readers.
v,,rs NJ M IT
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To SMOKE BEEF.-Mr. Robt. E. Wright,
of Allentown, has in his employ half
grown black boy, who lately came from the
South. On Monday Mr.. Wright gave the
boy one dollar bill, with orders to pur-
chase some material for making smoke in
the smoke-house. The youth started off,
and, with all good intentions, he purchased
twenty segars at five cents each. With
these he returned home, and in obedience to
his master instructions, as the boy thought,
without saying word to any one, went to
the smoke-house, and shutting himself
therein, commenced to smoke the meat with
the segars. His heightened absence ava
kened surprise at the house, and member
of the family went in search, and on open
ing the smoke-hous door, the boy was
found quietly seated, and putting away at
the eighteenth segar in the dense smoke.
As the door was opened, and the obedient
boy seeing the smoke pass out, exclaimed
''Shut up dat door dar. Don't you see de
smoke goen out ?" Mr.. Wright offers a
dollar more for a similar trick.-Easton
Press.
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PATRICK's ATTEMPT AT GERMAN.

Frederick the Great, OF russia, nau q
great mania for enlisting gigantic soldiers
into the Royal Guards, and paid an enor'
mcus bounty to his recruiting officers fol
getting them. One day the recruiting SER
geant CHANGED to spy Hibernian who was
at least seven feet high; he accosted him in
English, and proposed that he should enlist
The idea of military life and large bounty
so delighted Patrick, that he Immediately
consented.
. 'sBut, unless you can speak German the
king will not give you so much"
"Oh," said the Irishman, ''sure it's l that
don't know word of German"
s'But," said the sergeant, "three words
will be sufficient, and these you can learr
in short time. The king knows every mar
in the Guards. AS soon as he sees you, he
will ride up and ask you how old you are
You will say 'Twenty-seven.' Next, how
long have you been in service you mus
reply, 'Three weeks Finally, if you ar'
provided with clothes and rations you vii
answer, Both"
Patsoon learnedto pronounce his answers
but never dreamed of learning questions
In three weeks he appeared before the king
in review. His majesty rode up to him
Paddy stepped forward with present arms.
"How old are you?" said the king.
''Three weeks, said the Irishman.
"How long have you been in the service?'
asked his majesty.
"Twenty-seven years.
cam I or you fool - roared the king
"Both," replied Patrick, who was instan
ly taken to the guard-room, but pardonee
by the king after he understood the facts o
the case.