The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1870-06-13
HrGsroN's ANTICS ON SKATES.

HIGsToN'S ANTICS ON SKATES.
When we visited the skaters on that evening close
and warm,
Wgston got the epidemic in Its most malignant
form.
There be saw DeHoney's movements on the aoor
In varied lines,
Running hlther, thther, yonder, even as "the
woodbine twines.,
twas marvel thus to see his motions serpen.
tine and fleet,
And the manifold gyrations Of his trained and
skllful feet.
Starting of with rapid movement on a seven Gu
bit stride,
Like the ancient Rhodes, COLOSSUS mounted for
castor ride.
First, he brought in combination, angle curve and
heightened line,
Making the Arabic figures from the unit up to
nine.
Then he went to illustrating geometrlc problems
there,
Grouping rhomboids arcs and circles, all within
hollow square,
Opening up the transcendental beauties OF the
rolling slide
Speeding like an arrow forward-passing to a
graceful glide
Tracing with his skates upon the surface In
little while,
Magma Charta's famous language in stately
Gothic style.
Next In grotesque hleroglyphlc, written out upon
the floor
Was thesis OF Confucus, got from oriental
lore
Then the ordinance Of secession in symmetrc lines
he showed,
And that legal botherat!6n known to US as Cor
Such tortuous course was never followed but by
sinners, or
LimpIng, spawned politicians In their wanderIngs
since the war.
Turning round to my companion, as the audience
loudly cheered,
Said l. ''wigton-did you ever, Bless my soul
he's disappearedr' r'
anxious doubt,
NEarnestly I went In search In each direction
thereabout
Scarce moment passed before saw his bodily
estate
Eyes in widest frenzy rolling and his hair erect
and straight.
Cautious putting one foot forward on the treach-
erous sliding wheels,
Then with arms insanely moving, over on the
floor he kees
Full two hundred forty pounds then fell upon the
floor below,
Sounding like shock OF earthquake in the midst
oflively show.
Startled by his own ecumbence-features quite
chop-fallen-then,
After many slips and tumbles, he was on his feet
again.
Anxious features, tmd movement, nervousness
and want OF grace
Like the wicked wlgston felt he stood upon o
slippery place.
Finding that again he toppled, lest he meet with
further harms,
Round an iron column close he wound his unctious
legs and arms.
Many dire mishaps befel hlm-sad collisions
painful falls
Punches In the lumbar reglon-sharp concus-
sions-awkward sprawls-
Tumbllng headlong 'galnst the ralling-gettlng
hard cerebral thumps,
Starting the lambdoldal suture-swelllng phreno-
logic bumps
shIns with big abrasons covered-anger nearly
cut In two
Dexter eye in ecchy,nosts (Which is Greek for
black and blue)-
Paper collar badly ruIned-lacerated neither
dress,
Through the seat of which there sadly waved
signal Of dstressl
In his mad career we stopped him-placed him
on a friendly chair,
Loosed his necktIe, got his skates on, moved him
to the evening air;
Then we saw q demonstration OF the lfe-restorlng
power
or that therapeutic agent, vulgarly called "Boar.
bon Sour"
With It's fragraat odors waited to his keen saga
cious nose,
Quick his consciousness comes to him-down the
panacea goes.
"Haug me, but I'm bound to learn It," Wlgston
said, In earnest tone,
"If have to make compound fracture Of each
precious bone ~
EDWARD F. UNDERnILL.
Charleston, June H. 1870.
TIE BATTERY AND OTHER CITY PROPERTY
OFFERED FOR SALE AdAIN.-When Sheriff
Mackey, to satisfy an execution in the case of
the executors of Geo. Gbbon, deceased, vs.
the City Council, levied upon the Battery, the
Artesan Well and the premises at the south
east corner of Calhoun and King street, and
advertised them to be sold on the 9Th of June,
I,dUe Willard on motion of City ATTORNEY