Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1871-07-20
Johns siege ofTrey.


plants so treated vii DeYer put In an
appearance again.
Johns Siege ofTrey.
Correspondence Of the Sun.
Stree OF TRoY, June Is, 1s71.-I
didn't find my watch in Rochester. 1t
looks like Il might be gone to stay gone.
Itxas J plain watch when IL got stole,
but It is a chased watch now, for / have
chased it a pile Of distance. / expect Why
i lost it was because it was a detached
rl~save-her. The member Of the chain
gang that took it Is a wretched cuss. May
he rest Ia restless cgssedness until he Is
Litched 10 a piece Of rope, and made to
jump ofa stick Of timber to spoil some
Friday. The day that mean cuss dies
there will be a man hung in New York.
Before I left Rochester / called upon
old Dorcas, that the Dorcas societies are
named after. She is one hundred years
old. l asked her did she ever drink any
teddy: She said no, that she had never
drunk anything stronger than whisky in
Der life that for the last eighty years she
had only drunk a pint a day of that, ex-
cept the Fourth OF July, and then she
took a quart. She said she owed her great
age mostly TO her living so long. Electric
ity might have had something to do with
it. as when she was about two years old
she swallowed a hghiieE rod. Use the
rod and save the child, was her motto.
She showed me a PAIR of BOollen stock
ings she had knit Old Hundred into. .She
will give them 70 the first child who lives
in Rochester eighty years without having
the measles. she offered to give N z
bird that she had raised. / don't take to
birds much CAN'T tell a maybe from 4
pot pie. So 1 didn't accept it.
l stopped at Clifton springs and tasted
OF the sulphur water. It tasted as if II
had been dead since Moses was discovered
by Ellen II araoh. 1 had to take a
second glass, 50 as to be ure that the first
glass tasted as bad as / though it did. If
that stuff will cure a lick fellow, it viii
Kill a we'll one After taking that drink,
/ made mp my mind that it must be good
for a sick man to soak him in asewer and
hold a dead cat to his nose for a day or
two. 1t would be an Improvement on
sulphur water, anyhow.
On the cars I sat next 10 one Of the
Bonypart family. He was So lean his
bones stood out like the pegs on a hat-rack
At first I though he had run away from
some anatomical museum but l saw him
wink, and knew he was alive. asked
kim was be ever in Waterbury, cennecti-
cut?
He said, No"
/ said Il thought So"
Said be, sWby?'
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or have let him escape. He would have
made a nice lot of handles for he was all
bones. While he was hesitating whether
to punch my nose or not, l asked him did
he take THE Sun?
He said, NO"
Then 1 told him ] wanted no more to
say to him. Says |, "A man that don't
take The SUN is a darned fool"
He tried to excuse himselfb by saying he
had been off a whaling. Then / quietly
informed him that the captain of every
ship that Laughed the seas took THE IL
Says he, You've got me. Have game
Of euchureE"
I told him l didn't know how to play
euchre. He said he'd tell me. Then we
PLAYED euchre. He said he'd deal, and
/ thanked him. Then he told me to pass,
and / passed. Then be turned the card
down and said, Make it."
Isaid, Il make it jack"
Saws he, ''You can'tdo that"
But l have done it," said I.
..But it amt the game" said he.
"Well," said /, ''what shall L make
it?~
He said he guessed I'd better make it
spades.
Spades it IS" says /. and he took
every darned trick. Then l dealt, and
turned up a jack Of clubs, and just my
luck, 1 had no assortment at all in my
hands-not a darned red eard-all clubs
except a darned old jack of spades.
He said, Pass"
'.What shall l DC? % said I.
Lets see your hand" says he.
Then be looked at my cards and said,
@Why, of course you must turn that
down"
So L turned the darned old jack of
spades down. Then he made it dia-
lnonds.
Il hain't got none" says l..
81 know it says he, and ne took 'em all
again and he kept showing me how to
play euchre until he said l owed him a
dollar.
'sWhat for J" said I.
He said, because that is the game"
So 1 gave him a dollar. Then he said
would l try another gene?
Mo- / said, "lll pass" and / told,
him the next time l played, l guessed
I'd play it alone.
Then the cars stopped at troy.
They nave had the Cholera in Troy for
many years, and they never win git rid of
it until the people leave off using so much
starch. Troy is the greatest place in the
world for base ball. Tho people are so
full of it that they put pitchers on their
tables and batter in their ~puddings.
They make short-stop hash. cooked on base
burner stoves, and instead of Goldfish balls
they use base ball. They make third
base pies and the gals sing 6rst-base duets
and all the organs grind out ~second-base
polkas, and I'll be bound that when folks
go out they go out on the fly. Folks here
eat centre-feld tripe, right-field turnips,
and left-6eld s,usages. They have a
game almost every day, and on those days
the stores all Close, the doctors let the sick
folks die, the sunday schools let out,
the landries shut up, the BARRIERS put up
their shutters. servants stop securing coal
scuttles, the babies leave off one cows
milk, the collar makers shut their sewing
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