The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1871-08-23
BIG Things.

| WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS,
! GREENBIIEs COUNTY. WEST VIRGINIA.
| August is, 1871. }
Editors Dispntch Generally and part'c-
ularly the White Sulphur is o 6ig th,nq.
The glorious old fountain OF beaitn Is inc
biggest sulphur spring In the land. an, Il,
! there isthe big tunnel. You nave beard o,
the big Fanny Ball? The parior Is olg, ana
the dining-room the biggest in the worid,
And then we have the biggest dust tnls Sue
of Fd,nauille. -. a.,
! sprinp. killed and skinned the biggest tiger
. in these mountains. He was a greenbdck
| tiger. This tiger seems to be OF the coz
kind. and has more than nine lives; for, II
! r11mor be true, he has been skinned 30
often that he has gotten used to 1t. He just
washes himself in sulphur water the next
morning, and is ready for another tight the
next evening. He still has claws, however,
and is dangerous, and inexperienced young
men had better beware.
| OF course the number of visitors mere Is
the biggest. Among them Is the 61ggest
liar in the world. In his youth, like wash,
lington, he once told the truth. Hls iona
parentS determined to send him to the
| High School and make minister out of
him: but, unlike Washington, be never told
the truth again, and SO they made larger
Of him. He is now Dractcing his profess
sion in burg. We also have here the
(biqgtst fool in the world. He is sprig OF
1.-The law from the University OF Virginia,
and down under the porch, where all sem
sible men smoke and talk, he reads Ferne
on RcmainderS. He wants 10 get throush
next session. Re parts his hair in the mid
die to make him look like his sweetheart ;
eats lemon-ppel to make himself delicate,
and cleans his teeth with charcoal seven
teen times a day to keep his breath from
smelling of sulphur. He ought to so to
Buchanan's Spring.
But the biaqest thing of all is the big tur-
tie which Peyton got from the Seaside.
He Chat is the t,lrtle.) will find himself IN
a ste1r tomorrow. The part which ne VIII
play on the stage tomorrow night Will DE
that of sup. He was turned out on the
lawn last evening, without any fear OF his
trnrcliin1 far array. The fact is, without
bleaching from the many merits of this
| gentleman of the water, who belongs to
the bard.shc denomination, Major Tom
boswell has several horses that can beat
him on the hauel. Ee Is cold 1cdteT gen.
tleman. too, as may be inferred from the
fact that he turned his back on the bar, and
was making his way to the spring. Wearled
with his journey over the grass lawn, he
stopped t0 rest him-elt under one of those
! grand Olu OAKS vi laliNc SioH1Li, aiiA 7" :"
there meditating on the injustice to the
poor Indian, who once valnIy thought
these oaks and streams were his, and on
the vanity of human condition which
haunted and disturbed the old politicians
who have from time to time sat and schcmed
under these same old oaks, and who have
| long since, with Tecumsch and other chiefs,
gone to their lon" homes.
While this Dig turtle was thus resting and
medituting two ladies and two gentlemen
stepped on his back, supposing it to be
large rock, and there stood for abouta min
ute engaged in some light conversation. This
| was more weight than our turtle could
carry, and, determined to shake it off, he
moved himself. This moving Of what they
though was 4 solid rock terrified these con-
versationaliSts, and impressed them with
the doubtful apprehension of an earth
quake, and that M awful chaSm would very
soon precipitate them to the region where
| the sulphur water comes from. The ladies'
screamed /; the gentlemen jumped off, but,
as good Luck would have 1t, servant sent
by Cadis to buy some pheasants saw their
alarm, and knowing the turtle was there
and surprising he had taken the foot of one
of them in his mouth, said, "Never mind,
massa, never mind, missus; he will let go
when it thunders-and it looks monstrous
cloudy" But it has not raincd yet. On
| for Dig rain SCRIBE.