The Leavenworth weekly times. [volume] (Leavenworth, Kan.) 1870-1880, 1871-07-06
JOHNS SIEGE OF TROY.

a Talk with D0rcas-Ose Of J0hn
Chansberlain's blossoms Teachiag
E0chre-The Grass ali Gone wilkins
Ten Miles Of Trey.
Correspondence Of the New York sun.
SIEGE OF Troy, June Is, 1871.
| didn't find may watch in Rochester. Ii
looks like it might be gone 10 stay gone. II
/ was plain watch when it got stole, but it is
a chased watch now, for have chased it a
/ pile of distance. expect why ! lost it was
/ because it was a detached leave-her The
member Of the chain gang that took it is q
wrelched cuss. May he rest in restless cuss-
edness until he ia hitched to piece of rope,
and made TO jump of a stick of timber TO
spoil some Friday: The day that mean
cus dies there will be man hung in New
York.
Before left Rochester called upon old
Dorcas, that the Dorcas societies are named
after. She is 100 years old. l asked her
did she ever drink any toddy? The said no,
that she had never drunk anything stronger
than whiskey in her life; that for the last
eighty years she had only drunk a pint a
day Of that, except the Fourth of July, and
then she took quart She said she owed her
great age mostly to her living 80 long. Elec-
tricity might have had somethin8to do with
il, as when she was about two years old she
swallowed lightning rod. Use the rod and
save the child, was her motto. She showed
me pair of woollen stockings she had knit
Old Hundred into. She will give them to
the first child who lives in Rochester eighty
years without having the measles. She Of
fered to give me a bird that she had raised.
/ don't take to birds much; can't tell mag
pie from pot pie. So 1 didn't accept it.
/ stopped at Clifton Springs and tasted of
the sulphur water. It tasted a. if it had
been dead since Moses was discovered by
Ellen Pharaoh. l had to take "A second
glass, so as to be sure that the first glass
tasted as bad az thought it did. If that
stuff will cure sick fellow, it will kill
we'll one After taking that drink, 1 made
up my mind that it must be good for a sick
man to soak him in a sewer and hold a dead
cat to his nose for day or two. 1t would be
an Improvement on sulphur water, anyhow.
On the cans l sat next to one of the Bony-
part family. He was 30 lean his homes stood
out like the pegs on a hat-rack. At first l
thought he had run away from some ana
tomical museum; but saw him wink, and
knew he was alive. asked him was be ever
in Waterbury, Connecticut?
He said, mo"
l said, 81 thought 80"
Said he, "Why?'
l told him the knife makers would never
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. I asked him did he take the
SUM
He said, ''No,'
Then / told him wanted no more to say
to him. Says I, "a man that don't take the |
San is darned fool"
He tried TO excuse himself by saying he
had been of whaling. Then quietly in |
formed him that the captain of every ship |
that ploughed the seas took the Sun.
Says he, ''Yon've got me. Have 4 game
Of e,ichre ?''
l 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 l |
thanked him. Then he told me to pass, and |
passed Then he turned the card down
and said. make it."
said, 81 make it jack"
Says he "You can't do that"
'But have done ii" said l.
'.But it amt the game" said he.
"Well," said l, "what shall make it?'
He said he guessed I'd better make it
spades.
"Spsdes it is, says l, and he took every
darned trick Then dealt, and turned up
a jack of clubs, and just my luck, ! had no
assortment at all, in my hands-not a darned
red card-all clubs except darned old jack
of spades.
He said, "Pass."
''What shall do" said l.
Lets see your hand, !" says he.
Then he took my cards and said. "Why,
of conrse you must turn that down."
So turned the darned old jack Of spades
down. Then he made it diamonds.
II ain't got none, says l.
Il know it," says he, and he took 'em all
again; and he kept showing me how to play
e1chr. until be said owed him dollar.
''What for" said /.
He said, "Because tina, is Ia, .rrne"
So gave him dollar. Then he said,
would try another game?
"No," said, 'Pn pae,' and told him
the next time played, ! guessed I'd play it
alone.
Their the cars stopped at
TROY.
They have bad the cholera in Troy for
many yeas, and they never will get rid Of
il until the people leave of using 40 much
starch. Troy is the greatest place in the
world for base ball. The people are 30 full
of il that they put pitchers on their tables,
and batter in their puddings. They make
hash cooked ON base-burner stoves,
and iDsiead of Goldfish balls they were
base balls. They make third bies,
and the gals sing 6ra base
duets, and all the organs grind out SEC
ond-base polkas and I'll be bound that
VIM folks 60 out, they g out on ay:
FOLKS here eat ceutre-6eld uipe, right-6eld
eurnipE, and left-6eld sauAges They have
, game here almoat every day, and on those
days the stores are oil closed, the doctors let
he sick folks die, the Sunday Schools let
out, the laundries shut up, the BARRIERS put
up their ehuteess, servants sop securing coal
Euftles, the babies leave of one cows milk,
he collar makers shut up their sewing ma
chimes, steamboats, blow their whistles, and
everybody talks Of hot balls, passed balls,
muf6ns, and SIGH like, and everybody gon,
except one man on each corner TO guard the
town, A stranger visiting Troy would actu-
ally believe from the talk, that the chief end
Of man NsSo pl,y hase ball, and The near
ri heaven man could eet in this world,
would be to belong 70 the Haymakers.
When they 81 through The bey-day Of youth
hey viii Ct over it There amt blade
II gr,s within ten milea Of Troy. Il has
IN all wore od playing h.se hall; and If
. prise-6ghter should 80 10 Fas in Troy,
- ct Knocked oser ten miles to t.et there.
| toward q houquee nade from silaIthm tree
hsossoms. think tbey are more pregnant
viak pesfame than any ever AW.
Rsas .sss Ever vaAcA-les, JOHN.
1
I'm direCsiors Of tie Chicago and South
western Railroad ere N LeavenwOslh to-day.
II N s.eed shaa The rod will be IN opera
ton IRON Chicasoto Leatesworth in forty
d,N. The Lsa,asossh people. jsdsias