Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1871-05-24


most feendish snortin. | wuz compelled tC
relinquish my hold on the bride, and seeze
the name to hold myself on, but she kicked
more than ever.
Here wuz dilemm | coodent hold on by
gTippin the name with one hand any longer
and my spare hand wuz employed iu hold
ing the bottle? | coodent cork the bottle
and put it in my pocket, for in the melee
he'd lost tie cork, and to put it in my pocket
uncorked was to lose ali its preshus contents.
Never wuz | in sich strate aloIe Eff
held to the bottle shood be throwd-ef
stayed on the infooriated animals back I'D
lose my hkker. The hoss decided the matter
Tor me. Takin the bit in her mouth she
started down the road on the keenest kind
Nv run. She made mile in about five
minutes, leavin my command far in the
rear. Another mile-yet another, sped that
frantic animal, | holdin' onto her name with
one hand, and the bottle with the other.
Sac wuz alredy in the enemies country.
Rite ahead Nv me wuz Garritts town, and /
Good see the niggers alredy in the streets
watchin the strange appartIon shat wuz
comm. Into the village | rode, when the
vlshus brOOt turned corner suddenly, sling
in me from her back ez 4 boy throws a stun.
Over and over | went, landin' finally in a
ditch aside NV the road, where ! lay clutch
in my bottle, but unconscious.
There wuz about thirty or forty niggers
about me, and | wuz lying in front uv the
town ump, and lmmelitly under the spout
thereof. One gray headed Niger, who
breaches to the rest ny EN-, remarkt
Il bredrin, dis yer La isguided man is one Oh
dem disturbin' kukluxos. What shel We do
wild him -
. Hang him. hang him '' shoutid ttey
all in korus.
" Mercy ] mercy E" shreekt in agony,
I. amt no Kuklux. T."
:. Don't - Tor to add lies to yoor uder
sins, = sed the old man ef yoo amt no
kuklux wat does ye wear dat yooniform fur
Why dis the sword and pistols 2'
There was a brief consuItasher Nv the eI-
d ones while the young niggers wuz rig
gin rope to a tree, lalyn the while shiyer-
in with an age tit Nv fear.
<. Hang hIm r. shouted one
. Burn him = shouted another.
90 Brcdrin, sed the old man. punish
ment is to lite. Ill sarve him out. Put
him under de spout, sed the hory-headed
wretch, g and pump yiggcrons p
How long that cussed stream wuz poured
onto IN know not, for I was in a state
Of semiunconshunis all the time. When
they had amOozed themselves sufficiently in
that way, the white-headed old william (Le
ought to hav been chief torturer in a Spanish
Inquisishcn) took a quart cup and film it
with water sed, without relaxin single
m uscle Of bis stern face, :" Drink it ''
:. Man man - shrieked in agony, ''hev
ylo no mercy Hey yoO no bowels Of com
pashun Do yoo know what 700 require Nv
me Take and hang me and be done with it,
viii not drink it. | never did cannot. :.
But with wild laughter those GRIMM
fcends seezed me and holdin open my Jaws
poured a full quart of that flood down inc,
and peltin me for fifteen minits with mud
ard sich things left me.
don't know how | got home only
know that wuz picked up at the door ny
Baec0m dclirious, that | wuz PUT to bed
with iUtiuu. .ashun Of the bowels, and that my
life WIZ disTairtd NV for two weeks. ! did
not lack for attendance | owe every man
IN the Corners and they watched me with
tender soIssitood The only gratihcashen /
led WIZ to know that alter my horse run
away with me, the rest Nv the party made
it lively for the niggers and carpet-baggern
on the other road. They whipped twelve ~
EN-, shot TWO who resisted and burnt three
houses and four barns
/ hey written out a statement the out
rage inflicted onto me and sent lt % Wash
lngtOn. But | hev no idee that it Will effect
any thing / don't suppose that when that
butcher Grant reads it that he Will admit
that We hey to deal with dangerous classes,
Or Will take any steps tOr the protection uy
us, or give me redress Ii Will be Jest like
him to send a squad Nv Federal cavalry down
here to arrest and imprison
PETROLEUM Y. NAsAF,
(wich wuz P0stmaster)
r. 5 - hey 1ust learned that that yilm
BigIer aided and abetted by that other VII
Inn Pollock, put a plaster Nv Spanish flies un-
der tile saddle ut the hoSs they give me.
which article viii make blister in about
twenty minits That akounts for her cavor-
tin-that akuuuts for her kickin, >~lortin,
and internal runnin away Biger called on
me and confessed IT, he said, with grin
on his face, that the mare was dull and lazy,
and he desired, for my sake, t. improve her
ackshen The scoundrel r y n
TuE RtNC ElxGEa.-Much ingenuity has
been expended in the endeayor TO discover
on which hand and which finger the we'd
ding-ring was placed The Jews have ira
dtIon hat Mary, when sbe cspoused Joseph,
received the ring on her middle finger
hepcc no Jewish woman wears her bridal
ring there, but always on the forefnger. It.
Ambrose, in one Of his sermons, calls the
thir! finger the finger for the ring Mac
r0bius gives the nursery names OF the fingers
ia the times Of the Romans the third i'm
ger is call annulailz tie low Norman name
Tor the same finger is = John Of the seals
In the ancient ritual of marriage among ths
English Paptists, the ring was placed on tile
end Of the lett thumb, with the words, " In
the name Of the Father then on the End Of
the foretnger, with the words, - and the
Son - then on the middle finger, +" and Of
the Holy Ghost - finally on the third, the
-5r Frf, III he closing word pnr -
The ancient Greeks used this finger, also be
cause they believed a nerve TO run directly
from this finger to the heart Lemmius
saws it il not a nerve, but an artery , others,
that it il not artery, but vein and
modern science shows that there is nothing
of the kind in existence
The right hand is the hand Of power
hence tile wife wears the ring on the left
hand The third finger is the only rccogniz
ed ring-fnger; all who wear officially wear
them on that finger though it is true that
the statues Of the gods had their signets on
the forefnger, both in Greece and in Italy.
This was on the right hand but from con
venence and long established custom, the
left hand Is now generally considered the
ring hand, and the least finger on that hand
holds the ring. LemmIus says the same nm
ger was called Medicus, for " on account of
the virtue it derives from the heart. the old
physicians would mingle their medlcaments
and potions with this foger, because no ven
ON can stick upon the very outmost part Of
it but it will offend a man, and communicate
itself TO his heart Some married women
are so superstitiously rigid in their notion
respecting the weddIng-rlng, that they will
neger, even for moment, take it off from
their finger extending, it would seem, the
expression, g till death us do part even
to this golden pledge of matrimOny.
EPIDBMICs AND ENDEMICs.-According
to Dr. Ransome, bronchitis and catarrh
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