The enquirer southerner., 1874-11-27
MARLBORO, N. c., !
Nov. 23, 1874. {


Dear Enquirer -Southerner
In the paucity of news, have for many
weeks had nothing to write from our home
away off here in the piney woods-so
have not written. thought I had an ele-
giant topic the other day, and was prepar-
ing an article, which would have been like
hot cakes to an intellectual feast with Dar-
win but you shall see how / was discom-
| forted.
At the house of friend early in the
morning, the housekeeper found in the
bed, from which two boys had just risen,
a fine, fresh looking egg. The question
she asked with distended eyes, was
"Who laid dat egg?'
| Dick said he didn't-'it must have been
Joe ; Joe said it was Dick for Dick 'eat
| up nigh about all the chicken yesterday. =
to which Dick retorted that it was foul
charge-and the chicken was cooked any
how, and that Joe had drunk up all the
syllabub, and he reckoned that was where
the egg come from
Duling this dispute smother little chap
said he'd found an egg in that bed the
day before The housekeeper said
she'd heard 'em goin' on nightly up dere
she thought dey was laughin', but she
reconed dey must bin caklin'! Twas one
on 'em sartin; no hen could git up dere in
dis house. For her part she didn't like
sch COINS on-'twas settin' a mighty bad
example
cts not bad eggs ample" cried Dick,
who was the pet wit of the house-the
supply's not ample, cause there amt but
one, and it's not a bad egg at that. And
it was not settin, neither, twas lay in, if
any thing" 1t was too serious and aston
ishing a matter for laugh; and so Dicks
fine puns were not appreciated. All agreed
that no hen could have gotten up stairs into
that room, it was kept too close And it
was beginning to be settled down in that
family, that, somehow or other, in the
dreamy hours of night when spirits mingle,
there may possibly be produced such tenn
porary entanglements and confusions of
grades, as would indanger mistakes in re-
Embodiment, soul, spirit or vital mentality,
whatever it may be, getting into the wrong
body; the life principle of hen, for ex-
ample, stealing into the brain and nervous
centres of man; 80 changing his physlo-
logical nature as to set him to Matching
new strange plots, and EGGS! This start
ling theory, however, as far exceeding the
transmigrations of Darwin, as Darwin ex-
ceedel the metempsychosis of Pythagoras,
was surrendered without the combat of ar
gument, when q few days afterwards, a
hen, an enterprising game of Nick AIRING
tons best breed, was caught in the room
up stairs almost in flagrante delictu. How
she got there is question for the family
we, you and /, dear EnquirerSoutherner,
have graver things to occupy US, and we
will not trouble ourselves any more about
the matter.
Two or three deaths have occurred in
this vicinity-little children, of whooping
cough which has been prevailing here in
malignant form. Our esteemed fellow
citizen, Mr. John Hines, lost little girl
some weeks ago; and about the same time
some colored children died of the same
Il sease. An interesting little one, only
child of genial friend, Mr. Isaac Ander-
son, is still lingering with the fatal mala-
dy. am glad to say, thanks to good
medical attendance and good nursing, she
has good prospect of recovery. l trust
she may be spared.
Up to the recent rains, we had been e1-
posed to constant danger by fire. The
woods were burning all around us, break
ing ou: constantly in fresh places, the
work, evidently, of incendiaries. One
man, negro, was almost caught but, not
withstanding strong c:rcumstantial evi-
dence, he has not been arrested. Beyond
the l)ss Of time in fighting the fire, n
great damage has been done that have
heard of. Some fencing has been destroy
ed.
Now, dear Enquirer for the
real news We have had circus the
first one here in the memory of man.
Coming events cast their shadows be-
fore We have talked rail road until
We have fooled one circus into coming, the
reat Southern Moral Exhibition, &c, SC.
100 horses announced in show bills, 25
came, the most of them too poor to cast
any shadows before or behind, just ready
to vanish after the rs others. Besides
these there Notwithstanding in the scale,
l woman, IS white men, negroes,
monkeys, and snake. The woman
walked rope extending from the ground
to the top of the mamouth Pavilion.
When she got high enough for the wind to
strike her, she fell off, making hole in
the canvass with her head; but her legs
spraddlcd and abe was saved
As l have an accidental opportunity OF
sending off this letter, close abruptly.
Truly yours,