The Canton mail., 1875-09-11
SECTIONAL FELLOWSHIP.
TIE MISSISSIPPI EDITORS VISIT 4
BUFFALO THEATRE, AND ARE CHEER
Ed By THE AUDIENCE.
Brother Stackhouse Addresses the
Multitude in a Strain of Patriotic
Cheeriulness.

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Courier-JouTnal.1
When tho Mississippi oditoria
IcXcursionists arrived at Buffalo,
o'clock, Friday evening, August y
Il party of six, in their trail attcI
the elephant, wcnded their way Il
the Varieties Theatre. The perfor
mances were nearly over wher
these six were conspicuously anc
costly seated in the rarquette. Whcr
the last curtain fell, the manager
stepped to the front of the stage
and SAID:
LADIES AND GENTLEMEN-Iou on are,
perhaps, not aware that we have i'll
our midst number of distinguish
ed visitors, the exponents OF public
sentiment in a sister S,ate-the ed
itorial fraternity of Mississippi.
| Several of them have honorcd Us
with their presence III this theatre
tonight, and arc now among the
auditors. | hope you will all heart
lily join me in response to the toast :
"Three cheers for the Mississippi
editors"
Then followed such clapping of
hands among the ladies and such
stentorian exercise of masculine
lungs as was never before witness
ed in that theatre.
Who would respond to this
spontaneous and handsome manifcs-
tarion? Somebody had to do it. 1t
was one of those OCCASIONS when q
speech must be made. There were
only six of them. The reputation
of Mississippi journalism was at
stake. The situation was painfully
critical to the adventurous six. At
length one of them said soto voce,
" Stackhouse, you haven't made a
speech since you left home-not
even TO the girls. You haven't
spoken three words on the entire
trip. You have drunk in more
than your share of pleasure, and
you have not contributed your share
to the common fund of enjoyment.
Now is your chance for redemption.
| know it is in you. Speak :"
Slowl., and majestically Mr.. S. II.
Stackhouse, of the Hazlsburst Co
piahan, rose to his feet, and when
he had finished Strengthening him
self up, he looked foot taller than
usual. And thus he spoke
Mr.. Manager and Ladies and Gen
tlemen of Buffalo
"Take the stagel Take the
stage :" was the refrain which ech-
oed and re-echocd throughout the
vast auditorium. The orator as
cended the stage, and advancing to
the footlights, he resumed:
Ladies and gentlemen, and feiIO,0-
citizens Of Bufdlo-our surprise is
equalled only by our qualification
at this extraordinary and uneXpect-
ed demonstration. We are struck
dumb, and words are nowhere in
an emergency like this. You have
absolutely silonced us with kind
ness, and l will not attempt tho i'm
possible task of clothing our feel
ings in language.
There was pause here, rs if the
speaker meant to give it up, but
cries oil" go ahead !! go ahead /! Tell
us all you know :" brought him
back to his mutton.
MIR. STCKH0UsE'S ADD r
When the Queen of Sheba," re |
sumsd Mr. Stackhouse "visited old
man Solomon's dominions III the !
ancient time, flow over his hills and |
daies in his lightning railroad |
trains, sailed over his great lakes in
his big steamers, rowed upon his |
keelboats as they piowed his canals,
examined critically his farms and
machine shops, she finally made
her way to his headquarters, and
interviewed the thrifty
old autocrat of all the Jows ; and i'll
that interview candor constrained |
her 10 acknowledge that although
she had heard of his greatness and
yet the half had not
not been told her. So it is fellow
citizens of Buifola, in reference to
this tremendous country you have
got. We have heard great deal
about you. We have read much
you in your big news !
papers of yorr thrift, your push,
your genius, enterprise, wealth,
progress and irreprcssibility. But
now since we have traversed q con-
siderable scope of your grand do
main, we are like the Queen of She
ba, forced to acknowledge that half
has not been told us.
PEAcEABLE INTENTIONS.
Follow citizens of Buffalo, we as
sure you that this invasion of ours
is altogether harmless in it's object.
We are not spying out tho land
with any hostile intent. No, we
are much obliged to the few bloody
shirt gentlemen among you, who,
for some inscrutable purpose Prov
idence may have in view, arc allow
ed to live and delay the year of ju-
bilee III this American family, but
we have had enough of war-rath-
er too much of ii. Our voice is for
peace. [Applause.] We are like
the little dare devil boy who play
ed around the heels of q mule, got
badly kicked and his face frightful-
ly mangled. He asked his father
if the scars would ever disappear
from his face again. e'No sonny"
replied the sire, "you will never be
pretty again, but then you will have
= darn sight more sense" Laugh
ter and applause.
NO MORE WAR FOR US.
We are not gong INTO any moro
war with you fellows. If we had
how confounded numerous
you were-what vast resources you
had-what a nation of "git up and
yitters" you are-we should never
have been guilty of the absurdity
Of trying to whip you in the first
place. Now that we have seen for
ourselves, and gotten some sort of