The Weston Democrat. [volume] (Weston, W. Va.) 1875-current, 1875-05-24
AsoIp SAILORS YARN.
How n Whole ships Crew Were shang.
hailed Ia san francisco,

Ii must have been, sir, said the old
sailor, list arter / went 10 San Francisco
in tho FLYNN Cloud that ! went up for 70
try my luck DC the mines; but / didn't
stay there long, for the work were
hafl, and the liyin' were hard,
and the chaps that was there were
harderstill. j were glad for to git back
to the city, with iiAt what 4 stood In and
not b cent in my pocket. Hows'eyer,
wages was good along shore, and there
was plenty OF work, and so / concluded
1'dstay ashose for spell; Mt my rate
till I'd saved up enough to buy o chest
of clothes. The wages seemed . good
deal bigger than they was in reality.
Sir dollafsn day to q man as had been q
goin, 10 sea all his life for fifteenamonth
seemed fortin'; but when you took in
to consideration that grog were fifty
cents glass, why you sec II were only
twelve drinks anyhow, aud eyerythin'
else was so much in proportion that OF
the weeks end, II you jist square the
ynrtls, IL were about as much as you
could do anyhow. Sill, there were
plenty Of work, and II were Q change
from goin' to sea, so i stuck ut IL for two
or three months, and likely yshoula have
continued longeri II 1 hadn't have got
fetched up in the way i was goin' for 90
tell you, tho Inst time 1 saw you.
The clipper ships was arriyin' out
pretty. lively them days, some from
Boston and some from New York, but
most Of 'em from New York, and as fast
asthey arrived all the crews wonld leave
'cm, and that Civ us chaps what were
workin, along shore plenty 70 DO, un.
loadin' 'em and gittin' 'em ballasted and
of TO sea agin. !,
/ mind when the Challenge arrived
from New York there were great row
along the shoro AZ soon o. her chaps
landed, cause they Civ out that some
tliirteon Of her crow had been killed by
the ofliccrs on the passage ont. Bully
Waterman were the captain oil her, and
n clat, by the rnme Of Douglas we're the
mate. 1ncyar hoard the rights OF the
yarn, nor how 1t were tho trouble hap-
pened. Some said as how tho officers
Ind sich d bad name In New York that
they conldn't git nobody but tho rakin's
and scnipin's Of Water street for to go
into her, and that they made their bragg
af6fe they wont aboard that they'd kill
aBully Waterman aiorc they got round
the Horn. and bein' 30 many of 'em IT'S
n wonder they didn't; for aho wero o
Tremendous big ship, aud had over .
ltnndred afore tho mast. The mate had
a'bad name. along Of gittin some men
aloit 10 fatl d topsail in Liverpool docks,
will tho ward most headed, and then
latin, 40 fhe halliards, Whereby some
Of lem was shook off md come down on q,
deck by the run, smashin' thairselyes ail
IA stnifboreens. and IL bein' in dock the
iEnrlish courts could overhaul 1t, AND
thSy sent this niate up for . couple 81
wears. and he had jist got done saryln W, ',
fis time when he ships into the Snal-
Teastwiso, this werc the yarn that
wero spun along shore there IN San
Franeisco I. / don't know II itwere trnoc
ar i,ot. Int / do know that as soon as II
wore j,now'd thnt thirteen OF The crew
lAlbsen killed BIZ these officers, the cry
VIVA Ia lynch en-, and a crowd collected
nnl went for som, and II they Ind
caught 'em, that first afternoon, ehere eh.er,e
wonidnt have beenno bother oil o trial,
mi hung I'M they would have been sure;
iTl,e oonsipnco Of the ship, howsoycr, got
wind of Il, and he slowed EN- away
somehow, andthc mob couldn't iind EN-.
We'll, the excitement died out IN = lew
DAYS, lint still they kcpt pretty ahaly,
and .,tar awhile Il come TO be known