The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1881-05-05
Liroly Effects Of a Thawod Hornets Nest

There is an old woman on Christie
street who delights to find case that
all the doctors have failed to cure and
then 60 to work with herbs and roots
and strange things and try to effect at
least an improvement. A few days
ago she got hold of girl with a stiff
neck, and she offered an old negro
named Uncle Tom Kelly fifty cents 10
bring her hornets nest. This was to
be stepped in vinegar and applied to
the neck. The old man spent several
days in his searches, and yesterday
morning he secured his prize and
brought it home in basket. When
he reached the Central market he had
a few purchases to make, and after
getting some tea at grocery he placed
his basket on q barrel near the stove,
and went out to look upa beef bone.
It was a dull day for trade. The
grocer sat by the stove rubbing his
bald head. His clerk stood at the
desk balancing his accounts. and three
or four men lounging around talking
of u new party to be founded on the
ruins of the democracy. 1t was a Sc
rene hour. One hundred and Fifty
hornets had gone to roost for the win
ter in that nest. The genial atmos-
phere began to timber them up. One
old veteran opened his eyes, rubbed
his legs and said that it was the short
est winter he had known in all his
hornet days. A second seconded the
motion and shook off his lethargy,
and in FIVE minutes the whole nest was
alive and its owners were ready to sail
out and investigate. You don't have
to hit u hornet with the broad side of
an ak to make him mad He's mad
all over all the time, and he doesn't
care a cent whether he tackles hum
ming bird or an elephant.
The grocer was telling one of the
men that he and General Grant were
boys together, whom lie gave q sudden
start of surprise. This was followed
by several other starts. Then hc
jumped over baarel of sugar and
yelled like a Pawnee. Some smiled,
thinking he was after happy climax,
bat It was only minute before a solid
old hummer jumped three feet high
and came down to roll over a job lot
of washboards. Then the clerk ducked
his head and made rush for the door.
But he didn't get there. One of the
other men who had been looking up
and down to see what was the matter,
felt suddenly called upon to 60 homo.
There was no use to tell the people IN
the store to move on. They couldn't
tarry to save them. They al felt that
the rent was too high, and that they
must vacate the premises.
The crowd went out together.
Uncle Tom was just coming III with
his beef bone. When Il larger body
meets a smaller body the larger body
knocks it into the middle OF next week. !
The old man laid around in the slush I
till everybody had stepped on him all
they wanted to, and then he sat up
and asked:
~Hev dey got de fab all put out?7
Some Of the hornets sailed out Of !
the doors to fall by the wayside, and |
Others waited around on the top Of
barrels, baskets and jars TO be slaugh-
tered It was half an hour before the /
last was disposed Of, and then Uncle
Tom walked in, picked up the ne. :
and said.
"Mebby dis viii cure de stiffness in
dat gals neck jist de same, but tell
you I'se got banged, and bumped ard
set down on tall It'll take whole med
ical college to put me squar. - Detroit
Free Press.