Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1883-03-29
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A YOUNG MAN MISTAKES A HORNETS,

A YOUNG MAN MISTAKES A HORNETS
NEST FOR A PREHISTORIC SPECIMEN.-A
young man nwho lives on West Spruce street,
Philadelphia, ventured out alone in the
unknown regions of Lower Merton a few
days ago The young man did not know
much about the country and it seemed quite
natural that he should wish to carry home
to West Spruce street a momento of his trip,
specimen from natural history. He saw
hanging from a low bush by the roadside
q strange object, very much like a small
balloon made of coarse gray paper This
singular thing seemed to be just the speci-
men he wanted. He broke off the twig
from which the curiosity was suspended
and went to the station. He entered well
filled car, placed his specimen in hat-rack
and sank, into seat. - ,... .s.ora.- :.sss.-..
The car was warm. The warmth seemed
very delightful to the young man, who had
been out in the cold SO long. In short
time he was in aaze. The car grew warns
er. The young man; slept. Suddenly the
artificial summer atmosphere was rent by
an unearthly shrek and lady rose cOnvul-
sively and just as suddenly tainted. Before
the startled passengers had time to discover
the cause of their alarm another lady re-
peated the performance. - A third who be-
gan in the same manner would probably
have finished it without any change in the
programme had she not received a sudden
shock that acted like hartshorn and saved
her from losing consciousness, for just be-
hind her man began to swear in style
truly diabolical. And as if matters were
not already bad enough, a baby set up
yell and would not be comforted.
The passengers soon got into a strange
commotion. The men were dancing and
some of them were swearing ; the women
trembling, fainting and shrieking; the chill
dren scrambling under the seats and blub-
bering and whimpering. The young man
awoke in amazement. For moment he
thought the people were crazy and that
some of them would do injury to his pre-
historic balloon. Then the conductor burst
through the erowd, and stood before the
young man. He did not speak. He leaned
over in front of the young man and opened
the window. The young man was sur
prised. The conductor seized the pre-his-
tOric specimen and threw it through the
window with all his strength. g.
"Impertinence 20 shrieked the young
man. "How dare you touch my speci-
men" - Ii. q
"Why, you fool, don't you know its hor-
nets nest"'
WHAT KILLED HIM.-Several days ago
Mr.. George Webley, one of the most prom
Using young planters in Arkansas, came to
the city bringing the sad intelligence of his
fathers death. "The old man, you all re-
member, was one of the most noted 'possum
hunters in the State. The other night when
it was so dark that a black hat thrown up
into the air would have looked like Bulwer's
luminous shadow, the dogs freed. l begged
the old man not to go, but he Strengthened
himself up, gave me kind of ante-bellum
look and wanted to know if 1 were fool.
He left the house, and after he had been
gone about two hours became uneasy and
started out to look for him. found the
old man chopping on tree about four feet
thick. "It's coon, and know he's up
here.n the old man said. "The tree would
have been down by this time, but it's so
dark that have to strike by woodchopper's
instinct" He would not let me assist him,
for he had attained the age when South
ern gentleman takes great pride in accom-
plishing feat alone. 1t seemed as though
the tree would never fall. The old mans
strokes became lighter, for his strength was
exhausted. The dogs stood around and
whined. They looked tome as though they
We're lying and had only "treed" to please
the old man. Finally, the enormous tree
creaked and slowly fell-a stump, extending
only few inches higher than the old mans
head. The tree had been chopped down
during the high water, and the poor old
man had chopped down big stump. BY
this time daylight was breaking, and when
light came sitting down among the branch
es of neighboring trees, the old fellow look
ed at the stump, turned away and went
home. He had just lost his third wife and
had borne up manfully, but the stump dis
appointment killed him."