Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-06-11

To Get IT. but round Il worth the
qrouble-The People In Malvern were
Excited
From the Ye,o York Sun.
0rDid you ever circus around among the
sun-kissed hills of ArkansasY asked a
New y Ork railroad man who has circuscd
around almost everywhere.
s"Neyer did" replied the reporter.
-'Then, of course you never tempered
with that pungent and delusiye tipple so
dear to the native Arkansas heart. and
Anectionately known as pine-top whisky"
said the railroad man.
s'Neyer heard il. Is il goOdf"
eWel, us made out Of pine tops, and
wsien-but l don't want to pass judgment
on the native resources Of any part of my
beloved country; so III relate some little
incidents that occurred to me few years
ago, ia which pine-top whisky played an
important part, and then you can draw
your own conclusion as to the quality OF
rtAr beverage.
''WheE I was quartered in St. Louis two
or three OF my friends got wind Of a silver
mine, down in Arkansas, which was able
10 pan out fortune two or three times "a
day, aud they told me that If I'd 20 along
down with 'emItO look the bonanza over
they would let me in on the ground floor.
/ didn't have much spare time, but ! con-
Guided to 20 along and give them the
benefit Of my experience, as ! had been
let in on the ground floor of several bo-
nanza silver mines, and knew all about
them. Well"
w as there much money in those mines
OF y0ursP interrupted the reporter.
'Oh, yes!' said the railroad man;
plenty Of it, put the most Of II in, and
it's there yet, il ! remember right. Wen.
we went down into Arkansas. There We're
three of us, and, rs we didn't know what
might happen, we took along a Jug or two
of The best that the Blue Grass country
could produce. We had to drive from Hot
Springs back into the mountains, thirty
miles or 80, 10 place called silver Guy.
I'd Ike to have you take q ride over that
read once, just to satisfy you that every
word Pm telling you Is gospel truth. The
mud was so deep that II We at any time
happened To zee the hubs OF our wagon
come to the surface we'd call out 10 the
driver:
Hi! SINH Here's daisy stretch OF
road. let 'eu spinv
"Once in "a while the wheels on one side
or the other Of our wagon would run
against some smashing old rock some
where down TN the bowels OF the earth,
and up would go that side of the wagon in
the air, and down 90 the other side W far
that we'd ship hundred weight or so OF
mud at every dip. Tneu we'd have TO
stop and bale the wagon out before we
could 20 ahead. Aud hills. Great Scott!
Why. some OF those hills are so steep
hat passengers tnat travel over the road
N tied 10 one another with ropes. like
JhOse buffers that Chamber around In the
APPS. Then the rope IS tied to the driver,
and from him 10 the neck yoke at the end
Of the tongue. SO you see, unless The rope
breaks or the neck woke slips of, you cant
we'll tall out backward, but it's very try
Ing 70 the eyes. Our driver told US that once
party Of four big, heavy men were being
carried over to Silver City, linked with
the safety guys, as they call them. and IN
going up one OF the hills their weight was
TOO much for the team. ana they pulled
the whole business right over backward.
and there was the team plumb on their
backs headed down hill and The four pas
sengers buried under the wagon BODY.
which as pointed up bill. hind wheels
forward. They mined the four men out of
the mud Ia rather bad shape, but the mud
was nice and soft and porous, and they
weren't hurt much.
well. we got along with the hills all
right until we came TO one To at was crowd
ing 80 close on 70 the perpendicular that
even Sim, the driver, shook his head. He
stopped the team at the foot Of the hill and
said:
"'Ge'mens, don't wanter to ekeer We.
TO de Lawd, don'tl But dis h'yah raise
O groun' Is leetle stiff, an don't wanter
take de spoons biPtyO o. dem bosses teeterfn'
back inter dis h'yah wagon, ge'mens.
Deed don'tl Ye'd best git out an walk,
TO de Lawd, ye hadv
so we uncoupled ourselves from the
safety guys and got out. sim took each
horse by the head and backed up the hill
keeping the team on their feet by main
force. he was powerful darkey, Sim was
III bet you're wondering how il was pos
Bible, With the mud so deep, TO lug a
wagon up those hills. Wen. that does
seem queer before you understand il. The
lucky thing Is that the hills are not muddy.
They are so steep that the mud all runs
down on Of them and spreads all along
the road at the bottom. That's one rea-
son why the mud's so deep on the level
places.
I'VE were twelve hours getting to Silver
City. There was no city there, and so we
set out to ind the silver. To get rid Of
this part OF my story, I'll lust say that the
mine was there, but for some reason or
other the silver had gone somewhere else.
we monkeyed around there for a day or
TWO, and then we found that our commits
sary department consisted Of two or three
empty TASKS. Then, Of course, we had 10
forage. | asked native if we could get
any whisky IN those parts.
"'Wal, ! reckon II ye can't git none
'round h'yar,' said he that tn hain't no
dog-gone use O. yer totin' yer jug anywhar
elsep
"'Is It goodY said We.
"'Good9 said the native. Good! It's
pine-top whisky, it Is! GOodl Why, dog
gone d, it'll IRE you up like burnin' the
hair 81 dgE. Two drinks o. pine-top is
DeiteF = gallon o. yer noe count greasy
'iyen- b-Ftin. Is plne-top whisky good
Va. l.4 sot more tooth nor cross cut
sAag
ID "In.s native, by the way, kept a saloon
% -. ser City. We told him we liked his
,aiagnos-s d pire-top whisky, and would
tske gallon. We did So, and we drank
" ~ degrees. IL left dark brown taste
INCUR mouths that YOU could see when we
breaihet. When We got back TO Hot
springs, ] can't answer for the feelings Of
HW others, but / was seized with a wild
Galre 20 either get up n dog fight or sci
Ore 20 a load OF bay that stood 10 the street
wasn't drunk, but the pine-top was
Moihlng. hen the train hat was 10 takt
us 10 Malvern Junction was ready Ia,
scum escaping from The locomotive sug
Ig tea 10 me that lie would hDncefOrtA b,
a burden unless j lad hundred or SO o
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