The Hartford herald., 1885-09-30
Roopkort Racket.
September 2s, 1855.

September y, 1855.
Esiitor Herald:
ID. Mosely, Of color, while "foolin'
with an old pistol last week. was acci-
dentally shot in the leg. DIR. Layton
extracted the ball. The wound is not
dangerous
Born, 10 the wife of II. J. Young, on
the 7th inst, "A son. Also, To the wife
of Robert Wilcox, on the 9Th inst, a
son
Let every old hat in the county go
up in a hurrah for sovereignty rou-
vention with view of changing AN
old trap of "A constitution, which is now
about ripe enough To shoot, if George
Washington did make it.
Miss Ella Hooker has been visiting
Miss Duke, and 81 has Mr &. W.
Tay lor, too, If you please.
DIR. Layton has tought "A Jersey
heifer of w. u. Coleman for S6l. she's
a thing of beauty.
MIR. Philip Dahl, the ubiquitous pro-
duce buyer, swept down on the mer
chants here la~t week and bought
about sloO worth before the authorities
could stop him.
Master jimmie Cairrn~ has accepted
a position on the Il Il. a. pump re-
pairer. His father has charge Of al
the pumps ami tanks from Louisville
10 Memphis.
Bridge Master John Myer- has sold
his property at Cecilia and will move
10 Louisville.
Mr.. Alice Henson. who d.,yyf
marry down on the beautiful Cumnrr.
land, has come home.
Mr. Robert Torrence and wife haye
gone to Monmouth, H., on an extend
ed visit.
Mr.. Harrison Ham and family have
moved over ON Rough river, near
Hartford
Jimmie Brown, who in falling from
the roof of barn had both bones in
his leg (the libra and fibula) broken,
and the ankle dislocaied, is getting on
very well.
IL II said the ''yaller legged chicks
ems very prudenlly roasted mighty
high AT the Greenville Conference. by
the way, YOU might have held my
nose, and drenched me with heroic
doses OF ipecacuanha sanquinaria,
cupri acetas, hydrorgyri sulpus fiavus
and all the other emetics in Materia
Medica, hut nothing could have forced
me 10 abuse that Methodist lady's hos
pitaliiy like that little Internal Ply
mouth rooster, and | hope most
explanation aud apology made
amends. At any rate, | have
the satisfaction of knowing that when !
! gave the old lady an insight to New
England origin, she partook 50 much |
IF my own feelings that she organized |
all her other breeds of fowls into "A |
general Indignation meeting. which 4
passed resolutions of disgust The |
iucks squawked out Quake Quake :"
he guineas in derisiou said "PequOds :" !
-he turkeys gobbled "Roger Williams"
and burnt negroes, while the hens
,ackled "Salem-Salem Witches! They |
hen appointed committee TO memo
raliZe Congress and demand that steps |
De at once taken 10 begin to cut out
he St. Lawrence opposite Montreal, |
10 ruu down through lakes Champlain |
and St. George into the Hudson an1 |
iown to it, mouth ~ deep that il will /
ap this blister Of the continent of into |
he Atlantic Ocean, where il is 400 |
miles deep. May il Toe done and may
New England sink Southward till she |
rests right under the continent OF |
Africa. But if these measures fail and |
he Plymouth breeds are To supplant
,ur Jimtown stock, then may the Lord
either help me to flee the country or
give me the stomach of w. H. Rem
Ter and the appetite of sausage
grinder. Yours in alarm. SUGGs