The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1889-10-24
bot and Jones and Troup and many
others that are nearly as good as Barlow.
It is enough 10 make Georgian


At IL o'clock I took a seat on the
grand stand to see the Indians and
cowboys perform. I didn't expect much
but cay now that for two hours I wit
messed the best show I ever saw in my
life. The circus won't compare with it.
It is show ofsuch natural distances and
those Indians can be seen hiding in anu.
bush half q mile away and when they
come dashiug down upon an emigrant
train and yell and shoot, and ride around
with their bodies on the sides of their
horses and the poor surprised emigrants
get behind their wagons and horses and
fire back, and one gets killed and two or
three Indians bite the dust, and just in
the nick of time the cowsboys come
dashiug down like, a whirlwind and
fire and yell, and the fight gets thick and
hot, it just makes the turkey bumps rise
all over fellows back and I got excited
and wanted to lift up my voice-I did.
The cowboys ran those Indians half a
mile, and then guarded the emigrants to
q place of safety and carried the little
children on their horses. They took up
the dead man and laid him across the
saddle, and one rode behind to steady
him, and bis head and his long hair hung
down on one side and bin feet on the
other, just as natural as life, as they pass
ed the grand stand. And then in anoth.
er scene the Indians attacked the Dead
wood stage-an old fashioned, sure
enough stage that was full Of passengers
and guarded by two well armed horsemen
and then the firing and the lighting was
terrific, and some we're wounded and
some were killed. I never saw such rid
ing as those cowboys did. They can beat
the Indians. Their small, wiry and tire.
less mustangs can run like the wind and
seem to enjoy the performance. The
cowboys got after horsethief and ran
him all around the race track, and around
the middle, and fred at him every jump,
and he fred back, and finally cowboy
ierked lasso from his saddle end sent it
flying through the air and curled it over
the horsethief's neck while he was at full
speed, and he jerked him from his own
horse to the ground. Then they jumped
down and and fastened the rope around
his wrists and remonnted and dragged
the poor fellow on bis abdominal for Q
quarter of mile at full speed, and then
put rope around bia neck and hung him
up to crossbar on a telegraph pole and
shot him all to pieces while he was hang.
ing ten feet in the air, and we saw him
kick his last lick and after while the
sheriff and the coroner came along and
cut him down and laid his carcass on a
horse and brought him by the grandstand
and he was the worst looking spectacle I
ever saw. He was torn all to doll rags.
I think his front clothes must have been
made of leather or rawhide or boards or
sheet iron or something, or his abdomi.
nails couldn't have stood it. Then there
was a pretty Indian girl who had four
cowboys for lovers, and she promised to
we'd the one who would catch her. She
was good rider and had fast horse,
and she had g hundred yards the start
and away they went on the wings Of the
wind. It was nip and tuck for awhile,
but they gained on her, and the best
looking cowboy finally was side by side
with her and lifted her from her horse as
they ran and rode with her in his arms
and soon distanced all his rivals. We all
lust shouted and waved our hats and cried
bully for you, and ne wanted to get a
pair of marriage license and {. preacher
and have them married on the spot.
These cowboys are just splendid. Atfull
speed they can pick silver dollar out OF
the dust and they eau lasso running
horse by his head OF his heels or his nose
and stop him instantly. They would
catch wild steer with lariat and throw
him, and let him up and ride him as he
cavorted and plunged away in his fright.
They had some wild, unbroken mustangs
that bucked fearfully, and they blind.
folded them, and two men held one with
rope while another saddled him, and
lust as the blind was removed the cowboy
was on his back without bride, and ]
never conceived that it was possible for q
horse to bounce so high and squat so low
and cut up such fantastic tricks and
plunge and run 60 fearfully, and all the
time the cowboy never held on to any
thing but folded his arms and just let the
mustang do his do until he wore himself
out and quit. Surely, surely there must
have been some cuckleburrs under that
saddle.
Well, it was o good show, and I'm 60
ing to take the children down next Sat.
day and give them one happy day. The
managers ought to give the school chill
dren one Saturday and the railroads
ought to carry them there for cent 9
mile and back home for nothing. I
think we can get up 200 from our town
on those terms. We are all living for the
children anyhow, and it is right good
living. BILL ARP.
S.-We want two hundred dollars
more for the soldiers graves. We want
one good man or woman in every towr
to go round and get up FIVE or ten dollars
Rev. Mr.. Reese did that in Lumpkin,
and it didn't take half an hour. We are
for marble now and every name to be Gu
in the stone. Our marble companies
have made us generous offers A Kansa;
yankee Democrat, who fought on the
other side, has sent me dollar. How
that? Is. A.
An Arkansas Shaker.
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"Wa]l. old feller, what's the matter?"