Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-09-28

MORE ABOUT NAMES.
These, according to very prevalent taste
hereabouts for the bizarre and striking in
Christian names, she called respectively,
Belva Lockwood, Delta Leonie and Nigary
Aldecky. Belva (or Belvy) Lockwood,
she believed they had, some of them about
the place, found in book-she couldn't
read herself Nigary came out of some
book, too-it was ''the name of some big
falls of water" they said; and young man
travelin' through had named Deity. When
I went to leave, the kind soul thought 20
cents ample remuneration for my dinner
and Phebe's, and said she didn't feel right
to charge "lone woman" anything.
MY head ached in a threatening sort of
way after dinner, and leaving Burnsville to
my right 1 pushed on, intending to reach,
il possible, the house OF the Mount Mitchell
guide by evening. AS left the more open
country and followed up toward the "head
O. the waters" into the very heart of the
mountains, the way became more rugged,
and anything like settlements smaller, fewer
and further apart.
MUST HAVE TOBACCO.
Each miserable little cabin had, in addi-
tion to the small field OF corn, some sweet
potatoes and maybe few iruit trees, its
patch of tobacco, one of the prime necessi-
it, down to the little girls and boys of and
z. The money spent among them for snuff
and tobacco, or the time and labor expended
in raising and preparing the homemade
article would put them long way on the
road to comparative comfort
The North Carolina mountaineers were
quite unanimously Union in their sympa-
thies and are now generally good Repub-
licans; but rode past one household in my
afternoon s trip that was certainly a strik-
ing exception to the general political COM
plexion. Three picturesquely dirty little
tow-headed brats-the two younger ones
wearing copperas colored cotton dresses, the
oldest, possibly six, simply and effectively
clad in a red wooden undershirt that just
escaped the ground, tied at the neck with a
leather string, and having the sleeves grace
fully fastened up by the same means-were
playing, with all the pretty affectionateness
OF tiger cubs or young hyenas, in front of
more than usually wretched hut Sud-
denly in the meelee. the youngest bit the
dust and bawled out, "Maw, make Thur
man lemme 'lone!'
"You Thurman! Stop pesterin' Cleve-
land" responded voice from the hut.
81 haint fetched im," squeaked he of the
red shirt, ''lts Hendricks.
DOWN WITH THE HEADACHE.
As rode on my head grew worse and
worse. 1 missed the obscure and little
travelled road that leads to Big Tom Will
son's-the Mount Mitchell guide; there
wasn't house anywhere that looked at all
promising for nights comfortable lodg-
ing-to say nothing of any remedies or
nursing. But finally, when the whole
world was reeling around me, and every
step Phebe took rent the sky with Jagged
lightnings, and sent bolts of agony tearing
through my brain, stopped at house and
called. A woman came out, and as in
dream remember her helping me down
and into the house. 1 got to bed and
finally, after many hours, to sleep, and
slept off my headache. About 10 O'Clock, I
suppose, suddenly started awake. There
was spot of dim, smoky light in the gloom,
and within this circle wizened, drawn face
trembled, nodded, bobbed up and down
with its dark eyes fixed earnestly and in
quiringly upon me.
At this startling vision of nightmare I
lay blinking for some moments, when the
voice of the woman who had helped me in
spoke: "How dye feel now?"
Better" said I, dazedly.
81 jest come in t see if ye'd like some
thin t eat fore we all went to bed."
said didn't want anything, and as my