Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-06-28

At present the road above referred to is
simply an ill-kempt trail, along which are
strewn the wrecks of busted vehicles and the
bones of people whose necks have been dis
located in trying to ride over them, and
who have been left alone to die. Though a
public road Of great importance, very few
people drive over it unless under the infu-
ence of liquor.
There are places on this road where
bed, and have done so for centuries, while
the roadmaster has been waiting for them
to dry out. The result is that stoneboat is
the only vehicle which Will safely make the
trip. Hitch 2-year-old heifer with clay
bank mule, and then on the lead
put lavender jackass, and if you
are a careful driver you may. take
your children to Asheville, but
two or three. on the way home. Lots of
North Carolina families have only II or -
children left out of possible 20, owing to
the condition of the roads, This reckless
outlay of children, it seems to me, if moth
ing else, should teach us to improve our
roads.
He Is Exempt From Burglaries.
was saying the other day that after a
pretty general knowledge of North Caro-
lima for five or six years was astonished to
notice that there had been no burglaries
within my observation. This is remark
able, especially to me, for 1 have lived
where a burglary was not uncommon, and
where have suffered myself, having lost q
silver-plated butter dish in that way eight
years ago, also what butter we had in the
| house at the time, it being concealed in the
butter dish. 1 also shot burglar, IL years
,,,4o
but he had only 60 cents on his person at
the time, and even that the Coroner took
| away from me on the following day. The
burglar has it all his own way at the North,
but here in North Carolina, where the mos
quito. never lives and the politician never
dies burglary is a capital offense. All
burglars over IA years of age are executed.
This tends to turn the attention Of bright
young burglars toward politics.
never felt so secure before in my life
1 leave my large, massive, solid silver watch
on the escritoire every night now, whereas L
usedto put it under the mattress. 1t is very
comfortable feeling, assure you. Of course
chickens are not safe, especially during a
colored revival.
Revivals and the Chicken Roost.
I do not wish to be misunderstood regard
ing this matter, but was told on the start
bv a deyout Christian of the Caucasian race
that if l cared anything for my 'broilers"
1 would watch them most carefully during
a colored revival, for at that time the more
Earnest" negroes were all so torn up in
their minds that they could not work at all
during the day, and the revival took all the
night, or nearly so. Therefore, when the
pangs of hunger and the rumblings and
retehings of a sin-sick soul had been prey
ing on an ordinary colored man for a week
or ten DAYS he was hollow clean into the
ground, and his better judgment didn't
stand any chance whatever.
got some chickens when I first came
here. Some of them had cholera, but 1 did
not know it at first. Quite number of the
chickens were almost Immediately stolen,
but three of them were not. They seemed
to be spared as monuments of African
mercy. Finally found that it was because
they had the cholera Come down and see
us some time 1 don't mind killing the
last hen in the house when company comes.
?. S-Bring some butter with you; ours
might keep you awake nights.
Popular 10 LAY Horses.
But we were speaking of the horse-man's
best friend. l began 10 years ago BY own
ing a little pack jack called Boomerang
He cost me S., but was poor and could not
buy horse Also it was unpopular to get
one in any other way. If you got one in
any other way, in the language Of the
vigilance committee, the community gen.
orally threw in halter at its own expense.
Boomerang was bright young ass, with
a dark cross on his back and a sawbuck
saddle on which used to pack sidepork
and other titbits to tempt my appetite and
tickle my palate while prospecting for gold
in the bowels of the earth. Also I carried
salt with which to salt my mines if found
them in hot weather and feared that they
might get too gamey.
Boomerang had no home ties. If he had
any relatives they did not correspond with
him. He and I grew up together on the