Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-09-27
BILL NYE'S SOCIETY.
Catchy Little Sketches From His
North Carolina Craig-y-Nos.
WHAT THE STARS ARE DOING.
Pleasing Allusions That viii Delight the
Subjects Thereof.
BELLE ON A FRACTI0US HORSE
roornrsrosDrscn o, THE DISPATCH,

| rCoRRESPoNDENCE OF THE DIsPArCH.J
CRA1G-Y-Nos, BUNcoMBE COUNTY, N.
c., Sept. A.-The following society notes
regarding the summer movements of people
in our set may be Of interest to our many
readers, and Unpublished will be regarded
as special favor by those parties whose
names have been surreptitiously sent in to
me:
Mr.. A. Wetmore Rumsey Is back from
Bar Harbor, whittier he has been valeting
for Mr.. De Fuyster Packenham, of Cook
county, Ill Mr.. Rumsey does not know
whether he will return to Bar Harbor again
this season or not. Much, he says, will de-
pend upon how Mr. De Fuyster Packen-
ham feels about it.
Miss Coudert Veazy is undoubtedly the
belle of Sandy Mush this season. To see
her moisten her pink finger and paste one
OF our large purple top or low dwarf feas is
well worth seasick and ohoppy ride over
the nebular and gummy roads of Buncombe
county. Her reported engagement to Mr..
George Vanderbilt and other celebrated
| men of Buncombe county was denied by
Miss Veazy almost before the report started.
She will remain here till frost. and posi-
bly, conduct Delsarte class for the colored
people of Gethseminy.
AN ACCIDENT THAT Thrills SOCIETY. =
Miss Clandestine Wartz met up with q
serious accident while riding Monroe Tush-
makers claybank mare Emulsion last week
1t was at or near the foot of Mount Busbee,
on the Hendersonville road, and it seemed
like the mare sat down on q ehinkopin burr
by the roadside to think over her past life
and pass resolutions regarding her policy
for the future. Maddened BY pain, the
spirited animal, with dilated nostrils and
erect tail, lashing 1t ever and anon to and
fro across her chest and stomach, undertook
to climb curly poplar tree with her shoes
on. She had not, therefore, assembled more
than 20 feet with her young mistress when
she lost her grip and fell the entire dis
tance, falling on her fair burden and and
bursting her surcingle Cher own surcingle,
we mean). Miss Wartz was greatly
shocked, and as soon as possible pushed the
unwieldly brute of, as it was lying across
her chest at the time. Miss Wartz is one of
the best equestrian riders of South Tincture,
Ala, but says that where the horses are
mostly prehensile and people have to climb
trees to get around mud hole it is time to
call halt
Apropos of the afore item, Mr.. Recon-
pense Stillwagon laid on our table yester-
day q dead colt, for which he will please ac-
cept thanks. It only lived few days, he
said, but is most peculiar formation. Mr..
Stillwagon says that he has seen q number
of these anomalies within the past few
years, which shows, as he goes on to state,
that the North Carolina horse Is gradually
changing to meet the demands Of his sur
roundings
WILL NOT NEED ROADS
Special attention is attracted toward the
tail, which Is like that of the opossum,
enabling the animal to hang by 1t from a
tree while the wagon is being drawn from
the road, or possibly to swing from bough to
bough where the roads are impossible. Mr.,
Stillwagon says that the time is not far dist
ant when no one will use the roads at all.
Many do not use them already. The time
is coming, he claims, when the Buncombe
county road will only be used by people
who have been stung. Nothing is SO sooth-
ing to sting as mud, he says, and some
day when you see man sitting in the road
up to his armpits you will know that he has
been recently stang and is engaged in ap-
plying one of our Justly celebrated roads to
himself
Miss Phoebe Beebe, of Caesars Head, was
at the dance here night before last, and did
not miss dance. She danced almost ex-
clusively with her escort, who, 1t is under
stood, is doing chores for his board at her
fathers place. She was unusually gay and
rather chaffed some of her lady friends who
had no steady company. Miss Beebe was
well dressed, and looked like she was doll.