The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-01-24

A Few Society items-lne Oreat ana
Only Eber and other Great Men Nyo
Has Met.
Copyright, 1892, by Edgar ". Nye.l
AsHEvILLE, n. c., January.-This has
been very gentle and balmy winter for
the native tar heller as well as the Cape
Cod asthrlatic and bronchial wheeler
from the frozen home of the abolitionist
who may have been spending the season
here.
Tropical growths are getting along
first rate here if kept indoors, and such
subtropical vegetation as the John pine,
the ionauil and the horseradish are
growing in the open air.
Senator Zebulon B. Vance has returned
from the Holy Land with new story
picked up on the Sea of Galilee. 1t is a
corker.
Senator Vance is looking well and re-
turns to his senatorial labors with re-
newed vigor and a travelled air which
we North Carolina people alone lack to
make us shine.
He says that Baireuth is pronounced
Byroit.
Senator Vance was there during the
Wagner imbroglio. do not know what
an imbroglio is, but | think it was that.
He told several stories illustrative of
American humor while at Byroit, and,
as understood it, interspersed between
the Wagner selections. They were not
well received.
He told an anecdote of Ex-Governor
Hoard's, Of Wisconsin, regarding an ex-
perience he had while in the army.
After a forced march Of eight weeks
during which the brigade did not touch
food, being anxious to close the war,
they camped one night at crossroads
where it was found that in an old de-
serted tobacco warehouse there were So
GREETED three barrels of sparkling, home
made, Dent corn Heidsick, grown on the
place.
The boys tried to get at it, but the
officers saw at once that there would
not be more than enough for themselves,
and so placed guard over the liquor.
In the night the boys got into the base
ment Of the warehouse with eight clean
washtubs and an anger, and in tbs
morning it was found that two of the
barrels were empty and most Of the bri
gade full.
The following night, after apollinaris
and family prayers, it was resolved to
try and get the other barrel in order to
soothe that vague unrest and one thing
and another which one feels after an
undue indulgence in spirituous, vinous,
malt or fermented liquors. They did not
know that the guard had put the third
barrel on two sawhorses a foot above
their auger's utmost scope. All night
they bored holes into the nocturnal
bosom of the scooting hours, all unmind-
full that the guard slept by the barrel in
a new place on the floor.
Toward morning Governor Hoard took
the anger with heavy heart and bored
a new hole in the bosom of the night.
He did not strike what he sought, but
there was wild shrek from above, and
when the governor pulled the auger out
he found on it the fragment of a gray
army shirt and birthmark. Leaving
the eight new tubs where they We're,
also over 400. 900 new auger holes that
had never been used; they all went
away.
Senator Vance told it better than /
have, but when he got through the Ger
man friend Of Vogner said:
"Um-yah! Vot kahn of a story vas
dat?"
That is a humorous story. That is
American humor."
mo, my frain: oxcoose me. Dot vas
not yoomar: dot vas u tam lie"
Senator Vance will, during this ses-
sion, move the passage of an act author
izing the city of New York to buy the
street bonds Of the city of Asheville.
The city has been authorized of course
some time ago to sell, but New York
has not bought the bonds, no doubt feel
ing some hesitation without congress
sional authority. but this will be soon
remedied by act of the national legisla-
ture and all will be well.
The colored people of Asheville each
year celebrate on the 1st of January
their emancipation from slavery. They