The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1896-07-25
BACK FROM ABROAD.
Hans Guggenheimer Returns From An
Extended Tour

y Times reporter met Hans Guggen-
heimer on Nelson street. near the market
house, yesterday morning. For the in
formation of those who do not know the
gentleman, 1T might be we'll to state
that Mr.. Guggenheimer is Teuton OF
peripatetic instincts and habits, who in
boom days frequently made Roanoke one
OF his stopping places; but who for the
past two or three years has not been seen
in the city. Being an old acquaintance
| of The Times man, the latter ut once gave
| nm "A cordial greeting, and stopping long
| enough between his sentences to take a
| bite OF the Georgia watermelon, which
| he was eating along with Il couple of
grangers from Floyd county. Hans re-
| turned the newspaper mans salutation
| as follows:
Ware hat You bin at, Mcester Recorder?
| vas gied to see you oney how. mine
trent. You vas veil you say. Dot vas
| goot | hat hat considerable experience
| since lefc Roanoke dot winter times ven
| der smallpox vas here. but as der man
salt ven he run over railroad train, so
| long as am lifting vas gled vas not
| dead
Ven lefe Roanoke | sdart fur Vim
| stone, Nord Carliner nit an irishman.
| who lofed viskey more than his nateef
lar AS We hat to raise der travelling ex-
| benses it vas decided dot We worruk der
Confederate solger racket. SO | basted
| one of his arrums close to his side ucd
| lefe der sleeve emdy like voundet olt
| Confederate. We dells all der peoples vot
We meet dot Mike O'Hilligin, vich his
name vas, vas Wounded al ed pattle of Sor-
ghum Mills we're he kilt fife Yankees nit
his bistols rnd just ven he vas dake der
colonel of der regiment brisner, a cannon
ball cut off one of his arrums | salt ven
he come back from der varr dot he mar
rid mine sister, who vas Diet, und lefe ten
little childers entirely independent ov der
subbort ov der poor old farder, vich
would hat bin a fact of it hat bin drue. for
Mike could mt hartly subbort himself in
walk, much less ten little childers.
We'll der peoples dey vas gif us
swansy-five und fluffy cents sometimes,
undssometemes smaller pieces of money
fur der little volks at home ,vich We spent
in personal comforts, vich vas mostly
visky. Der blan vas a bowling success
, at furst; but dot blasted Irishmans got
drunk und pulled off his coat to fight II
| black culled man, vich gif der whole
| dlngS away, und sont us to shall fur dree
| months. As der Accommodations vas not
furst class, We cut II hole trough der roof
| und left der blaze by der first freight
train. Ven We hat gone apout Il hundred
miles, We got off ind played der lame
solger racket nit Mike Dot worrucked
very veil till Il mems who hat gif us fluffy
cents rode suddinigly on our camping
place we're Mike was dancing a liz vile |
vas playing der tune on Il French harp.
Ot course dot vas Il SURPRISE all around
und We left dot country by der next
freight train.
wen We hat got into Soud Gardiner
We dot We would see more ov der country:
so We worrucked der lame solger racket
| once more Veil We come to nice big
parn init blenty of hay in it, und after
We hat frank der pint of visky vich Mike
bought init IA quarter dot a vdder vo-
mans sont to his little childers, We lights
our bipes und soon schmoked ourselves
to sleep. AS luck would hat it, vend der
hay got TO burning il walked me oop. So
l pulls Mike oudt of de barn rite away.
ven We hide in some leetle pines and
watched the vlames avile. Den We struck
| freight train und vent to de next town.
Ven read in de bapers dat a niger vel
Ter vas hanged by der mob on der expec-
tation dot he vas de incendiary dot burned
down dot barn, .tole Mike do; it vas
lucky for dot Niger dot dey did not ketch
us. and he vas of de same opinion
We'll, ven We got to Floriday hired
myselluf init Il orange grove und STAYED
dere quite vile Mike he got der vim
vans und i'll tryin' to schwim der Saint
Nohn's river collidcd nit full grown
alligator und vas not seen since To make
short sdory long | will say am yust
from Chcowgo, we're | vas free silber
delicate to der Dammycratic convention.
und must say dot Pryan vas IA daisy
You yu>t ought 10 hear Dot Teller talk. He
hpuf al nd T..
und Is nearly so goot talker as Tom
Woods, but ven you get Tom STARTED,
Pryan vas not in it at all. He's a goot
looking Teller oudt ov his eyes, und oy a
sdyle of beauty similar to dot oh Shon
Daniel, except dot his mout is not so fir
rum.
II hat dalk nit him, und he sont his
lof to Sharley Stewart. und Doctor Davis.
who he salt he hoped would he fur free
SLIDER yet. BY der way, understand dot
Sharley |. hat alretty Topped, und AK
peck dat der Doctor will hat to- Bote ov
dem ought to he fur free SLIDER, as dot
is der only way dey will get any at der
present rates.
IND rite here I will remark Tot der
COLT bug vas humbug unless he tum-
bles to der SLIDER racket would g;f nv
views at length on der financial ques.
tions, of you would borrow me half toll
lar, but as you hat not der cash will go
round. to der mayors office und hat a
dalk NIT Shief Dyer, Yailer Traynham
und der jest ov der bolises. vas mighty
glet, if der hat to be change. ven Tom
Woods vas appointed shief justice OF der
bollce court. He viii do der right dings
by der misfortunate fcllers vot comes be.
fore him. und don't you fail to reckmem-
Der 1t. | always hat n high regart fur
der Roanoke bolises, und | am shure
dot Shief Dyer is der rite man in der rite
blaze. Ven Colonel Tom Woods gets in