Year: 1879

A mum ber of ur young people recent
ly gave a social dance here, at which a
number of Tuscarorers, who were in town
atterded. We we're not present, but
from reliable sources, the following ac,
count is obtained. The people of Elko
are quiet, orderly citizens, who confne
themselves in dancing to the rules of eti-
quette and propriety. These young Tus-
carora people are on the dance bigger
than wolf and they have learned all
the Boston dips, Newport bends and
Saratoga collie dances, and everything
new. There is one dance they have learn
ed that is peculiar. to say the least. 1t is
a species of waltz but the couple get
together so odd that person who sees it
for the first time, just leans against some-
thing and fans himself. 1t is. perhaps,
needless to say that tn, Major, the giddy
young thing OF the Times. ReUiet0, was
present, and when the music first struck
up waltz, the young man opened his
arms and doubled himself like boy with
the cholera Infantum, his hind leg cramp


ed and head looped over on one side his
back bumped up like a case of chronic
inaammatory rheumatism. He was
ready The girl who was with him when
he began to have spasms at once seemed
to get into trance. Her back shot up
like a cat ; she bent over towards him, ber
forward leg got out of Joint at the knee,
her neck took a cramp, her mouth opened
and she lolled her eyes looked like IA
steer that had turned the yoke, and just
before she died she fell into the arms of
the deceased. She was ready For
moment they stood and squirmed like
angle worms on a hook and trothed at the
mouth, and looked, as they stood there,
like pile driver that had been run into
by an engine. They teetered up and
down little, then few off at a tangent,
They bumped against other couples, and
at every bump they were driven closer to-
gether, until they were so near that it
seemed as though they had to be pried
apart with handspike They looked in
to each others eyes as though they would
bite, and they kept going around un>
til their backs were broke. They Topped
across the floor, knocked down couple
from Lamoile, cNromed on fellow from
Carlin. and sent them against barrel of
lemonade, glanced across the fall and
struck an old lady amidships who had
just started to call her daughter off the
flo or because she was afraid the girl would
catch the Tuscarora cramps, knocked her
under bench, where she lay, calling for
her husband to come and pick herup in
other dancers hauled off, and stood on
benches and looked at them. Some Of
the girls hid their heads and said they
wanted to go home. The visitors slid
around the hall, caught each other on the
fly, run the bases. and came under the
wire neck and neck, just as Volley, who
played the second fiddle, fell over the
bass violin in a dead laint, and the man
who played the piccolO rolled under the
music stand, stricken with appoplexy.
The manager of the dance called Consta-
BILE Lane, who was present, and told him
to arrest the party, handcuff them, and
take them to the Woodbridge Insane Asy


lum. The Major explained that they were
not crazy, that it was only new kind of
dance, and they were reluctantly allowed
to remain on condition that they would
not cut up any more of those disgraceful
monkey shines. - E'ko independent