The daily phoenix. (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, August 07, 1867, Image 4
Kinsing Her Female Cousin.
Your coming in la?t night, my lady love.
Waa somewhat sadden. I was helping
Noll
To tio tho ribbon of bor ringlets;
8he pat tho orimson of her mouth up
well,
I'm flesh and blood-and then yon, singing,
carno
Into thc room, and tossed your head for
shame.
I saw a sort of maiden Northern lights
Shoot up year chocks and treoiblo in
your oyo?;
I like ?uch things. I like to sec the wind
Drive frightened clouds across thc skies;
I like the sea, and, when it's easily had,
A pretty woman-very, very mad!
I like tho dangerous and regal air
(You bear a queen's name, and a queen
. you aro,)
With whioh you donned jour Thibet opera
cloak,
And clasped it with a diamond like a star.
Twas charming in mv mistress-but, ni y
lifo,
It would not be so charmiug in my wife.
I like wild things, as I have said, but then
I should not Uko to own them. Who
would bc
Proprietor of earthquakes or loose hurri?
canes,
Or comets plunging in celestial seas?
Or wed a maid that could, if sho should
please,
Give mo a touch of ono and all of these?
Not L Don't let a female thunder-storm
Brood in your eyes, with every nod, and
Ul on
A flash of angry lightning. You have had
Your Mareil and April, nov?- bo June
again,
And let your fine-cut eye-brows' silken span
Be brows of promise to your favorite man!
I've had my laugh, and you your pout, and
now
You'll spoil that rose-bud, if von twist
Uso!)
Give me both hands, that I may say, "Good j
Boss,"
"Tho good Queen bess,'' and kiss you !
ero I go -
Thc good Queen bess, whose heart, and
mind, and tace,
Teach mo to love all women-as a race! ?
So, when I kissed your pretty cousin Nell, ;
I honored ono who taught mc to admire
Fair women in their twenties -don't you 1
see?
But then, dear Bess, as I was standing
by her,
Her lips quite closo- now this is entre
nous
Upon my soul, I made believe 'twas you!
MAY DAV Qt NEW"VOWU
Of all the places that ever I was
into, said Mrs.?Deborali Sharp, York
beats the lot. There's thc most sassy
homnibus drivers, thc mont long
faced young women, und tho most
Irish shindies, that I ever seed afore,
or sense. I can't for tho lifo of mc
understand how folks there manages
to tell whether they arc theirselves or
their next door neighbors. Every?
thing is so mixed up. I should think
they'd lose their eyedenties there,
and get so that they wouldu't know
which from t'other.
I wont there in April to seo cuzzin
Brindle. Ho moved there from
Iloughboro, about ton year ago, and
when tho war broke out, bc went
into tho shoddy business, and has got
as rich as muck.
His wifo is awful uppish. You'd
ort to soo her. You'd never mistook
that she was Peggy Trotters, and used
to go out washing for n living. She
calls herself Margarit now, and spells
it Marguerite. If you should meet
her anywheres you'd sartin think she
was Queen Victory's darter,, or the
Empress Yougenie.
They live in a nico house, with a
brown stone frunt, and a pair of
white marblo stairs agoing up to the
frunt door, and they've got a door?
bell with a silver thing to take hold
of; and they've got chanticleers and
peer-glosses, and fortyrils to set on,
and astagers to put knick-knacks on,
and a host of gimcracks that I dis
remember the namus of. Alfaretta
Grace, their darter, has got a pianni
forty as big as our corn barn; and a
catarrh that she ties round her neck
with a blue ribbon, that looks jest
like Ham Blake's liddle, only she
makes it go with her lingers instill of
a bow.
They keep a coachman in uniform.
I'm desprit respectful to him because
I ixpect ho was a ginral in the army,
he's got so much gold luce and but?
tons about him. And there's a butler
that they keep to drink thc wino that
Brindle can't; and to hug the cliain
bermaid behind thc kitchen door.
Miss Brindle, she dresses up the
master; and so does Alfaretta. They
look like piotcrs out of a story book*,
both of 'em; painted pioters, 1 mean.
Boggy rutlier goos ahead of her gal
though. She used to bo good look?
ing, and if ever yon minded it, a wo?
man that has been pr i tty don't never
seem to git over it. [t's hard for her
.0 fiivo up, und grow into wrinkles
?iud dark-colored gownds, without a
struggle.
Sense tho fashion <?,' wa ter-falls" has
gone out, sin- llOS took to wer.ring a
thing on the backside of her head
that she calla a coil. It is made ont
of hoes hair, and haman hair, and
wire and wool-is about as big As a
common-sized braided rag, and looks
powerful. The "rat" that she rolls
the hair round is as large as a rolling
pin, and about a yard long. It takes
three hours to git her rigged for
aftornoou.
I sot out, one day, to hare my hair
rigged up iu that style, and Felishear,
the dressing-maid, she began on it.
I stood it very well for about two
hours, and then I got narvous. My
head felt as if it was being put iuto a
cider press nud squeezed to a pummy.
Bime-by, she begun to put a hot
thing into tho frunt bair, that looked
some like a little gridiron, and I
jumped right up and npsot the bull
consnru.
?*I wou't stand it!" sez I. "What
on ?irth aro you sticking that hot
thing iu thero for?"
"Faith, mum," sez Rhe, (Miss Brin?
dle sez Felishear is a Frenchman, but
I know she's Trish,) "it's only the
crimping iron. It's uo hurt it'll do
ye."
"No you don tl" se/. I. "I haint
no freedman, that I should have my
hair swizzled, and I'll let it stay
natral, as straight as a candle, and
stick to my old black cap," sez I.
So I tore out the rats, and hove
'em outo the floor, nud did my bail?
up in a plug behind, stuck in my
brass comb, and put on my old cap
with the red ribbin, and the black
chenille.
Arter I bad been to York a spell, I
found out that Mary Miles lived
there. Mary was au old crony of
mino. Many's tho day we've sot up
in the wood-shed chamber to home
and scratched beads and told ghost
stories. She married Sam Mills, and
they moved all around tho lot, and
linerly loeationed theirselves in York.
Uncle Eben used to try to court her,
but she made fun of his new groy
.striped pantaloons, and they broke
oil' to once.
But, anyhow, T thought I must go
and see ber. And I told Miss Brin?
dle so. She sed I'd better not. 1
should bo sure to get lost, or inte
some diflikilty or mt her. But I told
her I rayther guessed I could take
keer of myself. I'd milked a kickin'
cow, and bad ?'ie small-pox, and lick
ed TOM Jenk'? Ben lor stealing inj
water-millins, and 1 guessed I coule
manage.
Slie sed it was so nigh the fust, ol
Maj' that she shouldn't want to go
I told her so long as the fust of Ma>
didn't come Satterday it wouldn't
make, no difference. Satterday wa?
my day of bad luck. Nothing novel
happened to me that was onlucky ex
cept on Satterdays. lt was Satterda]
that my pig ?lied of the stnggerations
and it was Satterday that J. had ur
brown bumbazino gowud eut, and i
allus nipped nie under the arms, am
gave mc a pain in the st mumu k.
She sed no more, and tho last ?hr
of April, jest afore night, I sot sai
?or Mary's. I found the place with
out no diffikilty. It was number ulm
million and something, West forty
or Hf ty, or sixty-ninth street-I di.s
remember which. I'vo got it all so
down in my diarrhea to home.
The door stood wido open, and ii
I marched, with my bandbox e
clothing in my hand. Mary Ava
down on ber knees a scrubbing th
floor, and then were three pails c
white-wash, and a paint-pot, and
bottle of varnish alongside of her.
The entry was as full of furnitut
as Smith's Cabinet store. There wu
cheers, and beds, and crocker}', an
sofys, and pots and kittles, all mixe
up together.
"Gracious airth!" sez I. "Mai
Miles, I want to know if this is tl
way yon clean house in York?"
She jumped up and run towan
me, upsetting a pail of white-was
and a three-legged stool piled full
tumblers as she come. She. appear?
to be powerful glad to see me, b
there wasn't no placo to ask me int
she sed: everything was turvey tops
But I inu it i&cuse it, for to-morrc
was the fust of May.
"Wall, what's that to do with it
sez I.
She lolled, and sod I wnrn't us
to York, silo guessed. Almost evei
body moved, she sed, the fust of Mi
and she and Samuel was agoing to I
wit li the rest.
"You'll bo obliged to sleep on t
iloor," sed she, ''and get up vc
em ly, for wo leave as soon ns eij
o'clock."
I told hey 1 guessed I could pit
by eight o'clock, when I was used
scening tho day break allus, wild
was to boine, to Iiougbboro. A
pretty airly, 1 turned in on a bed
the floor oi' the frunt chamber.
seemed as if I hadn't been asleep
more'n two minutes, and had jest
got to dreaming comfortably of old
Squire Twombly's red mare, when
sunthin waked me. I started up,
and deary mel I thought I should
have ts wo o nd id rite on the spot! For,
standing over mo was a grate tall red
whiskered man, with a paint pot in
one hand and a brush in t'other.
Nothing but the fact that I had on
my best ruffled nighc-cap, with tape
trimming on the string and a butter?
fly worked on tho crown of it, kept
me from fainting.'
"You must turn out!" scz the man,
flourishing the brush; "I want to
paint, this floor; it's got tobe painted
and dried afore six o'clock to-night,
for the new family."
"Git out of tho room, then, while
I dress," sez I.
"I'll stop iuto the closet, and bo a
priming the door," sed bc, and ho
did so.
I hopped up and got into my
clothes in a hurry, and lawful heart!
afore I'd got my boots laced up, back
came that mau and went to painting
the floor right under my feet. And
afore I knowed it, he'd made a grate
slash of yaller paint on the skirt of
my purple thibct gownd that I'd paid
four dollars a yard for.
"Look here, mister," se/. I, "sec
what you've done!"
"Most ladies don't object to being
painted," sed he, as imperdent us
could bc. That made me mad.
[CONCLUDED IN OUR NEXT. 1
NEW and DESI
JUS !
WE HATE RECEIVED.
11 io following.:
A COMPLETE LINE OF
Every stylo of HOOP SK
Tip-Tup. DemirQuakcr, [ir
Paris 'frail. Ladies* Extra
Single Steel, Misses Single ?
ble fastenings, A:e., Sec.
REAL VAL. INSERTIN
BLACK SILK LACES ai
AV hite Silk Laces and Ed;
Heal SWISSES, Paris. S\
JACONET and SWISS E
B0BB1XET MOSQUITO NETTI?
FRENCH WOVE CORSE'
R. C. ?
?Tune 27
SMITH'S PATENT
Well Fixture ! !
A NEW, SIMPLE anti EFFECT?
IVE DRIVER tor raising watoi
from wells. Cheaper und more
durable than a pump, Miter and
bitter than thc old-fashioned
windlass. ".Voi.e mention it hut
to praise il " More than 5,ooo are
now in use in Virginia and North -Sjg
Carolina, and the demand is still '-^?fflf
increasing. A supply or tins?- . ^fm
superior WELL FIXTURES are
now on hand and for salo low by ^ /
J. & T. E. AGNEW. '';
March '2't
1
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State South Corolina--Bichh*nd Dist.
Jiu Jacob BcU, Ordinary of said District.
.TfrTHEREAS Lewis H. Trerefc hath ap
VY plied to rae for letters of administra?
tion on aU and singular the goods, chattels
and credits of Nut ali Reraghi, late uf tho
District aforesaid, deceased:
These are. therefore, to cite and admo?
nish all and singular tho kindred and
creditors of tho said deceased to he and
appear before me, at our noxt Ordinary's
Court for tho said District, to bo holden at
Columbia on Friday, tho sixteenth day of
August next, at ten o'clock a. m., to show
causo, if any, why tho said administration
should not Lo granted.
Given under my hand and seal of the Court,
this thirtieth day of July, in tho
vear ol' our Lord "one thousand eight
hundred and sixty-seven, and in theniue
ty-socoud vear of American independ?
ence. JACOB BELL,
July 31 w2 Ordinary Richland Dist.
Bill to Foreclose Mortgage.
Charles Bf. Forman, Trustee, vs. the Green?
ville and Columbia Railroad Company
Order calling in Creditors.
IN pursuance of the decretal order in
tho abovo stated case, "the creditors
of tho Greenville and Columbia Railroad
Company holding bonds and coupons co?
vered by tho mortgage bearing dato 18th I
January, ISM, and referred to in tho plead- !
ings, and all creditors having any interest j
under said mortgage," are hereby required 1
to present and provo t'icir demands boforo
me, at my office, in Columbia, on orbeforo
thc first day of January next, "or that
they be excluded from all benefit of thc
decree to bo rendered in this case. Thoso
who choose to como in as parties com?
plainants are allowed to do so, and those
who wish to do BO, may como in as de?
fendants. D. B. D?SAUSSURE,
Juno 86 wsSmo C. E. lt. D.
15 Boxes Chewing Tobacco,
DIFFERENT GRADES, low to dealers.
Juno 30 JOHN C. SEEGERS A CO.
RABLE GOODS
I M .
Liuoiigst our NEW GOODS.
ENGLISH HOSIERY.
HT, comprising thc following:
sible Quaker, Demi-Duplex,
Long Demi-Quaker, Child's
ucl, in movable and immova
S, GUIPURE EDGINGS,
I EDGINGS, Swiss Mulls.
ii gs, Thread Bradings.
ss. Nainsooks and]Mtills,
GING, Vc, kc. Also,
-ALL WIDTHS HI) PRICES,
\t at Lowest Possible Prices.
?HIVER.
yes. :
A Southern Invention.
<; Il AY'S I? A T K S T
Labor-Saving Iron Screw
Cotton Press!
The Litest an l bv far the most
perfect COTTON SCREW yet
invented. With ono mule", a
heavy bale can be easily packed.
Send l<>r a descriptive and
price list to
C. K. HUGER,
Gen'! Agent lor tho State,
73 East Ray, Charleston, S. C.
FISHER 5: LOWRANCE.
Ag? au, Main street,
Columbia, 8. C.
ALSO,
Railway and Steamboat Sup?
plies Bortablo and Stationary
engines, Saw Gins, Grist Mills
Bark Mills. Horse Rowers, Reap
er.-, Threshers, Ridings, Oils
Iron, Steil. Wilder's Firc-ptoul
Sabs:, Platform and Conn te
Sea!, s. For sale by
C. K." flCGEIt,
73 Kail Bay, Charleston.'S. C.
3 niv ?K' urw3nv .
DOUBLE DAILY
ALL-RAIL PASSENGER ROUTE
BETWEEN
ATLANTA& NEW ORLEANS,
VIA CHATTANOOGA and GRAND JUNCTION.
Through in Forty-nine Honrs ?
TRAINS leave Atlanta daily at 8.45 a. m.
and 7 p. m.; making cloao connection?
at all pointa. Arrive at New Orleans nt 8
p. m. nud ll. IO p. m.
KW Passengera by trains of thc Georgia
Railroad mako close connections with this
route at Atlanta.
No Steamboats or Omnibuses on this
Route.
ELEGANT SLEEPING COACHES
ON ALL NIGHT TRAINS.
BAGGAGE CHECItEO THROUGH.
Fare as Low as by any other Ronlo.
THROUGH TICKETS,
Good nntil used, can bc Obtained at
General Ticket Office, Atlanta, Ga.; Geor
gia Railroad. Augusta, Ga.; South Carolina
lailroad, Charleston,S. C.;South Carolina
Railroad, Columbia, S. C.
JOHN B. PECK,
Master Transportation
Western and Atlantic Railroad.
July 17 3mo
Laurens Railroad-New Schedule.
OFFICE LAURENS RAILROAD,
LACBENS C. H., 8. C., July 12, 18(37.
ON and alter MONDAY, 22d instant, the
traina will run over this Road as fol?
lows, nntil bo ther not ico:
Leave Laurens at 5 o'clock a. m. on Mon?
days, Wednesdays and Fridays, aud arrive
at Newberry at ll o'clock a. m.
Leave Newberry on Mondays, Wednes?
days and Fridays, at fiftv minutes after 12
o'clock, connecting with both trains on the
Greenville and Columbia Railroad at Hele?
na ShopB. JOSEPH CREWS, Sup't.
July lti
Sup'ta Office N. C. Railroad Co.,
r:-vv nv i-ySv'*--*^ j? v-Vy? '-^t&F-*
COMPANY SHOPS, MAY 27, 1SG7.
XTN.TIL further notice, Passenger Traina
X^J will run on this Road aa followa:
Mail Train-East.
Leave Charlotte daily 12.19a. m.; Gre??ns
boro 4.51; Haleigh 9.18. Arrivo in Goldt
horo 12.10 p. m.
ir.;ft.
Leave Goldsboro 1.07 p. m.; Raleigh 3150;
I Greensboro 7.58. Arrive in Charlotte
I 12.19 a. m.
Passengers make close through, connec?
tions-either way-at Charlotte, with the
Charlotte and South Carolina Railroad; at
! Greensboro, vi? Danville and Richmond;
at Raleigh, tia Weldon and Bay Lino and
Ahnamessic Line. Alto, connect atGolds
boro with Mail Train on Wilmington and
Weldon Road, to and from Wilmington.
Timo from Charlotte to New York forty
hour?, by either route.
May M .IAS. ANDERSON. Sup't.
General Superintendent's Office,
?PinBEfl
CHARLOTTE ft S. C. RAILROAD.
Coi.t'MniA, S. C., Maj' 2, 18?7.
ON and after SUNDAY. May 5, the schc
dnlo of tho Passenger Trains over
thia Road will bc aa followa:
Leave Columbia at.5.30 p. m.
Arrivo at Charlotte at.12.15 a. m.
Leave Charlotto at. 12.20 a. m,
Arrive at Columbia at. G.C0 a. m.
Close connections aro mado at Columbia
and Charlotte with mail trains on the North
Carolina and South Carolina Railroads. By
this arrangement, passengers hy Green?
ville Road go immediately through East?
ward, and havo no detention in Columbia.
THROUGH TICKETS are sold at Colom?
bia to Richmond, Ya., Washington, D. C.,
Raltimoro, Md., Philadelphia, Pa., and
Now York city-giving choice of routes ria
Portsmouth or Richmond-and baggage
checked. Tickets aro also sold at Char?
lotte for Charleston and A-gu8ta.
An Accommodation Train, for freight and
local passage, leaves Columbia at 7 a. m.,
on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays ot
each weeli, and Charlotte on the same
days and hour; arriving at Columbia and
Charlotte at 7 p. m.
May 3 C. ROUKNIGHT. Sup't.
Schedule over South Carolina R. R
GENERAL SUPT8 OFFICE.
CHARLESTON, K. C., March ll, l8t><>.
ON and after the 13th inst., theThrough
Mail Train will run as follows, viz:
Leave Charleston.8.00 a.m.
Arrive at Columbia.5.20 p. m.
Leave Columbia.0.50 a. m.
Arrive at Charleston.4.00p. m.
March 18 H. T. PEAKE, Qen'l Sup't.
Greenville and Columbia Railroad
PASSENGER Trains will mn daily, Sun?
days excepted, aa followa:
I Leave Columbia at. 7.15 n. m.
" Alston at.9.05 "
" Newberry at.10.85 "
Arrive at Abbeville at. 3.13 p. m.
" at Anderson at.5.10 "
" at Greenville at.5.40 "
Leave Gre, ovillo at. 6.00 a. m.
" Anderson at.<'>.30 "
" Abbovilloat. 8.35 il
" Ne wi i try at.1.20 p. m.
Arrive Alston at.2.45 "
" at Columbia at. 4.40
?yThc Trains of thia Radicad run daily
(Sunday* excepted) over Blue Ridge Rail?
road, between Anderson and Walhalla, to
connect with the un and down trains of th
. Greenville Railroad.