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AMERICUS, GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY, MAR* II 7, 1883.
SMITH VS SUUIiUMtV.
The Strange Fight Which Was Fought
At Satartia —The Story John Pot
ter Told—The ’Clipse of the
Moon—A Knife as Long
as a Scythe.
A passel of fellows axeil John Pot
ter one day to tell about a fight that
Jim Smith had once with Jim Shad
braw down in Satartia.
Well, r,ez Potter, I was at Satartia
one day, au’ arter I bad got through
with my bizness an’ was about to ad
vance back home, Bob Wilson lie ups
an’ sez to me, Potter, sez he, thar is
gwine to be ’clipse of the sun here to
day, an’ you better stay an’ see it.
What sort of thing is it, sez I.
Sez he, it’s a fight between the sun
an’ the moon to see which will git the
upper hand, an’ everything will he al
dark as the hinges of Davy Jones’
locker.
Sez I, Bob Wilson, you are foolin'
me, ain’t you?
No, sez he, it’s as true as preachin’,
an’ if you go home, may be so, yon
won’t see it.
Well, sez I, Satartia always was a
great place for gittin’g up odd kinds
of shows an’ jigamarees, an’ if I was
to go home I mout miss seein’ it sure
enough.
Sez I, Bob, suppose tho sun should
get the advantage—then thar would
be no moon, woul l they?
Narey moon, sez he.
Then, sez I, how could you tell
when to sow your turnips?
He sorter scratched his head at that
tin’ couldn't answer.
Well, sez I, Bob, ’spose the moon
was to git the advantage an’ blow the
sun out, what then?
All moonshine, sez he.
Sez I, if that was the case, nothin’
but moonshine, won’t we haven’t a
j illy good times huntin’ coons?
Golly! wouldn’t we, sez he.
Arter a while, when I cum to con
sider about it, sez TANARUS, Bob Wilson, is
the thing fixed so that ’clipse it
obleeged to cum off to-day—coulda
they put. it off till some other time?
Sez he, nary put off, for the show
bills ar’ out, and the almanick sez
thar can ho no postponement on account
of the weather.
Sez I, that’s agin, an’ I suppose 1
have got to stay. Arter I had consid
ered a while longer, sez I, Bob Wilson,
I dnnno what to do, an’ I’m between
hawk and buzzard, because if Igo
home you say I may miss the sights,
and if I stay too long away I’ll see
sights when I go homo. Al ter this
sally of mine tho fellers all laffeil like
town, ’specially me, an’ sez I, Bob
Wilson, that’s one of my best joax,
ain’t it? Sex he, I ain’t heard no .joke,
Sez I, when 1 said just now, if Igo
home I may not see the sights, an’ if
I stay here I will see sights when I go
home, don’t you call that a good joak?
It may be so, Potter, says he, but yon
are always sayin’ so many cute things
that I scarcely ever notice urn.
HE MISSED THE ’CLIPSE.
Well, talkin’ bout the fight between
Jim Smith and Jim Shadbraw, I was
down in Startia one day, when Bob
Wilson ups and tells me about the
’clipse an’ persuades me to stay. My
daddy used to tell me that it was a bad
plan ever to let myself bo overpersuad
ed, for, sez he, you waste the precious
minits in that way, and minks makes
hours, hours days, days makes months
and months years, and thus by fillin’
away the odd moments, time, with
viewless wings, speeds on, silvering
your hair, ’till you get old and shriv
elled up like an October peach, an’
“die and leave no sign.” The last five
words are scriptur.
Well, as I was sayin’, 1 ’lowed my
self to be over-persuaded by Bob Wil
son, an’ staid in town to see the ’clipse
of the sun, which it did cum off, as it
was cloudy in Satartia that day, an’
rained like town. When I went home
that night they axed me why in the
blue blazes I didn’t come home and
see the ’clipse. Sez I, was there a
’clipse here, too? Sez they, yes, an’ the
puniest kind of a one. Sez I, how
you see it an’ it a rainin’? Oh, sez
they, it was as clear as a bell here,
though it mout havo been rainin’ in
Satartia. Sez I, hang it, if ever that
arßob Wilson fools me that way agin
he will know it.
Talkin’ about that ar fight between
Jim Shadraw and Jim Smith, it wa3
the day of the ’clipse, an’ most of the
fellers eyes were so ’clipsed I don’t be
lieve they could have seen it if it had
cum off.
Some of the fellers were mighty
drunk, I tell you; but alter a chap has
got sober an’ tries to behave hisself, I
never like to joak him ’bout it in com
pany, for I know how bad it makes a
fellow feel.
Well, wo were all there in Sa
tartia, and sum of the boys were drink
ing purty free. While they were jaw
in’ over ther licker, politix was iuter
doosed, an’ I beam among other things
that Jim Shadbraw should have sed a
white mail was as good as a nigger if
ho behaves hisself. Jim Smith he
hearn of what Shadbraw should have
<ed, an’ ho comes up in the crowd, an’
says he: “Jim Shadbraw, I hearn you
made a pertickler remark to-day when
you was talking politix, an’ all I’ve
got to say is that enny man that would
make that sort of remark—l don’t caro
who lie is.”
PL’KTV SEKVIOEROI’S.
Shadbraw then sed somethin’ pnrty
sei vigorous, and as 1 didn’t care about
bein’ mixed up in a fight, I started out
Ito go over to the next grocery. Just
jas I got onten the door, I hearn .Em
* Smith holler out “llip shirt, whose
afraid of fire 1” When I hearn that, I
knowd the very ole Nick was to [day,
and no pitch hot, so I lay low anil
kept shady. I then went into Lins
kin’s grocery, an’ sez I, Link, what’s
the price of coon skins, ole hoss? While
he was jawin’ about coon skins and
aich, we hearn an awful rumpus over
whar I had left Jim Smith and them,
and sez I, Link, there’s the very old
boy over yonder as sure as you are a
foot high.
Sez he, I believe so too; and sez he,
wherever thatareverlasting .Jim Smith
is, you had better look out. Link, sez
I, yon better mind what you say about
Jim Smith, or heniout hystyou. Well,
we went on jawing in this way for
about a quarter of an hour, when in
cum Jim Smith, bloivin’ like a bellus,
and told Link, to hand him out a couple
ot d-rinks. By golly, says he, I had
the durndest row over here jist now
with Jim Shadbraw that ever was.
Sez I, the thunder you say.
Sez he, yes, by jingo. But this is
dry talkin’ says he; won’t youjine me
in a sniffer? No, I thankee, says I.
Well, we went on mixin’ his licker,
an’ says he, it was about the darndest
row you ever see.
Sez I, Jim. do tell me, fori want to
hear so bad I’m almost froze.
Well, sez he, pullin’ out somethin’
from between his shoulders ’bout as
long as a scythe blade—do you see this
.here butcher knife?
Sez I, yes; but good gracious, sez I
Jim, I hope you ain’t killed nobody, is
you?
IT.OM STOKESHAVE.
Sez he—lookin’ me as kantanke
roas as a wild cat—do yon see this
butcher knife? Sez he, if that knife
could speak it could a tale unfold that
would freeze thy young blood, an’
make each particular har to stand on
end like quills stands upon the fork
ful fretupine. Sez I, Jim, don’t grip
my collar so tight, or you’ll choke me.
Sez he, that’s from Spokeshave, sir, or
Spakeshove. Didn’t you never read
Spokeshave? Sez I, no, and I never
want to, if it makes people go on that
way.
When he let go his holt, sez 1,-Jim,
do tell us about the muss you had
over yonder just now.
Sez he, do yon see that ar butcher
knife?
Sez I, I do.
Well, sez he, you know that ar Jim
Shadbraw, don’t you, which the most
I ever knowed him to do was to raise
the tune at Wesley Ohapel an’ hunt
coons. Do you know him, sez he.
Sez I, I believe I does.
Well, sez he, he was talkin’ politix,
to-day, and I hearn that he should
have said that a white man was as
good as a nigger, if he behaved him
self—and that’s what raised the row.
Me and him had some words about it,
and sez I to him—Jim Shadbraw, you
had better not give me none of yonr
sass, for if you do, me an’ you might
run agin one another, or words to that
effect. Well, he kept a jowerin’ an’
er jabberin’ away at such a thunderin’
rate, that at last I got mad, and I
walks up to him—l had this here
butcher knife with me—an’ ketchin’
him by the coat collar, he ketchin’ me
by the same—l jist commenced punch
in’ him in the short ribs.
My gracious, sez I, you must have
killed him, an’ if that’s the case you
jist jump on your hoss an’ cut for tall
timber like a shot out of a swivel, or
I’ll be dang-goned if they don’t put
you in jail as sure as you’re a foot
high.
Sex he, hold on, dang-gone yon, till
I’m done telling you ’bout that fight.
THEY CLINCHED.
Well, sez he, as I was sayin’, sez I,
Shadbraw you sed a white mau was as
good as a nigger if he behaves his
self, does you? Arter we had some
words about it, sez I, Jim Shadbraw,
if you give me any more of yonr slack
you’d had better not, after a few more
words, by golly, we clinched, and I
commenced diggin’ it into him right
under the short ribs like hail Colum
bia.
My goodness, sez I, Jim Smith,
you hadn’t orter gone an’ killed up
Shadbraw that way, for lie is a good
fellow if he does hunt coons.
Killed the thunder, sez Jim, whose
gone and killed ennv body?
As I was sayin’, sez he, we got to
jawin’ ’bout what he had sed concern
ing the nigger, an’ I had this here
butcher knife on. As soon as we
clinched, I commenced diggin’ it into
him under the short ribs with my two
fists, an’ we fort an’ tit, an’ fit an’
fout, so that the fellers thought that
we was never g-vine to quit.
Jim, sez I, when you commenced to
talk ’bout your butcher knife I made
sure you had killed him, and that we
would never hear your mellojious
voice agiu—soundin’ like a hand saw
rippin’ a board—missin the tune at
Wesley Chapel, an’ that the coons
would have some lest.
No, sez Jim Smith, heaiu’t killed by
a jug full—bnt as I was saying, we
fout an’ fit an’ fit an’ fout, from one
end of Bob Wilson’s storo to the other.
Well, since he was a shovin’ me purty
close, an’ I kept a backin’—just to get
a good chance so as I could hit him a
“oifl” and lloor him—when, I blowed,
if I didn’t back plum again a barrel
of whiskey that was layin’ on the
floor, when down I cum, kerwhop,
right plum flat on my back. Ah hahit
sez Jim llradbvaw, I aliers thought !
took a barrell of whiskey to throw
you! That made all the fellers laflf
like smoke, an’, by golly, they parted
us.
THE BAD BOY’S HOLIDAY.
Tricks lie Played on His Respect
ed Progenitor While in Chi
cago.
“We went down on the cars, and
pa had a headache, because he had
been out all night electioneering for
the Prohibition ticket, and he was
cross, and he was dry, and scolded
me, and once he pulled my ear because
I asked him if he knew the girl he
was smiling at in a- seat across the
aisle. I didn’t enjoy myself much,
and some men were talking about kid
napping children, and it gave me an
ijee, and just beiore we got Chicago I
went after a drink of water at t’other
end of the car, and I saw a man look
as though he won’t stand any fooling,
and I whispered to him and told him
that that bald-headed man I wa3 sit
ting with was taking me away from
my home in Milwaukee, and I mis
trusted that he was going to make a
thief or pickpocket out of me. I said
‘s-h-li-h,’ and told him not to say any
thing or *■ tho man would maul me.
Then I went back to my seat and ask
ed pa to buy me a gold watch; he
looked mad and cuffed me on the ear.
The mau I whispered got to talking to
some other men, and when we got off
the cars at Chicago a policeman came
up to pa and took him by the neck
and said : ‘Mr. Kidnapper, I guess we
will run you in,’ Pa was mad and
tried to jerk away, and the cop chock
ed him, and another came along and
helped, and the passengers crowded
around and wanted to lynch pa, and
pa wanted to know what they meant,
and they asked him where ho stole the
kid, and he said I was his kid, and
asked me if I wasn’t, and I looked
scared as though I was afraid to say
no, and I said, ‘Y-e-s, s-i-r, I guess so.
Then the police said the poor boy was
scart, and they would take us both to
the station, and they made pa walk
spry, and when he held back they
would jerk him along. He was offul
mad, and said ho would make some
body smart for this, and I hoped it
would be me. At the station they
charged pa with kidnapping a boy
from Milwaukee, and he says it was a
lie, and I was his boy; I said of course
I was his boy, and the boss asked who
told the. cops pa was a kidnapper, aud
they said damfino, and then the boss
told pa ho could go, but not to let it
occur again, and pa and me went away.
I looked so sorry for pa that he never
tumbled to it, that I was t.o blame at
“We walked around town all day,
and went to the stores, and at night
pa was awful tired, and lie put me to
bed in the tavern and went out to walk
around and get vested. I was not
tired, and I walked all around the
hotel. I thought pa had gone to a
theatre, and that made me mad, and 1
thought I would play a joke on him.
Our room was 210, and the next room
was 212, and there was an old maid
with a scotch terrier occupied 212. 1
saw her twice, and she called me
names ’cause she thought I wanted to
steal her dog. That made me mad at
her, and so I took my jack-knife and
drew tho tacks out of the tin thing
the number were painted on, and put
the old maid’s number on our door and.
our number on her door, and then 1
went to bed. I tried to keep awake,
so as to help pa if he had any difficul
ty; but I guess I got asleep, but woke
up when the dog barked. If the dog
had not woke me up the women’s
screams would, and if that hadn’t pa
would. You see, pa came home from
the theatre about ’leven, and he had
been drinking. He says everybody
drinks when they go to Chicago, even
the minister. Pa looked at the num
bers on the doors all along the hall un
til he found 210, and walked right in
and pulled off his coat and threw it on
the lounge where the dog was. The
old maid was asleep, but the dog bark
ed, and pa said, ‘That cussed boy has
bought a dog,’ and kicked the dog, and
the old maid woke up and said, ‘What’s
the matter pet?’ Pa laffed and said:
‘Nothing is the matter with me, pet,’
and then you ought to have heard the
yelling. 'Che old maid covered her
head and screamed the ioudei, the dog
snarled and bit pa, and pa had his
coat off, and he got scared and took
his coat aad went out into the hall,
and I opened the door and told pa he
was in the wrong, room, and he said
he guessed he knew it, and he came in
our room and locked the door; then
the bell boy and the porter and clerk
come up to see what ailed tho old
maid, and she said a burglar got into
her room, and they found pa’s hat on
the lounge, and they took it and told
her to be quiet and they would find the
burglar.
“Pa was so scared that he sweat like
everything, and the bed was ofiful hot
and he pretended to g® to sleep, bnt he
was wondering how he could got his
hat back. In the morning I told him
it would be hard work to explain it to
ma. Then he gave me five dollars to
go out and get him a hat, and he said
I might keep the change if I wouldn’t
mention it when I got home, and I got
one for ten shillings, and we took the
8 o’clock in the morning and came
home, and I suppose the Chioago de
tectives are trying to fit pa’s hat on a
burglar. Pa seemed awfully relieved
when we got across the State line into
Wisconsin. But you’d a dide to see
him come out of that old lady’s room
with his coat and vest on his arm, and
his suspenders hanging down, looking
scart. He dasent lick me any more,
or I’ll tell ma whero he left his old
hat.
ON THE TURN OF A CARD.
How a Louisville Gambler Won
•SIJiOO in tlie Jump of a
Grasshopper.
From tiie Louisville Courier-Journal.
The death of few men in Louisville
in the past live years occasioned so
much talk as did tlie death of Adrian
North, and ever since people have
wondering what would become of his
property. His cstato is worth be
tween $123,000 and $190,000, besides
his diamonds and jewels. Itemini
seencs of the singular man are now the
talk of the sporting men of the town.
“The liveliest deal I ever saw at the
Crocktord between Adie North and
Major Ed. Hughes,” said ail old gam
bler to the reporter. “One night the
Major came sauntering into the Crock
ford and noticed North betting heavily
at one of the tables. North had "a
great habit of going up to a table where
men were betting two or three dollars
a clip and saying in au off-hand kind
ot a way: ‘Black, I bet you fifty dollars
on the ace,’ oi ‘Black,put one hundred
on the king.’ This used to kind of
take the wind out of the boys. In halt
an hour or so he would get up from
the table SSOO or SI,OOO winner or
looser as the case might be, and with
out expressing the least feeling, saun
ter out. Well, lie was betting away
at a lively rate, and the Major watched
him with growing feelings of indigna
tion. He was determined that North
should find one inan who would bet
against him. The Major plays hut
seldom, but -when he does play he is a
high roller. North had just laid
down SSO on the ace ‘open’ when the
Major stepped up and laid down SSO on
ace ‘coppered.’ North looked around
at him, wondering who was bold
enough to buck against him. He
quietly reached into his pocket and
laid another! $50,011 his pile. The
Major promptly reached into his pock
et and palled out SSO and chucked on
his. North was a little taken back,
but without saying a word pulled out
a big roll of money from his pocket
and laid it carefully on his pile. The
dealer counted it. There was $1,500
in the roll. The Major run his hand
down into his big wallet and pulled
out another roll of hills, He counted
out $1,500 and, with a look at North,
said: ‘l’ll bet that on top of my pile
coppered.’ At this point the dealer
interposed. All above SIOO is above
the limit, gentlemen. We can’t take
those last bets.
“‘Make your turn,’ said North,
quietly. ‘The SIOO bet goes to the
hank, and the other $1,500 bet goes to
Major Hughes or myself.’ Tlie Major
nodded his assent, and the crowd stood
around to watch. Card after card
came out of the box, and still there
was no ace. Things became lively.
Not a muscle of North’s colorless face
moved, and only a keen observer
could detect by a faint glitter in his
eye that he was a little excited. The
Major leaned hack in his chair and
never took his eye off the cards. At
last, when nearly . all the cards were
out, a turn was made. King and ace,
with the ace on top, and Adie North
was just $1,600 ahead on the turn of
a card. He played a tew minutes
'longer, and then with a polite ‘Good
evening, gentlemen,’ walked out of the
room. Major Hughes looked after
him reflectively for a few moments,
and then was heard to mutter: ‘He's
a dandy.’ ”
A True Lady.
Asa young lady walked hurriedly
down street one bleak day, her attention
wa3 attracted to a deformed hoy coming
towards her, carrying several bundles
He was thinly clad, twisted his limbs
most strangely as he walked, and look
ed before him with a vacant stare.
Just before the cripple reached the,
brisk pedestrian, he stumbled, thn
dropping one bundle, which broke an
emptied a string of sausages on the
sidewalk. Two richly dressed ladies (?)
near by held their silken skirts and
whispered quito audibly, “How hor
rid !” while several passed by, amused
by the boy’s look of blank dismay,
gave vent to their feeling in a half-sup
pressed laugh, and then went on with
out taking further interest. All this
increased the boy’s embarrassment.
He stooped to pick up the sausages,
only to let fall another parcell; when
in despair, he stood and looked at his
lost spoils. In an instant the bright
faced stranger stepped to the boy’s
side, and said in a tone of thorough
kin lness: “Let me hold these other
bundles while you pick up what you
have lost.” In dumb astonishment
the cripple handed all he had to the
young Samaritan, and devoted him
self to securing the cherished sausa
ges. When these were again strongly
tied in the coarse, torn paper, her
skillful bauds replaced the parcels on
his scrawny arms, as she bestowed on
him a smile of enconragoment, and
said: “I hope you haven’t far to go !”
The poor fellow seemed scarcely to
hear the girl’s pleasant words; but
looked at her with the same vacant
stare, and asked: “Be you a lady ?”
“I hope so; I try to be,” was the
surprised response. “I was kind of
hoping you wasn’t.” “ Why ?” ask
ed the listener, with curiosity quite
aroused. “Cause I’ve seen such as
call themselves ladies, bnt they never
spoke kind and pleasant-like, ’cepting
to grand ’un. I guess there’s two
kinds; them as thinks they be ladies
and isn’t, and them as what tries to be
• and is 1”
| J OUR DOLLARS PER ANNUM.
NO. 47.
How Would You Like It?
lining man! How would yoif l'ke
it if you had to stay in the house nine
lays in the week, aud hear nothing but
dissertations on shirt buttons and his
torical reminiscences about busted sus
pender buttons?
How would you like it if every time
your wife saved a few dollars she would
come home at one o’clock in the morn
ing with her back hair afloat, and pull
ed every door-bell in the neighborhood
out by the roots?
iio>v wuuiu yuii like it if you met
er on the stieet with her hat cocked
n the. hack of her head, while she was
doing her utmost to make sausage meat
out ot every ash barrel on the sidewalk?
How would you like it if she stood
on the street corners, or in front of
theatres on matinee day, and winked
at the fellows as they came out?
How would you like it if she chuck
ed the handsome waiters under the
chin and called them “dear?”
How would you like it if sho went
•lit to the club every night and came
nume with her breath smelling like a
decayed skunk?
How would yon like it if you had to
have all the children of the household,
to attend to all their wants, and then
receive only looks blacker than a ton
of coal for vour pains?
How would you like it if you had to
live all your life with such an amalga-,
illicit oiuie as yourself?
Young man, do you ever stop to
hiuk that your wile has a tender, lov
ng heart right under the left wing of
tier corset that must have been terribly
tender and loving aud brave to have
said “Yes"’ when the minister asked
the fatal conundrum?
Drop it, young mau, or one of these
lays that tender, loving, brave heart
will break, and then you’ll have to
take the children and go live with yonr
mother-in-law.
Then God help you!
We’re safe. We have neither moth
er-in-law nor children.
Sweet Minded Women.
So good is tho influence of a sweet
minded woman on those around her
that it is almost boundless. It is to
her that friends come in seasons of sor
row and sickness for help and comfort,
one soothing touch of her kindly hand
wmks wonders in the feverish child, a
lew words let fall iroru her lips into the
ear of a sorrowing sister do much to
raise the load of grief that is bowing
its victim down to the dust in anguish.
The husband comes home worn out
with the pressure of business, and irri
table with the world in genera!, hut
when lie enters the cosy sitting room,
and sees the blaze of the bright fire,
and meets his wife’s smiling face, he
succumbs in a moment to the soothing
influences which act as a balm oi
Gilead to his wounded spirits that are
wearied with combatting with the stern
realities of life. The rough schoolboy
flies in a rage from the taunts of his
companions to find solace in his moth
er’s smile; the little one, full of grie*
with his own large trouble, finds a
heaven of rest on its mother’s hreasr,
and so one might go with instances of
the influence that a sweet-minded wn
man has in the social life with whicl
-die is connected, Beauty is an insig
nificant power when compared witl
hers.
Boys and Girls.
“If I had a dozen children I wouh ;
want them all boys,” said Mrs Thrit
ty. “Boys can take care of themselves
they are energetic, enjoyable, and i'
loes not take half so much sewing t.
keepatamily of boys along.” “Now,ii
I should have my choice,” said Mrs
Workkard. “I should rather have my
children all girls. Girls are so gentle
so helpful, have so much more refine
ment than boys; and then it is such a
pleasure to sew for them, they look si
prettily in the garments made for them.”
“Very well, ladies,” said Mrs. Sensible
“you are right and wrong. I believe
in having a mixed family—part boys,
part girls. Thq hoys influence the
'iris to self-reliance, the girls refine the
boys by their gentleness. A hoy who
is brought up with sisters makes the
most manly man, and the girl who is
brought up with the brothers makes the
most womanly woman.”
The Bad and Worthless
are never imitated or counterfeited.
This is especially true of a family medicines,
and it is positive proof that the remedy imi
tated is of tiie highest value. As soon as
it had been tested and proved by the whole
world that Hop Bitters was the purest, best
and most valuable family medicine on earth
many imitations sprung up and began to
steal the notices in which the press and
people of the country had expressed the
merits of H. 8., aud in every way trying to
induce suffering invalids to use their stuff
instead, expecting to make money on tile
credit and good name of H. B. Many others
started nostrums put up in similar style tj
11. 8., with variously devised names in
which the word “Hop” or “Hops” were
used in a way to induce people to believe
they were the same as Hop Bitters. All
such pretended remedies or cures, no mat
ter what their style or name is, and especi
ally those with the word “Hop” or “Hops”
in their name or in any way connected
with them or their name, are imitations o>’
counterfeits, Beware of them. Touch
none of them. Use nothing but genuine
Hop Bitters, with a bunch or cluster of
green Hops on the white ialM. Trust noth
ing else. Druggists and dealers are warned |
against dealing inimitations or counterfeits.
feblT-lm
Mother, remember that no medi
cine cures, it simply assists nature in
relieving itself of an unnatural con
dition of the system. Worms disar
range—Shriner’s Indian Vermifuge
kills and drives them from the sys
tem, thus removing the cause of dis
ease.