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V- - t S - SIXGIJ1 COPY, We speak plain factsGive ear, 07 world! II VE CENTS. VUL?L RALEIGH, N. C. JUNE 19, 1841. NO. 21. FP1 TTTT Wj .St A t TERMS OF THE RASP. The RASP is published every Satur day, at OiTe Dollar and Fifty Cents per annum, payable J in advance, ; Adirertisements will be insert ed in the Hasp, at the reduced price of fifty cents per square for the first insertion, and twenty jive for gach continuance. From the La Fayette Chronicle. BLACKBERRY PICKING LOYE AND HORNETS. Mister Ed iter: -Did you ever, in the course o' your naternal life,go a blackberryin? If yon haint, golly grashu9, why you dont know nothin no mono about real labor savin, high pressure, galvanic-lectrifyiu sport, than the but eend o' nothin arter its been whittled. Lor' ha massy upon officeholders! why nothin in all crea tion comes up tu blackberryin, but gettin drumped out'n a slay intu a sno bank, and even that aint as good wjien it aint a moonshiny night. Men ny and menny is the time when a lot of the Jordan Spankers thats what our village boys was nicknamed would raise a party o' girls, arter thf grain harvestin was over, and afore the corn and taters was ripe, and start early in the morning for Hop-Toad Hill, where.the blackberries was een amost as tljick as muskeeters in these diggins,and such all fired prime times as we had was a caution tu furriners. Dust off when all hands got collected, and a lot o' sumthin to eat, pork and beans, new cider, gooseberry pise, green corn, 'lasses gingerbread, and a smart sprinklinof other good things was pcrvided,we'd lokemote; the gals all a walkinby theirselves: the gals, with tongues a runuin abonUscandle, new ribins, kaliko gowns, and sich consarns, jist as fast as a saw mill in a freshet; and the fellows a-gabbin bout horses, cattle, gineral riiusters, and corn shucking -a tellin how twas all like Shaw's kerllessness that made all his grain mouldy that Jim Bin gy was the orfulest liar that ever-was, and that Hen Sprague told uncle Seth that Zebe Armstrongs wife had heerd how 4hat Harrison Stebbins hadnt the tuns to go on with his new frame house,an that a coming so strait from one who orterknow all about it, all hands sot it rite down for a fact, an served him jist rite an then tu think of his havin the sass tu bild a house without tellin the hull village how menny rooms there was to be on the fust floor, and he a member of the church tu- it sarved him jest rite by cracky. So we'd keep a torkin, till we cum to the hill, then all hands dive rite into the brambles and bushes, an sich a-scramblin and scratchin for blackberries wasnt tu be sneezed at. It happened that at one of . these blackberryin frolics that, a sarting long haireJ feller,with a leetle bunch rite over his mouth lookin at a dis tance jest as though he'd been among the pots and kettles and got a gob of crock on his upper lip was a visitin down pur way and appeared to have taken an amazin fancy to Sally Ann, the Sally Ann that I'd bpen payin my tentions tu; he kept a chattin tu her the hull live long time, an I snum if I could bleve my own natternal senses, when he begun to pick hrerries an put em into her basket, an she not say in a word agin it. Wal I guess as how I was a leetle riled, to sea myself cut an set adrift in thai; fas i (in and I had a mind tu go and shine round some other gal jest for spite,but somehow'r ather I wanted tu keep an eyeon,that dandy. So tu Sally, says I, there's a smart sprinklin of berries over here, I guess a leetle thicker than they grow around your way. Oh, they're thick aspuddin here, says she. ; I kalkilate that you arc pooty consuipedly thick, says he. You-aw remarks aw demd suparvfluous,' says (he long haired creature. Suz alive! but wasn't my dander up, to hear myself called , a 'demd suporflus, down I slapt the basket and upsot all the berries, and marches up tu him jest as brassy as ahull malishdus trainin, and says I to him, qny you call me a porpos or a supprflus again an see how Pit go to work to spile your hansum counte nance for ye. With that Sally she bust out a cry in, and I vow if I could help a boo-hooin a leetle myself,! F?!t so conflusticated. You aw laboririg under aw erraw, says he, 'but onaw demonds an explawnation am demdJ .Wal, says I, your langwidge wants ixplainin, that's a fact. So he turned round to set down, and hauled out his handkercher andas I hope to besaved. went to dustin off the top of a hornets nast, and afore one could say git out, sot down on it to ixplain. Grashus! did'nt the hornets come at him for squshin their nest, and did'nt he run an holler, an scoot through the briars bushes, and tear his trowsciloons and the gals snikkled out,'an the. fel lers haw-hawed till they was eena mristiied, to see that dandy marvil down in the main road, without any hat, his trousers all split up, and his hair a fly in in the wind like a bosses tail, and the hornets a-goiri it tu kill. Sally was shockin shamed of actin so, but we soon made up, and sich prime sport as all hands had for the rest of the day wasn't tu beat. Long Locks mended up his trowserloons they v re the ony ones he had and sneak ed riut'n our village that day an haint showed his nose there since the poor ci setur said he found no less than tew dizzen ded hornets in his boots arter he took em off! We cum from black berryin in pairs, not as we went h2d a loU,d cargo of blackberries, and I dont believe that one on us will ever ferret the baw-hawin we had about iflisfaler who sot down on the horn- ets aest. Your truly, JEIIOSAPHAT JINKINS. From the Picayune. The lollowing may be a box. The jvags of the press are so full of mis chief of late that we scarcely know What to depend upon. AVe find the tallowing story in a New York paper, irejated with every semblance of truth. t Awful calamity! shocking occur ence! sudden and misterious disap- f earance! It fell to our lot to wit ness, and it now becomes our painful Jask to record one of the most heart rending scenes which has ever occur red, within our knowledge, the fact of which has nearly paralized our long ftrjed and heretofore inexhaustible fac ulties, that it is with feelings of an in describable nature we have collected oiir few remaining senses to relate tHs unprecedented circumstance. A fdv evening's since as we were felici tking in the company of5some of our favorite and particular fascinating fe niile friends, and while deeply enga ged in a sociable tete-a-tete, we were suddenly aroused by a most unac-j countable b-u z-z crank w-h-i-z slam bang crash whew! followed by a dense cloud of cotton, bits of ribun, tape, cord, silk, calico, corset strings, saw dust, ear-drops, finger rings, bil let doux, love letters, false curls, and fragments of a hundred other indis pensibles comprising the dress and. decorations of the fair sex of the pre sent age. As soon as the atmosphere become sufficiently clear to witness the ravages of the storm, horrible to re late, it was discovered one of the young ladies was among thelnissing; not a vestige left save the aforesaid fragments, to solve, her mysterious fate. The cause, however, of thissad catastrophe was ascertained tofhavo arisen from the effects of tight lacing; having just before the accident,screw ed up the tightning lever to so high a pressure that the rigging and running gears could no longer sustaifPtiicir strength, the corset gave way with such violece as to blow the unfortu nate victim into oblivion ! Unnecessary Advice. A country gentleman, who fills every situatiuu " necessary to constitute him "head of the village," and who has taken some pains.to instruct the rustic inhabitants in the proper signs of respect due to him, being lately on a horse somewhat given to shyness, and observing a lad walking before him, called out, 'Boy, don't take off your hat.' The -4h, turning his head, very innocently an swered, I worn't a goin' to, sir.' : A man who tried to hang himself near Boston the other day, was cut down by a couple of boys. The first act of returning consciousness' was to beat them awfully. They own they will see him hanged' before they in terfere again. v A young lady up town, having by accident spilt a few drop3 of Ur Jayne's hair tonic on her. cheeks be fore going to jbed, awoke in the morn- " ing witli whiskers several inrVcs long. . - A writer says, 'All mankind live in masquerade,and whoever presumes to come among them bar faced, must expect to be abused by the whole assembly.' 3T 1 i t
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