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FOR THE RASP. RANDOM SKETCHES. NO. SIX. ClThe course of true love never did run smooth," has been said many, many years ago, and I can add my experience and tes timonv to the truth of this remark. But I have told you, I was too much of a Phiio sopher to be troubled at trifles. So I have determined that 10 see a wooerat the shrine et Cupid was a display of a great deal more weakness than he who worships the blind member as Counsellor; but upon the convic tion of such accused, the president, (I beg his Honor's pardon!) the Judge, I should have said, subjects such delinquent to a fine ofyWine, Cigajrs, or any other refresh ment which the Vaults of the Club may be deficient in. But last eight not being our 'Mouse-owl - ery Court' night, we had some most admi rable songs, amusing medleys,patriotic glees and excellent stories. It must have been at a 'mouse-owlery' where Falstaff learned to laugh and grow fat. One circumstance occurred last night which I must tell you of: It is one of our rules that 'no married man shall be admitted as a member;' at the preceedicg meeting, a widower had, after a long debate, been admitted to member ship, and to-night he appeared, and took his seat. In due course he was called on for his quota of the evening's amusement. He arose and declared himself, like a certain long-eared relative ol his,hereft of all knowl lesson I have taught you to night. I hope there's no Ladies listening, for I tlont want my hair pulled when I get out of here.'" About this time, a messenger arrived, in forming us of the very recent demise of our worthy brother, Sir Alexander Tidrimus, and after passing the following resolution, the meeting adjourned: The Harp. The harp was the favorite musical instrument not only of the Irish, but of the Britons and northern nations, during the middle ages, as is evident from their history. By the laws of Wales, fche possession dT a harp was one of the three things necessary to constitute a gentleman and to prevent slaves pretending to be gen- I j . i .Mil t i froddess bv buving lotterv ticket. No, I euSe 01 !fle sono ana 51111 less 01 ine dance TO;n icorj 11 nrptpncmnc o ihp fallt, but as he thought he could excuse himself named fair ones, and devote myself to the bv tellioS a Sod story, if it was at his own perfection of mv philosophic studies for of exPense he hoPed il wo"ld Pass, He thus the most distinguished of this class, alU at went on: "II is wel1 known to you, gen least, the greatest majority of them were Bachelors. OI there is something so free about the life of a bachelor. One can sit down and smoke his pipe and enioy his smoking bowl of punch, and there is no scolding wife and brawling brats to 'molest tlemen, unyoked, untrammelled, free-and- easy gentlemen Bachelors, that I have once been enveloped or bound in what is gene rally termed 'hymen's silken cords,' ("but 1 warn you gentlemen, if any of you have an idea oi trying the matrimonial life, that you Resolved, That deeply feeling the loss 1 tlemen, they were not allowed to be taught . a . 1 t ' t 1 t I wnich this OluD has sustained Dy the deatn ,0 olav unon the ham. A gentleman's 1 1 . 1 a i 1 m : ,1 : . u . I ' o 01 our uruuier liciauucr x lunmus, uiai we . tn u r;A r- k wear the usual badge of mourning, and at- , y - ,, " , ' v , . tend his funeral on to-morrow at 4 o'clock, the want of 11 would have degrade him P. M. trom his rank. Eich member left the Hall mentally ex claiming, 'Rehuiescat in pace.' Q. GENUINE ELOQUENCE. Letch, in his 'Travels in Ireland,'says; In my morning rambles, a man sitting on the ground leaning his back against the wall, attracted mv attention by a look of saualor in his aDDearance. which I rarelv A -11 T T I .1.. I I ' umceujuuu. weeuy auu uuiy berore observed, even in Ireland. His remarks in his Paradise Jost. And this POETRY AND SENTIMENT. 'When lovely woman stoops to folly,' She gets sucked in, I guess, by golly or make him afraid.' At once I determined do not find lhem shackles of iron, I chanc on eelibacv-and the merrv bu?le sounded. ed 10 be bound 10 one who from Phrenolo and T remembered that this wa& the nixrhl Uical examination, might have been found for the meeting of the 'mouse-owlerv club.' ' have developed the bumps of go-a-hcad Reader! were vou ever a member of a ativeness.and wear-the-breeches-a-tiveness 'Mnnep.nTOlpto v Ti not vn,, Uv. noVur ,.. After a long but vain trial in endeavoring to alized one of the richest treats vou could conquer her indomitable temper, I resolved ever possibly have enjoyed. You mav talk todays keep sileuce, thinking that if, as about your 'whisker clubs,' your "Ladies' the wise man Solomon says, 'a soft answer State Conventions." and what not. thev turnelh awa7 wrath,' why surely 'a still are all northing. fas the Yankee would tOQSue speaketh no guile,' and I will keep say) in comparison with a 'rnouse-owlery.' MDM when she ets in her tandems, and let Theie is aiovialitv.and free-and-easv feel- "" wear it out with a war of words with ins predominant. Deculiar onlv to a 'mouse- herself- So accordingly, with this deter- owlery.' And as last night was our regu- mination, I went home one evening, and lar meeting with your permission, Mr. Ed- found.her kicking up a 'dust as high as a itor, I will give you an account of how a- cats bacK- As soon as 1 entered, the erup greeably we passed our time. But, in the tion ot m0UDt Vessuvius was turned loose first place, I must give vou the derivation uPon me Her visage was instantly in light- bf our name. Our Club meets at 12 o'clock. nin and her voice in Sunder, but I re P. M. when the 'mouse' prowls about his mained deaf to her loudesl sounds, and stealthy work, and the lonely bootinfrs of Dlma 10 ner mosl rrilying Hashes. She the 'owl' are heard. Secure from alarms stamPed gesticulated, and scolded, still I biings another beautiful sentiment of an old writer into the poetic corner of our cra nium: "Winds of the winter night,' "Oh, I'm de child to fight,' To snarl, to scratch, to bite, And kick up all the heels I've got, Whether I please whether I not.' Here's another a loafer's triumphant declaration of independence: Ob, when I think of what I eese, And what I us'd to was, I swow I'll do just what I please, And break the people's laws. Time is short, and so is pie-crust, or we would dish up a dozen more of these ex otics, for 'Memory's glass is at our eye, And shadowspass of things gone by' Ot apple tarts, ot pumpkin pie, And Indian bread made out of rye. But we refrain at this time, and promise more at another and more convenient sea son. LMic. clothes were ragged to indecency a' very commoncircumstance, however, wiih the males and his face was pale and sickly. He did not address me, and I passed by; t having gone a few paces, my heart smote me, and 1 turned back. 'If you are in want,' said I, with some degree of peevishness, 'why do you not beg?' 'Sure it's begging I am,' was the reply. 'You did riot utter a word.' 'No! it's joking you are with me, sir? Look there,' said he holding up the tatter ed remnant of what had once been a coat; 'do you see how the skin is speaking through my trowsers, and the bones crying, out through my skin? Look at my sunken cheeks, and the famine that's staring in my eyes! Man alive! is'nt it begging I am with a hundred tongues?' an4 disturbances, we enter our sacred lodge and transact the business ot so august au 1 1 rf-X V assemblage. kjut acuve omcers consist of, first, Mons. Don Herr Le Grande Irape remaind indifferent. While her breath held good, she did not seem to mind my indiff erence, but when that began to fail, and the violence of her acts moved not a muscle in rial Boss, who presides at all meetings; my face' her rage feh 00 bouilds & she Mons. Le Scribendum, who officiates as seized me Dy my hair and exclaimed 'speak secretary, and Sir Linguis Barrister, acts to me or r11 burst and she sank down as Attorney General. The presiding offi- in a complete state of exhaustion, and before cer calls on such members as he thinks pro- she bad "covered, I seized ray hat and stick, per, for a song or gefod story, and in case of and left ner to herself to recover her temper, failure it is the duty ot the prosecuting offi- Soon.after, poor unfortunate woman,lpeace cer to note down such failure. On the last t0 ber name she was taken ill and I was meeting of each month, the President clothes reft aloe in this wide world to roam, and himself with the Judiciary robe, and the At- 1 cou,u DUl ec,aira torney General enters with his 'green ha' h! cJae fale' lhou is, unkind fll nf rn. MiMB. TnA ,U " T takJ heF fre and leaVe bmd. j , f - , . . ' . Now, gentlemen, if any of you are so fun) CU5CU UdVC luc "S"1 lu appear ai me fortunate as to ever take one of these An- bar in defence of themselves, or employ any gels" for better, for worse, remember the ' Set him again.' A pooi woman whose husband. was actually drowned, was be moaning the melancholy fact surrounded Aoolphiana. An ancient writer says, by a large family, when one of the daush- Make a candle and go alone to a looking hers rushed in with the intelligence that glass; eat an apple betore it and comb your 'the bo dy5 had been foend ' but added with hair all the time; the tace ot your conjugal a becoming expression of horror, 'is chock comnanion to be will be seen in the lass. full ot eels. 1 he disconsolate widow in if neenin over vour shoulder. 7V it voluntary exclaimed 'ine L.oru is good at- 1 j o 1 'J girls. The Scotchman's prayer. Keep my purse from the lawyer and my body from the doctor and my soul from the devil. ter all, full of eels did you say? Well, well, as I have all those helpless children. ask the people to be good enough to take them all out and 'Set him again. A man full-drest is a man strapped, strait ened, buckramed, stiffened, stuft, and wad ded with an inch of immobility. A woman fully drest is a woman half-naked. Mr. Editor: Why )pn't they afford better ''accommodation" at the iuoction on the Petersburg and Roanoke Rail Road? S. Cant tell; nor never knew. Rasp. DIED,- On Monday last, at Soring Hill, his late Gen. Jackson. It has been said that the residence, near Raleigh the Rev. Wm. S. old General never drinks any ardent spirits. Johnson, Minister of the Methodist Epis This was substantiated by his negro s ave, f memoer 01 me iortn who said that 'Massa no drink rum, but i Wo.kin(n tm r a ' m Washington, N. C. Samuel Gregory. thsn he drinks his coffee strong enough to son of the late Mr. George Congleton. Also, Sarah Ann daughter of Cason and kill the debil.' Phil. Clron. Jane Farrow. Louisiana comes as near 'going the en tire swine,' as any section of country this side of Cincinnati. They have a Wm. B. Barrow in their Legislature, Hon. Alex IN OTIC E. THE firm of CROWDER & WHITA KER is this day disolved bv mutual con- Barrow in the United States Senate and fenl ,Ge.ore 9rowdeJ ls. duly authorised t nr u- T3 r-u .r I 10 seine me Dusiness ot said nrm. Gen. Washmgton Barrow, Charge d' Af- GEORflRr.Rnwnnp fairs of Spain. It would seem that they THOS. G. WHITAKER, are a peaceable people too; they bar rows. August 30, 1841. 35 lptw.
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