The Butcher-Knife, Volume 2, Number 4, Danville, Hendricks County, 22 August 1857 — Page 5

SUT LOVEGOOD'S SIIJIIT, BY S L, OF TENN. The first person I met was 'Sat (after crossing the iliwassce) 'weaving and moving along' in his usual rambling, uncertain gait; his appearance at once satisfied me that something was wrong, lie had been sick whipped in a free fight, or was just outgrowing one of his biir drunks, But upon this point I was soon enlightened. ; ; W h y . S a t, . w a t s. w rp n g n o w ? ' 'Heap's wrong; durn me skin if I aint. most (h-d. Lite off of that boss; an take a h r v, While I take two(shaking that everlasting flask of his at me) an' plant yerselfon that art; Jog an' I'll tell ye it I can but it's most beyond t'dlin' ,. I recken I'm the darndest out en Tta.w scept, my dad for he acted boss,, an' J habit' dun .that ye t a Hers in st j n e t r a p-that c u d e n t 1; e c 1 1 a ?heep. I'll drown myself -sumday, see ef I don't, just to stop f a family, disposition to make (j d 'ol on themselves.' 'How is it, Sat; have you, been beat playing cards, or drinking, which' is it?' ,Nara one; that can't be did in these parts but set-in' it's you, George, I'll tell v on ; but 1 swar I'm 'shamed sick sorrv and-aad mad, 1 am. . 'Ye know 1 board with Bill C irr, at his cabin oil the mwun tain, an' pays for sieii when I hev monev, an' when I heventany why he takes one-third out tn me a cussin; and she, that's his wife, Bets, takes out tolher two-thirds with the baltlin' slick, and the intrust with her tongue and the iatrast's more'n the ptinci'l- heap more, She's the cussedest 'oman I ever seed er.v 'now for jaw, an''pridc. She can scold a blister onto a bull's face rite on the curl in two minnits. Oh! she is one on 'cm, and sometimes she's two or three. Wei, ye, see, I got somehnm made cotten truck to make a new shirt outen, and coaxed Bets to make it, and about the

time it werdun here cums lawyer Johnson along arid axed for breakfast; I wish it. pizened him, durn his hide, and I wonder it didn't for she cooks awful mixins when she tries. I'm pizen proof myself (.holding up his flask and peeping through it) or I'd been tied long ago.' 'Well, while he were a eatin' she spied out that his shirt was stiff and mighty slick; so she never rested till she worm'd it outen him that a prep'ration of flour dun it; and she got a few particulars about the proceeding outen him by 'oman's arts I don't know how she dun it, perhaps he does. Arter he left she set in an' biled a big pot o' paste nigh onto a peck of it, an' soused in mv shirt an' left it soak a while, then she tuck.it an' ironed it out flat and dry an' 'sot it up on its ai"X' again the cabin in the sun. Thar it stood as stiff as dry boss hide, an' it rattled like

a sheet o' iron, it did. Jt wete pasted together all over. When I cum to dinner, nothin' would do but I must put it on. Well Bets an' me got the thing open arter some hard'woik, she puliing at one of the tails an' me at the' tolher, an' I got" into

shcrt, I say. I felt lite I had crawl' I Into an old bee gura an' hit fall of rd-ints ; but it wer like lawyer Johnson's an' I

stood it like a man, and went to work to

build Bets a ash hopper. I worked pow-

ten 'her. Iff rit-ribunation sartia.

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erful hard and swet like a ho

the shert got wet it quit its hurting. .. 'Arltr I got dun I took about four fingers of red-head, and crawled up into the loft to taken snuze. "" 1 " 'Wtll, when! waked up, I thought I was (led, or had the cholery, for all the jints I could move war my ankle, .wrists, knees couldn't even move mv bead and SKasely wink my eyes the cussed shert was pasted fast unt me all oyer',' from" the pint of the tailtb the pint: of the broad -x collar over my e u s. v . It sot to j me as close as a poor cow this to her hide in

March. . I ..squirmed and strained till I sorter got it ,broke at the, shoulders and elbows, and theu'durt the dumdest foolish trick I ever dun in these'-modntains. I shu tiled ray britches oil' ? and i.? tore doosc i loin my hide about twodnch.es of the tail all around, in rnucii pain and tribulation. Oh! but it did hurt. Then I took up a nlaak oaten the loft ami hung my legs down through the hole, and nailed the

ahige tt the front tad to the floor b i.i j i . -it i i . i

uie, ana u e nina tan J. nailed to the

sot on. I unbuttoned the collar and

ri bands raised my hands way above my head, shut up my eyes, said grace and jumped through to the ground llore.' Here Sat remarked sadly 'George, I'm a darnder fule than" dad ever was, boss, hornets an' dl, I'll drown myself sum of these days see if I don't.' Well, go on, Sut; did the shirt come off?' 'I t-h-i-n -k i-t d-i-d. I hern a noise sorter like tarin' a shingle roof off uv a hous, all over at ont, and felt like my bones wur all that leached the .flore. I

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biggest kind of a preacher's rit-ribufiori. Doyou remember; my driving of dad thro' the hornet's nest and then racing of him inter the creek.

4Yes.' 'Well, this is 'what comes of it. I'll drown myself some of these days, see ef I don't ef I don't die from that awful shcrt. Tat e a horn, and don't you try a Etickj' shert as long as you live.' ' ." . . ; . e r - ; LightningHoops Melted, Sabbath

before last, a violent thunderstorm-passed oyer. New.' Jersey. At 'Jamcsbur."- near ...Am boy. the Sabbath School of the, Presbyterian church, was holding its 'meeting in' the afternoon, when the fluid struck the building. ' It. "entered the' roofj' ihaki4ig a small hole, and descended by tho chandalier to the center of the ( building, where, it.explodedi Quite a number, of adults as well as the children, were prostrated by i- and-their clothes J burnt; r yet no fatal results followed,' although tome hours and even days followed before their restoration tock place. But th'e remarkable feature of it remains to be told, and this is given by a clergyman who received it from one present. It stated that the ladies who wore brass hoops in their dre'S-e-i were uninjured themselves bat the hoops were m-dted. The electric fluid was thus diffused, and perhaps lives saved by this novel species of conductor.

Those Boot?. A gentleman wanting a pair ot boots made, went t) a German friend in that line of business, and was measured. He. called in a few days for his boots-; but the shoemaker said that his wife was very sick, and he must wait a little longer. Again be called, but the poor fellow's wife had just been buried, and in his overwhelming griefhe could not think of making, boohs that week wait a little

stnirivd to my feet and tuck "a look at i lono('r- niaiiy, out two weeks -alter

the poor -shoemaker s bereavement, the gentleman called again, thinking his booty must certainly be done by that time. 'Well, mygcol friend, are my boots done yet?' 'No, they bes not ton my wife die, and I've ton noiiug hut take care of de babies all de time. Bat,' continued he, hrightning up, 'I bes going to be married tomorrow den de iirst ting vat I makes U de pools.'

my shert. The nails had all hilt their holt and thar it were hanging, arms down,' inside oat, and as stiff as ever. It looked like the trap uv Mexico jest arter one ol the first battles a patch uv my hide about the size of a dolhirand a half bill here; a bunch uv my lir about the size uv a

bird's nest there; (hen some more skin: then sum paste; then a little more bar; then id: in, and so on all over that darned, new fangleJ, everlasting, infernal cuss uv a shert. It was a piciute to look at so wat I. The hide, bar and paste were about ekeally divided atween me and-hit. Wonder what Bets! durn her, thort when she cum home and found me missing. Spuct she thinks I crawled in a thicket and died of mv wounds. It must have shared her good, for tell you it looked like the skin of sum wild beast torn off alive or a bag what had carried a load uv fresh beef from a shooting match. 'Now, George, if ever I ketch that lawyer Johnson out I'll shute him, and if ever an 'cman talks about flat'nm, a shert agin durn my everlasting picture cf Idont fiat-

giT The following order, verbatim literatum, was received by an undi in the Bowery last Friday morning, h . a n a fil icted w i d o w er livin g on P e a r 1 s t reet : 'Sir, my Wiaf is tied, and Wonts to b berried to-morrow, At wonner klok. U nose wair to dig the Hole bi the side of mi too Uther Wiafs Let it be deep.'

0:" Boys that arc .philosophers at si years of age, are generally blockheads at twenty-one. By forcing children, you get so much into their beads that they become cracked tn order to hold it,