The Southern Enterprise, 1854-07-14

- --? - ?J ?? he knew it.'' " He would say that you ought not to have come inio a hotel." 441 wish we hadu't come, Ilenry." 44 So do L" 44 How can we ever get rid of these people I" "Out them. Mrs. Smith, in my opinion is no better than she should be," said Mr. Fulton, sagely. "I know it! If you could have seen her flirt with Jones while her husbfuid was in New York." 44 She was intoxicated in the drawing-' room lost week." " And there is Mrs. Bolton, who goes to our church, she actually refused to speak to me the other day." " Well, my dear, here is another argument" said Mr. Fulton, drawing his board bill for one month from his pocket. 44 And (.'barley came into the room with an awful word on his tongue; he said he had been down in the bar-room, and heard somebody U9e it there." Mr. Fulton Shook his head. He felt that argument more keenly than any other.? Fho morals of his children were near his heart, and when he thought of his little boy listening to the conversation of a bar-room bis heart ached, and he trembled for the future. " And Ella is a great favorite with the row tenders," added Mrs. Fulton. " Do you let the children run about the! house when and where they please 1" asked the husband, a little sternly. " I cannot keep them in this little room all the time." "True; but look at this bill," said Mr. Fulton, handing her the document, " One hundred and eighty-four dollars!" exclaimed the lady. "It's a downright swindle!" " But there are all the items." "Lunch, fifty cents," said Mrs Fulton reading. " And 1 declare, here is the same

owner, latighingj/'It's only the usual height ?say thirty ineltoA" "My eye is rareljMeceivcd," snjd Denham, confidently; " and t am certain that it is more than that?nay, that it isone-anil-thirty inches high." "Well, I think this time your eye does deceive you," retorted their hast; "and " "And I am so confident of the contrary," continued Denbam, "that I should not mind making a wager it is full the measurement I state." Their host looked at Byrne, who winked j drolly in return, unobserved by the clever : gamester, and then he quietly replied : * " A wager ! My dear fellow you would he 1 sure to lose, take my word for it." "Lose, eh!" and Denham smiled. "Well, if you like, I'll bet you a cool thousand?aye, two?that it i3 you who are in the wrong." "Two thousand," and their host shook his head, and looked very gravely at Denham, and again at the table. " 1 es, two thousand," said Denbam, getting warm with eagerness, and taking out his pocket-book, from which ho counted out notes to that amount, lie had fieeccd several young fellow lately?l>ecn "lucky," he called it, without remorse?and was tolerably flush of money. "Why," hestitated the challenged, "I think it would be a foolish wager; but, by gad ! I don't like to be put at defiance, and j so I bet; " and nt the instant be also drew (forth the like sum, which, with Denbnin's 1 two thousand, was deposed in the hands of a I gentlemen present. j "You are sure to lose," cried Denham, j triumphantly, and scarcely able to couceal liis ilciliirlit -

.. uvm Mivia uvnil M LMWI1, UlUrU WltS n I good many fust rate gals down there, but I didn't take a iikin to any of'ein till Squire Cumtnins cum down there to live. The Squire had a mighty pretty darter. I said aoine of the gals were fust rate, but Nancy Cummins was fust rate and a leetle more. There was many dressed liner and looked grander, but there was something jam about Nance, that they couldn't hold a candle to. Jf a feller seed her once he couldn't look at another gall for a week. I tuk a likin to her rile off, and wo got aa thick as thieves. We used to go the same meetin, and sot in the same pew. It took mo to hud sarins and hymns for her; and we'd swell 'em out in a manner shockin to hardened sinners ; and j then we'd mosey hum together, while the gals and fellers kept a lookin on us as though they'd like to mix in. I'd always stay to supper; and the way she could make injun cakes, and the way I could slick 'ein with merlasses and put 'em away, was nothin to nobody. She was dreadful civil tew ; and ahvay, gettin soiuothin nice for me. I was up to the hub in love, and was goin for it like a locomotive. We.l, tilings went on in this way for a ?]>ell, till she had me tigli enough. Then she begun to show off, kinder, independent like. When I'd goto meetin, there tvasuo room in the pew ; then she'd

Tit* Clerk's \Vike.?A merchant's clerk, of the Rue Hauterviile, recently married.? His master had a niece, of Spanish birth, an orphan?she is not pretty, though very sensible, and well informed. At the balls, last winter, little or no attention was paid to her; indeed she seemed to attend them rather as a whim than from-inclination or amusement, as she seldom ever danced. But if she did not danoe, she noticed much and ! listed W'more. The clerk soon observed that the lady was only invited to dance wheu no other partner could be obtained. She herself had already noticed the same fact.? Being a gallant man, he acted accordingly. The incidents that led to the denouement may be easily divined. In six weeks after his Srst dance with the fair Spaniard, he obtained her permission to ask her undo for her hand in marriage. He, astonished 1 gave his clerk's proposal a cool reception, | and then had a long interview with his niece. ' Finally, however, all wass arranged, and the lovers were married on Tuesday. The Thursday after, at breakfast, Adeline said to her husband, who exhibited considerable chngi in at being compelled to return to the duties of his office thus early in the honey moon? 44 Very well?don't go there?go there no more!" ?r 44 My love, it is very easy to say so, but?" 44 Easy to sav and easv to do?bntli T

qui I tin ?" Said she, "I don't know for sartin ; are you g. in r Sed I, "reckoned I would," Sod she, "I spose you'd take Patience Dodge." Sed I, "mout, and agin mout not" Sed she, "I heard you're goin to get married." Sed I " shouldn't wonder a bit?Patience is a nice gal." I looked at her; I seed the tears comm. Sez I, "may be she'll ax you to be bridesmaid." She riz up, she did, her face as red as a boiled beet "Seth Stokes!" sea she?and she couldn't say any more, she was so full. " Won't you be bridesmaid ?" sez I. "No," sez she, and she burst rite out. "Well, then," sez I, "ifyou won't be bridesmaid, will you be the bride ?" She looked un at me?I swan to man I never seed anything so awful pooty ! I took rite hold of her hand. " Yes or no," sez I, "rite off." "Yes," sez she. "That's your sort," sez I, and I gave her a buss and a hug. I soon fixed matters with the Squire. We soon hitched traces to trot in double harness for life, and I never had cause to repent my bargain.?[Philadelphia Sunday Dispatch. id g ^ no to log One, the biter bit. Mr. Travers Denham, a resident of Calcutta, was a civilian of dashing exterior and

children, quietly Bleeping in the next room to have witnessed the scene for the world. At midnight when to their intense relief the party broke up, and she retired to muse upon the happy home she had wantonly sacrificed for the doubtful elegance of a hotel. They were compelled to return these visits, and to become a party to a series of iust such scenes as they had witnessed in their own rooms. They were thoroughly disgusted, and sighed for the comfortable home they had abandoned. But in a few weeks, thoy ascertained tbat there were two cliques in the houri?the one with which they had already identified themselves, and another, who utterly refused to countenance the dissipations of the first, or fellowship with its members. They were respectable, moral and dignified people; and to Mr. and Mrs. Fulton's surprise tbey found themselves cut by them. " Only think of it 1" exclaimed Mrs. Fulton, when she realized the situation in which she had placed herself; " to bo spurned by decent people, because we associate wiih such its the Smiths and Jones." "You do not understand the trick* of the fashion, iny dear," said Mr. Fulton odolly. "To l>e cast out for dissipation and riotOUS conduct what would !<"

' j H*on courtin ever since last year, end she, was just as good as nyne, till you cum to gon artcr lior, and now I can't touch her with i foi ty foot pole. ' " Why," scz I, "what on earth are you lalkin about! 1 ain't got nothin to do with j jrour gal; but 'pose I had, there's nothin for | jrou to get wolfy about. If the gal has taken a likin to me, 'taint my fault; if I have taken a liken to her, 'taint her fault; and if we've taken a liken to each other 'taint your fault; but I ain't so almighty taken with her aud you may get her for all me; so you hadn't ought to getsavAge about nothin." " Well, sez he, rather, cooled down, "I'm the unluckiest thing in creation. I went t'other day to a place where there was an old woman died of some disease, and they were sellin out her things. Well, there was a tliunderin big chist of drawers, full of all sorts of truck; so I bought it and thought 1 had made a speck; but when I cum to look at 'cm, there warn't notliin in it worth a cent, except an old silver thimble, and that was all rusted up, so I sold it for less than 1 gave for it. Well, when the chap that, boucrht it i

cum and she'd streak it ofi" willi another chap, and leave ine suckin my fingers at the door, instead of stickin to nic as she used to do, she got to cuttin round with all the other fellers, just as if she cared nothin about me no more?none whatever. I got considerably riled?and I thought 1 initeas well cum to tire end of it at once ; so down 1 went to have it out with her. There was a hull grist of fellers there. They seemed mighty quiet till I went in ; then she got to talkin all manner of nonsense?said nothin to ine, and darned little of that. I tried to keen my dander down, but it worn't any use?f kept morin about as if I had a pin in my trowsers; I sweat as if I had been thrashin. My collar hung down as if it had been hung over my stock lo.dry. I couldn't stand it; so I cleared out as quickly as I could, for I seed 'twas no use to say nothin to her. I went strait to bed and thought the matter over a spell. Thiuks If that gall is jest tryin of me; 'taint uo use of our plavin possum ; I'll take the kink out of her; if I don't fetch her out of that high grass, use ine for sausage meat. I heard tell of a boy wunce that got to skewl late on Sunday mornin ; master sez? ]