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V LUME III* COLUMBUS, TEXAS, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 3,
NUMBER 1
K
the Jerk*.
r -
One If tie most curious of physiological
studies ^ertains* to the grotesque and in-
voluntar^bodily motions often connected
with powerful religious excitements. There
is a present illustration of these phenome-
non in the revival «in Ireland, where many
af#i >ut through violent bodily exerbis.es
which they cannot control, and others are
thrown into a state of stupor and trance
for .hoars together. The following is an
account of-the Kentucky jerks, a mono-
mania which prevailed sixty years ago:
The Jeiks first appeared during a sacra-
mental occasion in Tennessee, when several
hundred were seized with this strange and
involuntary agitation. The subject was
instantly taken with spasms or convulsions
through his whole system. At first there
was only a simple jerking of the arms.
When the neck was affected, the head
was thrown backwards and forward with a
rapidity and violence impossible to be
imitated.^2t .is said that when the hair
was long,-the ends of it would snap almost
like a whip lash. They would bound over
benches? pews, trunks of trees, apparently
wholly-unable to restraiu themselves. The
person affected must necessarily go as he
was stimulated, whether with a violent
<lash on the ground, and bouncing from
place to place like a football, or hopping
aronnd with head, limbs and trunk twitch-
ing and jerking in every direction, as if
they "must inevitably fly asunder. The
frame was commonly so much d if figured
as to lose every trace of its natural appear-
ance. Sometimes the head would be
twitched right and left half round with
such velocity that not a feature could be
discovered, but the face appeared as much
behind as before. Head-dresses were of
little account with female jerkers. Even
handkerchiefs bound tight round the head
Would beflirted'off, and the hair put into
.the utmost conl'ifsi<|®
These extraordinary manifestations ap-
peared to be in voluntary, inasmuch as
wicked men would be seized by tberh while
striving to guard against them, atid though
k; and travftars and la
injifcgs
4llí .í > 1* 111(111
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them. An instance-*% men
joung man, the son of a rnfi _
wliOf not wishing to go to a camp-meeting,
feigriéd sickness, and remained in bed ou
Sabbavh morning, but who, beginning to
think « : iv' at was g" fug on at that meet-
" ing, found-..himself violently jeiked out of
bed, and dashed rouud the rpom against
t the Walls. Ar instance is also mentioned
of a somewhat fashionable lady and gen-
tleman going to one of tliese meetings
through curiosity, and on the way making
apdrt of the jerkers, but suddenly the lady,
was taken, when the gentleman Lecoming
alarmed lest he shoi^ld also become a
victim, attempted to run away, but before
be had got two hundred yards, he wa*
seized in the sama ir antier. These jerking
manifestations continued for several years,
and near some of the -meeting--'honres small
saplings were left br£? st high, for the
jerkers to hold on by.
. The rolling exercise is described as
•imply rotting over j>ist like a wheel, with
the head and ftei doubled together, or
otherwise like a log. The running exer-
cise impelled persons to run with amazing
swiftness. The dancing exercise was one
of the later developments. The first in
stance of it was a sacramental season at
Turtle Creek, where a Mr. Thompson felt j
constrained to go to datiwing, and continued ¡
this regular movement round the stand for j
an hour or more, repeating a'd the time in j
a low voice: "This is the Holy Ghost!;
Glory!'' j
A w i iter in the Biblical Repertory say s
.thatduring the-admiuistration of the Lord's un"'c
To JLittlc Clara,
& i
on receiving from her a bouquet.
bt mrs. jase t. b. cross.
In the morning's early hours,
When the" un was scarcely :ip,
I received a bunch of flowers—
Rosy bells and ruby cup.
And I said:- "What little fairy
Ciuld have played me such a trick-
Sending to a grave old woman
* All these flow rets 7-rtell me qiick ! "
Soon I saw from out the flowers.
Peeping with a winning grace—
, Sball.1 tell you what I saw there?—
Little Clara's charming face.
Tncu I knew the lovely fairy
That had played me such a trick ; .
. And, for fear the face should vanish,
Let me thank and kist> her quick !
—T. C. Advocate.
" Let nc Kiss
I ne'er on those lips for a moment have gaz'd,
But a thousand temptations beset me,
And I've thought that the rubies that raised,
IIow delightful 'twould be if you'd—let mo!
Then be not so angry for what I have done,
Nor saj that you've sworn to forget mc ;
They were buds of temptation too pouting to shun,
And I ttiought that you could not but—let me.
rearing and plunging again ; but the result
in a fgw minutes will be the same; down
upon his side be must go.
As Mr. Rarey observes, the generous
beast has not sufficient intelligence to dis-
tinguish between ttyei strap that throws
him down and the-huinan hand that fixes
the strap, so that the impression to his
unsophisticated mind is that the animal is
physically stronger than the animal horse.
The bea^t being of an eminently practical
arrived at, along with experience of man's
kindness and benevoleut intentions towards
him—for a blow, a harsh word, or even an
impatient gesture would spoil the lesson—
than the horse consents to let the man be
his master henceforth.
We saw Mr. Rarey apply this treatment
to a terrific fellow of a stallion, the " Jvfng
of Oud_e," belonging to Mr. Thomas Parr.
This horse, which is seven years old, and
above sixteen hands high, has once or
Eight Children at a Birth.—On the
2<J of August, Mrs. Timothy Bradley, of
Johnson, Trumbull county,. Ohio, gave
birth to eight children—three boys and
five girls. They are living and are healthy,
but quite small. Mr. Bradley's family if
increasing fast. lie was married six years
ago to Eunice Mowery, who weighed two
hundred and seventy-three pounds on the
day of their marriage. She has giveu
bi.i|L to two pair of twins and now eight
turn of mind, no sooner Í3 this conclusion MWore—making twelve children in six years.
the stable his conduct has been*execrable.
He has been known to attack the groom,,
who was as good as a father to hint, and
tear the coat off the man's back. IIo has
kicked his stall to pieces, and torn the
manger into shreds with his teeth, until
the stable furniture was cased in plates of
iron to defy his mischief. When he was
brought in, snorting and furious, held bv
three men in the arena, he stood erect.
It seems strange, but nevertheless is true.
Mrs. Bradley was a twin of three, and her
grandmother the mother of five pair of
twins. Mrs. Bradley has named her boys
after noted and distinguished men—otfe
after the Hon. Joshua R. Giddinga, who
has given her a splendid gold medal ; one
after the Rev. Hon. Elijah Champlin, who
gave her a deed of fifty acres of lafid ; and
the other after James Johnson^Esq., who
gavo her a cow. Mr. Bradley says it is
twice run with glory on the turf, but in profitable to have twins, as the neighbors
.1 . t i « • > . t i ■ ii i._ i .i. i .i.. ,.i..
When your lip with a whisper cainc closc to my ¡ ferociously pawing the air, and capered
O think how bewitching it nv.t ni<\ fchcek, about in that fearful attitude, as u he were
And plain, if the eve of a Vénns could speak,
Your eye seemed to say you would—let me.
Then forgive the transgresión and bid mc remain,
Tor in truth if I go you'll regret mc—
Then, oh, let me try the transgression again.
And I'll do all jou wish, if you'lN-let me !
"os conditions, i'll let yoc."
If a kits bo delightful,so tempting my lips,
That a.thousand soft wishes beset you,
1 vow by ¿he. aectar that Jupiter sips,
Ou certain conditions—I'll let you.
By the stare tftat toil ronnd yon
Perhaps, sir, perhaps, sir— I'll let you,
If not urged by a passion as fleeting as wild,
That makes all the virtues forget you,
But affection unsullied, soft, fervent and mild,
But an>k for a kiss, then—I'll let you.
executing the war dance of the indómita
ble Cherokee, and one almost expected to
6ee him hurl a tomahawk from hi& uplifted
forefoot.
Presently, however, the fatal strap was
adroitly thrown over that fool, and in a
very short time the savage was humbly on
his knees, nor was ii lon¿ before he was
obliged to l^eg pardon, as plainly as a horse
could express himself. So earnest was his
contrition that Mr. Rarey, having first
ascertained by the placid and flexible state
of the hind leg muscles, that the "King of
Onde" did not intend -to .kick, laid down
behind him without the slightest hesitation,
If you swear by my cbarmB that you'ilcvcr be true
And til?* nihfír <lr,mscl «ball get you, - - and"c.-droly placed t hat d raided Jjind foot
,* tlié stars that roll ronnd yon summit of blue, against his own smiling and finelv-featured
Dir. Rarcy's method of Taming
Horses.
A,.public exhibition by Mr. Rarey of
the mode in which he has contrived to ears, and ceitainly looked puzzled, but had
iely:
face. After this satisfactory evidence of a
mutual entete cordiale, he uutied the King
of Oude's forelegs, carefully straightened
them, ami made the King of Oude stand
upon all four, saddled and mounted the
King of Oude, showed the King of Oude
a big drum, on which, after the animal had
been allowed to inspect and smell it, he
beat a triumphant peal upon the King of
Oude' back. The horse pricked up his
subdue the wildest and most savage of
the equine race, with such marvelous and
invariable success, took place at the Al-
hambra, in Leicester square, on Saturday
afternoon. A numerous and fashionable
company of spectators was there assem-
bled. Mr. Rarey, since his former appear-
ance in Loudon, has made a victorious
progress through the continent of Europe,
winning tokens of royal and imperial ap-
probation, as well as the patronage of
every nation's chivalry, from Paris to St.
Petersburg.
The instilment, by which any man of
competent strength and agility may wrestle
down any horse, and quite exhaust tire
spirits of the noble brute in the course of
an hour or two, consists of nothing more
than a pair of buckle-straps, to be dexter-
ously adjusted to the fore legs. The arena
¿Í be tbicKly covered with sawdust or
must
tan, and the usual leather coverings put on
the horse's knees, to prevent him from
injury. A biter's head must be secured
bv fat>teuin<x the reins back to the stir-
Supper at a meeting of the Synod off Mr, Rarey bcgtns by coax.ng the atnrnal, r na.neu ,n uie j>uunuary
Virginia, he saw a young woman dancing i 6Pe kl,1S k'nd.y to htm, and looking plea- j boated only three pile
in this way for half an hour. The pew in l!'f atul pattn gi me. Ihe pnnctpal le
•; • • - • . lita eli/tu!<-]&r tv* i! \ i n < tr until , till* A Of t II VP111 1c t r\ tv
no:, an idea of questioning the propriety of
anything which the man who could lay
him prostrate and sit upon him might
choose to do; and this conviction had been
wrought in the equine mind so thoroughly
but with so much good humor and gentle-
ness on Mr. Rarey's part, that he might
exclaim, more ^appropriately that did the
butcher in Hood's comical story of the
resuscsnt sheep, "There, I have conciliated
him!" *
Two or three repetitions of the treatment
are, however, advisable; since brutes, like
human beings, are apt to forget what they
have learned. The celebrated Cruiser,
who was introduced to the company on
Saturday, continues to do credit to his
instructions.—London News.
been sitting WW vacated J 1,is ^oulder with a guileless air
way
wttieK she had
and, she danced from one eud of it to the
other, ber eyes closed, and her countenance
cafm> After'the end of the ha'f hour she
'Mk
M
M
watching his opportunity, he can suddenly
lif^tho near fore leg, and taking the first
stiap mi'ibservantly out of his pocket,
fell,'«luí «M ñiMO "vidinlí'ñsídÑií ! fflm l.nlf way
-.ÍW Wking ,m,c¡s8 commted in tU in- *?«• *« lh«
,«rt<lo.l Uting the i «lure of a <1 >g ou ! ,rab be""-' ,^"blcl1 ll'e "wise can on y
..¿«Bfeiw, growling. 6ii lipping the. tw.h u.) ! h°¡' Pan'f" '? 0" d"M
-*harking ... ^ In ih'iieive any one wlio ilij Il9ad b,m Lb/ U h"'1',"- 1nc"
• - — thing is to attach theaeoond strap to the
other fore foot, and by a judicious pull, to
The Ñewly-Discovered Silver Mixes
is Arizona.—A letter from Tueson, dated
the 5th of August, to the St. Lou:3 He
publican, saj's:
The new silver mines lately discovered
in the Santa Cruz Mountains, have been
named in the Boundary Mines, as they are
les from the Sonora
lead, o - vein, called
until j tlie North Vein, is composed of argentife-
haVe clothed the otlfers ever since they
were born. Mr. I'rr.dley is a poor, indús-
tiious laborer, but says he will not part
with any of his children while he is able
to work.-^^Vd w-' York- Tribune.
Tiie Ilosir; «f Cuockktf.—The Xash-
villó Union say.-::
On the Mobile and Ohio Railroad, not
far from ¡Jackson, in Tennessee, still stands
the humble log cabin, eighteen by twenty
feet in size, built and occupied, while he
lived in the district, by the far-famed Davy
Crockett. Its logs are fast decaying, aud
desolation surrounds if, but no traveler
passes it without an eager desire to look
upon the humble roof that sheltered one
of the truest representatives of the Amer-
ican pioneer character—a hero and-an
honest man. Near it is'a railroad station,
called Crockett's Station; around it, per-
haps; will arise a town to bear and perpet-
uate a name as familiar to his countrymen
as that of Jackson.
mi
not know it was a dog. The u bow, wow,
wow" waa sometimes interspersed with
pious ejaculations and Scripture quota-
tion , aft "Every knee áhall how—wow —
wow !" &G, The more respectable classes,
as well as the ignorant and bumble, were
affected in this 'mortify ing way.
bring the creatura down on both knees.
Llreu.begms a very unequal struggle ; the
Rsspect for a Mother's Feelings.—
eorge Washington, when young, was
out to go to sea as a midshipman ; -^very-
thing was arranged, the vessel lay opposite
his father's boü?e, and his whole heart was
bent on going. After his trunk had been
carried down to the boat, he went to bid
his mother farewell, and saw the tears
bursting from her eyes. However, he said
nothing to her ; but he saw that his moth-
er would be distressed if he went, and
perhaps never be happy again. He just
turned to the servant and said, "Go and
tell them to fetch my trunk back. I will
not go away to break my mother's heart."
His mother was struck with the decision,
and she said to him, "George, God has
promised to bless the children that honor
their parents, and I believe be will bless
you." There are many men whose names
will never go down,to history, who think
very lightly of a mother's feelings or
opinious.
Water Melons, a i.a Mode.—The latest
and most improved mode of enjoying
water-melons, in Virginia, is thus described
by the Richmond Enquirer :
As the melon season is now in full^ast
in Virginia, one of the neatest modes of
serving up a fine, fresh water-melon, is as
follows "Plug a hole in the melon, so
that some of the watery contents may run
out, then pour into it some fine port wine
or some claref, place it on ice for two hours,
so that the wine niay not escape therefrom.
Next cut it up and devour it."
A letter was lately received at Chicago
Post Oilioe, directed to "An Honest Man.''
The chief clerk sent it to the dead letter
department, with the candid confession
that tho man addressed cid not iLve in
Chicago!
, The Boy a nd tiíe Bríci?.—A boy, hear
ing his father say,;/4-'Twas a poor rul«
that wouldn't work both ways," said :
" If father applies this rnle about his
work, I wiU test it in my play."
So, putting up a róW of bricks, he tip-
ped over the first, when, striking the sec-
ond, caiiscd it to fall on the third, which
fell on the fourth, and so ori, until all the
bricks lay prostrate. *
* " Well," said the boy, " each brick has
knocked down his neighbor. T only tip
ped one. Now I will raise one and see if
he will raise bis neighbors." - He looked
in vain .to see them rise.
" Heré, father," said the boy, " is a rale
that won't work both ways. They knock
each othir down, but will not raise each
other up."
" My son, brick and mankind are alike
made of clay, activo in knocking each
other down, but will not raise each -other
up!"
" Father," says the boy, " does the first
brick represent the first Adam ? "
The •father replied, " When men fall,
they love company, but when they rise,
they love «o stand alone like youdei* brick
and see others prostrate below them."
A Brief Iragedy.—Three robbers mur-
dered and plundered a merchant, who,
bearing with him much gold and other
articles, was passing through a lonely
wood. They brought their ill gotten gains
into their cave, and sent the youngest oné
into the village to buy food.
When he had gone, the two remaining
said to one another, " Why need we share
these great riches with this fellow ? Let
us kill him when he returns, aud then his
part will fall to us !"
But the young robber thought to him-
self as he went, " How fortunate would I
be if all these treasures were mine alone.
I will poison my associates and then #all
will be miue." He bought food and drink,
put poison into the wine, and returned to
his companions.
As he entered the t cave ihe other two
sprang upon him, plunged a dagger into
his, heart, and he dropped "(feairl on the
ground ! They,, then sat down, - ale the
food and drank the poisoned wine, and
died iu the greatest agogy. Surrouncled
with stolen treasujes, they were found
dyad.
A pretfy girl attended a ball Out west
recently, decked off in short dress and
pants. The other ladies were shocked!
She coolly remarked that if they Would
pull up their dresses about the heck as
they ought to be, their skirts would be as
short as hers I
It costs men a great deal of trouble to
exhibit constantly ill nature, and then don't
make anything by it. Why then should
they be such fools as to work for nothing!
A retort is the vessel used by angry
meu to distill venom from wit.
Taylor sa3*s that courtships are the sweet
and dreamy threshholds of Unseen Edens,
where half the world have passed in coup-
les, and talked in whispers under the moon*
light and passed on and never returned.
The paper having the largest circulation
is the paper of tobacco.
lie who tells a lie is not sensible how
great a task he undertakes; for he must
be forced to invent twenty more to main-
tain one.
wSBik
As ArrJCCTiNo Incident.—As Marshal
McMaban entered Milam, a little girl of
fice yeíra of age, dressed iu white, pre
sen ted him with a boquet nearly as large
U*herself. He raised lier up, and placed
her standing before Liin ou the saddle.
'¿The chiitl, ay« the létter, "threw her
anna around the sun-burnt head of the
conqueror of Magenta, and kissed'him re-
amidst the loudest cheers I erer
The Marshal seemed delighted
child, and fondled her most, ten-
looking frequently at her pretty
a,; And o they entered Milam
a «bower of boqueta and applause.
affected even to tears."
iliSEfe
horse rears biuiscit' up on his hinder legs,
' and falls agaiu and again. The man has
to exert some activity to prevent the horse
falling upon him, and to hold the strap of
the leg iu such a manner as to prevent the
horse putting his fore foot to tho ground.
Trailing his superb.noso in the sawdust,
panting and weaiied with thes-i unwonted
exertions, the rndignant steeJ is presently
obliged to succomb, and a slight push on
the quarter makes him lie down. Then
tire man definitely "ties up the off fore
foot to the uppor part of the leg, in the
same manner as the near fore leg has been
tied up. Then he speaks comfortably to
tho captive, consoles him with friendly and
flattering gestures—makes love to him, in
tact, as he lies there in helpless piide and
resentment ou the ground. Tho horse
may suddenly got up on bio hind leg*.
rous galena, is thirty-two inches wide, of
solid metal, and, as the vein cuts, through an i
isolated hill, it can be worked with groat ■
facility. The couutrv in the immediate, j
vicinity of the mines is very beautiful at
this season of tho year, and* there is an
abundance of#game—dear and bear—in
the mountain canons. In the Longnrena
mine a new vein has been struck of the
richest smelting ore ever found iu Arizona
or New Mexico—yielding to the ton about!
$1000. Of course the owners are in j
hjghi spirits, and only await the completion !
of furnaces and stamping machinery to j ^ (1)e W0lIll^a sta™ nianv a tbap
gfct out the pure silver m great abundance. ( of 0)jr .K;quaintnnce woukl like" mightily
now does real estate sell in your town ?
Oh, it's as cheap as dirt I
Life is 1 iko a ccrtain sort of boat race—
success depends entirely upon the skulls.
It generally costs but little to get a wife
but often a ruinous amount to keep her.
How to get ink out of linen—Jerk an
editor out of his his shirt.
A western orator, having delivered l.im-j
self of the following, "Theglorious Amer-
ican eagle, which stands with one foot on Í
the Atlantic and tho other on the Pacific
coasts," was uriabled to proceed any fur-
ther. A bystander exclaimed, " My friend,
if you don't relieve your eagle pretty soon
ho will split open ! "
Bonner, of the New York Ledger, has
purchased the trotting ho reo Lantern, and
his mato in tho recent double loam match
at New York, for §10,000.
Blondín, it is said, clears $800 by every
trip he makes across his rope over the
Niagara
to be the-slnpe driver.
. Many persons keep drinking until they
haven't n coat, either on their back or their
stomach. *
An American writer says that asses are
the most vilified of animals. We believe
that foxes are the irost run down.
Gout is thus defined in a popular mag-
azine: Put you * to6 in a vice, turn the
screw till you can bear the pain no longer
—that is rheumatism. Give the screw
one more turn—that is gout.
Girls, never run away from your parents
♦ill you are sure the young man you elope
with won't run away from you.
A short time sinco a gentleman got into
a Broadway stage in which were ten pretty
girls. Upon ascending tho steps, he paus-
ed for a momeut, dazzled with the beauty
before him. "There is room, sir; sit
down," said one of the ladies. "I thank
you," said the gentleman, getting in; "I
thought of getting in an omnibus, but 1
have entered Paradise 1"
• In modern titles people are accustomed
to earn their living, but in former times it
was usual for them to urn their dead!
Those only deserve a monument .who
do not require it; that is, those who
raised themselves one iu the miuJs aud
memories of men.
All of our'Arctic explorers have en-
joyed one important advantage—in their
deadliest perils they alfaya kept cool.
The great Enchanter of tho nineteenth
centurv is Noah Webste , whose spells.will
never cease to affect our litciature.
The Smoks of Battle !—Some of the
Austnans seem to have been particularly
str uck at seeing Zouaves cohie into ae ion
with their pipes in their months. The
German's love for a pipe is of the number
of calm delights—a thing to be appre-
ciated when " he beside his cottage dooris
sitting in the sun"—but a pipe in battle!
Innocent German! Incomprehensible
Zjuave! ~
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