The weekly Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1854-1861, 1861-01-30
RAVENNA. WEDNESDAY. JANUARY 30, 1861.
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married and him alive o. course he died.
He was took down sudden, ketchih' drift.
wood. My boy ran bOt1e about it, aud I
went down with Jane. and we packed him
to the house, and made him as comfortable
as we could but 1t warn'tn no use.'
'Fever and sgue, l suppose =
'Feversnager You'ds said so, II you'd
seen him shake! gave him all the qui
nine there was in the Hubbard, and then sent
Jane to Mr.. Skeggses TO. bring all the qui'
mine he had, and his hymn-book. He went
off peace BILE, and his last words was
where's Jimmy =
Meaning your little boy =
NO; Jimmy Sands, my husband before
him. They had been crest friends, and
think poor Billy must bsy sefn fhis sperrit
for the owls was whoopink pwtnl mat night
Them two mules in the. ssbbage. patch wa.
Jimmy Ssndses, and that thar mar, (mare }
whose hesd is pokin' out o. the corn crib, ID
the same mar he married me Offen.'
Married you from of horseback =
well, yOu'd say go il you'd seen u.s.
1t was when lived down to Stoney at the
crossin' with Sal. Sal she hearn some one
a hollerin' and shakiD' the gate one night,
and thinking it WIS ji-t some trauger want
in to gt to stay all night, she never minded;
but the noise kept on so, that at last she
poked her head out o. the dividing and ask
ed what was wantin'.'
Are there any young gals here as wants to
git married! I'm goin' down to the river.
bottom, am, to live in the timber. got
mar and mule and lots o. trap-, and don't
ask nothin' in return but plain cookin' and
kerrsct bshaVior.'
'Jane,' says 81, whist do you ssy?
'S-z |, "ni wilin'' seq I, but can't be
married without a preacher !
"He says th4r's preacher out thar with
him.
"Ask him if it's Mi ter Skegqs won't
be married by mob dy but Mister SReggs.'
eyes, it's him.'
well, I struck light and put on my
Sunday dry-goods mighty quick. Sal, she
carried ont fryin' pan OF grease with rag
for a candle. aad we woke up SAILS uncle
old mar Solomon, 4nd so | got msrried.-
Jim and had to jne hands. and he on the
mar he couldn't git down on account OF the
furniture and things ben' hitcbed all rourd
him.
'But is this Mr.. Skeggs regular clery
man9'
'Oh,res'l,r buiIt. He and Jimmy met
together It the crossin', and 1t was him re.
commended me. He got sight of tin for
the job. too =
"A large sum, was it g
1T warn't in Money ; it was tin cups Jim.
my aid him with. Jimmy padied tin cups
round the country, and had two dozen left
Mr. Skeggs put 'em round his neck in q
string, and we heard 'em rattln' on the
prairie mile off !
well, madlm, did have some idea o
living down in the bottom myself, but
Down in the bottom What, among
them ponds of water? | see you Twin
there A pound O. qui.nine minute
wouldn't keep you alive two days! If you
want q good buildin' lot, there's my two
forties, I'll sell 'em cheap--a dollar and
half an acre.
Il am not certein, alter what you have re-
lated, that could live long, even in the up.
lands
Not without you was used to it, you
couldn't. Some can stand it, and some
can't. Now there's an old gentleman up to
town that think might stand it couple o
year anyhow, Squire Spring. lreckon yol
know him !; he's got a splendid wagon ant
team, and, they 10 say, he's got hundred
head o. hogs. You never heerd, did you 2
Could the woman possibly mean to com
pass the deliberate murder OF Squire Spring
l wanted nothing further to hasten my de
parture.
The shades of evening were falling fast
the owl had already begun to utter his long
drawn, frighttul cry, mingled whoop aH
howl, and receiving few general direction
ss to my nearest way to B, | rapid
left my newly chosen residence to rearwarc
de ba'ing within myself whether or no it wa
my duty to inform the authorities Of the u
istence of this horrible husband trap.