The dollar weekly bulletin. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1862-1864, 1862-09-04
For the Dollar Weekly Bulletin.
Public Meeting in Lewis County


Cherry Ridge. near the head of Neville, in
Lewis County, Ky, to take into considera-
tion the late act of the Kentucky Legislature
.repealing all laws allowing compensation fol
Wolf. Fox and Wild Cat ScalIs
A. Fox was called to the Chair. A.
WILD CAT, from the Brushy Folk Of Kin
noconick, was chosen Secretary, and GREY
WOLF was appointed Sergeant at-Arms.
The Chairman, Ga venerable Fox who
wore sIec'acles ana took snuf1) upon being
conducted to his seat, remained silent for
some time. Putting his right fore-paw to
his ear he declared he heard the crv Of
bounds. [Great CONSERVATION and alarm
ensued; motions to adjourn were made th ok
fast, and furious WILD CAT, the Secre-
tary. climbed tree to look out GREY
WOLF (Guerilla like made a short excursion
among the bushes, returned with a captive
Rabbit and assured the assembly that there
Chairman having haken out his tail ready
for race il necessary. rose and said:
Gentlenen and Friends,
Peace hath its victories IS well as War;
II gives me great pleasure to inform YOU that
this portion OF +, Y dom hereabouts is hence
forth to erjoy great peace and gGtt, that 10
price is now set on YOUR heads, but that your
scolps are as safe, here they now are as if
they had been put on with SpaGino's Glue
Tremendous Cheers The Legislature of
Il ncl- ;Ia ,f
ness and bonds of iLiquity' but have relent
ed and abandoned their cruel persecution of
our race and in the excess of their repent
ance have been so kind as 10 include in dis
pei sation from harm our Cousin WILD CATS
and The WOLF family. Here the WOLF
licked his chaps and look sheepist
The class Of animals to which the DEG
and WOLF belong is called Ccnine-,hat TO
which we and the Secretary, WILD CAT be-
long is known as the Feline. Permit me to
state here tie reneraJ7e Chairman rose high
upon has hna feet that the LION. though the
King OF Beasts, Is nothing but big Cat with
a bad cold and throat, ard hence the
roughness Of his voice. Great admiration
was here expressed at the profound learning
of the Chairman.
: ''FoX-d dom gazed and gazed and still the wonder
grew.
That one small head should carry all he knew"
Why we are called Feline, | am unable
certainly to state, unless it be that the Fox
hes ever entertained very strong and tel
der fe-e-l-i-n for young pigs, poultry and
especially Geese, so that my friends it has
become a Iroverb that when the Fox
breaches let the Geese beware;" hence. also,
the game OF Fox and Geese, played of long
winter nights ty the children of the owners
Of hounds and others. [Great Sensation.]
Sacred Hi.tory Informs US that one Sam
son tied straw to the tails of our ancestors,
fred the straw, set the Dogs on and run
them into the fields of the Pbilstines des
tro ying their harvess. He was a strong
man, ont Delilah took his scalp eff with a
Hemp Hook, shaved his head and sent him
to Lunat;c Asy um, since which he has
not boen heard from. So that You see that
he who abuses The innocent. even though it
be FIX, verify receives his reward, and
that "the way e the tranere>sor is hard"
Hunting the Fox is common in England
Capd that of Wild Cat and Wolf in I!inois)
and is and exciting sport Gas my experience
proves so that poets have written songs
celebrating the same in this wise:
ssTbe dusky night rides down the sky
And usheIs in the morn;
Tie hounds ali join in jovial cry;
The hunt>man viii ds his horn.'
1t is known to all Foxes Of my age, in
Lewis County, that for many years past we
have had 10 rest TO the sol,s of our feet,
that not Chicken has been taken from the
rocst, a Lamb missed from the fold, Pig
st:ayed from a careless mother, a Goose
piuoked fIOm Der nest, hut it is charged to
the account Of the Fox; old as l am here he
wired bi. sIecks with his tail l have been
hunted and chased oft times from Crooked
Creek to Quick's Run, back ard ro, as many
as seventeen times in one winter, but thank
fortune here am your holored Chairman
my wind still good, my scalp safe Oh my
head, there is good race in me yet and il
there is any respectable widow Fox oil
Foxess present, permit me to say,
"TEat if Sic be kcdge and plump,
ID III I 10 take will lor JLnip.n
The Legislature of the State has repealed
the law paying Bounty for orr scaps; it j:
a great relief to us and ours, as we'll as to the
Treasury. In the year 1850. Sc. 56S 80 wa;
paid out for locks Of our hair The barber
Gus Baibers are 10 longer to be PAID, the
scalp halloo is no longer to be heard upon
| these mountains--your wives and children
will be safe-the little Foxes can lay in the
sun at the hole in the rock. while the