The Hancock Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Ohio) 1857-1870, 1864-11-04
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Local and Miscellaneous.
mr.. Ma sby Loses IA Friend aud Writes
his Obituary.

suUN, Oct. 2s, ga.
s A piller hez fallen Last mite, al
10 o'clock and 67 minits, p. NJ, Is.
-saker Punt, a dekun NV my church,
and the heftiest piller in the insti
tushn, in fact the only one who padc
his qwarterige regler, departid this
life.
d. Bro. Punt was born o Dimokrat--
he received the taith by Inheritance,
as bis father was one afore him.
And that faith he kept. He mite hev
bin sedoost in2 by and forbidden
paths NV whiggery, and ablishnism,
and sich, but knoin the frailty NV hu.
man nacher he persistently refoozed
to learn 2 reed, and thus made him.
self sekoor from the wiles NV un.
scroopulus politishuns. 1t wuz O
butiful trate in his karikter that he
wood never vote n tikkit that he did
not git frum the hands NV q sentral
committee man
Bro. Punt commenst his polttikle
life votin fer Androo Jaxn, when he
wuz but Is years old. The rigid
moralist may obgect to this act ez
illegle. 1t wuz obgectid 2 at the
time, and the youthful hero wuz ar.
restid and impriznd, and he wood
hev renamed in prizn two ycers he'd
---hsiP6tt bin- -purrtUuud-out by Dime.
kratik Guvner, jest afore the next
elekshun. We next find him battlin
fer Dimocrisy in the person NV Mar.
tin Van Booren. At that elekshun
he votid twice, and drunk 172 times
Ez he repeatedly remarkt me, that
day wuz tryin one. The first hun
dred drinks wuz neteral--the balens
wuz excess, but he he'd pledgd his
township fer a certin magority-the
candidates he'd given him the mummy
2 treet with, and he wuz determined
2 do il ef it cost him attack nv de.
lirum trecmens. He wuz alluz reddy
2 sacrifice his bowls fer the COZ.
He manijd to survive Harrison s
clekshun, and wuz active in prokocr.
in Pokes triumph. He mourned doc.
rim Fillmore's rane, and rejoist with
eckseedin crate joy doorin Pecrse
and Bookannon's.
In 1860 he didn't vote fer nobody.
He knode Duglis wuz a Dimekrat and
so wuz Brekenrii. He attended, meet
ins NV both factions and hoorayd Wig
gerusly fer both, but unforchuitly, the
committee who he'd furnisht him tik
kits fer yoers wuz divided, one hafI
fer Duglis and tother fer Breckinrii.
He coodent beside wich wuz the reel
Dimocratic tikkit, and so on elekshun
day he went 2 the poles, and went
thro the moshuns NV votin with a
peese NV blank paper.
But he he'd no doubts ez to opposin
Linkin-he knode he wuz no Dino
krat, for both Committee men told
him so. o with what COY he heerd
the nooze NV the frin on Fort Sum
ter, with what eckstasy he heerd NV
Bull Run. No man in the North ex :
hlbbitid more ability in swarm at
Linkin-no one Good retail 2 better
advantage the lies the Sentrel Com
nifty desidid to serelait.
Bro. 'unt crowd low speritid at
the battle nv Stone River, and kept
failin ez Linkin's dorgs advanst. He
britened up a little wen Forest killed
the niggers ut Fort Piller, but Sheri-
dan and the Injeany clcckshuns pros
tratid him feerrully, and he becum so
redoost that his lilkcr he'd . be fed
him with spoon.
Bro. Punt wuz a consistent mem
Der NV the Church NV the Moo Dis.
pensashun. Before he ejined my flock
1T wuz his boast that he he'd never
bin inside a meetin house. There4
he rejoist at the oppertoonity NV hear
in pure gospel, in2 wich ef the Mig
ger WIZ interdoost at all, he wuz put
in and held up ndcufit, wich is al.
luz refreshiu too the troo Dimekratk
mind. He despisd ablishn preechin.
Bro. Punts Dimocrisy wuz NV a
broad, comprehensive karicter. He
follerd the party. Opposed to Stait S
rites and secession under Jaxn, he
wuz in faver NV both in 1864. OPP
posed to slaivry- extension in AS, he
favored it in go, and so on. The
immc.jit coz Nv his deth wuz this ty-
rannikle Administration. Whisky
he'd got so high that he wuz forst 2
diloot it, and at his age he coodent
stan it. He died NV water on the
stumic.
Iwuz with him in his last momence.
His mind wandered, and he talked NV
goin wher he'd FINELY hev a post.
orilis. The doctor who wuz ablish.
mist, unfeelinly remarkt, that eff ther
wuz mails in the country he wuz goin
z, 1t wood be nessary to hev fire.
proof mail bags. Like all other crate
men he he'd his last words (no mem
Der Nv my flock shell die without hev
in last words, so long ez / kin write J
i writ EN- yisterdy. They wuz-
"hev we carried Pennsy lwany?-my
coppers is burnt out put on my
,tomb-stnn 'hn voted erly and often
and never skratched tiltkit.'"
= Ez winter is approachin and need
a new SCOT NV klose, ] hev determined
to call upon the brethren fer funis to
erect a sootable monument to the
memory NV this sterlin dimekrat, =
Sums uv 10 sents (wich sence Val
1andygum's speclSelashun is the or
.thodox dimekratill contribushen fer
this purpus may be sent 2 me. with
The asshoorence that it will be faith