Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1864-11-12
Subx Loses n Friend and Writes
hiA Obituary.
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O=EotE- =, 1864

0.Eoss. -. 1864
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lar, ,ssd. zoi thus made himself Eskoor
from tbe UiIss ~ un=cFoopnlus polish
ma 1. VIZ buGfoI srate IL rbe ksrik,er
TIA, be wood never vo:e tikkit that he
did 20. ri. frum the hands nv a Eeutrsl
committee maui
Bro Punt commenst his poiittikle life
voun fer Androo Jaxn, when he WIZ bat
Is years old. The rigid moralist may OBJ
Rect to this Get ez illegle. II WIZ obgec-
lid 2 at the time, and the youthful hero
wnz Arresiid and impriznedr and be wood
hev rem aimed in priZn two yeers he'd be not
biz psrdoned out by q Dimekra'ik Guvner,
iest afore the next elekshun. We nexe fnd
him battliu for Dimocrisy iu the person nv
Aartin Vac Booren. at that elskshus he
voted twice, ADD drunk l72 times. Ez he
repeatedly remarkt 2 me, that day WIZ a
tryin one. The first hundred drinks wuz
natera!-the baleus wuz excess, but he he'd
pledgd bis township fer certain msgOrity-
the candidates he'd given him the mummy 2
treet with, and he wuZ determined do il
Of it cost him a attack Nv delirium treemens.
He wuz sIlnz reddy sacrifice his BOWLS
fer the coZ.
BE manijid to survive Harrison's elek
sbuu, aud WIZ active ia prokoorin Foxes
triumph. He mourned dooriR FilImore's
rane, and rejoist with eckseedin CRATE joy
dooring Peerse and Bookannon's.
10 1860 he didn't vo'e fer nobody. He
knode D uHiis wuz Dimekrat and 30
wuz Brekenrij. He ATTENDED meetins Nv
both factions and boorayd Viggernsly fer
both, but uuforchnitly, the committee who
he'd furnisbt him tikkits fer yeers was di-
aided, one hAI fer Dugis and tother fer
Brekiorii. He coodent beside Wich wuz
the reel Dimocratic tikkit, and 80 on elek
shun day be went 2 the poles, and went
thro the moshuns Nv votin with peese nv
blank paper.
But he he'd no doubts ez to opposin Lin
kin-he knode he wus no Dimokrat, for
both Committee men told him so. With
what COY he heerd the nooze Nv the 6rin
on Fort Sumter, with what eckstasy he
EXHIBITED more ability in swarm at Linkin
no one Good retail 2 better advantage
the lies the Sentrel Committy desidid TO
serclait.
Bro. Punt growed low spirited at the
battle Nv StOue river, and kept iRiliu ez
Linkin's dorgs edvapst. He britened up a
little wen Forest killed the niggers at Fort
Piier, but Sheridan and the Ibjeany eleck-
shuus Frustrated him feerfully, and he be-
cum SO redoost that his likker he'd 2 be
fed him with a spoon.
Bec. Punt wuz consistent member Nv
the Curch nv the Moo Dispensashun. Be-
fore be jined my flock it wuz his boast that
he hej never bin inside a imeetin house.
There4 he rejoist at the opportoonity Nv
hearin a pure gospel, luz which ef the mig
ger WsB intrO1oOst at all, he wuZ put il
aud held up hand cuff, which is allaz re.
frssain TO the troo Dimekratik mind. He
despis, d ablishn preachin.
Bro PunTs Dimocrisy wuZ Nv broad
comprehensive kRricter. He follered thu
party. Opposed to Static rites and seces
sion under Jazn, he wuz in favor Nv bOtt
in 1864. Opposed TO slaivry extension in
'49, he favored it in go, and so on. The
immeiit coz Nv his death was this tyrsnni.
kls Administration. Whisky had got &c
high that he wuz forst to dilOot it, and Al
his Bge he cOOdent stan 1t. lie died w
wafer on the stumic.
wuz with him in his last momence
His mind wandered. and he talked Nv goir
wher he'd fnelly have post orifs. Tn,
doctor wuz ablisbnist, unfeelinly 70
mRTkt, that ef ther wuz mails in the coun.
try he wuz goip 2, it wood be necessary Il
hev fire proof mail bags. Like al
other CRATE men he he'd his las
words (no member Nv my dock shel
die without heviu last words, 80 long
CT / kin write)-I writ yesterday
They wuz-"hev we carried Pennsyl-
-waUy2-my cOppers is burnt out I-put or
my tomb stun he voted erly and often GuG
never skratched tikkit'"
Ez wilmer is approachin and need 6
new soot Nv klose, hev determined to cal
upon the brethren fer fuuds to erect SCOT.
able monument to the memory nv this ster.
lin dimekrat. Sums nv 10 sents (wich
sence V"Ilandygum's speckelashun is the
orthodox dimekratik contribushen) fer this
purpus may be sent me, with the asshoor
ence that it will be faithfully used.
PETROLEUM v. Nasty,
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