Weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1858-1865, 1865-02-15
TEN BALES.
; hAKk COUNTY alabama -

GkAKk CorsT4 Ala1ama -.
| Ak Bp,on SosiM aad johnson Ho1ie
I DEARSIk-Aiter what is dusso friend
Sip rite You tlleso few lines to inform
you of the death of my wife she departed
this life on wensdae mornin the fourteen
of this month in great Pcce Of congestive
chills Her funeral is to be preeched at
Salient church brother Fog of fshiating
which is the okashin of my writin these
fue lines to order you to send mo = SCOT Of
close and l Barle of Whiskey as want to
make respectful apesrns on that solim
okasllin I am five feet 10 and way 155
ponnd wait you must select me good ar
ticle You self close that fits your wager
I Mr. Jim Goodfn will about fit il anything,
q leetle chunkier ! want Dexter's best at
a far price for my .nabers to keep eff the
| cliiib which is prevaifin in this sexshun OF.
country n,ake@a strong pot Of cofy we'll
billed and strong put in q handful of pep
|. pers and pint OF whisky give every hand
= cuptal in proportion goin to the field OF
.mornin before the Jews is off and give,
your niggers warm close and wool socks
knit and chiils is no whar let them try
this resest that likes Ny wife paternized
the. steam practice and took these medicine
f. the reg'aF Facility mought have saved
her fife then agin they mought not God he
knows His win be done Sarah Jane
I Harbncket was 81 year nine months and
3 days old when she departed this life a
good wife pins christian woman likewise
consistent member Of the Baptist persua-
| shin Let MS all be likewise prepared she
was also a gradyowate of Marion collidge
and her DIPLOMA sertifying to the same
hangs before me sad relict of the past an
| advantage your humbil servent never i'll
joyed bein raised hard and pore 80 you
must excuse riting and spelling whar aniss
likewise excuse my feelings ON this ocka-s
shun ont Of the fullness of the hart the
mouth speaketh SO says the book but gents
| bizness is bizness craps has not turned ont
what l expected and looked for and l
alters thought they would not there has,
been no sezins to make truck grow my
crop is 10 Bags with nine groan hands with
| children that helps on considerable In
pickin however crop Of corn and no meet
to byWilley Harbncket bis crap 10 Balls
number to 10 Dan Butin his crap II
Balls John T Shadrack his crap and two
Balls he tuck in trade the two Balls mark
ed with cross make them county Sales
to itself in all Is Bags for John I Shad-
rack David Pipkins 8 Bags-My Niggers
has ,ne Bag marked Wiley Harbucket
with Boys below on the head which want
the county sales seprat to itselfthe prosscds
sent to me accordin to the bill inclosed-
Boy Joe one shar-Bob one. shar-Elijah
one shar--Nancy one shar and a caliker
dress to cost not moro than dollar and
half extra to be charged tony county sales
and balluns Of the niggers bag they want
sent in cotton stockinsl for women and
pece of Grape not to cost too much for the
funeral which l am willing to CRAFTY them
especially Nancy which is faithful SER
want and waited on my deceased wife faith
full so you will please fill tho bill in the
shars accordin to the best of yore Judge
,nent accordin to the bill In regardin the
Cotton to yore best care and attention the
lint is extra Mise and all put mp neetly at
my gin and all Dean seed cotton and a
MISE article and neetly put up to averidge
$50 to 500 pound and the niger Bail nigh
| on to 600 pound not bein enutf for anoth-
! err Bail-now gents we ships all to yore
house and give yore house our paternidge
and we want the biggest dollar our cottoa
will fetch which is much needed money
bein skase and short crop and expenses
heavy at this ritin and not sakri6ce our
produce on tho first offer and let no man
way Our cotton but Jim Gooden which
will be satisfactory to all fconserncd and
does as Justice in the waits-My Nabers
has trusted this bizness to me and leave all
to yore best judgement when to sell and
don't set no limmit but think produce will
go up when folks comes to know how short
a crop is made in this. sexsIlun not half
crop and send every man his county sales
accordin to name at Motifs Post Office
Clark County Alabama and county sales
1 of the Balls for John I Shadrack seprat
and one Bag Of My Niggers seprat to it.
self will send to the Peach tree for the
close and things ordered by Friday comm
providence per,nitten wanted to 70 down
myself but it has been ordered different
Yore letter in regardin the Wor and mon.
ey market is received alec the papers for
which yon have my best respects have
not been abill to consider the subjeck bein
under all the deep waters but the lord be
praised am supported under this attic
shun and will rite you my idees.
J. No more at present yours to command
4 ..+---.' WILEY HARBUoKEr.
1T wilt not be necessary that l should
inform any one of your readers who was
s. S. Prentiss, as the history of this won
. | darfnl ~, On Ia q mart nf the hioforu nf tLf
country. Many years ago, when he wa.