Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1865-03-30
sclett Storp.
NlHSGsINE HEIR ESS.
A Sad and solemn story.
BY A. HINES, AUTHOR.

CHAPTER I.
Simon Brown, Esq, resides on B. Street,
Boston, in the same house with the rest of
his family, except his departed dead wife
and Rebccky, an only fcmail daughter. -
Simon Brown is also Il Deacon in fashion
able war-church. which situation he OBJ
tanned on account of his having done much
service for his country in this war rs an Ar
my Contractor He was Democrat when
the war first broke out but number of
Boston patriots surrounded him on one
Sunday evening, in his own room, and of,
fered him Il Job of making several millions
OF coats and trowsers for soldiers at an i'm
mense profit, if he would only come
over So Simon, seeing the pr?fts 'kim
over" like several hundred thousand more
Of his kind Therefore, Simon, like them,
is one Of the patriots Of the country, and
consequently believes the noble ngger to be
pure white man and il only black on ao
count of his color.
Simon was also 'born of poor but res
pectable PARENTS" and whether his father
was "a weaver or not we don know, but
he must have been something, or else 81
mon wouldn't have been born. However,
whether Simon had a father or not, he was
considered the most patriotic patriot in all
Boston. He was likewise charitable, like
others of his kind, as any one could see,
for he gave every poor woman he could get
to work at the price ) cents piece for
each army garment, which only cleared for
himself the ''small sum Of 50 on each
soldier-coat. Simon was also miscegener;
that is, he thought ''yaler' the most beau
tful color for white children hereafter. He
often said that the Irish and Dutch should
not associate with the negro. He, there
fore was in the habit Of keeping the bless
ed contrabands in his house for week at a
time; and sometimes he would treat noble
Africans with some private whiskey, which
he always kept on hand for lnedical purpo-
ses only, as he belonged to temperance So
ciety, and chawed brown paper when he
went out to keep down the smell of liquor.
CHAPTER II.
Deacon Brown had only one children, and
she was an only daughter-lG years DID, -
hands high, and black hair. Her form was
mouldy in the strictest sense of the word,
and she had a gait as faultless as that of the
Greek Slave. Her name it was Rebecky.-
She was called after old Rebecky in the Bi-
BILE, which accounts for her being of that
name.
Rebecky, Ike her parent father, had got
to be great Union man also likewise and
her sympathy for the down-trod African
was such that she could pick out in the
dark, an animal of that class from an as
semblage of Germans and Irish, Just by
his peculiar shrub-like odor which she had
learned to scent with precision equal to a
dorg. And several were the noble contra
bands that she would this way bring to her
fathers house.
CHAPTE ",
Old Mrs. Brown stood fast to her ancient
Democratic faith, and hence she would
cook marry drop for no sch black dirty,
stinkin niggerS," as she often expressed
herself: therefore Old Brown and the love-
ly Rebecky had to do all the cookin for the
negroes.
(NoTE-Old Mrs. Brown was sound
oyster,)
CHAPTER V.
Old Brown had already made piles of
| from the drawer and proudly shake them
under the beautiful nostrils of his darling
Rebecky, saying
"These are for thou, my kitting, as thy
wedding portion, one of those bright days.
'.All mine?' gasped Rebecky
'!All thine, spoke the father, as he
carefully put the pile back into its hiding
place,
l CHAPTER W.
"Gray mornin riz in the east; and so did
Old Brown; but neither of them got up in
time to see Rebecky get out of her downy
bed of goose feathers, dress, pack up, slide
zephyr-lke down the stairs, go to the draw,
er and gently put the bundle of greenbacks
into her carpet bag, and silently "git,
with as gallant contraband as ever misce
gened, to the morning train.
(PRIvATE.-A big niger had stayed O
week at Old Brown as his guest, sometime,
sawin' wood, and sometimes tolkin to the
fair Rebecky, who likewise talked to the
niger also. The old woman caught he
IN the wood-house several times and flogget
her accordingly. But still Rebecky loved
the niger loved, and they both loved; sc
they miscegened and eieped nIbeknowns
to both parent and mother while they botl
We're snoring their regular nights snore. :
Old Brown was also opposed to Rebeck,
marryin niger, notwithstanding he tho
a plenty of them apparently
old Mrs Brown riz that morning befor
Old Brown. She riz, "as it were" by in
stinct She smelt something in her sleep
She awoke. She called for Rebecky buu
no Rebecky's voice could be seen. She raj