The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1865-03-31
gM0LE NUMBER, 3lO3
VOL. s, NO. 35.
Hammer Tlaalin TO her Dear Neamire.


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DARKErsDALE Mass. Feb. 10, 1869.
Ny DEAR NEAuIEE: Your last letter has
ies come teu hand, and the earrings teu.-
Kezier says she's much obeeged teu you; she
looks fiIst rate in cm. / guess that southern
gal felt kinder shaller when yea took EN- eout
I o her ears. Serve her right, the cruel troIp
for ligin' on the sweat o the pooE cUlored men
breoWs. Last week, Capt. Blgalow scat hls
darteF Jemialy a splendid pyaaneI he captercd
from gothic vandel woman deown there
She had the inpadence leu call him brute
and a theyin' Yankee but lac got some o his
men teu set fire teu her dress, and she soon
sung another teune. Your brother JOB has
failed agin in business and made atween thirty
and forty thousand dollars, and meow he's got
the hand5ome5t pew III chu:ch.
The Dillabys and Metcalf5 and Dewlittles,
and good many more o our nabors, has gone
deown ten Sagannor teu git holt o. coniiscated
property Your father thinks they We went
de0wn leetle mite teu soon for he says ontil
them southern c0nfedert cusses Is eout and
eout extermnated, he calclates they'll be like
ly to pyeoWi around o nights and murder and
set fire tew the loyal eastern folks in cold biud,
and ten, for by all ackeounts they're Jest as
savage as wild injins and wunt stay coaGsca
led, no matter what eour great and noble pres
ilenf says. Kezire says she wonders yeob
haint sent her any silk dresses yet; she says
mebbc yeou got some sweetheart deown there
teu give 'em teu but I guess that's only her
fun, for she knows y0a wouldn't THINK 0 taEln'
a shine teu any such gothic yandeis. All the
folks in this section goes for vigorous per5ecu-
ton Of the war, but purity much all on 'em has
sioped for Canady to git clear o the draft
We've got a new minister here. Hes only
preached the taw last sabbeths; he goes IN
strong for war and determination. lie says
thatif he had MS way he'd soak the hull CON
federacy in keroseen lie, aud set lire teu 'em,
men, wlmen. and children, all but the coiored
folks We like him better than any minister
we ever had in Darkeysdale, he's 50 good
Debby Peabody has gin her itila boy to
french woman that was stayin' here q spell last
summer. She made DabUy some presents for
lettin her take little Enoch, and meow the
french woman has taken him away to France,
Dabby says the hand OF providence was nteu
it, eanse It VIII save hef AZ the expenses OF his
clothin', schoolin and provisions There's SO
many O men folks gone away from here, 1t
seems as If there Was mt n0tnlA' lett out VIM
IN, and they're cuttin' up wus than SATAN /
don't knoR, whatlI become o the critters II
the southern conla3eraey amt exteFminated
soon so that their husbans and brothers can
git home from Canada ten see teu en-. Gin
eral Butler has been maxim speeches Oh tea
Lowell and Boston about savin his sQjers. Old
StaRchagd, the pizen copperhead, says he gues-
q
he come in the other night and showed PIC
ter "a caricl1ateur he called it) it was dog, with
Ginorai Buffers miaeteur for It's head; ITS got
collar on It's neck with g Sbyster wrote en- It.
There was three tin kttIas tied teu the dogs
tail, with big bethel" ''duch gap, and fort
Fisher wrote on the kittles, and there was 4
road-p0st with Lowell UDteu II, and Mr..
Lincon was a sfandLn with a wip in his hand,
a sayin' ten the dog ''gjt eout, and there was
4 pious lookin' person on ten the picter, say
in its ambominabe !" Your father told old
Stanchard arter he seen Ii that he ought to be
sent teu fort warren. Host all the officers
deown south from these parts has been sendin'
home pyanners and picters and margel statterS
but [ think they'd a good deal better sead on
silk dresses an ieweIry, and lei the sQjers burn
the statters and picters. Your father says
you must hurry up an git the south eEtarm-
mated as soon as you can, for then we're coal-
in deown there tau confscato an locate, and
80 is most Of the folks abeout here, an yeour
father wants .yeou ten let him know the very
mint they're exterminated and subjugated, 50
he can qit dsown there ahead @ anybody else.
Kesire says don't forget some silk dresses fer
her, and ye0ur brother job says If you can
2 \ , /. y. H., l,,I
he don't mind allowing yeou a secondhand
price for EN- in petrolyum stock which he's
president of the company. Exterminate as
many of the gothic yandais as you can, and
capter all the property yeou can find, and
don't forgit teu read your bible steddy, is the
wish an prayer Of yeour aFecshenit mother
HAMMER TIFFLIES
Oh p. s. forgot teu tell you that deacon
Pardons darter, Mehitable, is goin' ten be mar
ried next harvest time teu eolored man that
skewered his libity from bondige in the southern
klimes, by settin fire to his gothic masters man
shun and burnin' up tho family, an skewrin
sheir jewry an then 'scapin' inteu Massaehus
etts, the sylum o the pressed colored man
He's good an noble an pious though he amt
teu say good lookin bIehitablc brought him
reound teu eour heous tother erenfn' on a visit;
the room was pooty warm an he smelt a little
Ieoud, but Mehita5le says she's fond O the sent,
cause mister Generation that wrote book a
5eout it, says It's healthy.
Old eopperhead 6tanchard slept in short
spell arter they went eout, and we couldn't beat
it out of his stubborn head that there wasn't
a skunk in the cellar, Mehit says that Mr..
Swankey Chats her colored beaus name) Ro-
meo Swankey, is goin' to study for a lawyer
Meht's a learain' him his letters, an she's only
been tew weeks at it, an he knows A and w
and lizard when he sees 'em aready, an yet
that abomnable pizen old copperhead, old
Stanchard, says when that nigger learas teu
read there'l be good skatin' in he'll. Them
was his very words, the horid old bastedfemer-