The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1867-08-08
Nasty
A Biographical Sketch of Mr.. Nasty.
From the Toledo Blade.
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FROM Tue IOledO Blade.
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July20, 1867.
EDITOR TOLEDO BLADE-SR. Enclosed
find photograph NV myself. ez you desired.
To make strikin pictur flung myself in
to the attitood and assumed the expresshun
witch might have bin observed QUITO nv
classikle countenans when in the act of de-
liverin my justly celebrated sermon. 'The
wages of sin is Deth" The So which VOC
RENTED to kiver the cost of the 2ictur wnz,
Iregret to say insnfishent The pictur
cost Is cents, and it took 81 so wo.th of
Bascombs newest tx stiddy my nerves to
the pint of undergoing the agony of sittin
3miuits in front Nv the photographer I need
not say that he is inccndiary from Massa-
choosets. Ez the..deceest elder Gavitt's son.
Issaker hez expressed burnin desire to DOS
sess his apparatus, it is probable that pub
lie safety will shortly require the expulsion
Nv the iucendiary. But he'd my revenge
lin his pocket is none NV my postal cur
rency Sekoorin the pictur, told him |
wood tax it home, aud eff my intimate
frie nds those who know me, shood beside
it wuz portrait, wood call and pay for it
afore he left the Corners. Will | do it /?
Will this Pictur takin Ablishnist ever more
behold me? Exc ansers.
700 may remit the odd twenty five cents
either by draft on Moo York or money or
der at my resk.
wuz born in the year 1906, at will
not say where hev reasons for conceal
in my birth place don't want to set any
town in that State up in bizniz That
town hez gone loonatic and gives Ablishn
majorities fritefuI to contemplate, and don't
want to benefit it by givin it nashunel
reputashun. don't want to double the
price Nv its property-to be the means Nv
erectin a dozen or SIGH matter Nv first
class hotels to accommodate the crowds ez
would make pilgrimages thither to visit my
birth place. The present owner Nv the
house in witch first opened my eyes onto
a world Nv sin is Ablishnist of the darkest
dye, and | hev no desire to enrich him.
Never, by word Nv mine, shell he cut that
house up into walkin sticks and buzzum
pins.
My boyhood was spent in the pufsoot of
knoIlege and muskrats mostly the latter, |
wuz promisin child. My parence wuz
Democrats Nv tie strictest kind, my mother
in particular. She hated eny one that wuznt
| Democratic with hatred that | never saw
exalted. When say that she wooden't
borrer tea and sugar and SIGH Nv Wing ma
bers the length and breadth and depth Nv
her Democracy will be understood
Wv my childhood know but little. My
father wuz a Ieadin man in the humble
speer in which he moved, holdin at differ
ent times the various offices in the town up
to constable the successive steps bein road
supervisor and pound master. He was cleo
ted constable, and mite probably hev gone
/ higher but for an accident that occurred to
him the first month. He collected a iudg
ment for SIS aud the money wuz paid to
him. The good man wuz a talented colec-
tor, but wuz singlerly careless in paying
over what he collected, Ez shown the ne
koolier bent NV genius nv the old man. re-
peet a c0nversashun | wunst heerd, A man
who he'd an account to collect wuz cousultiu
one who knowed my father well ez to the
safety Nv putin claim into his hands.
lis he good collector askt thu man.
Splendid, sed the naber.
is he man Nv responsibility askt the
man.
''Sir," sed the naber, che hez the abiilv
but you'll find when you try to git yool
money out Nv his hands that he lacks ths
response.
4 Good there hev bin more teehin tribooti