Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1867-01-17
Nasty.


December 10, 1856.
l heard nearly two months ago tha'
my old friend, John Cutie, Nv Nobel
he'd departed this life and gone to that
other and better world where the wicket
g from troublin and the very are al
rest, and wuz profoundly shocked. John
Cutie wuz my friend, and l much fea,
his like l meier shall look upon agin,
He wuz q Democrat NV the old skool,
one nv the few links witch renamed to
connect the present generation with the
past. Well do I remember the gellori.
BUS old mani How often hev I set in
the square room in his country resi-.
dence, and drunk whiskey and water
with him till we neither on US Good see
a hole thro a forty foot ladder; how
many times hez he logged niggers for
my amoozenlent, to show me the proper
way Nv rnanagin nv EN-; and how many
times hez he lent me small sums Of
money, varyin from FIVE to thirty-one
dollars, akkordin to the state Nv meller-
ness he wuz in when | approached him
on the delikit subjik! Alasl poor John
Guttlel Let not the skoffer say that !
regret his death becoz his son will be
apt to try and collect the notes the old
man departed holds Nv minel No! mo-
they know me too. we'll to waste any
time on. that. I mourn becoz l loved
him and becoz Nv the %misfortunes witch
druy him to o .prematoor grave. A.
Linkin is responsible for this dark shad-
der onto my pathway. John Cutie he'd
three hundred niggers on his plantations
and in his house in town-these wuz
wrencht from him by the Proclamashen
and turned out from his paternal care
to starve, WITCH the most Nv EN- are in.
dustriously doin at about So per day.
He he'd EN- nv all hues-there wuz the
full blooded black, the disgustin Mulat-
ter, the pleasant Quadroon, the beauti.
full 0ctoroon, and them witch he'd Sc
nearly lost the cuss Nv Ham ez to be
hardly distinguishable from the pure
C%aucashun, and it wuz noticeable that
the nearly white niggers on the Cur.
THESES plantation wuz all beautiful. The
GUrrLEsEs themselves was perfeck spe.
cimens Nv manly beauty, and it prob.
ably he'd its efeck upon the blacks. The
niger is an initiative animal.
1t wuz this Robin Nv him Nv his
property-this overturnin Nv the normal
condishun Nv things-which killed John
Cutie. He never held up his head
after the Proclamashun, but faded away
like a frostid fowerl
l wuz in Nobel last week on bisnis
connected with our college, (it was So
lisitin funds to endow my ProfessorShip,
and | felt that | Good not leave the city
without droppin q dozen teers or SIGH
onto his grave. I felt ez he had con-
tribbitted at various times so much tc
moisten my clay that it would be un.
gentlemanly not to do suthin toward
moistenin hizzen. And in pursuance Of
my resolve, ] wendell my way sadly to
the cemetery, and, 6ndin the tomb,
struck an attitood Nv despair, and leanin
pensively onto the monument, stroye,
to the best Nv my ability, to weep, but
1t vas a futile endeavor. My eyes wood.
emit give down. I strove to recall his
virchoos, but SIGH is the weakness Nv
human nacher that, whenever his form
rose in my memory, my mind involun-
tarily wandered'to his whisky, and my
mouth would wander to SIGH an extent
es to monopolize all the moisture of my
system. l could hey spit onto his grave,
but weep I Good not. Alas! for poor
humanity!
While l wuz q standin there tryin to
weep, and maxim q bad fist Nv it, | no.
tist three beautiful young ladies ap.
proachin, with baskits Nv hot house
flowers o hangin onto their arms. l re-
cognized em'to wunst. They wuz John
Gnttle's daughters, and they wuz a
comm to strew flowers onto the grave
Nv their psternal ancestor on their
fathers side. It was a techin site, and
feelin that | wuz o introoder, not bein
a blood relashdn and only connected
with the deceest by notes Nv hand |
withdrew a short distants. Skssely he'd
they got to the tomb, when from the
other side approached three more ravish-
ingly beautiful young ladies, with bas-
kits Nv hot house flowers onto their
arms. The last one resembled in a
strikin manner the fust ones, ceptin
they wuz o shade darker, and their hare
waved bootiful, whereas the hare Nv
the fust wuz perfectly strate.
The two parties faced each other on
opposite sides Nv the toom, and party
Number One glared fercely at party
Number Two.
w"Lizel FloraLJanel" sed the oldest
Nv party Number One, swat are you
doin here 7" m' a %. a...I s.
"Sisters," sed the eldest Nv party
number two, "we're hero dischargin O
flyel dooty. Beneath these sod lies the
remains Nv our father, and we are goin
to strew these flowers onto his toom.
Jine US in the strew." aa
"Fatherl" shreeked the three Nv par
ty number one. "Yoor all niggers, and
wus servants unto
"Our half sisters, sed the spokesman
Nv party number two. "But Linkin re-
moved the cuss Nv Ham, and we're now
free, and hev ez much rite to strew the
grave NV our common PARENT, witch
wuv John Cutie, ez 700. Oil our sis
tiers, our farther u a good man; let
US bedew his grave with u teers
and''-
swat i%mpudenceI' shrieked party
number one, all in korious.
"Impudence yeerselfl' ~retorted party
number two, gettin red in the face.
"We are John Guttles' daughters pre-
cisely ez much ez,yuo have over US in
the article NV mother. Yoo three hev
wun, witch wus John Guttleses wife,
while we three hev three-onc a piece
aggsackly-wich wuz John Guttleses
servants, but we can'tnevertheless sti1e
our emoshuns. Ishel command myself,
and thus perceed to perform a act NV
flyel dooty.'
And she histed but the flowers and
to strew.
The tother wuns'w uz gettin' hot. The
oldest wun Good stand this impudence
no longer, and droppin her basket, went
for her, follered by her sisters. 1t wuz
A spirited conflict, and lasted perhaps
four minits, or until | parted EN-, when
they gathered themselves together and
ieparted-ons party went wun way, and
.other tother.
Fillyel love he'd done more in the
,trewin bizniz thanit sot out to do.
The six lovin daughters nv the deceest
had not nnlx atraHad hnRara nntn