Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1868-05-23
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swift current VI hno -
underneath that ornamental piece OF ar
chiteoture on the Bluff yclept the
Tank."
The Taller, having read in the Tribune
that certain ssustors had "boils on the
nose" naturally thought the query had
reference to Radical eruptions, and con-
sequently listened to the answeraud sub.
sequent dialogue with the utmost glee.--
r"Ab," said Lynn G, Doyle, laugh
iug, you're as great ajoker, Dan, as
the Late Lamentsd. cannot say, for
sooth, the Goddess OF Liberty has got
either the small -pox or measles; but
believe her complexion has been some
what botched by the scrapings OF Poly
phemus Butler and swollen with indig-
nation at the tuncourteons conduct OF
the High Old Court Of Impeachment
Perhaps you had betterask DR.. Bolaski,
the county curist."
"Bah p cried Dan d. Lyon, wrinkling
his face at the idea. Bolaski, my boy
knows nothing but
"Charge. Chester. charge;
On, Greenbacks. on
His skill might do very well for Minor
Bolts, warts on the body polite, or boils
on the nose "a disease peculiar to i'm
peachers, who are ever looked upon by
the rest of mankind as scurvy Ciceros).
No, Bolaski won't do. Besides, this
smallpox is spreading, and threatens to
become dangerous in this sweet month OF
May, when the Anniversaries, in con-
junction with the Africano-Puritanico
Conventions, Women's Hifalutin Assem-.
blies and Ku-Klux Khan Revelation
Councils, are held, and
"Black Spirits and White,
~ Blue Spirits and Gray,
Mingle mingle, Minis
t~O Mingle as they may"
swell, then, ask the Memphis delega-
ton to the Chicago Convention. They've
| a patent medicine for every complaint
"Whatl Why, man, they're worse
than the witches in Macbeth. They've
been promising plenty to- this unfran'
chised Bluff for the past two years; but
every day, under their doctoring, poverty
spreads her arms wider and wider, trade
dwindles into shadow, commerce IS
paralyzed, kind feeling is crushed, the
grim aspect of Ruin grows darker and
darker, the passions of the people in
crease, as if the dog-star and Radicalism
ragged together. What beautiful Phar-
maceutical Society Sugar Tom, of the
late c. s. A. Nitre Tub Bureau; Black
Crook Vulcan, of the Hardeman Coun-
tys u. s. Invisibles; Boanerges
Loois, Warrant Broker of the Munich
pality of Happy Hollow: Rual Rough,
| the Last Voice Of the Great Iron Wheel
Examined and Hannibal Carter, the
converted Juggernautist, would form
To use favorite expression of Parson
Low Brown, who governs the Kingdom
of Tennessee according to his wits, it
would be 'hell-roaring institution
| No, sir, no; the prescriptions of the
Memphis delegation to Chicago won't
cure the Goddess of Liberty of the
smallpox"
"Then call on the Spiritual Leaders
it is said they use charms"
| ayes, and a charming crowd they are,
especially the Universal Peace Doctors
who accept the verdict of the past twelve
weeks, as presented in the trial of An
drew Johnson, as a contribution to the
peace cause. According to their notions
Spooney Butler should be blessed as the
Great Peace.maker. Bosh which is
tantamount to the old saying, where ig.
norance is bliss no reference, you know
| to the Spiritual Leader of that name ], it's
folly to be wise Old Bennett, ofthe Her.
aid, says your Spiritual Leaders, of the
political stripe, are Beelzebub's fayorlte
auxiliaries. They are supplied with six
pronged forks to stir up mischief, raise
sectional hatred, and produce the Olc
Harry generally. From such source
what cure can come for any evilf L
they we're to try their healing process
or reconstruction on the Goddess o
Liberty the Fakir of Ava couldn't guess
whether her face would be black or white
No, my boy; Spiritual quackery, OF tb'
Radical order, won't do either.
"In such a quandary, the last ant
only chance is to ask aid of Susan Bona
parte Anthony and Lucy Caesar Stone
the Women Fighters, who know the ill'
Of gods and godesses.
my dear sir, you forget that susa'
} and Lucy are at loggerbeads, and al
about that slippery fellow called Train
! The lovely Susan paid out Of her owl
> purse a handsome sum to advertise tn
erratic George Francis to the Jayhawk
, ers of Kansas, and she presented bil
of costs for said service to tn
Womeu's Rights Convention. But dar
ling Lucy wouldn't hear of such enor
nous expenditure and for such
thing, too, as Train oil. Upon thi
Susan spoke her mind, and said Trsi
r was brick and Lucy stick. s
: they, like other doctors, disagreed; an
r like late Rainbow Conventions in th
/, South, they parted in thunder Susan
3 love for George Francis is said to b
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