Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1868-02-20
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the blasts NV time, totter and fall we
view their PROSTATE forms q second, me-
| thinks, they sink into the earth ana arc
lost to site, tho to memry dear, forever.
Then around the old stump tho young
sprouts grow up moro yigorouser 'n"n
ever. -
for nothin. / never waste pathetiss.
Whenever o man is pulled drowndid
from tho creek in this vicinity, witch
happens frekently, there bein three dis
tillcrics onto it, l never weep until see
whether he belongs to my congregra-
shun. II requires too much NV IN effort
to weep, to do it on all okkashuns.
Elder Abslum Pennibacker, to-wunst
the strength and ornament Nv the meet
in.housc nv witch | hey bin for two yeers
the pastor, departed this life at 2 P. N.
this afternoon. For him weep, for
him the teers is flown over the paper
onto wich these lines is penned. l nun
writin them in the presence nv the wife
and children Of the dcceast, and it does
en- good to see me Affected. When one
kin confer satisfaction at so little trouble
ez to carry an onion in his pocket hand
kerchief he wood be o broot indeed Ell
he did not prove hisself ekal to the
occasion.
Elder P~ennibackcr wuz born in the
eastern part Nv P~ennsylvany, NV real old
Democratic stock. He wuz born amid
the scenes NV the war NV independence,
and he growed up with Rcvolooshenary
memries inspirin him. His father fought
in the Ro~yolooshen, havin come oil the
way across the Atlantic to do IL. He
was a Hession, and therefore wuznt
penshund by the Amerikin Government.
But at the Fourth of Jooly cclebrashens
the old man wuz invited to sit on the
stand, the yomanry NV that secshun not
KNOWN that it made any difference ez to
the side he took in the struggle.
Young Abslum crowd up amid exs-
lent in~tooences. Their wuznt no skools
in the vicinity in his infancy, and jist
ez he mite hev bin contaminated by en-,
his father moved to Kentucky, wher he
was safe from all SIGH. The old gentle
man dying, Abslum inherited the pater-
nal akers, and patcrnal niggers and be-
como q man among men. The genius
Nv the man now began to develop. I'm
trameled by tho narrcr views NV his pa
tcrnal ancestor, he boldly launcht out
for hisself. He early distinguished his
self by his inventive genius, witch took
the real Kentucky shoot. Twas him
which conceived the idea NV braiding
small wire into the lashes Nv niger
whips (; and not satisfied with that, he,
after a months hard study brought out
his improvement in the nigger-paddle
Nv boring holes into 1t. He had a des-
prit struggle to git it adopted. The
blind planters nv the neighborhood he'd
faith in the old paddle, plain, and the
Elder WEI forst to demonstrate, by &c
tooal experiment on his niggers, its 500
p~eriority. He killed two in doing it,
but he triumphed. 1t wuz found that
moro cbastisement Good be inflicted
with it in a given time, than by the old
method, and that it lasted longer.
Ineed not say wat his politics wuz,
He wuz mover nothin but n Dimocrat,
He commenst his career votin three
times for jackson, and the candidates
wich iollered in succession he'd no cause
to complain NV his zeel. Under Book.
anan his faithfulnis wuz rewarded. The
post offs wich | now hold wuz given
him, and he discharged the dootie:
faithfully and 10 the best Nv his ability
Ez he coodent read, he put wat letters
witch arriy out into q box outside, lettir
every one who come take one ct they
wantid to. The paper witch come to the
offs for Deekin Pogram he learned tc
distribbit in two weeks. The out-goiu
mail he dumped into q Louisville bag,
feelin q great load wuz off his mind
when it departid. He held the ofiis till
they wanted him to make out a quarter
" report. He wuz non-plussed. he
either he'd to buy q niger who Good
reed and write or resign, and he resign
ed. A halEstarved Yankee wuz up.
pointed in his stead, who reigned till
relieved him.
The Elder wuz tho happy possessor Nv
three hundred niggers. They wuz prob
ably the best lot Of niggers, ez they run,
in Northwestern Kentucky. He he'd
three shades Nv color. The trader Good
find anything in the line Nv niggcr, up
to these three, that he wantid, on his
plantashcn. Their wuz the pure congo,
the agii mulatto, and the comely quad
room. Their wuz no higher mix than
the quadroon, for it will be remembered
the family hed'nt bin s~lave-owners but
three generashens. They had accom-
plished a great deal, however, for the
t;-o tha,, bad had am
The Elder he'd bin in failin health
ever sence 1862. In that yeer he en-
barkt into q speculashun wich bid fair
to make him wun nv the wealthiestmen
in the state, and wood, he'd things bin
~continyood normal. Their wuz niggers
runnin to the Fedral camps from oil
parts NV the State, and the Elder con-
ceeved the idea Nv goin to the said
camps and claimin nv EN-. The ofiser
in command wuz so anxious to consulate
EN- that he wood gladly give en- up,
without bein pertikiler about proofs,
and the Elder gathered, in that way, in
two months, over a hundred. II re-
quired q good deel Of ridin, and that
fatigue combined with the exposure in
cident to bushwhackin Fedral pickets,
witch wuz guardin his fences and SIGH,
brought on q spell Nv sickness from witch
he never fully recovered. The Emanci-
pashen Proclamashen nearly finishthim,
and he fingered along, a broken man,
ontil Johuson's 22duv Febrooary speech,
witch actid ez o tonic onto him. He re-
yiyed, but the effeck wuz temporary.
Ez the Conservatives made headway, he
came mp, aud ez Congris t%riumphed, he
went down, and thus he lived like a
candle in o tin lantern, fickrin or quiet,
ez the wind blowd. he pluckt up
amazinly after the elcckshuns last fall,
but alas, the treachery NV Meade and
the Reinstatement nv Stanton wuz two
blows from witch he Good not hope to
recover. And so, yesterday, Mt 2 P. NJ,
witch in this case means post mortem, he
died.
"Send in Saircyi' sed he, and a fa-
yorit mulatto oma Nv hizzen who,
OWN to tho fact Nv her havin eight chill
dren who wuz quadroons, had stayed
onto the place, wuz sent for. She sot