The Waynesburg Republican. [volume] (Waynesburg, Pa.) 1867-18??, 1868-01-22


killed all the dogs in this county, so if
you're afraid of dogs you needn't be
alarmed, fur there's not dog left to
bark at We, and it's Dan Cake here
and Dan Cake there, and Dan Cakes
in everybody's mouth. He ought to
be made pay fur the dogs, and | think
he will afore he gifts through with it.
The other day me and my son Joe was
goin' round the field and up jumped a
fox, and the dog took after it, and
we've never heard of the dog or fox
since till the day before Yesterday, and
then the dog was about $50 yards
ahead Of the fox, and he hadn't got
back yit, and | expect Dan Cakes
killed him. You just keep right down
the run from there and You'll come in
amongst the fattest, lustiest set of mig
gers YOU ever seen in all the days of
your life. Their names is Dowd, and
it's Dowd here and Dowd there, and
the Dowd's is in everybody's mouth,
and I've one of the cussedest lawsuits
with them you ever heard of in your
life, and it's all about slander, and
there's Tom P. Ray, the clerk of the
Court in Morgantown, and Edgar c.,
Wilson, the best lawyer in Virginny,
both say III beat them out as slick as a
hone, and it's all about SANDER, though
| never SANDER anybody myself II |
know anything against anybody |
generally keep it to myself You'll
cross over a pint there and fall over
on another run, by turning to the right
you'll come down to old Bill Messer's,
He married Mitz, and her name is
Peg, and she's the cussedest woman to
swear vou ever heard in all your life,
sir, Her hair sticks out like a scrub
broom, She don't comb it from one
weeks end to another, and it's Peg
Messcr here and Peg Messer there,
and Peg Mcsscr is in everybody's
mouth, and she can outswear Matte
Baldwin. You'll there turn to the
left and that will take YOU M a pint.
andvou will fall over onto Jake's Run
it used to becalled Straddler's Run
-namcd after old Jack Straddler, in
Indian times, and it's settled with
Tcnnants from head to mouth, and
it's Tennant here, and Tenant there,
and the Tenants are in everybody's
mouth, and they're the the cusscdestset
of men to fight Won ever saw in all
your born days; wherever they have
a log rolling or any coming together
Of the people, their Jackets are off and
the blood and snot a ilvin' and all
hollcrin' "lair play" The father will
fght with the son, and the son with
the father, and brothers will (ight one
another. But there is old Enoch
Tenant, stepping around with his
head sticking to one side, | believe
he's the finest Tenant among 'em-
but there's Black Ben, Pete Tenants
niggcr, Id like to forgot him-he's
the only white man amongstall of en-.
You'll turn up that Run by turning
to the right--no road to turn You off
till YOU fall on the head of Little Paw
paw, to nv son-in-law's, Ben. Shu-
mans, one of th, ugliast men YOU ever
saw in all YOUR lifetime, and its Ben.
Shuman here, and Ben. Shuman's in
cvcrybody's talk-keeps the whole
country in an uproar with his lies, |
must say that Ben. Shuman has the
best breed Of dogs in the country, and
he's going to have a lot of young pups
soon. MvJoespolle a pup ,andBillspoile
a pup, and Bob spoke a pup, and
Henry spoke another pup, but | low
to 90 over day after tomorrow myself
and buy the old mother and sell her
to my brother in law, Joe Koon, for
gallon of whiskey or bushel of corn:
John Hooi's cot the best store in
BlacksvilIe. There's goin' to be a
famine on this cree K, for Shep. Lem
astcrs and Joe Parks are sellin' their
corn out at Twenty-Five cents bushel
and the'll have to give ffiv cents fur
the same corn back agin between this
and harvest, and Bill Launtz and Bill
Thomas have got a barrel of whiskey
apiece and are retailin' it out at a
bushcl of wheat to the gallon, and
this neighborhooI, and that wheat will