Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1869-07-22
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in up into corner, sis this generous
Is this the treatment / hev rite t.
expect? Isthis--" a
i shood hev gone on at length, bu
list at that minnit Pollock, Joe Big
/ Ter and the new Postmaster entered
/ Room wuz made for EN- and cheer'
offered EN-, but they declined to si
down.
/ 81 hev biznes," sed this new Post
master; disagreeable biznes; but it
my offishel duty to perform it,"
At the word "offishel," comm from
his lips / groancd, witch wuz eckoet
by those present.
81 hev in my hand" continyood
he, ode bond gibben by my preede
SCISSOR, onto witch is de names NV Gee
w Bascom, Elkanah Pogram, Hugh
McPelter and Seth Pennibacker, ez
sureties. In dis oder hand i hold q
skedgool oh de property belongin to
de 'partmcnt witch wuz turned over
to him by his predecessor, consistin
NV table, chairs, boxes, locks, bags,
ct settery, wild sundry dollars wort
NV stamps, paper, Irvine &c. None
oh dis postofiis property, turned ober
to my predecessor by his predecessor,
! Is &c &c found III &c offs, and dc Oh.
jeck oh dis visit is to notify 700 dat
onless immejit payment be made OF
de amount dereof, am directed by
de 'par.ment to bring SCOT to wunst
against de said sureties."
Never before did l SO appreciate A
Johnson and his Postmaster, Genera
Randall. Under their administers
shen, wat Postmaster wuz ever pulled
up for steelin anything? Exc ansers
This wuz the feather that broke
the camel's back.
"Wat!" exclaimed Bascom, "shel ]
lose wat 700 owe me, and then pay
Tor wat 700 We StOle.
"Shel lose the money!" scd Po-
gram, "which ] lent you, and in
addishen pay Abolishen Govern
ment fer property yoo'ye confiis.
cated?"
"But the property is here" l re.
markt to Bascom, "yoo've got it all
Why not return it and save all this
trouble?"
"What would l hev then for tn
whishey yoo've consoomed?" h
ejackelated vishusly. 'It's all Pv'
got from you, and I've been keepir
you for four years."
''Didn't that property pay 700 fol
the likker" asked, but Bascon
wuz in no humor for figgers, and HI
pitched into me, at witch pleasan
pastine they all followed SCOT. Blu
for Joe Bigler, they would hev killed
me. Ez it wuz they blackt both IN.
eyes and rolled me out onto the side
walk, shutten the door agin me.
Ez heard the door slam to, fel
that all wuz lost. No offs! no mon
ey! and Bascom's closed agin me
Kin there be harder fate? Ipasset
the mite with a farmer three mile
out, who bein sick, hedn't bin to tn
Corners, consistently knowed nothil
NV the changes.
heard the next day the result Il,
the ruckshen. Bascom returned sucl
NV the property en- hedn't been SOLE
and cOnsoomed, which consisted u
the boxes. The chairs had beer
broken up in the frequent shindie
witch occur at his place, the locks he'
bin sold to farmers who yoozed en-
1 on their smoke houses, the bag het
bin sold for wheat; and 50 on. TIL
stamps, paper, Irvine and SIGH fig
cured up three hundred and forty 81.
dollars, which wuz three hundre'
more dollars than there wuz in tn
Corners. Bascom advanced the fort,
six dollars and the three hundre
, wuz borrowed Nv n banker at Sece'
: sionville who took mortgages on til
farms NV the imprudent bondsmer
for sckoority. Wv course can't G
J back to the corners under egzisti
circumstances 1t would be uncom
Portable for me to live there ez MAJ
tiers hev terminated. l shell max
my way to Washington, and shell Sc
ef l can't get myself electedez mans
ger Of q labor association, and s
make a Twin till there comesa chang
in the Administration. 1 WOO
fasten myself on A. Johnson, but III
forchinitly there aint enuff in him I
: tie to. would ez soon think NV tyi
myself to a car wheel in a storm {
sea.
> PETROLEUM V. Nasty,
witch acuz POstmaster.)
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