The Tiffin tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1868-1887, 1869-02-04
Nasty.
Mr.. Nnsby Pinds a New Husiness which
Promises Ample Pront..-He Devoies Him
SELF to H With MI the Earnestness Of his
Enthasiastic Nature.
Posr OFFfs, CoSFEpRrr X RoADs,
(Wich is In the State NV Kenlucky,)
L.. Lu.u

Posr orTfs, CoSrEpRir X RoADs,
(Wich is in the State NV Keulucky,)
Jan 20, 1869.
! how Il at last see a litel A graft
litei brite lite shall not 90 TO No,
York. nor shal be forced 10 leave the Cor
ners, at least permanently. hev laF strucl
lie | shell 1--we like gentleman.-I ! shel
pay for my likker, and be on an ekh footir
with other men. lIascom, whose mle q
happiness, hut whose frown Is death, viii
smile onto me wuhst more.
To Miss Soosan Murphy I owe my pres.
ent happiness. The minnit Moist that
she he'd put in n claim agin the Government
for property yoo5ed doorin The war br Fed
raj so9cry, | to-wunst saw where my iuan.
shel salvashen wuz. Imhejiily I hised tny
shngle q claim agent wich wuz to prose.
k0ot claims ngin tho Government 10, prop
erty destroyed or yoosed doorin the hte on
plta@nihis, by Fedrhl troops. That ihingle
hcdnt bin 6tt an hour, before Joe briet
he'd red It TO half the citizens NV the Corners
and In two hours he'd biznis on my hands,
and money In my pockets. Eza mater NV
cOurse insisted upon retainin fee Nv ten
dollars In each case.
lssaker Gavitt aud his two younger jroth
er wuz the FIRST clients he'd Their ,as. i
one nv pekoOlyer hardship and feel ahoo
ed that Congris will lo-wunst afford en- the
releef they ak The property de,roved
wuz a barn anu its contents. witch VIZ dee.
troyed by Buel In the second teer d, the
war; that Is the contents wood hev bin des
troyed only they wu1n in the barn. e, they
he'd bin sold jist previously to to IN, Con.
ledracy. But 20 the Elder, peace TO his
ashcs, took Coniedrit mummy for sec con-
tents wich mummy he, in moment nv en-.
tho)sia'n. invested in Coniedrit bonds.
wich finally got TO be worth nothin. We mi
in a claim for the yalyuo ny the contents el
well ez nv the barn. Beih 20 wears nv ACE
when the war broke out he did not yolun. d.
teer In the ConIedut service, and con ,pguent.
ly never fired u shot at the Old FLAG. Ills
two youngest sons did, II is troo. bu, the
Elder cant he held responsible for them boys
The estate is entitled to damaae list the
same ez though the Elder wuz alive.
Elder PennibaCker hez also claims ia a
considerable amount wich Is for fences
crops, barns aud sich, destroyed by Fedrai
armies. The Elder is not quite certain bur
that the fences wuz destroyed by order NV
a Conledrt General wich wus retreetin
and II Is possible that tile crops, barns and
sich, wuz yoosed mp at the same time. II
wuz doorin tho war at any rate, aud ez th,
Fcdral Government wuz, In his oplnvun. tc
blame for the war, wich never wood bey bin
carried on he'd It yielded ca II ought TO he,
done, why the Fcdral Government ought te
pay all these losses. Nv course shanit pnl
all the Elders talk into the petishen.
Miss Jane McGra,h's case wich is the one
! shel push the hardest is one wlch, ef Con.
girls does not consider mvordbly, il will show
that Congris heI no bowels. Miss Mcgrntt
isN woman. Wv course doorlu the war sh,
wu1 loyal, cz she un ierstood LOYALTY. Sh,
believed In her State. She he'd two broth
ers wich went into the Coniedrit seryis, anl
she gave EN- both horses. Rut wood an,
sister let her brother go oloot2 Them horse.
must be set down to the credit NV hersister-
ly aileckshun. II will be showed, make nc
doubt that when her oldest brothers regi-
mcnt he wuz u Colonel) left for the seat uy
war, that Miss McGarth presented TO il A
SCOT Nv colors wich she Eiade with her own
hands, wich SCOT included black flag with
skull aud cross-boncs onto IT, Sposn she
did, ltwu2 loyalty to what she considered
hcr state. And the fact that dOorin the war
shc role twelve miles to inform Oon fedrit
officer tsNI four Fcdral soljers wich he'd es-
capped ir0m hnderonyillc wuz hid m her
barn shood nct operate Rgin her. Onto her
piano ther wut Il ohoise collection nv South
ern songs, and ther isarumor that in Louis
willie wuust she did spit in the lnco iva Fed
Val f.Nlt l.s.N AZ. -.
ernment goin TO Inquire closely into
slch trilles2 Miss McGarth give me ,hc
names Nv thtee Fedral Generals who campt
on her place doorin the last year NV tho wal
wlch wood certify TO her loyalty, Wich el
they didn't wood show that there wuzut any
gratiIood In humanity.
Deckin Pogram hez NV course claim
The Deekin's horses wu8 all taken 10y Fed.
ml otliser, wch wuz the moro agravatin ez
the OeeGin he'd, in addishen to his own, jisl
bonght 2j witch he wuz TO hev delivered tC
Gen. Morgan Nv the Coniedracy, the next
day, who wu1 10 hev paid for EN- IN gold
They were gob6led. For these horses tn,
Deekin claims payment. lle wuz doorir
the war strictly nootral. Kentucky did no
seccdc neither did the Deekn. His boy,
eral occasions he mite hey cleaned his lrusil
rifle aud gone out at mite To git u crack a
Fedral piclets, Habit Is strong, aud ez the
were no schoolmasters to shoot the Deekir
must shoot somethin. lie considered the wa
a great mlsiorchoon,and many time hez tn,
old patriark with teers streemin down hi
checks exclaimed "Why wont Linkin with
draw his troops and let MS alone p He he
bin since the close NV the struggle banker
In srter Peecc. "Let us hev Peece ~ is hi
cry '0ivc me back my niggers '-let M
hey things ez they wunCo wu8 aud shell b,
soothed into quiotooi.' lie voted for Mick
lellan IN 1854, and for Seymour in 1868, bu
that NV course wont count agin him in III
matter nv the claim. The miunit he decid
ed 10 put In the claim he withdrew from tn
ku-kluN, nv wich associashen he hez biz
chief for this se1kshun, Hes sorry, now
that he shot any niggers since the close u
the war lie Is an inoiTensive old MAJ
whose pathway TO the tomb needs soothin
The horses he lost he counts worth $40, 900
and he NV course wants remuneration to th,
amount NV $40, 600 more for the aneu euish h
suffered setin NV en- 20.
Almost every white citizen nv the Con
ers hez a claim NV wich shel hev the prose
kootin--that is them wich kin raise the re
tainin tee Some hundred or more VIII
never he'd anything before or doorn the wal
aud who are in the sane condshen now. he
put In claims for sums rargin from $40,
600 % $40, 900, otIeriH me the half git,
may take en-. They kin swear to each 9th
ers loyalty wich will rcdoose the cost y
evidence 10 mec nominal sum.
! shel HE me TO Washinton and get Mr,
Cobb to take hold with me, giVin her shan
NJ she succeeds with Congris ez well ez sh
did with the President, the result will be al
that kin desire.
PETROLEUM Y. NAsRY, Z, NJ,
(Wich is PostmasIer)
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