Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1869-01-29

selfYn Is not solved. My return from MOO
York so ANONYMOUSLY, on foot, wuz a seri.
ous disappointment TO my friends at the
Corners. They felt when | left EN- that
they he'd me fixed for life, and their sorrer
at my ontimely return wuz genuine. Bas
com ez soon ez he saw me enter his bar
weary and foot SORE remarked with pro-
fame eiaculashen that I'd be his room yet,
| am a man NV ackshen. To wunst
called meetin Nv my friends TO consider
the stuashCn, and TO arrange for another
yencher. remarkt to EN- that l he'd not
lost faith In Neo York that l wuz certin
that that city wuz my field. / proposed
that another outfit shood be furnished me /;
the same ez before, and that | shood hev
one more trial But they yoonanimusly
declined, foelin that | hadn't sufllshent
control NV my own appetite for grocery
keeper, and that investments in that direc-
shun wood be perpetooal waste NV
capital which the Corners Good not afford.
Various methods NV maxim livin were
sejested, but none met my approval. One
wood seiest this thing in San Francisco
another that in Alaska and each wood
swear that every one wuz the very thing.
Their readiness to agree and the numer.
ousnis Nv the miles the places wuz away,
satisfied me that distance wuz the main
pint with EN-.
That misable wretch, Joe Rigler, hap
pened in at q moment when they wuz a
discussin the feasibility NV conductership
on street railroad in Noe Orleans--ez
tho the directors Nv the companies hedn't
all got dissipated nephews to ill rich, re
sponsible places-when he remarkt that
the obtoosenis Nv humanity wuz one NV
the wonders Nv the ninteeuth century.
MAKE NV him." sed Josef, "a Dime,
kratiC organ grinder, saw off his rite leg
dress him in bloc, git him an instroomsnt
wich will play Dixie the Bonnie INoo
Flag and sich toons, plant him on the side
walks NV louisville, Moo York, or any
other Dimekratic city, and his forChOon is
made"
but why dress me in blooy Why no,
in gray, eff play Confedrit toons ="
Innocence Didn't the Dimocrisy al
ways wear bloc, while they wuz whistlin
Contedrit toonsY Even in the North they
don't object TO a bloc coat, 80 that they
know there's Confedrit heart under it "
But replied |, "I wuzn't soljer-
wich is, only ca n draftid man, and then
only for short time"
That don't NATTER remarked Josef
mo more wuz the heft NV the Dmocrisy
The bulk nv EN- wiCh served served as
drattld men. But that circumstance is in
yoor favor, The regler organ. grinders
them wlch wuz volunteers, put onto pla
card wlch hangs onto their instrooments
words to this effect
Enlisted July 10, 1862 Shot thro the
leg at Anteetam."
You kin put onto yourn this proud in.
sIipshen:
"Drsftid Sept. G, 1S62-desertid Sept
10, lS63-lost rite leg in an encounter with
Provost Marshels, Oct. 10, 1863.
"Sich an inscripshen wood melt the
heart NV every Dimocratic passcr-by, ant
they'd fill yoor cigar-boX with coppcrs
Mich NV em Good resist sich an appeal
Think NV wat harvest yoo'd reap in
Louisville when Breckenridge comes home
and in Frankfort when he is inoggeratid
Governor NV Kentucky! It's the dodge
for 700, Parson."
thot the matter over for n mint, and II
pleased me. The life NV an organ grinder
is by no means to be despised It's a
dreamy, poetical Contemplativo sort NV
cggistence. Ea ther amt no manyooaI
labor in 1t beyond the mere turnin NV n
crank, am satisfied that it wood SCOT me
Ihen one sees so much NV life. Constantly
before 700 Is a ever Changin panorama
yoo see humanity in all its phases and
When mite comes how sweet the rest, how
nsplrln the llkker, witch yoo hcv honestly
earned by yoor manly eXertions!
is II necessary that shel hey leg
ampltatidg' askt /.
"Ccrtinly !" replied Josef.
Then Ideclinel" sed |. aside from
the pain | hev regard for them legs
lhel saved my life in all the slxirmishcs
wuz in doorin my hrceC term NV seryis q,
u drattid man in '63. will not part witt
one NV en-"
This is tritln with yoor friends, sir =
cjacilatcd Bascom "Yoo hey The way
opened for nonist livin and VOC refooge tc
walk ye into it, This cannot be permit
ted
IS cannot be permitted" ekkoed
NcPeltcr, Pennibacker and the rest NV
en-.
Josef hev yoo sufrlshent skill I,
ampelate a limbY" asks Bascom.
II hev" replied Josef "ef yoo vii
furnish me a carvin knife and hand saw
I've seen it done in confcdrit hospitals
lroo the victims didn't most alluz survive
III 700 do stand it, Parsou, think NV tn
glorious life organ grindin is-cf VOC di
under 1t console yoorself by thinkin hoy
much organ grindin yoov'e escaped
Bring the knife and saw, and somebod
twist Handkerchief about his leg"
And forthwith they ceased me, throwe,
me onto the bar and tied me there and bro
dull knife and a handsaw, and that Gus
wood hey hsckt into my leg he'd it not biz
for Deekin Program.
Josef Bigler!' sed this more thar
SAINT, "trooly tell us, wat are the chance
NV hls survivin this operashenY"
ABOUT one IN a thousand, / shood say
ana thals why am SO anxious To com
menceF promptly replied Josef, sharp
enln the KNIFE yishusly onto the sole u
his boot
Then let him upr eiackuatid IN,
Deekin hastily, "let him up. He owes m,
thirty seven dollars, with interest, sine,
the sec nd day he arrived in this nlace
wlch be borrered. Ef he dies its gone
ct he lives he may strike suthiu tharll en-
able him to pay it"
Slash away, Bigler !" remarkt Bascou
ylShuSly, :" he owes me seven hundred
dollars tor drinks sence he's bin here. anC
eI he lives he'll double It in wear"
there wuz an animated discussion, cz I,
whether Blgler shO0d go on or stay hi,
eager hand. Fortunately | owed eyTy on,
NV the bystanders, and wat wuz more tor
tunste, the most of EN- wuz better fixed
than Bascom. The heft NV my indebted
ness to the others wuz for borrored
money, c!othin, and sich things wich a
man kin git along without. Bascom
knows that so long ez live must hey
ms goods, money or no money, and hence
MS Geslre to see me either git lucrative
employment or die.
But the majority was agin him-he
yielded, and / wuz saved. "Tbank
Heaven" l exclaimed, ez riz, "thauK
heaven for debt. He'd / bin less hefty on
'hg horrer, | wood now be a cold corpse. y
must git out Nv this as soon as posi-
PETROLEUM V. NAsBY, p. NJ,
(Nich Is Postmasterl
Tue most singular fact in the history
T Ui me crab is that of its breaking its own
nulos, which 1t occasionally does. The
creature is able TO do this in any position
oul the most advantageous way of max.