The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1869-03-25
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(Which is in the Stait of Kentucky),} !

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(Which is in the Stait of Kentucky
February %, 1869.
The Sd rade onto kentucky is nov
being made. The 1st wuz the armc,
invashen NV the Stait by Linken'
hireins, the sekond wuz unkonstoosh
nell abolishin NV slavery, and tn
third developed herself yesterday.
Some time sence Bascom was press
ed fun ssnes to maik pameut onto .
lot NV whisky. He is rich, but b,
seldum hez muny, ez he sells almos
entirely on credit-wich is, the citi
zens buy on credit. Strangers never
talk but one drink ov his likker, wicl
maiks thare paternage, wich is cash
very lite.
| Wun M York CONNIE ,shal agent
did thry it Zee within 5 hours, but he
pade the penalty of his rashnis. His
onedicated bowels wuz'nt ekal to the
emurgence, and be bekum ravin mad
and took third and dide! Well
do | remember the mournful occa,
shun. He lay doorin his fifteen min
its OF illness in my offs, and dide
there. For several weeks l had clene
shirts and muny to pay board with,
tho his sampul case woodent sell for
nothing. Bascom took it for trife,
and the shirts likewise. He gifts ev-
erything portabel that comes here.
Pece to the Moo Workers. ashes
drop briny teer to his memry.
10 return. Bascom he'd to hev
redy mony, and he kun down cruel
on Deekin Pogram, his heftiest debt
or. The Deekin wuz helpless and
thare was every appearance NV Il ded
lock at the corners. At this junctcher
in steps Pollock, with an offer to buy
a sertane pece Nv land the Deekin
he'd, pervidcd Bascom would relecse
his mortgage onto it. Bascom gladly
akcedcd and the transackshen wuz
consumated.
The ground sold hi the Dcekin had
no valyou. The soil was worthlis for
it he'd bin planted in tobackcr for a
skore Of years, and beside this, erik
run thru it. with a fall of perhaps 80
feet, the water tumbling over the
rocks, perpetyooally, in most rid
!culus manner. The Deckin sold it
chepe, for water was never poplar at
the Corners. What Pollock wanted
Nv it we coodent understand, but the
MYSTERY was clered up the next day.
Bascom, the Deekin and | wuz out
lookin at pece of land adjoining,
whom we saw parscl of fellows thar
with surveyIn instrumence, Il mesur-
in OFT the ground and stickin littel
stakes all over it!
"Wat are you doin here?" askt the
| Deekin.
"FiXin the site of Factory" re
markt the boss of the corpse. with
out takin his eye off the instrument.
"Wat?' shriekt the Dcekin.
"Fixin the site ola Factry-a Cot
ton Factry.'
"Wher'e from ?" askt the Deekin,
in agony.
"From Massachusetts, " replidc the
black coated feend, ez coolly as tho
he was in Boston.
"From Massachusetts, shreckt the
Deskin, fallin in a faintin fit.
Bascom and me was more desidid.
Our line of ackshen was decided up
on in mint.
'Sir!' sed we, "this can't be per-
mitted. One spot in Kentucky shall
alluz rename sakrid from the contain
inashen Nv Massachusetts. We will
hav no tactrys here, we will hav no
hords of fanatics here, maxim cot
tin cloth, and bringin here Liseums,
common skools, debatin societies and
preechin. We don't want to see this
Arcajen spot turned into a place of
residence tor factory girls, in short,
we won't hev it.
The fellow maid no anser, but went
on stickln stakes into the ground.
"Will you desist?" asllt l.
'Not any" returned he.
''Bascom," sed |, "arouse the citi-
zens. It's now nine o'clock and by
this time they are all at the grocery.
Haste Bascom, haste! The danger
is imminent and our ackshen must
be vigorous.
| Bascom startid, and in less than
twenty minuts ther wus 4 hundred
Nv our people on the ground. The
Surveyor wuz overpowered, the stakes
were torn up, and the party given
jist an hour to git out Nv the visinity,
with the asshoorence that ef they
showd their faces ther again they
wood be interdoost to tar and teath-
ers, eff we he'd to sacrifice every goose
in the Corners.
This summary precedin endid the
matter. That mite these vandals left
the Corners, anu we saw EN- no
more.
When | think over wat we hey es.
capped l feel thankful. Good Hovins
To think NV an lnvashen of Moo Eng
landers To think NV thcr bein these
peaceful precinks four or five hun
dred girls, all from Moo England
all able to read-all attendin mcetin
en- Sundays - all teachin Sunday
skools-all organizin temperance SO.
cielies, and the missionary societies
ct settry. To think NV sooperinten-
dents, and labrers and machihists, all
Nv EN- opposed to our habits and all
NV EN- bent on maxim society conform
to their ideas How long could Bas.
com survive sich an invashen? How
long wood it be before Pennibackel
and McPelter wood hev to turn their
distilleries into flourln mills, and how
long could hold the Postoffis. even
tho a Dimocrat wuz Prcs;dcnt?--
| Them people take papers and write
| and receive letters, and the otiis wood
then be a sinecoor. Ez these things
passed ia my mind | wept grateful
teers at our escape.
The party went over TO CARROTS.
town, witch is on the same creek, with
| jist ez much ny fall in it, and the
niggers there give EN- land enough
for their purposes, and the Factry il
to be establish there. They are al
together too near for comfort, but we
kin stand it. The niggers are toe
strong to be interiered with, but we
shell take good care that the contain
inashen shell not reach as. Ez we are
we shell eontinyoo 30 the eend. II
one place at least in hentucky ther,
she. be no,hin but Kentucky, pur,