Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1869-11-26

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Mr.. Nasty IN NEW yoRK AaAN-HE
rs STARTED IN BUSINESS 1Y ufH DRNfI
oCRAffe stkNAeRRs AND HAS 4 ooopl
THING. an HIS hands, MT fwHiskRf
B1IeHTsn uis rRosPECre, As "a sHAs
MANY TIMES HIgFoRB iiiar ln .1Aho's
Moo YoRK, Nov. 9, 1860.
RETNogrfx may be profitable, put when
VOC casf yohf piercin eye back and onto a,
time when VOC made cussid aes nv yoor-
self they are far from bein pleasant j am
doin that thing at this present moment.
Wunst agin iorchoon hez been within
my grasp, and wunst agin hevI permitted
il to slip from me Ijeot Fooii l.oona-
tic arrived in this city two days before
the recent eleckshun, icelin that where
votes wiiz In sich demand there must he
suthin to be made for me. BY inquiry L
found where the headquarters nv the
Democratic General Committee for the
city wuz located, and at about 10, A. NJ,
wich means In the mornin, went there
intendln to offer myself ez man NV, all
work for the two days succcedin. / found
there avast crowd NV men, who were all
NV en- like me In some respects varyin nv
course in many pints, but all NV the same
species. The chairman NV the committee
was distrbutin funds TO en- to he yoosed,
and they wuz a walkin up TO get imstrno'
tions in sort NV procession. 'Notictn
that tie bizinis wuz bein done loosely,
dropped into the procession, and shoor
enulf the man distributin handid me ~
package, sayin ."Tcrrence, be shoor ,yoo
git EN- all UpCfrprn the ship%@ Barney, Mo
Shane win give yez the papers for EN-,
and tell Yez wat names TO vote em under |"
.a.1 &.
body, ,Sho0d l undeceve him? Never
SO, slippin tho package into my pocket, ]
answered. assoomin the Irish brogue:
"Arrea!, mpshp, be jAbers, my jewel I'm
Fortunately I wuz crowded out before |
he'd time TO DIR much more Irish wuzn't
u success ez talkin Irishman. AZ the
foot ov the stairs j opened my package.
1t wuz gryenbaxi "This money" sod
to myself .rwuz given me to further the
cor NV Democrisy; for that purpose I'll
use it. IN start a grocery" And forth.
with that day, leased room in u Demo
catic locality, purchased counter, bari
of whiskey, dozen tumblers, a lithograph
portrate NV gineral Jackson and Gov.
Hoffman, and wuz1 ready for bizness the
mornin nv elecksliuh.
There wuz rush the moment 1 took
faster than ever had before In my life
"At last, sed 4 70 myseli, exultinly, "ai
last hev fonnd my spcers Nasty, yool
in luck. 9'll drink 70 my luck. ! rs
And l tooka zip. Sknsely wuz II dpwr
before ward pdlltishun cum in with thre,
or four vclefA which he wug tal1in car,
NV. They drunk, tho leedcr OF the partl
aslkin me 70 inc EN-, wich did, .,EE theJ
went out co0dcnt avoid drinkln-to tn,
success w the tickct then to the conloo
shen Nv H9rrls Greeley then TO the mem
ory of James Boohannon,. then 70 th,
memory ofFfanklln Pierce; then 20 Jon
Davis, aud by this time found mysel
outside Of tho bar, into Tho middle nv th,
room, in 4 copfoosed state OF mind ant
body, lnehort, I was very drunk Noe
York whisky aint like tho Kentucky
article. t.HtIlrh EW N
AT this critllcl moment ainap ontrreC
hurriedly, and seein me leanin agin tn
wall, went behind the bar andhelped him
self Seein hinl behind the bar forgo
that was the Landlord myselEe Iknowe,
l wuz in a grocery--that,beinl where an
most NV the,iimerrhW in, my intoxioatioI
! forgot that was landlord, and the mis
able wretch behind the bar, coinprehendii
the sitooAshen, let me 60 on IN MY de
looshen. Staggerin lup tn the . ba
| scd, set EN- up sagihp wioh he ,dh
and drank solomnly TO the memory II
George IL. Pendleton and the other dca
DcmocracNu NuynTy' own NShlskey and ther
like the loonatic wuz paid for It outt
my own pockit, and | kept paying 70
whisky torothers es long .ex he'd q do
lar. The fiiai- behind the bar then asko,
me to drink, wich 4 did then | asked
crowd OF, fellows wich come IN to drnl
with me, telling the new har-keepor Il
charge IL wich he sed he wood latliu up
ronriously. s.s.a rrUst
Its astonishin how strong habit is, Tn
moment found he'd credit, / commen,
SAs'sSSsS- srsrr r,ItrTu UuItr m ~'Sct CI
up! and the alercity with which the
drank wuz wonderful. The .newsgot Il
that in slch place there was u lomat
treetin everybody who come in, and ape
feet stream rushed in.
remember but very little of wat q,
CURED. | recollect distinctly NV voti
three or four times, and nv returnin eac
time To my place and trectin crow(
tcllin the barkeepcr TO charge Il. r,
member wunst feclin bad for him, an
sayin comidenualys TO nmn that WI
takin suthln1 With me, that this hons
wouldnt last long ef IL continued to civ
credit miscellaneously, forgettin in IN
drunkenness that it wuz my whiskey
wuz drinxin and glvin tootGers.to drln
all the timer
l needn't continyoo this confession 81,
flee 1t to- say that che next rmornin
awoke in that Identical room chilled con
pletely thru. There 'wuk no whislxev
the barret NOT ennff for my mornins MI,
and hedn't a cent In my poobit, e2 | ne
paid all that was left of the committee
money, and wat j he'd taken ia early /
the day TOR my own ikkcr 10 the feiln
who took advantage NV my condishii /
usurp my place. % stra.l1 rIstf .utAuj v''u
shell newer succeed on that side NV
bar. am not kaikilatcd 10 take care n
my own whlekey,fNn Nl E0i
l shell noty hoSeycf ieaye Moo 1.'ort
We hey got the Legislature now, and
shel hnd slhin to do We Shell, NV cours
repeal the Metropolitan Poleece law an
AL other laws which takes control out n
the hands of Democratic oftshels, aud
amongst so much stoelin ez thore Is roi
TO be there aint sutin Cox me, Il wifi i
singler. This is the troo Democratic MAJ
adise. We hev fat Ablishnisls 10 tax ,nS an
the control Is In out hands. and hcre
stay, To gif az nfis Ipaayha tn thsnS
my name 20 Michael, % / did wunst N
fore, but | shel do il. i am too old
wander VI, and down the earth, and he,
stick ."saa PETRoLEUN Y. NAsDY, Z
bas ~ b.. Wich wpz Postmaster.