Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1869-08-14


the bonds and went onto EN- himself and
in ten DAYS the commislns came all reg
Ter, wbereupon Bigler backt the nigger
and took ioreible possession NV the offs.
While wuz absent they he'd he'd per.
ceshun, consistin nv Pollock, Bigler and
the new Postmaster, who marched the
streets with the stars and stripes. ban.
ners and sich. Bigler rernarkt that the
perceshun wnsn't very large, but IL wuz
talented, eininently versateel He OBip-
ler) carried the flag and played the FIFE
Pollock carried n banner with an inscrip
sheu onto it, "Sound the loud timbreI
DER Egyp1s wide sea-" and PLAYED the
bass drum; while the rigger bore aloft
banner inscribed, "where Afric's sunny
fountains roll down the golden sands.n
with his commission pinned onto it,
playin in addishcn pair NV ancient Gym,
balls. Bigler remarkt further, that the
percesllum created positive sensation
1T the Corners, wich ] shood think it
wool.
"It wasn't" sed the tormentn cuss,
"very much like the grand perceshun
wicll took place when you received yoor
commission. Then the whites NV the
Corners wuz elated, for they spected to
get wat 700 owed EN- in doc time, and
the niggers wuz corresponding depress-
cd. They skunk into by-ways and side.
ways; they didn't hold up their heads.
and they busted out as fast ez they Good
git. At this perceshun ther wuz a
change. The niggers lined the streets
cz we passed. grimm exultinly, and the
whites wuz depressed corresponding.
It's singler that at the Corners the two
races cant feel good both at the same
time" ''
My arrival heyiu become known, by
the time / got back to Bascom's all nv
friends he'd gathered there. There wuzu't
q dry eye among en, and ez thot NV
the joys once tastid but now forever fled,
mine moistened likewise. Their wuz a
visible change in ther manner toward
me. They regarded me with solcitood,
but in it Good discern that that solici,ood
wuz not so much for me ez fer them
selves. ....t..
"W hat shell / do?'' / askt. "Suthin
must he devised, for can't starye."
"Pay me wat 700 owe mel" eiakelated
wuz made by all NV EN- with wonderful
yocnanimity. Whatever difference NV
opinyun ther mite be on other topics, on
this they were all agreed. ...
"Genllemen % commenst, backing up
into a corner, sis this generous? Is this
the treatment hev right to expect?
Is this" ......
:, shood hey gone on at length, but jist
at that mint Pollock, Joe Big Ter and the
new Postmaster entered. Room wuz
made for EN- and cheers offered en-, but
they declined to sit.
81 hev biznis," sed the Postmaster,
"disagreeable biznis, but it's my offishel
dooty to perform it," ... 49,
| At the word "offishel" coming from
his lips I groaned, wich wuz ekkoed by
those present. ...-
81 hev in my hand" continyood he,
"de bonds gibber by my predecessor,
onto wicli is de names NV George w.
Bascom, Elkanah Pogram, Hugh Nc
Pclter, and Seth Pennibacker, ez surctits.
In dis oder hand hold a skedool NV the
property belongin to the department
wieh wuz turned ober to him by his
>,
boxes, locks, books, ct scttry; wild sun
dry dollars WORT NV stamps, paper, twine,
etc. None OBJ dis post offs property,
turned ober to my predecessor, is to be
found in de offs, and de obek oh dis visit
is to notify yoo dat onless immejit pay
nent be made NV the amount thereof, |
am drckted by de 'partment to bring scot
to wunst against the sed sureties."
Never before did | so appreciate a.
Johnson and his Postmaster General,
Randall. Under their administration
wat Postmaster wuz ever pulled up for
stealth any thing? Ekko ansers.
This wuz the feather that broke the
camel's back. t'nl..
""Wat!" exclaimed Bascom, "shel l
lose wat yoo owe me and then pay fer
wat yoo've stole?"
"Shel i lose the money" sed Pogram,
"wicl lent you, and in addishen pay
Ablishcn government for property yoo'ye
confscated2" '~si..t
"But the property is here" Ircmarkt to
Bascom, you've got it all. Why not
return 1t and save all this trouble ?"
swat wood hev then for the whisky
J ".'N SohSOoHiSu bS SJdNSi"tCd Nioh-
usly. ''it's all Ive ever got from yoo,
and Pye been keepin 700 fer four years"
Didn't that property pay yoo for the
likker?" | asked; but Bascom was in no
humor fer figgers, aud be pitched into
me, at wich pleasant dooty all follered
SCOT. But fer Joe Bigler, they wood hcv
killed me. Ez it wuz they blackt both
my eyes and rolled me out onto the side.
walk, shuttm the door agin me.
Ez l heard the door slam TO | felt that
all wuz lost. No offs no money and
Bascom's closed agin me! Kin there be
a harder fate ? j passed the night with
a farmer three miles out, who, bein sick,
hedn't been to the Corners, and conse-
kently knowd nothin of the changes.
heard next day the result of the ruck-
shen. lSascom returned sich of the prop
erty ez hedn't bin sold and consoomed,
wich consisted NV the boxes. The chairs
he'd bin broken up in frequent shindies
wich occur at his place, the locks he'd
bin sold to farmers who he'd used them
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