The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1870-01-04

HOW lie IS Sltu0teO ana HOW He LIKES
From the Toledo Blads.l
In TIE erH WAND " Moo YoRK,l
s-# Fs eve s yasa Dec. 10, 1869. (
The dove wich Noah sent out come
back to the Ark becozr the waters kiver-
cred the land; when the dove found .
dry spot it come back no more. / am .
dove. wuz sent out from the Corners,
but the prevalence of water druv me
back time and agen. Now, thank hea-
ven, hev found spot wher ther il no
water. Cat least I've never seen any used
here for any purpose,) and here stay.
My foot hez found . restin place.
am the sole proprietor NV the Harp
Nv Erin S'loon. The original proprie-
tor NV Harp of Erin died the evening
Nv the last eleckshun much regretted by
his political associates. He he'd only
voted thirteen times, when in an argy-
ment techin the merits NV his candidate,
ez compared with his opponent for the
nominashun, he was hit with brickbat,
and died with his days work half done.
The man VINO struck him was expelled
from the society to which he belonged
for KILN an able-bodied Democrat before
the closin Nv the polls.
How got possesthen NV the s'loon
shell not state. Suffice it TO say, it be-
came mine, and the stock likewise, and
that shell never hev occashen to leave
it. Here I shell live, and here I shel
die. Wv course I've decorated it to
SCOT the tastes Nv my patrons. took
down the portrate NV jackson, and cut
off NV the bottom the words, The
Yoonyun, it must and shall be preser-
we'd = and substitootid: sHe serves his
party best who votes the most which
read to those who drop in ez the last
words Nv the Hero Nv Moo Orleens. /
hev an Irish flag turned round an Irish
Harp over the bar, and portrates NV the
Head Centres Nv the Fenian Brother
hood, properly wreathed, all about the
room. On the end Nv the bar, in the
spot where in other neyhborhoods the
water pitcher stands, hev box with q
hole in the top NV it, inscribed. 'Contri-
bushens for the benefit of our suffrin
brethren in English Basteels may be
dropped in herc.' That box more than
pays my rent. Then hev quite cabi-
net NV sakred relics. hev a peece Nv
the rope wich hung John Brown; the
identicle club wich killed the first mig
ger in the riots Nv Jooly 1868; a built
fired at the sTriboon' offs at the time,
with other sooveneers dear to the Demo-
cratic heart, wich attract many. These
hang onto the walls, and underneath
them, / hev the prices NV drinks inscri-
bed, with the stern, cold words, No
Trust f ,
I inoggeratid my establishment last
w ednesday mite. Rememberin the ter
rible endin NV all my other inoggera-
shens, declined at fust to make any
formal openin, but my friend insisted
that it WIZ the custom Nv the ward and
that must do it.
Nobody will buy your licker, 'sed one,
sef you don't make q regler openin.'
q 'Ef make regeler openin,' sed I,
i won't have drop to sell 'em. Stay
I hev it. I'll go before Justis Of the
drink anything myself that nite.'
'Twon't do sed my friend, sOaths
don't count in this ward, faGt
. Variour plans were rejected. One gen.
Items an proposed that should be tied
down SO that coodent git at the Ticker,
and that he shood do the honors. His
nose wuz agin him and declined his
.proposishen. Finally hit upon the
plan. l calkilated that twenty gallons
wood answer, aud put that amount in
q barrel. The balance NV the stock I
locked in room. and then put the key
away in drawer
There said triumphantly, safore
that wenty gallons is eggshausted I
shall be too far gone to know where the
key to the room boldin the balance NV
the stock is. Saved! Saved!
It RESULTED ez anticipated At first
we he'd speeches and toasts. Mr. o.
Rafferty, replied to the toast, Our ad-
optid country He sed the term sOur
adoptid country wuz a happy one, for
so far ez Moo York waz concerned the
sons of Erin he'd adoptid it. He he'd
been charged with lack NV love for
this country. He repelled the charge
with scorn. Why shoodn't he love this
country? In wat other country wuz
votes worth dollar apeecel Where else
Good sich q mau ez he hev so high q po-
sishen ez Alderman, and only two years
on the ground.
Mr.. O'Toole jined in the sentiment.
where else under the canopy Good q
man like hisself who coodent read, be a
skool direcktor. He he'd often bin
thankful that he turned his face toward
Ameriky the mint his time wuz out in
the prison at Liverpool. Their wuz less
risk in holdin offs in Moo York, than in
burglary in England, and the resultz
Wuz shoorer.
Their wuz'nt much more speech max
IA. The drinkin went on fast and furi-
ous tho, and ez anticipated before, the
twenty gallons wuz eggsausted. wuz
very drunk and incapable NV any effort,
mental or physikle and the others were
n very much the same predicament.
Four or five nv am did try fo rnuao ma
% git more, but it wuz NV no use; they
mite ez well hev whispered Grey's elegy
n the ear Nv a dead mule. The most NV
IN slept, ez did, on the floor till the
nornin. 1A'k
shel be happy here. I'hev the sted-
ly patronage nv two Aldermen, three
kool directors and four contractors. and |
vhen the Mayor gifts the appintin Nv the