Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1870-01-07
Nasty.
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from the Toledo Blade tv
MR.. Massey SETTLED AT LAST-THE CITY
OF NEW YORK TO BE HIS FINAL REST
| IRG PLACE-HoW HE is SITUATED AND
HOW HE LIKES IT.
,...a In THE 9TH WARD OF NEw York,
'' December 10, 1869.
THE dove wich Noah sent out come
back to the Ark becoz the waters klvered
the land when the dove found dry spot
it come back no more. | ain dove. L
wuz sent out from the Corners, but the
prevalence NV water druy me back, time
and asen. Now, thank Heaven, hev found
a spot where there is no water, Cat least
I've never seen any used here for any
purpose), and here / stay. My foot hez
/ found a restin place.
am the sole proprietor NV the Harp
Nv Erin S'loon. The original proprietor
NV the Harp NV Erin" died the evenln
Nv the last eleckshun, much regretted by
his politikle 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
nominashen, he wuz hit with brickbat,
and died with his day work half done The
man who struck him wuz expelled from
the society to witch he belonged for KILN
an able. bodied Democrat before the closin
NV the polls.
/ How [ got possesshen NV the s'loon
shell not state. Suffice it to say, it became
mine, and the stock likewise, and that
shell never hev occashen to leave it. Here
I shell live, and here shell 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 shell
be preserved!' and substitootid, "He
serves his party best who votes the most,
which read to those who. drop in Ell the
last words NV the Hero Nv Moo Orleans.
| hev an Irish flag turned round an Irish
Harp over the bar, and protrates Nv the
Head Centres Nv the Fenian Brotherhood,
properly wreathed, all about the room.
On the end, Nv the bar, in the spot where
in other neyhborhoods the water-p pitcher
stands, hev box with hole in the top
NV it, inscribed, "Contribushens for the
benefit Nv our suffrin brethren in English
Basteels may be dropped in here" That
box more than pays my rent. Then hey
quite a cabinet NV sakred relics. / hev a
peece Nv the rope witch hung John Brown;
the identicle club witch killed the first mig
ger in the riots Nv Jooly 1868: a built
fired at the Triboon offs at that time, with
/ other sooveneers dear to the Democratic
heart, witch attract many. These hang
onto the walls, and underneath them,
hev the prices Nv drinks inscribed, with
the stern, cold words, "No TRUST"
Wednesday mite. Rememberin the terrible
endin Nv all my other inoggerashens, I
declined at fust to make any formal openin,
| hy1t NV frondc irciotad fhot If xUI1z tho
tom NV the ward and that must do it.
| Nobody will buy yoor likker," sed
4 one, /" eff 700 don't make regler openin.
"E make regler openin," sed I, {" l
won't hev drop to sell EN-. Stay-I hev
it. I'll 60 before Justis NV the Peace
and take solemn oath not to drink any
thing myself that mite"
"Twon't do" sed my trend, "Oaths
don't count in this ward" @H@ p
Various plans were rejected One gen.
tleman proposed that | shood be tied
down so that couldent git at the ikker,
and that he shood do the honors. His
nose wuz agin him and / declined his
proposishen. Finally hit upon the plan.
I calkllated that twenty gallons wood
anser, and put that amount in a barrel.
| The balance Nv the stock I locked in q
room, and then put the key away in a
drawer. 49,
"There," sed I triumphantly,r "afore that
twenty gallons is eggaustid I shall be too
far gone to know where the key of the
room holding the balance Nv the stock is.
Saved Saved !"e''.
1t RESULTED ez anticipated At first we
he'd speeches, and toasts. Mr.. O'Rafferty
| replied to the toast, "Our adopted coun-
try" He sed the term "Our adopted
country" wuz happy one, for so far ez
Moo York waz conserved the sons Of Erin
he'd adopted it. He he'd bin charged with
a lack Nv love for this country. He re-
PEELED the charge with scorn. Why
shood MT he love this country? In wat
other country wuz votes worth dollar
apiece? Where else Good SIGH a man ez
and only two years ON the ground.
Mr.. O'Toole jined in the sentiment.
| Where else under the canopy Good 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. There wuz less risk in
holdin offs in Moo York, than in burg
larry in England, and the result was
shOorer.
Their Wuzn't much more speech-makin.
The drinkin went on fast and furious 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 in very
much the same predicament. Four or
five Nv EN- did try to rouse me, to git more,
but it wuz NV no use; they mite ez well
hev whispered Grey's elegy in the ear NV
a dead mule. The most Nv EN- slept, ez
did, on the floor till the mornin.
2. shell be happy here. hev the steddy
patronage Nv two Aldermen, three skool
directors and four contractors, and when
the Mayor gifts the appintin Nv the poleece
there will be twelve policemen whose
trade l kin count on. There in my back
room is where the preliminary caucusses
for the ward is held, and I shell be paid
for wat the managers drink till l git an
offs myself At last my lines is cast in
pleasant places.
- PETROLEUM ". Nasty,
s.. ION s-5 (Which wuz P. Ny
t. -ss i-s5 Ones Mother.