Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1871-01-20

" the man WlCn lives SIX years with slCh eZ
700, and acquired yoor habits can't live
anywhere else, that is within the bounds
NV civiliZashen."
found things at the Corners very much
ez / had left em. NY pcrtikler friends
wuz all livin, and g0in on percisely cz
they alluz he'd. Joe Bigler was still alive,
and wuz recognized ez the leader NV the
niggers at the Corners, and Pollock wuz
still retailin goods to EN-.
They he'd he'd several exciting seasons.
Pollock he'd bought a yeer ago, water
power on Buck Creek, necr the village,
and farm admin, and he made serious
effort to start an iron works on it. The
innovatin wretch he'd gone on to Massey.
choosits-hed enlisted a passel NV Yankee
capitalists in the enterprise, and they he'd
abslootly gone on and built the buildin
and got in the heft NV the machinery, and
wuz gatherin up operatives in the East to
set it in operashen. Issaker Gavitt dis
kivercd one day that the few mechanics
they he'd read noosepapers, and Bascom
found that ther wuzn't Dimocrat among
EN-. The Corners felt outraged NV
course, and a meetin wuz called to take
measures to stop it rite where it wuz. Pol
lock and Joe Bigler sneaked into the
meetin and undertook to talk EN- out
NV it.
"It'll double the price NV yoor land ~
sed Pollock
And give the Ablishnists more valua-
shen to tax us onW sung out Issaker Cav
lit.
Ez shell never leeve my land" com
mencst Pogram.
It's leevin 700 deevlish fast, owing to
yoor chronic thirst" interrupted Joe Big
Ter. "Deekin, waits the yoose NV yoor
spcekin in the land INTEREST," Eff yoor
venerable bilers hold together few short
months Bascom win hev wat few akers
you hev left. Let him represent it,"
Ez shell never leeve my land" con-
tinyood the venerable Deekin, "wat do
keer wat its valyoo is"
"ltll break up our customs" sed Penni-
hacker. "They1l git turnpikes and rale-
roads and skoolhouses in next, and then
wat quiet will we hev"
But, Bascom, it'll make more custom.
ers for yoor bar" sung out Bigler.
"Troo, but there'd be more groceries to
! supply EN-. No! | hev all that kin take
| keer NV and | don't want no more. Down
with these interlopers."
Down with the interlopersr ~ sang out
all NV EN-, and headed by the venerable old
Pogram, they went for the Works.
They hacked down the corner-posts-
they tore off the roof, they ripped out the
machinery that wuz in it, and broke it up
and wuz about to throw it into the Greek,
when Bascom shouted in loud voice:
" old iron is ecorth t,oO cents a pound al
my Jdr!"
Deekin Pogram stood with sekshun Nv
a wheel uplifted ready to hurl it into the
water, but at these magic words he held
his hands.
&C. W." said the agid saint. &c. w
will yoo give US lkker at reglar rates fol
sich iron ez we bring 700, or will yoo mock
our yernins by takin the iron and givin III
credit for it ON account G. W. speak ,
"Tll give likker for it?" exclaimed Bas
com. I'D rather do that than to keep on
chargin."
"Immejitly ther wuz a scramble for the
the iron-it wood buy likker and wuz al
nstapreshus metal In ther zeal to gather
it they come to blows. Issaker Gavitt
and Kernel McPelter fought over piece
that weighed ten pounds, and that old ass
Elder Pennebacker, nearly drownded his
self divin for seckshun Nv balance
wheel that he he'd previously thrown into
10 feet Nv water. He wuz pulled out near
ly dead and weepin perfusely.
at weighed 800 pounds" he gasped
"Ef Good hev raised it, Good hev keI
comfable four days"
They laft at him, but it wuz wrong, anC
he'd l bin there | shood hev rebooked EN-
know wat it is 10 go without my reglel
rashens, and wat crooel disappointment
it is to see four days supply within site
but jest out of reach. ! shood hev gon'
for that iron myself.
They made eileen thing of the Works
They tore down the buildin and tore VI
the dam, and destroyed the cabins Nv tn
workmen. The company and Pollocl
became disheartened, and wisely cOncloo
did not to rebild, and so the Corners WI
saved.
The Radicals he'd attempted to hev tn
r niggers vote and mishnary sosiety het
undertook to build skoolhOuse. TIL
niggers did vote, for Joe Bigler stood a
the poles threatenin to shoot the judges G
the vote NV single one of EN- wuz re
;. foosed, but it didn't amount to anything
1 The judges took the box to quiet plac
G where Joe coodn't get at EN- and threw
4 out every one NV ther votes. The skool
! house was more easily disposed NV. L
> fast ez the mishnaries wood bid bildir
: it wood mysteriously take fire at a. n
r and quietly consoom. The Sosiety go
tired NV tryin to revoloosheniZe the Coz
v ners and abandoned it.
e Ez these things wuz told me, weE
G teers NV joy. "Yoo hev kept the faith,
n / sed "jest ez well ez tho | he'd bin wit
O 700. Bless bless your We didn
& break up till late in the mite. In honor u
# my arrival Declin Pogram squandered til
Q last peace NV cast-iron he he'd left-a pal
!. NV lathe wich he he'd bin savin for som
r desprit emergency. | went home wit
S him and am yet domiciled under his ho
!, pitablc roof
|. Wat L shell finally do aint settled. ! ma
s organize a church-the people wanted n
d to start grocery in opposition to Bascon
g but when askt EN- to advance the cap
e tai they askt wherefore? "Ef he'd cap
n tal," they all exclaimed in unison, /
e start grosery myself"
q And then found that the reason VIII
c they wantid new grosery wuz Bascom
d GROWN indisposishen to give long credi
d Wich the Corners must hev. / kin St
4 nothing in it: Bascom hez alreddy fir
d mortgage on all the land for five mil,
V about, and oz they amt got no niggers
work, NV course they get no crops NV an
n account. Bascom SEE ef they want
d church organizashen he will keep me
s in likker, that is modritly pervided I'll
n others will give me wat little | want
v eat, and spose that's wat | shell hev to
i till suthin better turns up. But than
!, Heaven am here, and it will be singl,
: eff don't find enuf to drink, and to ca
Il and to wear.
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