The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1872-05-24

cram down and draw everything g
miic. But we've got to give him NJ
: Ihere amt any getting aro1nd thai
reckon. Now, if we can't get yo
to help plant him"
Preach the funeral discourse
L Assist a. the obsequies Pr
70 "Obs'quies is good. Yes. That
dit; that's cur little game. We ar
y going TO get up the thing regardless
70 yen know. lie was always Eilty him
a sell, and 81 J GU bet you his funera
\ amt goin' 10 be no slouch; solit
!, silver doorplate on his coflin, si1
\ piumes on the hearse, and q nigge
!, on the box with billed shirt and .
. plug ha.--how's that for high? Ant
r wen take care CT you, pard. Vel
= fx YOU all right. There will be s
kerridge for you; and whatever yor
q want you just 'scape out and well
tend to it. We've got a shebane
, fixed up for you to stand behind, ir
. No. Ps house, and don't sell clam
!, Put Buck through as bully as yo-
can, pard, for any body that know'd
him will tell you that he was cne Oi
the whitest men that was ever in TIE
mines. You can't draw it too strong.
He never could stand it to see things
going wrong. He's done more to
make this town peaceable than any
man in it. I've seen him lick four
Greasers in eleven minutes, myself.
II thing wanted regulating, he
warn't the man to go browsing around
after somebody to do it, he would
prance in and regulate it himself.
He warn't Catholic but it didn't
make no difference about that when
it came down to what mans right
was--and so, when some roughs
Jumped the Catholic boneyard aad
started in TO stake out town lots in
it, he went for 'em And he cleaned
Fem, too! l was there and seen it
myself.
"That was very well, indecd--at
leas. the impulse sas--whether the
act was strictly defensible or not.
Had deceased any religious convic-
lions +? That is TO say; did lie feel a
dependence upon, or acknowledge
allegiance to higher power p
More reflection.
"Ireckon you've stumped me again,
pard. Could you say 1t over once
more, and say it slow?"
swell, to simplify it somewhat,
was he, or rather had he ever been
connected with any organization
sequestered from secular concerns
and devoted to self-sacrifice in the
interest of n orality p
"All down but nine-set 'em up on
the other alley, pard -
What did l understand you to
say?'
"Why you're most too many for
me, you know. When you get in
with your left. hunt grass every
timen
"How? Begin again?"
"That's it."
"Very well. Was he a good man,
and"
"There-see that; don't put up
another chip till look at my hand.
A good man, says you? Pard, it
ain't no name tor it. He was the best
man that ever-pard, you would have
dotted on that man. He could lam
any galoot of his inches in America.
1t was him that put down the riot last
election before it got start; and
everybody said that he was the only
man that could have done it. He
wal;Zad IN with a trumpet in one hand
and epanner in the other, sent fcur-
teen men home on q shutter in less
than three minutes. He had the riot
all broken up and prevented Lice be-
fore anybody ever got chance to
strike blow.
"He was always for peace, and he
would have peace--he could not stand
disturbances. Pard he was a great
loss 10 this town. 1t would please
the bows if you could chip in some
thing like that and do him justice.
He once, when the Micks got 10
throwing stones through the Meth
odis' Sunday school windows, Buck
Fanshaw, sll of his own notion, shut
up his saloon, and took a couple of
six shooters and mounted guard over
the Sunday school. Says he "No
Irish need apply!' And they did't.
He wa, the bulliest man in the moun-
tains, pard, he could run faster, jump
higher, swear harder, and hold more
tangle.,o loot whiskey without spilling,
than any man in seventeen counties.
Put that in pard; it'll please the
boys more than anything you could
say. And you can say, pard, that ne
never shook his mother'
"Never shook his mother?''
"Thars it--aDy OF the boys will
tell you So"
"Well, but why should he shake
her."
"Thaps what 1 say-but some
people docs"
"Not people of any repute ?''
"Well, some that average pretty
$685."
"In my opinion, man that would
offer personal violence to his mother
ought to-"
aCheese is pard; you've booked
your ball clean outside OF the string.
What I was drlvin' at was that be
never hro,ced off on his mother-don't
YOU see? No, indeed. He give her
a house to live in, and town lots, and
plenty of money; and he looked after
her and took care Of her all the time;
and. when she was down with the
small pox, he set up nights and nuss-
ed her himself. l think you're a
square mn, pard. like you, and I'll
lick auy nan that don't. I'll lick him
till he csa't tell himself from a
last wears corpse! Put it there"
CAnother fraternal hand-shake--and
exit
The obsequies were sill that "the
boysn conld desire. Such marvel Of
funersl pdmp had never been seen in
Virginia City. The plumed hearse,
the dirge-beating brass -bBnds, the
closed marts CT business, the flags
Dropping at half mast, the long plod-
ding procession of uniformed secret
societies, military battalions, and fire
companies, draped engines, carriages
of officials and citizens in vehicles and
on foot, attracted multitudes of spec |
,ators to the side walk roots, windows;
and for years afterward, the degree
of grandeur attained by any civic dis
play in Virginia City was determined
by comparison with Buck Fanshaw's
funeral.
ASCENE NOT IN THE BILLS