Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1872-08-28
NASBY.
Good Democrat Gone-EIder Penn5
oaclker's Death-What Killed Him.
From the Toledo Blade
CoFFEDRIr X ROADS,
(WICH IS IN THE STATE OF KENTUCKY

... kNlCH Is IN THE STATE OF KENTUCKY
July &c, 1872.
i We hev bin smittenl Deaths icv
hand hez removed from our midst one
who Wuz towunst an ornament and a
piller. Eikanah Pennibacker is no
more.
Elder Pennibacker WIZ q native Nv
Kentucky; indeed no other State Good
hev perdoost sich man. He wuz
born IN the very house in wich he died,
or rather he died in wet wuz left Nv it.
1t he'd bin a large house wUnst, but
when Linkin emansipated the niggers,
and the Elder and his six sons wuz de-
prlyed Nv labor, they found it impos-
sible to git frewood After the rail
/ fences WIZ gone they commenced on
the house, and he'd yoosed it allup but
four rooms
+ The death Nv this good man is doc
to the Greeley movement. He never
WIZ capable Nv understandin it, and at
first refoozed to yield to it. He re-
foozed to buy one Nv the white hats
wich I prot back from Cincinnati, and
I Bascom wuz forst to take stern meas
ures with him. EtNary drink, Elder,
till it goes under that hat ~ That
fetched him. He put it on.
Whet do we want to take up Gree
ley for? he asked.
g 10 beat Grant with, ansernd.
"Why not take up Grant to beat
Greeley with ~ replied this honest, tho
obtoose, old man, to which didn't say
a word, findin an anser somewhat diff
cult
He accepted Greeley, however, tho it
wuz mostly becoz we insistid on it, but
he did in dazed sort of way, and
was never hisself afterward He de-
liberately cut down two hickories
which he he'd in front NV his house,
and he spent the most Nv his time
spellln out articles i'll an old copy of
the TribOOn.
''Tm Dimocrat,' said he sadly,
with puzzled look, 'Hand find, ak
kording to my candidate fur President,
that I'm a hoss-thief a liar, perjered
villin, a slum, a harlot, and that I'm
bought with British gold. I amt a
harlot, and never wuz, and eff I've been
/ bought with British gold, where's the
gold Good Hevins [ shell go
mad"
And the wretched old saint, who was
afflicted with a mind wich wuzn't cal
Related to grasp the suttleties of
modern politix, wood rush out NV his
house into the field, and calm himself
by communin with nacher
Last Toosday we ratified. He kerried
a torch and had on a white hat, but he
actld in a very eccentric manner. He
didn't keep in line, and was constantly
murmurin to himself, ''I amt har-
lott amt harlot, and [ never was. -"
He went home without tallin nothing
at Bascom's, and then l knowed suthin
wus wrong. No Kentuckian kin sur
vlve his loss Nv appetite.
1t Wuz az | feared. Wednesday
mornin he wuz unable to rise from his
bed, and went to see him. His mind
was wanderin. In his delirium he ask
ed me to pay him nine dollars and a
half wlch [ borrowed Nv him some five
years ago. L was satisfied from this
that he was failin. I gave him little
lkker IN spoon, wich brot him to
hisself.
Parson," sed he, somewhere I've
read an enecdOte Nv man which wuz
drunk, and wich, leanin up agin a tree.
vomlted. While he wuz contemplatin
the elected kontents Nv his stumick, q
little dog came snufin around. and the
man saw him and wuz amazed. 'Thun-
der, he remarked, I know when [ eat
them crackers, / member with utmost
,st1nctness where [ got that balony sas-
sage, but d-n me ef [ know where I
ate that dog Parson. Pm in the same
Tx. | hev taken the Cincinnati emetic
ana It's worked. / know where | got
my tree-trade, [ remember distinctly
when l swallowed states rites, but I'm
Id ef know where [ took in that
Greeley pup, with ali Ablishen head
and high protective tariff tail. Par
son, it's too much" And the good old
man buried his head in the kivrin and
wept vociferously.
L lett him but returned in the after
noon. L found him worse than ever.
He mad deliberately gone to the closet
and taken out a banner which had been
proudly carried the year afore, wich
represented Greeley em5racin niger
woman wlch weighed 300 lbs, and he'd
torn that banner from the supportin
frame, and wrapped hisself into it. He
he'd destroyed all the notices wich he
supremacy" "White " men shell rool
Ameriky," and sich remarks ez he re-
garded the wreck NV EN-, q shel die.
parson, but [ thot best to leave nothin
behind that would embarras yoo." I
took occasion to hint that he had bet
ter add that note Nv hand Nv mine to
bis rooms, and he sed sadly that it
would be ez well. " It amt wuth no
more than the rest, he remarkt
He got into bed agin and sunk into
a troubled s1umber. In about an hour
he awoke, when his dimed eye hap
pened to rest onto the white hat Nv
mine, w1ch l he'd hung onto the bed
post; He rlz up in bed, holdin his
hands afore his eyes ez eff to shet out
some horr1d vision, and, shreekin vio-
lently, sunk back corpse.
thus died Elder Pennibacker. one
Nv my first friends at the Corners. He
Wuz stanch and stoopid. He wuz a
plee7er IN States rites, in Ham an Ha-
ger, and Ill Democracy. He died from
a severe attack Nv supposin Horris
Greeley to be ez honest ez he wuz his
self. He woodent turn Ablishnist for
no o1fls, and he spozed that Horris WIZ
still the same old heathen that he alluz
Waz He bleeved that Horris he'd
sWailered the Dimocratic party, and do
wat L Good, [ Good not make him un
derstand that the Dimocratic party
had slavered Horris over with the
presidency and swaliered him. Poor
old man! He don't understand sich
polltishens ez I do, or he would hev
knowed better and lived. He died of
stto6opldlty, a disease, wich, if it wuz
alluz fatal, wood redoose our party to
a mere nothing, noomerically.
Deekln Pogram and are administra-
tors Nv his estate. Ez Bascom hez a
mortgage on the farm fur all 1t is wuth,
our duties will be lite. There amt
been crop raised on the place since
the emancipation NV the niggers, and
Bascom m hez furnisht him and his sons
their llkker ever sense on tick. Most
Nv the property in the vicinity is in the
same tx Mine would be, but FORUM
ately havn't any.