The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1872-08-01
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4 Good Democrat Gonc--Eidcr Peaa,i-
hackers DEATH What Killed him.
From the ToledosBIadc. T
C0NFEoERATEX RoADs,)
(Which is in the State NV Kentucky,)} II.
July2O 1872,
We hcv hin slnitten! Deaths icy
hand hez removed from ouf midst one
who wuz towunst an ornament and q
piller. Elkanah Pennibacker is no
more
Elder Pennibacker wuz a native Nv
Kentucky indeed no other State Good
hev prodoost SIGH man. He wuz born
in the very house i'm which he died, or
rather he died in wot wuz left NV it. 1t
he'd bin large house wunst, but when
Linkin emansipated the niggers, & the
Elder and his six wuz deprived NV
labor, they found it impossible to get
flrewood. After the rail fences wuz gon
they commenced on the house, and he'd
yoosed it all up but four rooms.
The death nv this good man is doc to
the Greeley movement. He never wuz
capable NV undcrstandin it, and at first |
refoozed to yield toit. He refoozcd TO |
buy one NV the white hats witch brot
back from Cincinnati, and Bascom wuz
forst to take stern measures with him. |
Nary drink, Elder, till it goes under4
that haiti" That fetched him. He put
it on. s&4s teNeits
swat do we want to take up Gree
Typ he asked. s
.ttu,1> ton@ n ,,o,,+ ,r,st1, ~ r or,ctyorad
Why not take up Grant to beat
Greeley WITH" replied this onest, tho
obtuse, old man, to witch didn't say a
word, findin anser somewhat difficult.
He accepted Greeley. however, tho it
wnz mostly becuz we insisted on 1t, but
he did it in hazed sort of a way. and
wuz never hisself afterward. lie de-
liberately cut down two. hickories witch
he he'd in front NV his house, and he
spent most of his time spelling out ar
ticles in an Ola copy uf Che Triboon.
"Pm Dimocrat, sed he, sadly, with
a puzzled look, and l find, akording
to my candidate fur President, that I'm
a hOss-thief a liar, a perjered villin, a
harlot, and that Pm bought with Bril-
fish gold. ! amt harlot, and never
wuz, and eff I've bin bought with Bri-
fish gold, where's the gold? Good
Hevins! shell 60 mad" Ffs
And the wretched old saint, who wuz
afflicted with mind witch wuzn't cal
Related to grasp the suttleties ofmod-
| ern politix, wood rush out ov his house
into the field, and calm hisself by COM
munion with nacher.
Last Toosday we ratified. He kerr
| ried torch, and he'd on q white hat,
but he acted in a very eccentric man
ner. He didn't keep in line, and wuz
constantly murmurin to hisself amt
a harlot, and / never wuz." He went
| home without takin nothin at Bascoms,
and then l knowd suthin was wrong,
No Kentuckian kin survive his loss NV
appetite.
| 1t wuz ez l feared. Wednesday
mornin' he wuz unable to rise from his
bed, and went to see him. His mind
| wuz wanderin. In his delirium he
asked me to pay him nine dollars and
q half witch / borrowed ov him five
years ago. / wuz satisfied from this
that he wuz failin. gave him little
| Ticker in a spoon, witch brot him to
! hisself. ~.
| :. Parson," sed he, somewhere I've
Il IC6A al dHcCuOtC NV ~ Dlhn WlCI WIZ
drunk, and witch, leanin up agin q tree,
vomited. While he wuz contemplate
the elected contents NV his stomick, a
little dog came snutfin around, and the
man saw him, and wuz amazed."-
Thunder,s he remarked, know wher
| cat them crackers, member with ut
most 'stinctness where got that bolo-
NY sassage, but d--ll me ct | know
where ate that dog Parson, I'm in
the same fix. ! hev taken the Cincin-
natl cmetie and its worked. Iremem-
Der distinkly when / swallowed State
rites, but I'm id eff l know where |
took in that Greeley pup, with an
Ablishn head and high protective
tariff tail. Parson, it's too much."-
And the good old man buried his head
in the kivrin and wept vociferous.
left hiR hui E ffSrWeoaf s ip thin hs laettfcF
| He had deliberately gone to the closet &
taken out banner witch he had proud
| ly carried the year before, which rel
presented Greeley embracin Niger
woman witch weighed 200 pounds, and
he'd hung to that banner from the sup
portin frame. and wrapped hisself into
| IL. lie had destroyed all the notices
| witch we yooscd TO carry. such cz "No
Niger supremacy" white men shcl
rool Ameriky," and SIGH remarksin, ez
he regarded the wreck NV en-, :" / shell
die, parson, but thot best TO leave
nothing behind that wool embarras
yco.' | took occasion to hint that he
he'd better add that note NV hand NV
mine to the rooms, and he sadly that it
wood be CT well. 1T amt woth no
more than the rest" he remarkt.
lie got into bed agin and sunk into a
troubled slumber In about an hour.
he awoke, when his dimed eye happen
ed to rest onto the white hat NV mine.
which he'd hung onto the bed post
He riz up in bed holding his hand afore
his eyes, ez eff to shut ont some horrid
vision, and, shricking violently, he
sunk back a corpse.
/ Thus died Elder Pennibacker. one NV
my first friends of the Corners. He
Wuz stanch and stoopid. He wuz a.
bieeyer in State rites, in Ham & HageI'
and in Dimocracy. He died from Sc
we're attack NV supposin Horris Greeley
to be ez onest ez he wuz hisself He
| Wodent turn Abolishnist for no offs,
and he spozed that Horris wuz still the
same.old heathcn he ALWAYS wuz. He
bleeved that Horris he'd swallowed the
DImocratic party, and do wot Good |
Good not make him understand that the
Dimocratic party he'd slavered Greeley
over with the Presidency and swaller-
ed him. Poor ole mani lie don't nm
derstand such pollitishens as / do. or
| he wood hey knowd better and lived.
He died Nv stoopidity, disease wich.
If it wuz alters fatal, wood reduce our
party to mere nothing, Numerically.
Deekin Pogram and are adminis-
traitors NV his estate. Ez Bascom hez a
mortgage on the farm for all it is worth,
eur dooties will be light. There hain't
been crop raised on the place since.
the emancipation NV the niggers and
Bascom hez furnisht him and his sons
in Ticker ever sence on tick. Most nv
the property in this vicinity is in the
same fix. Mine, wood be, but FORUM
ately l hewitt eny. Yours truly,
PETROLEUM V. Nasty,
Pee: 1. II, Al II sFI