Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1872-08-28
THE
PETROLEUM NASBY.
A Good Democrat GOne--Elder PENN
baeker'S Death What Killed Him.
ROA,


We hev ben smittenl Deaths icy
hand heZ removed frum our midst
one who wuZ towunst an ornament
and a piller. Elkanah Pennibakner
is no more.
Elder Pennibacker wuz a native NV
Kentucky; indeed no other State
Good hev perdOOst SIGH a man. He
wuz born in the very house in witch
he died, or rather he died in wat wuz
left Nv il. 1t he'd bin a large house
wunst, but when LinkiD emansipated
the niggers, and the Elderand his six
sons wuz deprived Nv labor, they
found it impossible to git firewood.-
After the rail fences wuz gone they
commenced on the house, aud he'd
yoosed it all up but four rooms.
The death NV this good nan is doc
to the Greeley movement. He never
wuZ capable NY Understandings, and
at first refoOzed to yield to it. He
refOozed to buy one NV the white hats
which 1 bTot back from Cincinnati,
and Bascum wuz forst to take stern
measures with him. mary drink,
Elder, till it goes under that hat ~
That fetched him, he put it on.
"NNhat do we want t. take up
Greeley for ?" ne asked.
"To beat Grant with" 1 ansered
"Why not take up Grant to beat
Greeley with ?" replied this honest,
tho obtoose old man, to wich / didn't
say a word, fndin an ansersomewhat
difficult.
HE ACCEPTED GREELEY,
however, tho it wuz mostly becoz we
insisted on it but he did itin a dazed
sort NV a way, and wuz never hims lie
afterward. He deliberately cut down
two hickoories which he had in front
NV his house, and he spent the most
NV his time spellin out articles in an
old copy NV the Tribune.
Pm a Dimocrat,n sed he, sadly,
with q puzzled look, land l find ,akOr-
ding to my candidate fur President,
that Pm a boss thief, a liar, a perjerd
villin, a slum, a harlOt, and that Pm
bought with British gold. l amt a
harlot, and never wuz, and if I've
been bought with British gold, where's
the gold? Good Hevins! 1 shell go
mad.n
And the old saint, who was affiict-
ed with a mind which wuzn't calke-
lated to grasp the suttleties Ct modern
politiX would rush out of his house
into the field and calm hisselfby COM
munin with nachur.
Last TOOsday we ratified. He kerr
led a torch aud he'd on a white hat,
but he actid in a very eccentric man
ner. He didn't keep in line. and was
constantly mUrmurin to hisself, Il
amt q harlot, l amt a harlOt, and l
never wuZ." He went home without
takin nothin at BascOm's, and then l
knowd sushin wuZ wrong. No Ken
tuckian kin survive his loss Ov ap-
petite
1t wuz ez I feared. Wednesday
mornin he wuz unable to rise from
his bed, and l went to see him. His
mind wuz wanderin. In his deleri-
UNI he asked me to pay him nine dol
lars and u half which L borrowed NV
him five years ago. 1 was satisfied
from this tina; he w failin. L give
him a little likker in Il spoon, witch
brOt him to hisself.
left him, but retuTnedi in the after
noon. l found him worse than ever.
He had deliberately gone to his closet
and taken out a banner which he bed
proudly carried the year afOre, witch
represented Greeley embracin a mig
ger woman witch weighed 2O0ibs., and
he'd torn that banner from the sup
portin frame, and wrapped hisself
into it. He he'd destroyed all the
notices wich we yOosed TO carry,
such ez mo Niger supremacy"
white men shall rOOl Ameriky,"
and SIGH, remarkin, ez he regarded
the wreck NV EN-, II shell die, parson,
but / thot best to leave nOthin behind
that wood embarrass goo" l took
occasion to hint that he he'd better
add that note NV hand NV mine to the
rOoins, and he sed sadly that it wood
be ez well. 1T amt with no more
than the rest" he remarkt.
He got into bed agin, and sunk into
a troubled slumber. In about an
hour he awoke, when his dimed eye
happened to rest onto the white hat
u v mine, wien 1 he'd hung onto the
bed-post. He riZ up in bed, hOldin
his hands afore his eyes e. if to shet
out some hOrrid vision, and shreekin
violently, sunk back a corpse.
Thus died Elder Pennibacker, one
Nv my first friends at the Corners
He wuZ
STANCH AND STOOPID.
He was a bleever in States rites, in
Ham and Hager, and in Democracy.
He died from a severe attack of sup
.o-s. II,rriu Eraa1av- 10 no OF hOnaGt