Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1872-09-12
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A Good Democrat G0ne-EIdcr Pemni.
backer's Dengh-What Killed Him.
CONFEDERIT x ROADS, !
(wich is in the State NV Kentucky,

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I h ~ - 400 u July 90, 1879. D.
We hey bin smitten! Deaths icy hand hez
removed from our midst one who wuz to.
wunst an ornament and piller Elkanab
Pennibacker Is no more. !Eifi4'" @ji Ills 874H :
Elder Pennibacker wuz native NV Ken.
lucky; indeed, no other State Good hev per.
doost sich man. He wuz born in the very
house in witch he died, or rather he died in
wat wuz left of 1t. 1t he'd bin large house
wunst, but when Linkin emansipateda the
niggers, and the Elder and his six sons wuz
deprived " labor, they found it impossible
to git firewood. After the rail fences wluz
| gone they commenced on the house, and he'd
yOosed it all up but -four rooms. 34I Ill
| The deth NV this good man is doc to the
! Greeley movement. He never wuz capable
Nv understandin it, and at first refoozed to
yield to 1t. He refoozed to buy one NV the
white hats wich / brot back from Cincinnati,
| and Bascom wuz forst to take stern measures
with him. Mary drink, Elder, till it goe,
| under that hat" That fetched him. He put
| 1t on. 7'st% '!'1eE hso az io alTnujt 3ti I
+ swat do we want to take up Greeley forG'
he asked. ,nds ,.,., ..l ..,m,l l,.,,t.,,.'f t,.,
''To beat Grant With" / ansered. "' 1@
why not take up Grant to beat Greeley
WITH? replied this honest, tho obtoose, old
man, to wich didn't say word,l finding an
anser somewhat difficult. ut.,a,t. az 'tt.,,, /
He accepted Greeley, however, tho it wuz
mostly becoz we insistid on IT., but he did it in
dazed sort NV way, and wuz never hisself
afterward. He deliberately cut down two
hickories wich he he'd in front Nv his house,
and he spent the most Nv his time spellin out
articles in an old copy of the 1ff6o0R. :"
"Pm a Dimocrat,' sed he, sadly, with q
puzzled look, s'and find, akkording to my
candidate fur President, that I'm hOss-t thief,
q liar, perjured yillin, a slunl, and that TIM
bought with British gold. amt a hoss-thief,
and never wuz, and eff I've bin bought with
British gold, where's the gold2 Good Hevins!
l shel go mad" ~,..r. .,- a..,.....,,
ted with mind wich wuzn't calkelated to
grasp the suttleties of modern politix, wood
rush out ov his house into the field, and calm
hissef by communin with nacler. .. 1.s
Last Toosday we ratified. He kerried
torch, and he'd on white hat, but he actid in
very eccentric manner. He didn't keep In
line, and wuz constantly murmuring to him.
self. He went home without takin nothin at
Bascom's, and then knowed snthin was
wrong. No Kentuckian kin survive his loss
of appetite. u&l sliaa e9jea ga' AGO. I
ma 1t wuz ez feared. Wednesday morning
he wuz unable to rise from his bed, and i
went to see him. His mind wuz wanderin.
In his delirium he asked me to pay him nine
dollars and half wich borrowed Nv him 8
years ago. wuZ satisfied from this that he
wuZ failin. II gave him q little likker in a
spoon, Yich brot him to hisself. ..e,.,,,.si
,r, Parson, sed he, somewhere I've read
an aneckd0te NV man Wich 'wuz drunk, and
witch, leanin up agin tree, yomited. While
ne wuz contemplatin the elected contents NV
his stumick, little dog came snuffing around,
and the man saw him and wuz amazed.
Thunder he remarked, 4 know where / eat
them crackers, and 1 member with utmost
3stinetness where got that bolona sausage,
but curse me eff know where ] ate that dog.
Parson, I'm in the same fix. I hey takenthe
Cincinnati emetic and it's worked. know
where got my free trade. remember dis
tinkly when I swallowed States rights, but
I'm cursed ef ] know where l took in that
Greeley pup, with an Ab1ishen head and a
much. And the poor old man buried his
he'd in the kiyrin and weptIyocifeous.3 90 ITO |
LEFT him, but returned In the afternoon /
found him worse than ever. He had deliber-
ately gone to the closet and taken out banner
which he had proudly carried year before,
which represented Greeley embracing negro
woman which weighed 200 lbs, and he'd torn
that banner from the suppottin frame, and
wrapped himself into it. He destroyed all |
the notices which we yOosed to carry, such
ez mo nigger supremacy, "White men
lie
he regarded the wreck NV eni, II shel die, |
parson, but I thot best to leave nothin behind |
that wood embarrass yOo.'' / took occasion |
to hint that he he'd better add that note nv |
hand TO the rooins, and he sed sadly that It |
wood be ez wen. at amt worth no more
than the rest" he remarkt. 91tisst s2f'i
He got into bed again and sunk into a |
troubled slumber. "a In about an hour; he |
awokee, when bis dimed eye happened to rest
onto the white hat NV mine, which he'd hung I
onto the bed-post He riz up in bed holdin |
hiz hands afore hfz eyes ez eff to shut out |
some horrid vision, and shreakinf violently,
sunk back q corpse. ,.fo,,,..,..; ....,.s., -
Thus died Elder Pennibacker, one NV nv
fust friends at the Corners. He wuz stanch |
and st0opid. He wuz bieever in States
rites, in Ham and Hager, and in Democracy.
He died from severe attack NV supposin Hor-
ris Greeley to be as honest as he wuz himself.
He woodent turn abolishnist for no offs, and
be sposed that Horris was still the same old
heathen that he alluz wus. He bleeved that
Horris had swallered the Democratic party,
and doc wat Good, Good not make him
understand that the Dimocrafic party hedil
:lavered Horris over withthe Presidency and
swallered him. Poor old mani He don'til
such politishens AZ doc, or bel
wood hey knowed better an lived. He died
uv stoopidity, . disease which, II IL wnz ailHz
fatal, wood Fedoose our panty to mere
nothing. n0Omericalg. IA ItspsI.Jf, ssza 4
Deekin Pogram and are administrators
~ hiz estate. II Bascom hez = mortgage on
he farm fur al It IL worth, our do0ties viii
% light. TAefe amt bin crop raised On
he place since the emancipation of the mig