The Tiffin tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1868-1887, 1872-05-23

coming so near saying a cuss word
but you see Pm on an awful strain il
this palaver, on account of having t
cram down and draw everything s.
mild. But we've got to give him up
There amt no getting around that,
reckon. Now, 'if We can't get you &
help plant him"
"Preach the funeral discourse? q? As
sist at the obseqUies ?"
"Obs'quies is good. Yes. That
it; that's our little game. We are go
ing to get the thing up regardless, yOl
know. He was always nifty himself
and so you bet you his funeral ain
goin' to be no slOuch; solid silve
door plate on his coffin, six plumes OF
the heaTse, and a niger on the boz
with a billed shirt and aplug hat-hov
is that for high? And we'll take cart
of you, pard. Wen fix you all right
There will be a kerridge for you anC
whatever you want you just 'scap,
out and Wen tend to it. We've go
a shebang fixed up for you to stanC
behind in No. is house, and dom
sell a cam. Put Buck through as bul
| ly as yCu eIn, pard, for any one tina
knOw'd him Will tell you that he wa
| one of the whitest men that was eve
in the mines. You can't draw il too
stIong. He nevOr could stand it Il
see things going wrong. He's done
more to make this town peacablt
than any man in it. I've seen hin
/ lick four Greasers in eleven minutes
myself. If thing wanted regulatin.
| he warn't the man to go browsing
around after somebody TO DO it, ht
would prance in and regulate it him
self He waTn't no Catholic; but il
didn't make no difference about thai
when it came down 10 what mans
right was-and so, when some rOughs
! jumped the Catholic bone yard anC
started in to stake out town lots ia it.
he went for 'em! And he cleaned
'em, too ! was there and seen it my.
self"
"That was very well. indeed-at
least the impulse was-whether the
act was strictly defensible or not. Had
deceased any religious convictions =
That is to say, did he feel a depend
ence upon, or acknowledge allegiance
to higher power ~
More reflection.
81 reckon you've stumped me again
pard. Could you say it over once
more, and say it slow ?'
"Well, to simplify it somewhat,
was he, or rather had he ever been
cOuuDUpSd WIN s-sTgaIlIAatloH SC
ouestered from secular concerns and
devoted to self sacrifice in the inter-
ests of morality" ,"
"All down but ninc-set 'em up on
the other alley, pard "
"What did l understand you to
say?2
me. YOU know. Wien you get in
with your left, I hunt grass every
time"
"How? Begin again"
"Thats it,"
Very we'll Was he a good man,
and"
''There-see that; don't put up an
other chip till 1 look at my hand. a
good man, says you? Pard it amt
no name for 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 elec-
ton riot before it got a start and ev-
erybody said that he was the only
man that could have done it. he
waltZed in with a trumpet in one
hand and a spanner i'll the other, and
sentfOurteen men home on ashutter IN
| less than three minutes. He had the
riot all broken up and prevented nice
before anybody ever got chance to
strike a blow.
"He was always for peace, and he
would have peace-he could not stand
disturbances Pard, he was a great loss
to this town. It would please the
bows if You could chip in something
like that and do him justice. He
once, when the Micks got to throw
ing stones through the Methods
Sunday School windows, Buck Fan
shaw, all 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 didn't. He
was the bulliest man in the mount
aims, pard, he could run faster, jump
highed, swear harder, and hold more
| tangle-foOt Whiskey without spiiiing,
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 he never
shook his mother"
| 'Neyer shook his mother 81
'That's it-any of the boys will tel
"Well, but why should he shake
her ?"
"Thst's what say-hut some peo,
pie does"
''Not people of any repute?"
"Well, some that average pretty so
So"
ain my opinion, man that wOulC
commitpersOnal viOlencetO his moth
er ought to"
"Cheese it, pard you've booked
YOUR ball clean outside the string
| What 1 was drivin' at was that IN
never MrOCed Off on his mother
don't YOU see? No indeedy. H,
give her a house TO live in, and towl
lots and plenty Of money; and b,
looked after her and took care of he
all the time; aud when she was dow
with the smallpox, he set up night
and nusscd her himself. I thinl
you're white. I think you're q squar
man, pard. 1 like you, and Iii lie.
any man that don't. I'll lick him I'll
he can't tell himself from last year
corpse! Put it there" LAn9ther fra
ternal hand-shake-aud exit.
. The o5sequies were all That th
bows could desire. Such 4 marvel q
funeral pOmp had never been seen i
| Virginia City. The plumed hears'
the dirge-beating brass-bands, 10
closed marts of business, the flag
dropping at haif-mast, the long, ploC
ding procession of uniformed secrC
societies, military battalions, and fin
companies, draped engines, carriage
of officials and citizens in vehicle
and on foot, sttracted multitudes {
spectators to the sidewalks, roofs an
windows; and for years afterwart
the degree of grandeur attained b
any civic display in Virginia City W;
, determined by comparison wit
Ruclz FanShaw's funeral.