Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1872-08-16
Nasty.
DEATH OF ELDER PENNIBAoKER.

hand hez removed from our midst one
who wuz towunst an ornament and pill
Ter. Elkanah Pennibacker is no more.
Elder Pennibacker wuz native of
Kentucky; indeed, no other state Good
hev perdoost SIGH man. He wuz born in
the very heusein witch he died, or rather he
died in wat wuz Left NV it. 1t he'd bin a
large house wunst, but when Lincoln
emansipated niggers, and the elder and
his six sons wuz deprived NV labor, they
found it impossible to git firewood. AT
ter the rail fences wuz gone they COM
menced on the house, and had yoosed it
all up but four rooms.
The death NV this good man is doc to
the Greeley movement. He never wuz
capable Nv understanding it, and at first
refoozed to yield to it. He refoozed to
buy one NV the white hats witch | brot
back from Cincinnati, and Bascum wuz
forst to take stern measures with him.
4" Nary drink, elder, till it goes under
that hat !" That fetched him; he put
it on.
What do we want to take up Gree
ley for" he asked.
ITO beat Grant with" / ansered.
Why not take up Grant to beat
Greeley with ?" replied this honest, this
obtoose old man, to which | didn't say a
word, findin an anser somewhat diff
cult
He accepted Greeley, however, tho it
wuz mostly becos we insisted on it, but
he did it in dazed sort nv a way, and
wuz never hisself afterward. He de-
liberately cut down two hickories which
he had in front Nv his house, and he
spent the most Nv his time spellin ont
articles in an old copy NV the Triboon.
"Tm dimocrat," said he sadly, with
a puzzled look, aud | find akkording
to my candidate fur President, that I'm
a boss thief, a liar, a peuered villin, a
slum, harlot, and that I'm bought with
British gold | amt harlot, and new.
er wuz, and eff I've bin bought with
British gold, where's the gold? Good
Hevins shell go mad"
And the wretched old saint, who wuz
afflicted with mind which wuzn't calk.
lated to grasp the suttleties NV modern
poliux, wood rush out Nv his house intC
the field, and calm hisself by communin
with nacher.
Last Toosday we ratified. He ker
ried torch and he'd on a white hat, bu
he actid in very eccentric manner. u,
didn't keep in a line, and wuz constantly
murmuring to himself, 4 / amt harlot
and never wuz" He went home with
out takin nothin at Bascum's, and then
| anowd suthin wuz wrong. No Ken
tuckean kin survive his loss NV appe
tite.
1t wuz ez / feared Wednesday morn
he wuz unable to rise from his bed and
| went to see him. His mind wuz wan,
derin. In his delirium he asked me Il
lend him nine dollars and half which
| borrowed.uv him FIVE years ago.
wuz satisfied from this that he wuz fail
in. gave him little lkker in spoon
wich brot him to hisself
left him, but returned in the after
noon. / found him worse than ever
He he'd deliberately gone to his closet
and taken out banner witch he heC
proudly carried the year afore, witch rep
resented Greeley embracin niger wo
man wich weighed 200 lbs, and he'd tori
that banner from the supportin frame
and wrapped hisself in it. He he'd de
stroyed all the notices WITCH we used Il
carry, such ez " No niger supremacy
White men shell rool Ameriky," anc
SIGH, remarkin ez he regarded the WRECK
Nv EN-, !" ! shell die, parson, but l tho
best to leave nothin behindI that woulC
embarrass you" | took occasion to hin
that he he'd better add that uote Nv hant
Nv mine to the rooins, and he said sadly
that it wood be ez well. cit amt wutt
no more than the rest" he remarkt.
He got into bed agin and sunk into
troubled slumber In about an hour h
awoke, when his dimed eye happened t.
rest onto the white hat NV mine, wich
| he'd hung onto the bed-post. He riz u
: in bed holdin his hands afore his eyes
: ez eff to shet out some horrid vision, an,
shreekin violently, sunk back, corpse
Thus died Elder Pennibacker, one u,
my first friends at the Corners. He WI
stanch and stoopid. He wuz bleeve
in States rites, in Ham and Hagar, an,
in Democracy. He died from sever
attack Nv supposin Horris Greeley to b
ez honest ez he wuz himself He wood
ent turn ablishnist for offs, and he sposet
that Horris wuz the same old heather
he alluz wuz. He bleeved that Horri
} had swallered the Democratic party
and, do wat Good, Good not make hin
: understand that the Democratic part