Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1872-08-08
Nasty.
a Good Democrat GOne-Elder Penniback-
er's Death-W hat Killed him.
CoNFEDRIT X ROADS, \
(Which is in the State Nv Kentucky 7
T,,lv % 1879

CoNFEDRIT X ROADS,
(Which Is in the State Nv Kentucky
July 20. 1872.
We hev bin smitten Deaths icy hand hez
removed from our midst one who wuz to-
wunst ornament and pillar Elkanah
Pennibacker is no more.
Elder Pennibacker wuz native Nv Ken
tucky indeed NJ other State Good hev per-
doost SIGH man. He wuz born in the very
house in which he died. or rather he died in
wat wuz left Nv it. 1t he'd bin a large house
wunst. but when Linkin emansipated the mig
gers and the Elder and his six sons wuZ de-
prived Nv labor, they found it impossible to
git trewood. After the rail fences wuz gone
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
understandin it, and at first refoosed to yield
to It. He refoosed to buy one Nv the white
hats wich I brot back from Cincinnati, and
Bascom wuz forst to take stern measures with
him. {" Nary drink, Elder till it goes under
that hat!" That fetched him. He put it on.
Wat do we want to take up Greeley for ?" he
asked.
''To beat Grant with !" ansered.
"Why not take up Grant to beat Greeley
with ?" replied this honest, tho obtoose, old
man, to wich 1 didn't say a word, fndn an
anser somewat difficult.
He accepted Greeley however, tho it wuz
mostly becoz we insistid on it, but he did 1t in
dazed sort Nv way, and wuz never hisself
afterward. He deliberately cut down two
hickories witch he he'd in front Nv his house,
and he spent the most Nv his time spellin out
articles in an old copy Nv the IribOon.
I'm Dimocrat," sed he, sadly, with
puzzled look, land find, akkording to my
| candidate fur President, that I'm q hoss-thief,
liar, a perjered villin. slum, a harlot, and
| that I'm bought with British gold. amt har-
| lot, and never wuz, and eff I've bin bought with
British gold, where's the gold? Good Hevins!
shell 60 mad"
And the wretchid old saint. who was afflicted
with mind which wuznt calkelated to grasp
the suttleties of modern politx. wood rush
out ov his house into the field, and calm his
| self by communion with nacher.
Last Toosday we ratified. He kerried
| torch and he'd on white hat, but he actid in a
! very eccentric manner. He didn't keep in
| line, and wuz constantly murmurin to him
| self, " l amt harlot-I amt harlot, and
| never wuz." He went home without takin
nothin at Bascoms, and then knowed suthin
wuz 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 half wich 1 borrowed Nv him five yeers
| ago. 1 wuz satisfied from this that he wuz
| falin. l gave him little hkker in a spoon,
| witch brot him to hisself.
Parson." sed he, " somewhere I've read an
| anecdote Nv man wich wuz drunk, and wich,
leanln up agin a tree, vomited. While he wuz
contemplation the elected contents Nv his
stumick, little dog came snuffin around, and
the man saw him, and WIS amazed. Thun-
der, he remarked, / know where l eat them
crackers, member with utmost 'stinctness
| where got that bolony sassage, but d-m me
eff l know where ate that dog. Parson, I'm
in the same fix. I hev taken the Cincinnati
| emetic and it's worked l know where I got
| my frap-frada T ramaunhar diofiDLlv xuhaD 7
! got my States rites, but I'm ID eff l know
where 1 took in that Greeley pup with an
ablishen head and high protective tariff tail.
Parson, it's too much" And the good old man
buried his head in the kivrin and wept vocif-
erous.
left him. but returned in the afternoon. I
found him worse than ever. He had deliber-
atey gone to his closet and taken out banner
witch he he'd proudly carried the year afore,
wich represented Greeley enlbracin niger
woman wich weighed 200 lbs, and he'd torn
that banner from the supportln frame, and
wrapped hisself into it. He he'd destroyed
ali the notices wich we yoosed to carry such
ez mo niger supremacy" White men shel
rool Ameriky, and SIGH, remarkin he re-
garded the wreck NV EN-, s. I shell de- parson,
but thought best to leave nothin behind that
wood embarrass y0o." / took occasion to hint
that he he'd better add that note Nv hand Nv
nine to the rooms, and he sed sadly that it
wood he ez WE'LL g 1t amt with no more than
the rest, ne Fomdrht
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 of mine, wich I he'd hung
onto the bed-post. He riz up In bed holdin
his hands afore his eyes eff to shet out some
horrid vision, and shreekin violently, sunk
back corpse.
Thus died Elder Pennibacker, one Nv my
first friends at the Corners. He wuz stanch
and stoopid. He WIZ bleeve in States
rites. IN Ham and Hager, and in Democracy
He died from a severe attack Nv supposir
Horris Greeley to be ez honest ez he wu2
himself He woodent turn Ablishnist for nc
offs, and he spozed that Horrs wuZ still the
! same old heather that he alluz wuz. He
bleeved that Horris had swallered the Dino
f cratic party, and do wot Good, Good moi
! make him understand that the Oimocratit
g party he'd slavered Horris over with the Presi
Q dency and swallered him. Poor old man
He don't understand SIGH pollitishens ez do
or he wood hev knowd better and lived He
died Nv stoopidity, disease wich, eff it wus
e | alluz fatal, wood redoose our party to a mere
: nothn, noomerlcally.
Deekin Pogram and are administrators W
e his estate. Ez B&scom hez mortgage on thu
: farm for all it is worth our dooties will b.
T light There amt been crop raised on thu
place sence the emancipation Nv the niggers
| and Bascom hez furnisht him and his sons his
likker ever sence on tick. Most Nv the prop
erty in this visinity is in the same fix. Mine
: | wood be, but fortunately haven't any.
. PETROLEUM V. Massey,
(WiCh WIZ POgfTn astar