Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1872-08-15


No Kentuckian kin survive his loss nv
appetite.
1t wuz ez I feared. Wednesday morn
In he wuz unable to rise from his bed,
and | went to see him. His mind wuz
wanderin. In his deiirium he asked me
to pay him nine dollars and a half which
1 borrowed NV him five years ago. wuz
satisfied from this that he wuz failing.
gave him little likker in spoon, which
brot him to hisself.
"Parson,'' said he, somewhere I've
read an snecdote Nv man wich was drunk,
and wich, leaning up again tree, vom-
tied. While he wuz contemplatin the
elected contents of his stumick, little
dog came snuf6n around, and the man
saw him, and wuz amazed. E..sThundcr,'
he remarked, L know where 1 eat them
crackers. L member with utmost 'stinct-
ness where l got that bolony sassage, but
id me eff know where ate that dog
Parson. Tn in the same FIX. / hev taken
the Cincinnati emetic and it's worked
L know wbere got my free trade, 1 re-
member distinkly when swallowed States
rights, but Pm id eff know where 1
got that Greeley pup, with an Abli sben
head and high protective tariff tail.
Parson, it's too muc':." And the good
old man buried his head i'm the kiyeriu
and wept vociferous.
left him, but returned in the after
noon. found him worse than ever. He
he'd deliberately gone to his closet and
taken out a banner which he he'd proudly
carried the year afore, wich represented
Greeley embracin a niger woman wich
weighed 200 lbs, and he'd torn that ban
ner from the supporting frame, and wrap
ped hisself into it He he'd destroyed all
the notices wich we yoosed to carry, such
ez mo niger supremacy" "Whlte
men shell rool Ameriky," and slch, re-
markin, ez he regarded the wreck NV EN-,
II shell die, parson, but 1 thot best to
leave nothing behind that wood embarass
yoO;" took occasion to hint that he had
better add that note NV hand nv mine to
the rooins, ,and he sed sadly that it wood be
ez we'll. Il aint wurth no more than the
rest" he remarkt.
He got into bed agin and sunk into a
troubled slumber, In abont an hour he
awoke, when his dimed eye happened to
rest onto the white hat of mine. which l
he'd hung onto the bed-post. He riz cp
in bed, holding his hand afore his eyes ez
| ef to sllet out some horrid vision, and
shrieking violently, sunk back corpse
Thus died Elder Pennibaker, one NV
my first friends at the Corners. He waz
bleever in States rites, in Ham and
Hage-, and in Democracy He died frem
a severe attack of supposn Horris Greeley
-, nc cz honest as be wuz hisself. He
! woodent ;urr AblishGist for no offs, AMI
1 ne spo2ed that Horris wuz still the heath
ea that he ailuz wuz He believed that
iiorris he'd swallered the Democratic part '
and do what cocdI Good not make him
unJ ers' and that tie Democratic party he'd
slavered Herris over with the Presidency
ana swailered him. Poor old man He
dou't IN ersiaEd sich politishens ez
do, or lie would hev knowd better and
lived. ~ He died w stoopidity, disease
wich, eff it wuz alluz fatal, woed redoose
our party to mere nuthin. numerically
Deekin Pogram, and are administra
tors NV his estate. Ez Bnscom hez MOI t.
gage on the farm for all it is worth. oui
iooties will be light There amt beer
a crop raised on tie place sepee the erpap
4 cipation uv the niggers, and Rascom he'
.urnishc hin, aud his sons iikker ever seDc'
on tick Most nv the property in this u
sinity Is in the same fix. Nine wood re
bus fortunately haven't any
PETROLEUM. v. Massey.
(Which wuz P6stnaster)