Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1872-08-14
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witch is in the Stait Of Kentucky.) :
h' July 10th, 1872. }

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Elder Pennibacker wuz native NV
Kentucky; indeed no other State Good hev
hev perdocst sieh mah. He wuz born
in the very house in wich he died, or ra'
ther he died in wat wuz left NV it. 1t
he'd bin a large house wunst, but when
Linkin emausipated the niggers, aud the
Elder with bis six sons, wuz deprived uv
labor, they found it impossible 10 get fire.
wood. After the rail fences wuz gone
they commenced on the house, and hed
yoosed it all up but four rooms. M
The death NV this good man is doc to
the Greeley movement. He never wuz
capable of understandingit and at first
refoossd to yield to it. He refoosed to
buy one NV the white hats wich | brought
back from Cincinnnati, aud Bascum wuz
forst to take stern measures with him.
Z" Nary drink, Elder, till it goes under
that hat?" That fetched him; he put it
on.
swat do we want to take up Greeley
for ?" he asked. ja'r. r a1nr
"To beat Grant."I anscred. r
"Why not take up Grant to beat Gree
ley with ?" replied the old man, to wich !
didn't say a word, iudi1 an anser some'
what difficult. ...........w
He accepted Greeley however, tho i
wuz mostly becoz we insistid on it, but he
did it in dazed sort NV way, aud wuz
never hisself afterwards. He deliberate
" cut down two hickories wich he he'd in
front NV his house, and has spent most Nv
his time in spellin cut articles in an old
copy of the Triboon. D.. m i.#r
I'm Dimocrat," scd he, sadly, with
puzzled look, land, II find akkording to
my candidate for President, that LIN q
boss theft, liar, perjpred william, a
sum, harlot, and that I'm bought with
British gold. | aint harlot and never
wuz, and eff I've BIN bot with British golt
where is the gold? Good Hevins | she
go mad
And the wretchid old saint, who wui
afflicted with a mind wich wuzn calker
lated to grasp the suttleties of moderl
politix, would rush aut Nv his house int
the field, and calm hisself by communil
g with 1acher. is's"" mn o.
Last 1oos'iay we ratified. He kerrie'
/. torch and he'd on y white hat, but h
{ acted in a very eccentric manner. II
didn't keep in line, aud wuz constant
& murmurin to himself, II aint a harlot an
+ never wuz." He went home withou
: takin nothin at Bascom's and then | know
2 ed something wuz not right with him. N
7. Kentuckian can survive the loss. Nv hi
appetite, . .4.a so
1t wuz ez | feared Wednesday, morni
: ha wuz unable to rise from his bed, and
} went to see him. His mind wuz wandcri
In his deerum he asked me for nine do
. . lars and half wich | borrowed nv, hi
FIVE years ago. | wuz satisfied from tn
> that he wuz faiin fast. | gave him
I little likker. in spoon, wich brot him
$ h'sfset'fI' MS + ,as.af eu ~oa
[ left him but returned in the atternoo
| found him worse than ever. lie he'd d
= liberately gone to his closit and taken o
a banner wich he he'd proudly carried Il
: year before, wich represented Greeley e'
- bracin niger woman wich weighed q
lbs, and he'd torn that banner from t
supportin frame, and wrapped hlsself
:. it. He he'd destroyed all the motto
wich he used to carry, such ez "No nj
. ger supremacy" "White men shell re
: Ameriky," and sich, remarkin, ez he
garded the wreck Nv EN-, 81 shell die pf
re son, but thot I'd best leave nothlnn,
ID hind that wood embarras goo" to'
%. occasion to HUT that he he'd better a
ca that note NV hand Nv mine to the rool
h and de sed sadly that it would be ez VIC VIC
he ut aint wuth no more than the rest,
as rcmarkt. ,.s. dts
IRE He got into bed agin and sunk into
tut troubled slumber. In about an hour
lin awoke, when his dimned eye hapt
ire ed to rest onto the white hat ov mi
ey wich | had hung onto the bed post
ng riz up in bed, holdin his hands afore
led eyes ez if to shet out some horrid visl
INK and shreekn violently, sunk back
up corpse.
i'm. Thus died Elder Pennibacker, one
air nv first friends at the corners. He
his stanch and stoopid. He wuz belle
ing in State rites, in Ham and Hagar,
,ro. in Democracy He died from sev
attack Nv supposin Horris Greeley to