Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1873-07-17


"Yes-death has. Well. well, well !;
we've got to give him up. Yes. in
deed. It's kind of hard world, after
all, amt it? But, pard, he was a rust
Ter. You ought to see him started
once. He was a bully boy with q
glass eye! just spit in his face and
give him room according to his
strength, and it was beautiful to see
him peel and GO in. He was the worst
son of thief that ever draw'd breath.
Pard, he was on it. He was on it big
ger than an Injun!"
ION it2 On what ?"
'.On the shoot. On the shoulder.
On the fight. Understand? He didn't
give continental-for anybody. Beg
your parden, friend, for coming so
near saying cuss word-you see I'm
on an awful strain in this palaver, on
account of having to cram down and
draw everything so mild. But we've
got to give him up. There amt any
getting around that, l don't reckon.
Now. if we can't get you to help plant
him
Preach the funeral discourse As,
sist at the obsequies ?"
"Obs 'ques is good. Yes. That's
it; that's our little game. We are
going to get up the thing regardless,
you know. He was always nifty, him
self, and so you bet his funeral amt
goin' to be no slouch; solid silver
door plate on his coffin, six plumes on
the hearse, and niger on the box
with billed shirt and plug hat-ho VS.
that for high? And we'll take care of
you, pard. Wen fix you all right
There will be kerridge for you; and
whatever you want just 'scape out
and we'll tend to it. We've got She
bang fixed up for you to stand behind
in No. Is house, and don't you be
afraid; just go in and tute
your horn if you don't sell a
clam. Put Buck through as bully as
you can, pard, for anybody that
know'd him will tell you that he was
one of the whitest men in the mines.
You can't draw it too strong. He new
er could stand it to see things going
wrong. He's done more to make this
town peaceable than any man in it
I've seen him lick four Greasers iu IL
minutes, myself. If thing wanted
regulating, he warn,t the man co go
browsing around after somebody to
do it, he would prance in and regulate
it himself. He warn't a Catholic; but
it didn't make do difference about
that when it came down to what 8
mans right was-and so, when some
rOughs jumped the Catholic boneyard
and started to stake out town lots
in it, he went for 'em, too. was ther,
and seen it myself"
THAT was very well, Indeed-at
least the impulse was, whether the act
was strictly defensible or not. Had
deceased any religious convictions p
That is to say, did he feel a depend
ence upon, or ackno Wedge allegiance
to higher power
More reflection.
Il reckon you've stumped me again
pard. Gould you say it slow %
''Well, or rather had he ever been
connected with any organization Sc
questrated from secular concerns, and
devoted to self-sacrifce in the inter
ests of morality ?"
"All down but nine-set 'em up Oh
the other alley, rard!"
"What did I understand you tc
say ?"
"Why, you are most too much 70
me, you know. When you get in will
your left, hunt grass every time"
How? Begin again ?"
"That's it''
Every well. Was he a good man
and"
''There, see that; don't put up anoth
er chip till look at my hand. A gooC
man, says you? Pard, it amt NJ
name for it. He was the best mar
that ever-pard, you would have doteC
f on that man. He could lam any ga
= loot of his inches in America. 1t wa
him that put down the riot last elec
ton before it got start; and every
body said that he was the only maj
that, could have done it. He waltzeC
in with a trumpet in one hand and
SPINNER in the other, and sent fourteen
men home on a shutter in less thai
three minutes. He had the riot al
t body ever got chance to STRIKE,
blow"
) d" He was always for peace, and h
would have peace-he could not stan
} disturbances. Pard, be was a grea
. loss to this town. II would pleas
the boys if you would chip in some
thing like that and do him Justice
He once, when the Micks got t
throwing stones through the Methods
Sunday school widows, Buck Far
shaw, all of his own notion, shut Il
: his saloon and took couple of SIX
shooters and mounted guard over t!l
y Sunday school Says he, No Iris
t need apply" And they didn't. H
:, was the bulliest man in the mountains
Il pard; he could run faster, jump higi
# er, swear harder, and hold MOI
i tangle-foot whisky without spillin
than any man in seventeen countie
s Put that in pard; it'll please the boy
: more than any thing you could say
If And you can say, pard, that he nevt
IS shook his mother"
"Never shook his mother ?"
"That' it-any of the boys will te
e you So"
We'll, but why should he shall
her?
That's what say-but SON e pc
3 Lle does"
y mo people of any repute ?''
"Well, some that average pretty 81
- So"
I'm my opinion, man that wouI
offer any personal violence to b
1t mother, ought to"
ID "Cheeze it, pard; you've booke
ID your ball clean outside of the strin
What l was a driving at, was that
m never thr0Iccd off on his mother