The weekly Shasta courier., 1873-10-25
FARMER NASBf.
The Ex-POstmaster Gets up Grange
9tOgy Boots and Blue Overalls-DOwn with
Monopoly.
BEET STAsHEN.
wich is in the State of lllinoy. }

DEET STASHEN.
wich is in the State of lllinoy.)
Aug. Is, 1873.
Ihay left the Corners. temporarily, Il least.
for hav field of labor here, wich is quite
ez pleasant ez my old home. | am up here
iu the anti monopoly business. am in H.
linoy groani7 over the burdens piled upon
us farmers, and DAMN, with all the veh
mence that's into me, the monopOlies that
is euckin the life blood ov the honest labor
in classes, and tryin to convince en- that
their redemshun kin only he brot about
by abandonin to wunst theinfamous Repub-
likin party, wich is responsible for every
evil that's onto the country from railroads
down to the potato bug. x x Pettus
goes into the movement agin oppressive
monopolles and sch, with all his heart, soc
and strength He bleeves in the nobility
of labor-he holds that labor hez not its
proper reward, and ez for his part he viii
enter inty croosade agin the bioOted mo
nopolists, and in behalf OF tine horny hand
ed agricultoorsts of the country, with all
the zeal of his trooly fervid nacher. One
Of the moat techin sites in nachcr is to see
Pottus leanin on bar, and disc ursin on
the grandjer Nv labor. He sez that if the
farmers, the hard handed labrin masses of
his country, want a candidate for auditor
who loathes and hates the oppreshun Nv Ia
Dor, In whatever form it may come, he is
their man.
Last week we held meetn in the back
room aud resolved ourselves into a grange,
with Pettus, Blather, Billins and myself cz
the principle officers. Havin just got the
organizashen all safe aud in proper hands,
we ishood 40 address to the farmers NV the
country to come in and jine. urged EN-
to let the farmers organize it, but my Gala
borers declined They sed they preferred
to make certain that the organizashun shood
be in the hands Nv the troo friends Nv the
l.borin classes. They didn't care to take
any chances.
We have costoom in accordance with
our new agricultural deparcher. We hev
heavy stogy boots blu over haul tucked in
EN-, hickory shirts and broad hrimed Clip
hat. We each Of US carry black snake
whip instead Nv cain, and sprinkle hay
re in our hair every mornin. Blather
is 30 enthusiastic that he dobs clay on his
boots every mornin, and Billins took
whetstun and rubbed the inside Nv bis
hand three days industriously TO get up
satisfactory callus. We address each other
e1 Farmer Billius, Farmer Blather, Farmer
Pettus and Farmer Nasty, and cur couv, r
sation is principally abou, agricultural mat
tiers. The other cusses have more zeel
however, than discreshun iu this direc5hun
Billins wuz out in the country with US, and
looking ez wise ez he could ez be PASSED
field Nv wheat sed that them wuz the best
lookin Winter oats he he'd ever seen and
he wondered whether the farmers Nv that
section ever planted corn yet in October
He he'd found it better to sub soil in Sep
tsmber, SO ez to give it good start to pre-
vent Winter KILN.
woodn't lev had an actual farmer
heard this idiocy fur a small postofis. =
And | hev had other troubles with EN-
Pettus was going out to address grange
in cowhide boots, check shirt and over
hauls, ez a simple, plain farmer and uuon
tentashus son ov the soil, with diamond
ItnS On MS HtCie HnScr. new 10 Wdtcn
him to make him take it off and put it in
his vest pocket afore he begins to speak.
But while this advencher hez its draw
bax, it is after all ez pleasant ez anything
l hev he'd. Drink furnished gratuious by
the Democratic Central Committee, aud
board likewise for ez we hev only one
Republican majority Nv 200 to overcuh in
the county, they think the chances warrant
some expcnditoor. shel stay here and
run this campane in the interest Nv labor
PETROLEUM V NAsBY.
(Which wuz Postmaster.)