Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-07-25
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lie cnss word when he gets the Vicksbnrl
hard on a small stump. and for that rea
son we use it here. because Bob "stumpl
1t himself sometimes las often as he il
asked). The last time he had the pleas
ure OF spouting politics. free love and
fast horses TO a Disguised audience o.
seven souls was at the elevator here, and
somehow he managed 10 have a reporter
present TO listen to the tedious harangue
aud put his " effort in print, and after
il was done. and Bob had read and re
read it dozen times. he stops of his
boat at St Louis for two trips and called
a convention OF all his lriends-D. Love,
Esq. and Jim Tchudi-in st. Louis, and
for forty eight long hours that august
body OF potentates sat in secret sessions
in the back room OF Green street junk
shop in st. Louis. coeitating" as TO
the best means whereby the st. Robert
could get even with the speech reporter
at Memphis, who, the orator claimed,
had bulled" the last effort OF his life
so that even his own children wouldn't
recognize his handiwork in its scientific
construction and formation, to say moth
ing Of its delivery and the powerful
effect it had upon the audience, viz, to
put them all to sleep. After ransacking
their minds for the time named, their
united efforts finally hit upon plan--the
only one suggested--and they resolved
to put it in execution. The plan
was to visit all the news shops in the
city and to send to Cincinnati and Louis
vile and purchase all the back numbers
Of the Comic Monthly, Days Doings,
Budget of Fun and similar literature,
on hand, which they had shipped to the
St. Louis whariboat, and after getting
them they set to work with sheep shears
and jack-knives and cut out about fifty
or sixty caricatures, each underlined or
overlined with appropriate inscriptions,
the figures representing the personages
mentioned in r. 5 telling speech, as well
as himself and the speech reporter, all
of which they "iroze" to an Anchor
Line manifest sheet, yard or two long,
and sent here by Anchor Line mail
through the postoiiice. but having
a limited supply Of funds, they only paid
half the postage, the consequence Of
which was the bankruptcy of the indi-
vidual to whom it was addressed, he hav-
ing the other three cents to pay, which,
by the way, he raised by soaking" the
paper collar he had worn for month
With blind junk dealer on Beal street.
Dill got the package, however, and hay
ing given it circulation " equal to
any OF the Vicksburg papers, he laid it
on our desk, and here it is Figure No |
represents the delegation from the Vicks-
burg Herald. Jim o Sullivan and George
Williams who are standing near the
spread eagle bird arm in arm, and
gazing fondly upon their friends
the bottoms Of two huge
beer glasses. No. is the Eagle Bird
with both wings spread their full
length as he stands upon huge sugar
hogshead. in the bunghole OF which a
little maekerel has his finger probing for
the sweets of the earth, and upon the
chime of which, on his tip.toes, stands
the expounder of free love and expo
nent of womans rights. The picture
makes his unmentionables somewhat
short, and exposes a sockless limb while
farther up may be seen several rents
made by the orator in his efforts to at
tain his Chem pinnacle of fame. His
long arms are covered with a Jacket
seemingly worn by his forelathers (if he
ever had any, and ON his head sits
jaunty Dutch fatigue cap, the visor pro-
iecting an inch or so beyond the tip of
bis red (chalked) nose. Next comes
the next Memphis wharfmaster, sleek
looking cuss, hat in hand, bowling and
scraping to all he meets, black or other
wise, and dressed in the hight of fashion.
Under him stands "Old Stormy" bu-
collie chap of about four hundred pounds
avoirdupois, his figure indicating that he
mas been high liver, and his coat cover
ng his aldermanic proportions as neatly |
IS though it had been made for Billy |
Brown, Of the Abe Kyle. Number four
s the present wharfmaster, who has
,rown to huge proportions in his lucra-
i've position; and facing him is his sue
lessor, lean, scrawny- looking fellow,
whose raiment sits on him like unto a
heet upon a clothes-horse. The out
,oing fellow says to the ingoing
hap: "Sir, jine us in a drink"
70 which the reply, Cant see
t, Cap" is made. Next is a little
tub and twisted, thick set fellow with a
londe cast Of features, a hare lip and
arefooted on top Of his head, who is &C
osted by a surly man in gray clothes
nd mustache, who says Say Dill,
Id boy, lend us dollar and q half till
he boat gets back" TO which Dill re-
ponds: Cant do it, Clarence, times
DO hard. Eyeing the too last and
landing before the bar with a glass half
Ill of Robertson County" and his
ots-boOk, pencil and jaek-knife in the
Their, is the speech reporter, who puts
D one of his blandest smiles latter he
as emptied the glass;, as he says to the