Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1874-04-01
THE NASBY LETTERS
The Temperance Movement &C ths Gross
BoHds-'Those wretehes, Zoe Bigter aud
pollock, Persecute the saints.
CoNFEDRIT Y ROADS,

strike Toe Bipler and that ieerm feend
Pollock, shood think more NV the econo-
my Wv nacher. For till these demons is
dead and berried, we never shell hey peace
or quiet at the Corners. 1t wuz a bitter
day for me, and for ,all Nv US, when that
wretch Pollock came here from Illinoy,
and struck hands with Joe Bigler. Either
NV EN- is piZen-yooniteds trikuine is moth
in to EN-.
We held meetin in Bascom's last week
Toosday to decide upon some measure to
counteract the wimmiu's temperance
movement, witch we are momentarily ex-
pectin will strike the Corners and ravage
us ez it hez the towns and villages in Ohio
and Inieany. Bascom called the meetin,
For Bascom swears he will defend his rites
till the last.
We he'd the grocery tollably full Wv the
men NV the Corners, when who shood
march in but Bigler and Pollock, who sot
down on nail kegs as sollum e. q funeral.
Various scjestions wuz made e. to the
best way of counteractin the movement,
when Pollock rose and askt the privilege
NV maxim a remark which /. eI Chairman
consented to.
81 sympathiZe heartily with voon sed
Pollock. "in thus standin up and maxim
head agin this fanatikle croosade, and
would seiest that you fife the devil with
fire. In Ohio the wimmen go out agin tt e
traffic in lkker-let our wimmin here in
the Corners, come out and enter their pro-
test agin emmy interference with the rites
| NV their husbands, fathers and brothers.
| Let the wimmen NV the Corners protest
agin this fanaticism.
! Joe Bigler riz, and felt preseutment
that the Devil had broken his chain and
| wuz AMONGST rs
at don,9 often agree with Pollock he
remarked /" but there is in this seiestion so
| much nv GOOD sense that I bleeye I shell
second him in il. Bv ali means let our
winner enter their protest againgsC this
| wild croosadc that the world NAV know
! that Kentucky AT least stands by her Ian d
marks. The wimmen NV Ohio howl that
the traffic is demoralizin to society. and
| pertiLel,rlv that il il rooinin them
Eow iat re v sn Of tbe Crols Roads Roads
meet and hist in their testimony That If ia
nothin Tv the Kind And thaf tbis nrn1
fest NAV. he made in doc form seiest That
| The ITi~nroin IN. Confedrit, - Road moot at
the church to.mOrror afternoon. at two p.
NJ. and rcsoloot arin tais thing. Is if n
90 go?i '"D 'o9''''' ." '--'' 'H'N7' - II It
! oft isr'' eft is ~ awe will hoy e,,,
do if ~ WIZ shouted from nil narts nv thc
| room
| Rnscorn u,os daIiobted with tbe ,rorosi-
shen. He said that SO far ez his Wife WIZ
| CONCERNED ,sLa wood iina in sicb . nrotoSt
heartily, If shouIS he done hv ali means
ait il well enofoh TO saw we will ~ sed
| nf n ms ahnnr III IN
en- Ali ont, that there may be no faIevoor
| TO make this a success the meeting must
not only he enthusiastic, hut large Pol.
| lock. take a niece of paper and nut down
| the names nv those whose husbands will
pledge themselves to be present. Issaker
| tiavitt will Mrs. Gavitt be.ehoor to come %
| Issaker blushed-which is to say his nose
turned bloo-eZ he ansered probably not,
onless the weather shood be warmer. 70 r
my women he2en't got no shoes. -
| mrs. Gavitt can't come to protest agin
this croosade agin likker coz she amt got
| no shoes, sung out Pollock,
"But Issaker, bought fifty bushels Nv
corn NV VOC last fall-Why didn't get your
| wife shoes them"
81 he'd to nav it to Bascom, on account. -
| sed poor Issaker, blushing still more.
All right, - said Pollock, of course
VOC did. Go on Josef "
esquire Pennibacker will your wife be
present to line this auti-fauaticism move
ment?"
She'll oppose it, " sed the Squire, "coz
I do; "but doubt eff she kin come out to
bear her testimoney again it. She Amt got
| no coZe that she'd like to be seen i'm
"Mrs. Pennibacker amt got no cloZe,
| and cant GOMEZ sung out Pollock. 600 ON
josef
"Deekin Pogram, yoor wife and yoor
dawter Miraudy will be here, curtainiy ~
"Taint shoor,p sed the Deekin, "uy both
Nv em-one NV EN- kin come, but the other
cant. Eff my wife wears the dress, Mirandy
| must stov and 9,jce q,ers,J co- theI, aint
got but one atweeu EN-. -
have put one down from Deekin
Popramis ez them two wimen have only
one dress atweeu EN-. Go on Josef We've