Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1874-03-21

Roads is bound to ketch it." There
amt no trouble agoin but wat it lites
onto the CROSSROADS. Mislorchoon
has marked the CROSSROADS for Its
own. ~
And last Monday Bascom got a
postal card, on wich it -Bus statid
that on the Friday followin deiega-
shun of ladies from New Boston, a
manufactrin village started by a lot
NV Yankees, over about ten miles
from here, where they don't sell no
spirits, wood visit the Cross Roads
and try the etficasy NV prayer onto
Bascom, to see if they Good not con-
vert him to stop his sole-disuoyin
demoralyzin bizness. Ez Baseom red
the postal card-or rather ez l red it
for him-he was picter to look up
on. His knees knockt together and
his face turned ghastly pale, and
his hand trembled so that it wuz
with difficulty that he Good raise a
glass NV likker to his lips.
"My sole-distroyin bisness!" said
he; "my bizness sole-distroyin! Good
HeYens, wat next?"
"My time is about up, l guess u
remarked Deacon Pogram. Il hev
seen strange things in my life time,
but when 1 am not allowed to take
my regler drinks it is time L wus
agoip hence"
ssThe idee," said Issaker Gavitt,
"that selin likker, or drinkin it is
demoralizin. hev drunk likker all
my like, and"
At this point Issaker's wife came
in, and wantid lssaker to go and get
some rice and then go home and split
some wood. Issaker wantid to know
what she come there for, and the on
reasonable woman bustid into tears,
and sed she coodnt split wood, with
no shoes and three inches NV snow
on the ground, and that there wuzn't
a thing In the house for the sick ba-
| by to eat, and eff lsSaker wood spend
half the time at work that he did
loatin at Bascom's and half the mon
ey on his children that he did for ik-
ker, and"
Issaker did not allow her to finish
her unreasonable harangue. He took
her by the shoulder and showed her
out the door, and swore that he
didn't know how it wuz in Ohio and
lnjeany, but he'd be id if in
kentucky woman shoodenL keep in
her proper spear. He wuzn't agcin
to allow no woman to dictate to him
wat he shood do with his time or his
money, nuther.
Captain McPelter remarked that ef his
wife ever jIned such d9monstrashun,
she'd wish she hadn't. His wife tried to
stop him from taking another drink wunst
after he felt bis oats and he'd throwed u
cradle with a six months baby out NV
the door, and the black eyes she got wuz
warnin to her never to interfere with his
perogatives no more. -.
Poor Bascom Wuz cast down. He sed
Amerikin. liberty wuz gone, when a passel
Nv wimmen got to goin about interferin
with mans bisness. But he shood adopt
vigorous measures He'd never surrender
never
Friday come and yBascom was ready
for EN-. Evry one nv our persuasion in
the Corners he'd ordered his wife TO keep
srikly in doors, and on no akkount to
vencher out dOOrin the day BascOm ask
ed US all to stay with. him and see him
tiIro it. Tofwich we all agreed. Them
ez wuz married and kept house, went
home 10 fix up ther doors and nail Boards
OveE the broken glass NV the winders, so
that ther wimmin shoOdn't see outside.
It's no small matter to close up all the
holes in the houses az the Corners.
Well, at IL o'clock apercessiOn Nv VIM
min did make their appearance at the
lower end Nv the village, and they moved
uD slowly to'ards Bascoms G. W. wuz
ez pale eZ a sheet.
wat shel l do ?" asked he.
sc. w." sed l, "there is but one thing
yoo kin do. Rally yoor friends about yoo,
and make head again this unholy croo-
SADIE. The regular frequenters of the place
are fritened and are not here. Bring EN-
heret Bring EN- here to-wunstl Swing
out placard witch shel read: Tss
.'IIikker free TO all doorin the contin-
yOoance NV this fanatikle campane l-Ho!
all We that thirst Come and drink with
out money and without price" M :
This, G. W, will fetch EN- in, and ez
long ez the likker is free they will stay in,
and give yoo their moral support. Shel l
writethe placard p - 4lEh
G. w wqyered He cast one glance at
his kegs, and sighed hesitalinly. l cast
one glance at them kegs, and wuz deter
mined that 50 good an opportunity shood
not be lost.
"Ha" sed I, ''the foe they come they
come! TO hesitate now is to be lost. The
head nv the invadtn coIamn hez turned
the corner. Shel write >"
Yes SAID BascOm, Dustin in,o toors
"Il'e' EI they snet me up I'm rOOined
and eff yoo hey free drinks Tn buslid
But I'd ruther take the frse drinks part of
it."
Certainly" sed Issai1er Gavitt, sooth-
ingly; free drinks. by all means. After
all, Bascom, it amounts 10 the same thing.
It's free drinks anyhow. for you hey to
charge en- to US, don't yooP"
And so / writ the placard and
hsted it up at the door. The result
81 majical. In less than ten min
US the glad uooze had reached ev-
--e &c, and there
.u .- ...r, in Bascom's
sich "a solid mass nv liberty lovin
men ez had never been seen together
q blre Cross IoC'Gtss