Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1874-04-11
NASBY.
movement at lhe Gross Roads.
CoNFEDERATE Y ROADS.
State OF Kentucky
March 10. 1874.

March 10. 1874
IF Heavens most pinchin litenins
Good strike Joe Blgler and that
ieerin feend, Pollock, | sbood think
more Of the economy uv nacher
For till these demons is dead and
berried We shel never hev peace or
quiet at the Corners. 1t wuz bit
ter day for me, and for all ov us,
when that wretched Pollock came
here from Illinoy, and struck hands
with Joe Bigler. Either NV them IL
Dizen-yoonited, stricknine is moth |
in to em.
We held a meetin at Bacom's last |
week Toosday, TO decide upon some |
measures to be taken to c0unteract
the wimmin's temperan, movement,
which we are momentarily expectin
will strike the Corners and ravage
us as it hez towns in Ohio and In
ieany. Bascom called the meetin,
for Bascom swears he will defend
his rites to the last.
We had the grocery tollerably
full NV the men at the Corners,
when hoo shcod march in but Big
Ter and Pollock, who sot down on
nail kegs ez solemn ez funeral.
Various sejestions wuz made ez to
the best way of counteratin the move
ment, when Pollock rose and askt
the privilege NV maxim remark,
which ez chairman, consented to it.
l sympathize heartily with you
sed Pollock, in thus standin up and
maxim head agin this fanat1kle
crooSade, and woud Sejest that you
fight the devil with fire. In Ohio
the women 90 out agin the traffic in
likker-let our women here in the
Corners come out and enter their
protest agin eny interference with
the rites NV their husbands, fathers
and brothers. Let the wimen Nv the
Corners protest against this fanati-
ciSm.
John Bigler riz, and / felt a pre-
sentiment that the devil he'd broken
his chain and wuz amongst us.
| don't often agree with Pollock,
he remarked, but there is in this Sc
iestion so much NV good sense that |
believe | shel second him in it. BY
all means let our wimen enter their
protest against this wild croosade,
and the world may know that Ken
tucky at least stands BY her land
marks. The wimen NV Ohio howl
that the traffic is demoralizin to So
ciety, and pertikelarly that it is roo
inin them. Now let the mimin NV
the Cross Roads meet and hist in
their testimony that it is nothing NV
the kind. And that this protest
may be made in doc form, l seiest
that the wimmin of the Confedrit
X Cross Roads meet at the church
to-morrer afternoon, Up. m, and
resolout again this thing. 1t is a
go?
1t is! 1t is! We will hev EN- do it!
wuz shouted from all parts NV the
room.
Bascom was delited with the po-
sishion. He said that so far ez his
wife wuz concerned, she wood jine
in-such a protest heartily. 1t shood
be done by all means.
1t is all we'll enuff to say we will
sed Bigler, but let us make shoor NV
hevin EN- all out, that there may be
no more falseyoor. To make this
success the meetin must not only be
enthusiastic, but large. Pollock,
take a piece Of paper and put down
the names NV those whose husbands
will pledge themselves to be present.
Issaker Gavitt, will Mrs. Gavitt be
shoor to come?
Issaker blushed-which is to say
his nose turned bloo-ez he answer
ed probably not, tonless the weather
shood'be warmer, for my woman
hazen't got on shoes.
'Mrs Gavitt can't come to protest
again the croosade again Gkker, coz
she hain't got no shoes, sung out
Pollock.
But Issaker, I bought fifty bush
els NV corn NV you last Fall-why
didn't your get your wife shoes
then?
had to pay it to Bascom, on ac-
count, sed poor Issaker blushing still
more.
All right, sed Pollock uv course
yoo did. Go on Josef.
Square Pennibacker, will your
wife be present to jine this anti fa-
naticism movement?
She'll oppose it, said the Squire,
coz I do; but doubt eff she kin
come out to bear her testimony agin
it. She amt got no eloze that she'd
like to be seen in. 9 n'
Mrs. Pennibacker amt got no
eloze, and can't come, sung out Pol
lock. Go on, Josef. atraa
b 1Deekln Program, your wife and
certainly!
TaMt shoor, sed the Deekin. NV
both NV em-one NV EN- kin come
but the other can't. Eff NV w;fe
wears the dress, Mirandy must stay.
and Cice versy, COZ they aint got but
one atween EN-.
/ hev put down one from Deekin
Pogram's as them two wimin hev
only one dress atween EN-. Go on,
Josef. We've got to git more than
these or the meetin will be n fail
yoor.
LENT Pettus, will you see that
yoor wife will be present to protest
agiIi-
Stop! / yelled, seein the drift nv
these wretches; this hez gone fur
enuff. l Ipertest.-
Easy, pprson, easy, fed BigleE