Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1874-05-06

(wich is i, the State of Kentucky, ,
March 27. 1874. }
The taxes at the Corners hev bin fur
sum yeers terribly high, and this. spring
when the time cum to pay EN-, the people
murmured. We sed it is too bad to waste
so much money on taxes when there is SO
much likker in the land wich money wood
buy, and the niggers and others at the
Corners wich don't stimulate sed it wuz q
pity that so much Nv their substance shood
he taken in taxes of wich they got no
good.
Bigler and Pollock. onto whose heads
lite cusscs, ez yoosual, took up the cry
and ekkoed it. IF VIC he'd the sense of
a ycrlin calf we'd hey dropt it the mo-
ment Joe Bigler piked it up, for when
did he ever jine US except to bring us to
confession ?"
But we did ekko Joc's words-Bascom
in pertikiler-and we determined to hev
a meetin to consider the question ov taxes
and to ascertane whether or not we coodn't
redoose EN- in sum way.
And G. Washington Bascom, the idiot
furnished the wood to heat the hall and
the taller HANDLES to lite it, thus furnlshin
the whip with wich to scurge hisself.
We met at early candle litin, and l
wuz made chairman, NV course. / stated
to the meetin that taxes had risen to a
pint that crushed me. felt, myself that
taxes had risen to pint that crushed me.
| felt, myself that eff they could not be
lessened l should b, compelled to quit the
Corners
"Thank heaven!" lnvoluntarily ejack.
crlated Deekin Pogram.
"Not that pay any taxis myself, but
they so grind the citizens ez to make keep
in me serious matter.
And l continyood by invltin any one to
say wat they had TO say.
Bascom arosa and remarked that taxis
had got to rooinous pint, and be pledged
hisself to yoose all possible diligence in
assertainin the coz Nv the high taxis, and
purelentin viggelance in rootin out the
COZ when he he'd found it. He moved
the adoption Nv the follerin resolooshen
ReSolrcd, That it is the sense Of this
mcetin that the increase, year by year, Nv
taxashun in the Corners haz ben 50 grea,
ez to eggcite the most serious alarm, and
that we plege ourselves to yoose all posi-
Bile meens to ascertanc the coz, and re-
move it forthwith.
The resolooshup was yoonanimously
carried
Then Joe Bigler rose, with Pollock be-
hind him, eggin him on and supportir
him.
Joe remarkt, that he he'd noticed the
regler increase Nv taxis each year with
alarm, and he he'd made sum notes, feelir
that he Good show how 1t wuz.
And the cuss pulled cut, Nv his brcs'
pocket lot Nv papers.
Here" sed he, II hev fggered up
me and Pollock wat the county poor
house costs us. and ! find it's terrible
Six thousand dollars is the sum totle.--
Doorin the year, old Spiggins hcz beer
taken there, and his wife and his idiot
daughter, fur Spriggius spent all his time
and money at the bar of our esteemed
friend Bascom till he 60: to be so demor
allied ez to be incapable Nv previdln fol
hissvlf. Then Thomoson's wife and child
rem are there too. Thompson, yoo vii
remember, got drunk one mite at Bascom's
and fell off the bridge on his way home
and was drownded. Then there's the
Higgins children and Sammy Smith,
children. all of EN- supported by taxation
Let's see," sed this disturber, " Bascom
yoo hev Smiths forty akers, hevn't 700 p
II don't agree with Bigler," said thi'
hoary headed decoiver, in ascribin the
high taxes to our public charities. U,
course the poor house costs money but tina
is but small part. It's the criminals
that squeeze us. ! hev made few fig
gers which will show it is. You all know
the circumstances Of the Mackentosh mat
ter. Sam Mackentosh got drunk at Bas
CONS, and went home, and Mrs. M. no
havin supper ready. Samyooel split hel
he'd open with an axe. Sammy was il
Jail eighteen months-wich We he'd to pay
fur--he was tried three times and finally
hung. 1t cost us, on ruff kalkerlation
about six thousand dollars to hang Mack
entosh. countin from the time he got drunk
at Bascom's. excloosiv NV the cost Of bur,
yiDg his wife and takin keer Of bis child
ren SINCE" a
Then 700 remember theMagrath trOub
10. Sim Magrath and Tim Edison got
drunk at Bascom's."