Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1874-04-23
NASBY.
From the Toledo Bladel
The Women of the Corners Make n
Raid on Bascom-The Terrible De-
struction of Property.
CoNFEDRIT Y RoAps, !
(Wich is in the State NV kenmckyl
April q, 1874

the blow. The wimmin NV the Cor ners
riz in their mite on Friday.
The sun rose hrite and smilin from the
eastern horiZon-the frost wuz all out Nv
the ground and the day wuz warm and
balmy. Deekin Pogram came down the
road barefoot and hilarious. Its warm
enuH," sed the old innocent, "to go with
out shoes Thank Heaven, | shell not
hev that expense on me for seven long
months"
The Corners alluZ rejoice when its citi-
zens kin leave off shoes in the spring.
Bassom turned away and wept.
why do you weep" sed Pogram
"Et / don't hev to buy shoes 700 Will
hev jist that much more for likker for
me-"
"Alars F." shreekt Bascom, "can't 700
see that the warm weather witch enables
700 TO come without shoes also enables
the wimmin to walk these streets without
shoes? And hezen't Pollock and Bigler
and them cusses bin incitin 'em to rage,
and hewitt they bin bilin in agony to
git at me, but wuz provedenshly prevented
by the weather? They'll be here to-day
shoor, and then"
And Bascom bowed his head and wept
agin.
Wat Bascom prognoslcated did RELY
occur. At ten O'Clock precisely Il delega-
shun of wimmin headed by Lucindy
Gavitt filed around the corner and ap,
preached the grocery. We stood on the
porch in an agony of teer.
"They are comin,n said Deekin Pogram,
trembin ez tho he he'd ager, "ez terri BILE
ez army with banistcrs."
rapst ,,l II, 10
Bascom.
Wood that we cood!" said Issaker,
" but doubt it. Lucindy is Il runnin this
thing, and she's akoot. You can't play
any verm tuge on her"
Subtertuge, 700 fool" sed l. Gin
SIGH time ca this, be correct, watever
700 are"
Slowly they approached. Bascom
turned pale, and leevin the porch took
his posishen behind the bar.
" Here,' sed he, Il will endoor the
shock Here where | hev lived and he'd
my bein will die"
The enemy come on, until the he'd NV
the perceshin reeChed the porch. Lucindy
bore a banner on witch wuz written, LIZ
Bascom he, stockins-we hewitt. Death
to BascOm!" and pokin it in my face on
she past me she marched with the tread
OF a grcnadeer into the room and took up
her posishen in front NV the bar where
she looked Bascom square in the face
"The regler thing" sed Lucindy, "ez !
hey heerd, is for the wimin to pray, Kin
700 pray, Mrs. Pogram?"
Mary" replied Mrs p "Sich thing
was never heerd in Our house"
" Kin 700 pray, Mrs. McPelter?"
"Nary"
=" And ther can't none NV us. The fact
s that we wuznt brot up to it. | don't
bleeve there's a woman within four miles
Nv Bascom's-onless it's new conner
who kin. But it don't matter. hev bin
lookin at Bascom for five minits, and |
don't bleeve prayer wood hev any effect
onto him It's works we want here
works with him, worksn
And that infooriated woman, pullin her
sleeves back, displayin an arm wich Il
long course nv splittin wood and hoein
taters and whalin Issaker he'd made eZ
muskeler Ell a blacksmith's, uttered her
war whoop: " Remember, gentle sisters,
Liz Bascom heZ stockins, and we haint
none-Our husbands sell corn wich we
grow, to pay Bascom for likker! More
stockins and less likkcr."
With this cjackelashen she sprang over
the low counter and throttled Bascom,
bearin him to the floor,
Now, sweet sisters" scd she, "whilc
my trail and fading strength lasts | will
hold this man NV Belial sately-lie still,
700 broot-be it yoor work to 90 for them
bottles and barrels Go for em-Bas-
CONS wife hez stockinsl'
A dozen ov em dTawd axe-helyes from
under their aperns and KEEP us off, while
the rest went inside the bar and rolled out
he barrels and jugs, and split EN- open.
The precious tiooid ran out on the floor
and disappeared betwiXt the cracks
thereof forever. We Good do nothin but
look on and weep.
Finally, when the last barrel was bustid
and the last bottle broken, Lucindy let
Bascom up and the procession, wild with
excitement, marched out ov the place and
dispersed. 1t wuz pitiful stel Them
empty barrels wuz mute witnesses wv our
woe-them broken bottles he'd each tale
of distress to tell. There wuz an aroma
of likker risin from the floor and that wuz
all. But who Good live on an aroma!
"Thank Heaven," sed /, ave hey that
reserve in the stable left. We kin live on
that till you git a moo stock i'm
"No 700 can't replied Bascom, his
voice broken with emoslIun. "No 700
can't That barrel wuz in among the
rest, and is gone with the rest"
why, oh why, did you do that'" !
askt
kin 700 ask me after the mite you at
tempted to steal it?" sed he. "I'd sooner
trust il with the wimmin than with 700.
Dooplicity meets with its own reward.
He'd 700 played fair 700 wood hev he'd a
barrel TO 90 on Ez it is there amt a
drop in the Corners and none kin be he'd
from louisville for six days"
At this Deekin Pogram dropped stave
witch he he'd been liekin and fell faintin
q, tho anor Tseukar Gavin Eldpr Pen