The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1876-11-23
Nasty.

fHccfioa-IHe c0cct tpoa That VIZ
t"ous Community.
CONFNDMT Y ROADS,
Winch Is TIE STATE wv KENTUCKY.
Nov. 9th, 1876.
We've got it! l wuz so existed
about the clccshun--so anxshus, that
after votin for Tilden aud Reform
four times in Injeany, l came
strate to Louisville, and tho mo-
ment we got the nooze, that Tild,n
had kerried New York and Con-
necticut, / took the train Jack to
Secessionville, and fond there
Dascom's mule, which l Good ride
over to tho cocaers. Bascom is
considerable ny me- owe him too
,nuch for lin to be anything else.
He'd pen dipped in Twin lite
l CO dent describe the ecstacy Nv
.drpcoplc when l told EN- that
Tilden and Reform he'd kcrried the
day, and that henceforth we shood
live under u democratic administra-
shen. Dcckin Pogram sot down
and cried with joy. "Bascom,"
sed he, two strccms maxim their
way down his checks, maxim little
burrows ez they run, and dropyin
off the tip Nv his nosc,"G. W., eff
my credit is good fer anything, set
en- up. | feel ez eff | Good give
you a third mortgage on my place.
| shell live to lick II Niger agin."
And it wuz set up. Capt MPcl-
ter, Issakcr Gavitt, Squire M'Grath,
and the rest Nv en- came in, and
Bascom in his dclirous joy sot Il
bari on tap, and refoozcd to charge
a thing.
The moose objected the different
classes NV our populashcn different
ly. The niggers all went home CT
soon CT they hecrcd the intelligence,
and barricadcd their houses. Pol
lock and Biglcr put up the shutters
on his store immejitly, and l notist
NV en- loadin wat fire arms they
he'd. The Niger postmas ter aban-
doncd his posishen and went into
Pollock's store, and the niger col
lector went out into the country
with his books and papers.
They he'd no need NV doin it,
however. The Dcmocrisy Nv the
Coroncrs he'd more important biz
mis- OH hand than re asscrtin thcr
rites over lot NV degraded mig
gers, and still more degraded car
pit-baggcrs. We kin attend to
them any time. $
Issakcr Gavit and Capt. MePel-
ter he'd biznis in their eye, and they
wuz eager to git at it. There wuz
n SPECTATOR from Louisville pres.
cnt which he'd come down CT soon
cs he got the news Nv Til'lcn's clcck-
shun, to buy up the claims Nv the
loyal people Nv the Corners agins'
the gincral government, for prop.
crty destroyed by Linkun's hirclin>
doorin the late fratrisidlc struggle
and he he'd made an offer to take
cm all at thirty cents on the dollar
The question to be considered wuz
whether we shood take this offer
or trus our own representatives to
collect EN-.
Mr.. Smithcrs, the speakilator
told us that it wood cost us moro
than eighty per cent to collect cm
anyhow. lie warned us that tho
Dcmocrisy had spent over four mil
lions to carry this clcckshun, ant
that wood hev to come out Nv these
claims first. Then there wuz the
agents, wich wood hcv to hev thel
slice, the members themselves wicl
wood take thcr bites, the heads o
departments, and their favoritc'
wich wood hev to hcv their divvys
and so on, till, by the time tho
claimant got his money it wood bt
shaved down to mere nothin.
We laft at him, and remarked
that Good make the claims larg,
cnuffto kivcr all these things, ant
in that way sit wat wuz comm t.
us.
"Gcntlcmcn," scz he, "perhaps
700 don't know that there will b,
in Washington, immciitly, the en-
tire gang that wuz with Johnson
No matter how big yor claim is
yor won't git cz much cz l offer
700 DO 700 want them to go thrc
the hands Nv Mrs. Cobb, and sich?'
That staggered me, for / did some
claim biznis in Washington, my
self, dooringJohnson's time, and
knowd the processes. l onhesita.
tingly advised our people to make
out their bills large cnuff, and sell
EN-, wich they finally agreed to do
and VIC sot about maxim Nv EN-
out:
Issakcr Gavitt, for horses taken
10y John Morgan, in consc-
kencc of Fedral invashun, and
II assortment NV farm prOtuX
cOnsoomed by six Fcdral SOL
jcrs wich campt one mite on
his place. :. ...............S 23, OOC
Capt. McPcltcr, for mules, corn,
| and two barrels Nv whisky left
I'm his distillcry, while he WIZ
with John Morgan, and other
property wich he cOoden't re-
mcinber ......,................ $4,000
Dcckin POgram, for several
lengths NV ralc fence, lot of
| syruf notatues and tthar