The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1876-10-21

meetin TO git our claims agin the Gov.
erment in some kind nv shApe. We found
that In almost every instance the citizens
he'd got EN- TOO low, For instance, Deck.
In Pogram he'd claim fur mule, lot
~ sweet potatoes, and aix lengths ~ rail
fence. He he'd put this in for az thou
sand dollars only, wich WuE ab9urdly
jlov. e. the half goes to the reform lobby,
1 and the expenses nv electin reform
Congris must be taken out, the sAinted
Deekin won't heY more than 81 800 ieit,
wich Nv course he can'tstAnd. We raised
the claim 70 $4,000, witch will leeye him
enuff TO take keer nv hisSelt in his old
age, wich he viii need ez / sheiprobably
board with him. ,-
Can't. McPelter he'd his claim In for
5000, wich we raised to Sl6, 000, lsaker
Gayitt's wuz put up from 5000 to S2VI-
900. and 40 on around. The Corners alone
hez claims now ready for bein acted on,
| 70 the amount Of $40, 900, Wich WuE the
result nv Federal occupancy Nv thisgeck-
shun for les. two days. We feel that Ken.
lucky made 4 great mistake In not Sc
eeodin, for ef We he'd gone on regulerly,
and had troops on our soil q month, We
Good hey put in bills for ten times the
amount. We envy Georgia and them
States. But S345, 900 amt bad. After
making all the dfyyies with the Lobby,
and with the members, Wo shel hey $780,.
900 left, witch Is better than npthin. ]
hey made an akkera.s calkelashen, and
find that that amount win Jest pay of
what the Corners owe Baseom, and give
US fresh start. Wat we owe Pollock
we kin pay by KILN him. Baseom hez
notified ali WITCH oWs him to got q claim
in readiness, and to assign 1t to him To-
wunst.
e. soon ez it was fixed fact that We
had kerried Inieanny, I bought set Of
interest tables, 50 ca TO compute interest
akkeritly, and without trouble. We abel
date all The claims Of this seckshun from
the time John Morgan swept through
the valley, with some Fedrel troops be-
hind him, and I hey. desided 10 compound
every thirty days. ! may git up 70 half
million, but think the figger I statid
will about kiver 1t. The alaerity with
which they come in since the eleckshun
astonishes me.
Il spread like wild fire. Men from
forty miles away were in with ther
claims for me to git into shape, and the
front nv Bascons from that day to this
looks like a Confedrit war meetin'. It is
\ privilege now, to be Kentuckian, and
to hey u war claim. With Tildens eleCk.
shun a new era dawns on-our beloved
State 's t.t
Our anxiety for the eleckshun Nv Til.
den kin be appreciated. To defect Til:
den and to throw out our claims would
be 10 room Bascom, and to plunge the
Corners into state nv fnanshel distress
sch ez we hey never seen before.
The payment Of our war claims wiz
wipe of orr indehtednis TO Bascom, and
leave us suthin to deposit with him on
account, and, relieved nv Fedrel inter.
ference, We kin redoose the Niger to.his
normal condishin ez soon IS we choose,
and wunst more enjoy cheap labor. BE.
tween the two, and the post offs, l shell
hev enuff to keep me till death removes
me from my speer Of yoosefulniS and
sends me where polly.ix won't bother me,
and where likker is onnesaary. Ny sky
Is britenin.
PETROLEUM v. Nasty,
...-. Rsformer.