The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1877-05-12
OCoLoKoMo, MD,
May 9Th, 1877.

Tile IIldhln NV preSluentS, the. maxim
and unmakin NV guvners and legis.
laters, hav renamed stunt.
1t wuz not becos l wuz indifurnt,
but becos it wuzznt no use. And
even now in venterin this intrushen
on your colems, L do so simply to
describ this secshun NV our county,
witch by the datin you observ is moo.
perpoze to rite NV its generl fe-
cheers, inhabitance, skules, religen,
minerls, produces, materiel pros
perity, &c.
GENERL FECHERS.
The topografy NV this visinity il
about avrige, sum is hi and dri, sum
10 and Nasty, sum hill sum vale,
coverd with hemlox, spruc pine, larl,
roX and shugger trees.
INHABITENCE.
Sum Nv them liz pasable, sum pece-
able, an sum nuthin to brag on.
SKULES.
We have skules wunce q yeer, last
in frum to munths, CONSEQUENTLY
we air maxim sum fine skolers. We
doan't aim at accomplishments, but
thorness IL our motter. Sum teche
mattymatix, methefzix, kaleido-
skopes and SIGH, but we go in for
solid ground wurx to bid on. The
furst thing we do to a skoller we larn
him to spell. Spelin liz our fort. Fust
we take him thro the book forards,
then backards, side waze, he'd fore.
must, and evuy way till he noze it.
Then we git bigger speler an we put
him thro the chocktaw departmunt,
tell he's at home among the jau-
brakers thar; then next winter we
begin whar we kwit awf an reverce;
so we keap the thing lively and it
duz sum good.
RELIGEN.
This IL our strong pint. Half NV
our peepel IL ministers, and it duz
the sole good to see the bearded SAINTS
settin round on the clarin tense NV
SABBATH mornins a sunnin themselves
waten for time to begin; and to see
EN- kissen az tina NETT, thoze gray
harde SAINTS a spin at each others
bills like cooen duvs.
But sumtimes it goze agin the
Crane no, fur when they air mad at
each other and half to kiss l see EN-
turn away gritten thare teeth. 1
think it doan't taste good at SIGH
times.
doan't preech emmy; I Good preech
like the dew l mean like forty, but
l hain't bin fix't for it. Sum NV our
preachers Good make fortunes at the
oil wells, tina hev SIGH wonderful ca
pasity fur borin. Our
MINERLs.
Air stone, kale, char kole, fern oar,
fer kla, pipe kla, yaller kla, limston,
sope stone and blu mud.
PRODUCTS.
Our products air dear, bare, pam
ter, kune, groun hog, taters, peeze,
beenz, pumkens, dogs, cats, and ba-
bies, perticklerly the latterj mi ole
woman rases EN- frekwently, and lie
bet too babies an q kun skin that
thar amt no place in this yer county
that kin bette this for babies tn it's
populashen. Twins, that's az hi az
we 60, but twins in evry house. Ole
sedate men, an strict church MEM
bers too, an-twins
MATERtEL PROSPERITY.
Notwithstandin the fiushness of
the family bizness, the prevailin
abundance of scuncs, and vessels,
times amt az tina used to was. Sum
yeers ago enterprisin naber found
whar likkwid of a peculiarly ACRE
BILE fiaver, producin the most plesh-
cradle sensations when drunk, exuded
from the root of tree called apple
jack; this wuz a sorce of CRATE plesher
and profat for time, but the revenu
men got to smelin round, and the
tree went dri. and we he'd to foller
suite.
CoNCLUsHEN.
Good bi mister editer, dunno wen
l may turn up agin. Eff yu think,
az l do, that mi talent is nessary to
the success NV yore paper, will in
innate az mulch by drappin V in
the offs for me. 1 may rite a series OF
artikels on later bugs, or politickel