Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-04-04
Massey PREVENTS A CA
LAMlTY.

MASSEY PREVENTS A CA
LAA6ITY.
rhe Corners Meet In His Absence /
and Proceed to lndoree Pres. |,
ident Hayes. Ii
The Toledo Blade publishes letter
from Nasty, in which he relates how
Tho Corners rebelled during his alb
sencc. Ho returned in time to avert
a calamity:
arrived at about Z O'Clock in the
to Bascom's. I felt well. My expe-
dishen he'd pruved success, fur / got
not only more shirts than eny reform
leedcr in Kentucky ought to hev, but
/ he'd also prokoored sum sox and q
pare NV boots which wuz standen con-
venient outside dore.
"Wher is G. W." l asked NV Mrs.
Bascom, who wuz in the bar.
ether is meetin at the church, and |
Bascom is there"
GA meetin at the church, Who
dares call meetin in my absence 7"
And feerin evil I fastened over to
the meetin-house.
1t wuz harrowin site my eyes res
ted onto. There on the platform sot
Pollock, the niger postmaster, Nc
Pelter, Issaker cGavitt, several more
niggers, Bascom, another Niger, and
the deekin. Joe Bigler wuz a
standin up and reedin frum paper.
"Wat is this ?" l shreeked, "Bas-
com, McPelter, Issaker, and ct tn
Broot-the deekin with them Radi-
kelsl Wat does this mean?"
"The gentleman will take his seat
and keep quiet while reed the reso-
looshens," returned Joe, and red EN-
WAREAz, The country hez bin KEEP
in hot water fur about fifteen years,
and
WAREAz, Hot water ant the most
comfortable thing in the world fur
the fish tibet is in it, if they hev been
used to cold, and
WAREAz, Ez President Hayes ap-
pears to be tryin the best he knows
how to settle things on proper ba-
sis, and in scch way ez to do jestis to
every ono and injestis to none, there
fore be it
Resolved, That the Corners, recog-
nizen the good intenshuns NV the
President and his advisers, pledges
itself to stand by him, without re-
gard to former party affiliashens, and
tn do wat we kin to bring about the
erar NV COON feelin.
| Resolved, That frum this time out
all the bitterness NV tho past shell be
bericd in tho Corners, that every man
will recognize every other man ez a
citizen, all hevin ekal rites, in life,
liberty, and the persoot nv snthin to
cat
"And drink" sejested Bascom.
!, md that all divisions on politiklG
questions shell cese ontil things hey
settled and suthin occurs to divide u.
, in q more material war.
a ResOlued, That
Good stand this no longer, and
sprung to my feet.
"Dcekin Bascom! McPelter! Is
sakcr +! My Friends! are you goin tx
! set there and let them infamous, in
cenjiary resol0oshens 60 forth cs thu
, voice NV the Corners? Are 700 60
: in to be led by yoor enemies into sucl
q trap?"
aWhy not ?" asked Bascom. cain
!, we he'd hell enuff here; hez cnybody
! made enything by all the worry ant
trouble Nv the last ten yeers? ?"
= "BascOm, eff them res0l0oshens pas
3 and eff they are carried out in tn
sperit which seems to pervade thi
> unconstitooshnel assemblage, wat, lie
me ask, is A COIN TU BEGUN wv ME
Eff Their is goin tn be pcece and har
, mony, Nv WAT YOOsE AM l? Eff the
: amt goin to be no more niggers to xii
eff everybody hez Their rites, eff the
= ant no yooserper to struggle agin, il
= Bascom's bar-room, Of there ant n
= occashen fer eloquence and defiance
WAT AM TO DO? Wat do 700 wan
tn throw me out NV bizniz fur? E
!. 700 acknowledge the yooserper Hayes
! wat needs hev 700 NV q defender 2
= Why 700 leeve me stranded and help
8 lis, and 1 mite jist ez well leeve til
Corners to wunst! Deekin, Bascon
:. Issaker, kin yon do this?
= 81 don't see"-commest BascOm, bu
i woodn't let him 60 on.
:, ''Dut / see. IF this cry NV goot
= feelin sets in, / may exclaim with tn
niger in the play, 'Othello's Dixie
pashen's gone My trends befor
!. 700 kommit yoorsel to this heresy, lie
us consult"
a l FINELY got these misgided men on
!, NV the house, and into Bascom's an,
" Their appealed to EN- more at an ad
:. vantage. I held up afore EN- tn
horrors NV niger rool, showed eI
= that eff they past them resolOoshen
y they wuz republicans, and that tn
= dooty NV evrh dimekrat wuz to fit
on, fite ever, till we he'd restores
= peece to our hlcedin country.
"But pcece is wat Hayes wants
|. amt it ?" replied the Deekin.
= "Spose he does, admit it, that ain
: the pint. Deekin Their never kin b
! poece, 1 never kin be satisfied Q
!. soothed, nor kin eny one NV the nobl
: army Nv reformers which follered til
! banner nv Tilden and Reform, $
y long as ablitionists hold the pOstoff
!. ces, and the radikels the collectorshil
Yoo may cry 'peece, peece, but the
amt no pecce. We want peece, bl
4 ,ce want to make it, and we want
y make it in our own way, or we don
- want it at ALL"
a Their amt nothin like decishun an
- promptnis. before / got thro wit
~ en- got EN- back to Their old moo
= ms, and they didn't 60 back to Ii
i, meetin at all, and Issaker wuz SO Ell
- ragged at bein almost capchered, tn,
- he shyed brick at one NV the niggel
- which wuz goin home frum til
-, . church, which almost perdoosed
- good old-time riot.
:. The Corners is now normal. I'll
20 dimocricy..and the radikels hate eac
e other ez hartily ez ever. Fites IL
= common ez ever, and ] am back
= my old place at Bascom's
- Thus did avert calamity from IL
~ Corners and thwart the evil endea,
~ ors NV a yooserpin President. Ma
:. dimecratic feeders everywhere a
~ with excl firmness and promptnis.-
- Wat is peace to the continyoOd ext
!" tence NV the dimecratic party?
PETROLEUM v. NAsBY,
- Ex-Reformer.
% Important Oecislon In Insurance
M The determination by the Supren
r Court of the case of Young vs. Har
q, ford Insurance Company, settles SON
i. new principles In the law of insu
i. ance. The Register says that M
or Joseph Warner directed Mr.. We
W ling, q general insurance agent
ii Des Moines, to write policy on I'll