Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1879-08-14


(Wich is in the State Nv Kentucky :
1 Jooly u, 1879.
am disguised and dishartened. Every
thing under heaven seems to work agin
the Democracy, and make a continood
success impossible. We succeeded in
electin Dimocratic Congris, the people
hevin tired Nv Republican rOol, and it
did seem to me that there wuZ nothin III
the wav NV a continyooance thereof for
an indefinite period. l looked confident
" forard to the Postoffice at the Corn
ers, and RELY expected that / should end
nv days holding that Commishen and
spendin the salary pleasantly and cheer
fully at BascOm's.
In the fust place we wuZ ShOor that
Sherman's reusumpshen wood cause
widespread disaster, witch the people
wood charge to the akkount Nv the Re
publican party, and wood bring the
Nashnels over to us, yoonitin both par
ties agin the common foe. and after that
everything wood be plain sailin. We
Good sweep the kentry like a tornado,
leevin nary greesepot Nv the Radlkels
behind US.
But somehow it didn't work. Sher-
man resoomed the 1st of Janooary with
out the slightest trouble, and the kentry,
instid NV goin to everlastin room, went
on prosperin at a faster rate than eV-
er. To our horror, failyOOrs begun to
grow lesser and lesser. and when went
to Louisville and interviewed the mer-
chants and manufsIc: urers, and they told
me that biznis wuz bctter than it he'd
bin for yeers, and that it wuZ constantly
increesin, and increesin too In healthy
way, and that they wuZ a paym their
hands promptly, and that the hands wuz
eittin on fust rate, and wuZ comforta-
BILE, then my hart sunk within my buzz
yum, and | went home disheartened and
discurridged.
Bascom is more NV a Roman than
am. This wuZ early in the season. and
when / wuz weepin over the prosperity
NV the country, he remarkt: "Brace up
Parson, there is yit hope for the Democ-
risy. The crops may yit fail, and room
may yit ensoop
Them words give me hope, and ]
watched the crop reports with intense
] anxiety, and l daily sighed like Jereml-
ah, th9 great lamenter:
| OH that the frost would strike the
| corn in the blade, and the cowcumbers
on the vinei
Oh! that the fruit would perish in the
bud, and scab wood git among the
sheep!
On that the murrain and the horn-ai
wood rage among the kline!
OH that the glanders wood spreC
among the hosses, and cut them dowr
by the thousand, yea, by the ten thou
sandi
Obi that the cholera wood revel among
the hogs, and destroy them all, from thu
mature SOW to the tender and succulen
sucking! FL. t...
| Oh! that the rot wood destroy the po
tato. and the cut worm the tender corn
l Then wood the people be distressed
and thev wood charge it up to the ac
count of John Sherman, resumptlon,an(
the Republican party, and we shoult
elect Tilden and reform in 1880, and
|. shood enjoy my Postotfis.
All of these wood it take, and more
to enshoor triumph for the Dimocrisy
| waited for these in vane. Nache
favors the Republican party. Their
wuz no cut-Worm, no frost, no hog chol
era, no murrain, no nOthin. l he'd som
hope wunst, when l heard the weevi
and Hessian fly he'd appeared in tn
wheat in Illinoise, but my soul san
) when the report wuz pronounced un
founded The wheat is averaging thlrt
bushels to the akre, it is sellin for do
lar or thereabouts, and the money pal
| for it is good, and the farmer is rejoiciI
F What good does it do for me to g
about howlin about hard times to farm
eriwith thirty bushels to the akre In hi
barns.
What good is it to howl about ba
money, when the farmer kin hev gol
d land silver eff he wants it, just the sam
ez paper money?
Watts the use NV talkin about a chang
Nv polisy when the people Is all on
5 broad grin. ;,. -....
1 hev only one more hope. There al
seckshuns where corn is the principe
crop, and corn may yit be destroyed. !
early frost in Southern Indiana migf
e lido us some good, but after the disal
D pointment with the wheat | hev br
faint hopes Nv that. But eff there coo
. be frost that would kill the entire crol
! and thus put up the price Nv whisky an
: Iside pork, it would enrage that seckshu
and enshoor that State for Tilden an
e reform. ~
f But l hev no hope Nv anything. l al
so yoost to disappointment that l shoe
he surprised at any sich streek NV luc
!, It don't do no good for me to leen agi
lamp post and swear that work can
be had in conscience Nv John Sherman
o lreconstruckshen, for Joe Bigler jeel
h and asks when 1 ever did put in strol
NV work anyhow? And wunst when
WIZ disclaimin agin the scarcity Nv Il
Y Dor. he put me down by offerin me
= dollar and a half to go out and hoe COZ
II on farm he hez, for wich he coodent g
labor enuff. To give us any hope U
d success we must hev hard times, in dc
o earnist, and reel distress, and Nv that
n see no hope Nacher is agin us, an
who kin fight agin nacher? te9t
l-r PETROLEUM V. NAsBY,
. I-rE .r lHu Distressed FinanSeer.