Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-01-23

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judges at three requiring the court to con.
enc and organize as soon as practicable in
and limiting it, existence to
8 months, was adopted. It also describes
he classes of claims to be considered. The
ill as amended by substitute YVES then
113, nays 93......Adjourned.
:: The Facts About Sam Snyder.
We we're aft1sitting on the piazza in
ront of Blyler's store; and Abner Byng;
vas there, with his legs cooked up
against post and bis chair tilted back.
Or. Murray was running his eye down
column of the country paper; when he
said: . =
"Hel1oai This is queer! Why, it SAYS
hat an English chemist has succeeded in |
listilling whiskey from saW.dust.
"That's nothing" said Abner Byng,
dipping his thumb. 49, !
"How do you mean, nothingf asked
the Doctor. /
.:'"Oh, it's old, awful old. I knew
that years ago. Did you ever meet San
5nyderT'' +: i;
'"Ne, never met him." I
"WeD, Sam was q hard drinker-
must have rum by one means or another.
He had no money and nobody to trust
MIN or treat him. So Sam somehow
that whiskey could be made
out Of sawduat. and DC you know what
"WhatT' "t $40 ''''''
"He'd get 50 drunk off a ~fence-rail
and q cross cut saw that he couldn't
tells COW from q sugar cured ham,.
Put him near to q wood pile and saw
buck, and let him alone, and before
IL O'Clock he'd turn out the most de-
lcious mint juleps you ever tasted.
Easily done, was it?''
Easily9 Why, one time his family
tried to. keep him sober by putting him
out on the roof and keeping him, there;
and do you know what Sam did? Got 2
boy to tie wash-boiler and four feet Of
lead pipe to a string, and Sam fished 'em
up; and in three days he had turned
every shingle into cocktails, and he fell
through into the garrett in such q fright
full condition of intoxication that they,
had to give him electric shocks from q
forty-two cell battery to bring him back
to consciousness"
"You know this to be fact, do you? 2"
"Certainly: I was there. Why, that
man, acquired q preference for liquor
made from wood, and three. times, to my
certain knowledge, he got mania potu
from consumption of distilled pine.
boards and potato-mashers, he drank up
four sets of chair legs; and, one Fourth
of July, when his wife stopped his de-
struction of the furniture, he celebrated
the day by calling in three or four friends
to drink new kind Of energetic brandy
that he'd just made out Of window-sill
and clothesprop. Drink! Why, sir,
pledge you nay word, Snyder in single
winter drank up = smoke-house, three
waah-tubs, and q. front-door. Nothing
could stop him when he got going."'
>, ".Why did he prefer domestic utenc
- "He didn't. There. was q wood out
back of his house that belonged to his
aunt. Sand go out there with meat
saw, or any kind of q saw he could get,
and in two years he had stimulated hi
system with eight chestnut trees, foul
persimimuo11s,, one OAK, fifteen saplings o.
various kinds. Trimmed that grove out
so that his aunt COUNT rent it to picnic
parties. Nearly broke r. II, the }. old lady,
:" Bid he Kill himself drinking?"
"Well, not exactly. I'll tell you
how it was. It seems that he was haunt
ed for a long time with, the idea that Il
he could distill the Presbyterian Church
steeple he,r could turn out an. article
thatd bear "A resemblance, somehow, K
old apple brandy. Queer, wasn't it.
But the mai; was not exactly right; hi
mind was diseased. So one night he 20,
On the roof Of the church: with q ladder
to steal the steeple. When he got there
III dunno how it was, but the idea seem
ted to strike him to taste the thing, maybe
to see IF he was right aboutsthe flavor
+ AndAhe must have been: Wild when ht
did 1.-THE actually swallowed the
EWeather-cock, and there he stuek, 'whirl-
ing around all night as the wind struck
himl Dead7 He was deader'n Martin
Van Buren, when they como to- take him
4 DOWN.. ::.H.: af{ i..,4 s,;tr.f i lp.sw
Gle swallowed the weather cock, did
Yes, sir, IS, swallowed it, - .''.
"Well, that wasn't half as hard to sWal.
low IS your whole yarn" said Blyler.
4" You don't doubt ny verscity, ]
hopper" said Abner. y, )" You do9 we'll, i
:sS ss saG ~ aaaSdsd a fssI1ss only i
want a." -: s. s.. ..Y"'I5H e u.
Just at this juncture ,Blyler, kicked
Mr.. Byng,aof. the porch, and 4Abne1
walked away. to the next tavern with q
faint hope that the bartender would give
his credit one more chance.-MaE AIDE.
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