The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1880-12-23
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(Wich is in the State NV kentucky
Dec, 6, 1880.
Last week received the follerin opistle:

Dec. D, 1851.
Last week l received the follerin epistle:
KINMUSDy, ILL.,, Nov. 81, 1880.
PETROLEUM V. NAsBY-Dear Strive, the un-
dersigned, having been constant readers of your
letters for some time, and observing that you were
greatly in need of clean shirt, take the liberty
OF presenting you one that we hope will give entire
satisfaction. We hope TO hear from you soon.
Dir. w. o. SAITH,
II. w. SMITH,
j. T.. DONOVAN,
o. N. TENER,
GEO. i. PICKERING
l.. L. HoLLISTEE.
Their wuz shirt enclosed, but it wuz like
Hancock in the last election, and the Dime
kratic successes generally, very much too short
for emmy practical yoose. There may hev bin
period in my life when Good hev worn sieh
shirt, but at present writin, five foot eight
man, weighin 235, can't git himself into shirt
SIX inches long, and correspondingly wide.
felt when L looked at it as did when
wuz readin the elecashun returns. This six
inch affair is Shirt but it is too small for eny
yoose whatever, tho it IL shirt all the same.
The Dimocrisy IL q party all:complete from
candidate for the Presidency to a Nashnel
Committy. but it proved itself too short at both
eends, and not wide enuff across the middle,
and wuz NV no earthly account.
Still, thank the donors hartily A six inch
shirt, tho 1T be but a reminisence Nv shirt,
would be better than none at all to a man
wich wuz pertikeler about shirts.
But for me it is NV no yoose. L wear shirt
occasionally when it is handy to. procoor en-
but never travelled on shirts. Wen ] am
walkin at II at mite, and l see line full NV
EN-, L am not above borrerin one, or perhaps
two, and even yeeld to the prejudis NV our
civilisashun by putin em on but | keer very
little fer EN-. The prinsiple good they are to
me is to spout EN- at Bascom's for the actooal
necessities Nv life L hev KEEP BaScOm in
shirts fer menny yeers.
At the Corners / very seldom ware a shirt,
for one loses caste by putin ON sich frills. The
man shown white shirt at the Corners is TAX
en- Ter Republican, especially of il is eileen.
Wen am goin out speekin in the East |
succum to predjodis enuff to put on a paper
collar, but no shirt is nessary. / hev a vest cut
close about the throat and pin a paper collar
inside the collar Nv the vest onto the under
SHIRT. Ell my finanses, or opportoonities NV
borrerin off NV clothes lines, are so limited
thet / hev no unlershirt, pin it onto the in
side Nv the collar NV my vest. The shirt is
then understood, it is conceded, and you git
along jist eZ well.
wat IS the yoose Nv shirt ennyway? Ii
don't civ no warmth, and only few square
inches NV ii shows. Thar is three wards nv
cotton and yard NV linen yoosed UP Jest fer
the little square tllet Sh owS at the buzim. Eff
700 must show linen in front, why not hev
little square NV linen pinned onto the inside
NV the vest whar it opens and save all the rest?
The fact is there is altogether too much was
It'd in this world. The bodies and fronts NV
shirts, wich are totally unnesary, cost ez much
ez the skool system, the skool system being un-
nesary. lnesmuch ez it rooins the Dimocratic
party would do away with that. These two
strong pints NV the Republican party abolished
there would be enuff surplus in a yeer to pay
the Nashnel debt and give every man in Ken
lucky a barl NV moo whiskey, and hev enuff
over to slackwater Seceshn erik, and make the
Cross Roads an important commershel point.
Their are other extravagances wich we m
dulge in on wich 1 mite dwell, but it is un-
nesary. Wat we want to do is to git down to
the simplisity NV our fathers, and leave the un-
nesaries alone, that we may hev the means to
hev an Unlimited supply nv nessaries
Ell hev any more admirers in Ilinoy wich
want to send me testimonials let them omit
shirts and sich and do suthin yooseful for me-
Let EN- send me two-gallon jug NV Illinoy
whiskey. They must pack it in male keg, for
jug never wood reech me, 1t wood be stolen
afore it got half way from the dept at Seceshn-
vile. This will be suthin that will be COM
fortin, and will give Inc better opinyun NV
my fellows and broader idee OF our common
hoomanity. PETROLEUM V. NAsBY.
(Expectant)