The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1881-02-10

NASBY.
Ar. Nasby Makes sundry and Divers Ae.
Acknowledgements.

NASBY.
Mr.. Nasty Makes sundry and Divers Ae.
kuowiedgments.
From the Toledo Blade.l
CoNFEDRIr X ROADS,
(wich Is in the State NV Kentuckyl
January l. 1881.
/. Some time sence some friends in Illi-
noy sent me a shirt. Bein but six
inches in length from the collar to the
eend NV the tale, it wuzn't Nv any very
great yootility, considered ez a shirt.
Ez token nv remembrance it was q
perfect thing, but considered in the lite
of a shirt for wear, or for pawnin for
hkker (Which is the yoose l hev GIN
orally put my shirts toy it wuz fail
yoor.
l don't keer about hevin shirts pre-
sentid to me. Ez rool l don't wear
EN-, and when I go into Republican
commodities wher sich sooperfiooities
are considered nessary, kin borror EN-
OH NV cloze lines any time after twelve
at mite.
But likker, that is another thing.
People in the visinity NV the Cross
Roads do leeve ther shirts out all mite,
SO a supply is alluz attainable. But l
never knowd q man in this visinity to
ever leeve q barl NV whisky out over
mite, and consekently that hez to be
prokkoored otherwise.
A few days after reseevin that shirt,
/ got little box by mail, with the fol-
lowin letter:
OrTuMwA, Iowa, December 90
Petroleum V. Nasby-I have been a con-
I take the opportunity of sending you a Jug
safe myse T T.
This wuz a holler mockery. 1t wuz
jug and wuz actilly filled with whisky,
but the Jug itself wuzn't bigger than a
thimble. and the likker it contained
woodent hev made q drink for Tom
Thum. l drank it, however. but the
only effeck wuz to arowse q slumberin
appetite, and make me insane for more,
wich wuz wicked, ez Bascom positively
refOozes to give any credit whatever,
and hewitt seen a dollar sence / wuz
votin for Hancock in Injeany.
But a mercifel Providence interfered,
ez it alluz does. The very next day l
reserved the follerin letter:
CARNr Ill, December g.
To Rev. Petroleum v. Nasby, Confederate X
Esteemed Friend-we few of your admir-
ing friends here In Egypt. have read with
much pleasure and fully indorse the observa-
tion made by you on receiving a shirt, or what
purported to be a shirt, from some of your
tion we ar are led to believe that If this particn-
lar garment. or what purports to be a gar
sung % the % song " Of % the shir9, he % Would % have
cut his tune to short meter.
We desire to furnish a more material token
Service IN SeSaf OF our anS
battle-scarred old party. There is nothing
mean or small about US. We think we know
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fiuous articles of food or of clothing. ours
in harmony with Democratic ideas, more
congenial to Democratic tastes, more palata-
and something which the average Democrat
can always roll as q sweet morsel under his
tongue" In other words, accompanying this
snvSody @ s need Wanp. we do DO not stop % to in ns
Qufre whether this liquor Is better or best. we
soodOto Democrat This is Fishers stand.
ard article, IL is such as Democrats use here,
fns Basco%s w rI favorse brsnds We pars With a
somewhat reluctantly, but are consoled by
the thought that you will do ample Justice to
We send this as our christmas gift" to you,
the greatest Democratic leader and chieftain
have a merry, jolly old time. Your admirins
friends,
H. E. CRAMER, GEORGE wEsTCRoFT,
AA.yHWy 4. " TETYa; E,SL.. JOHN II. sHoUr.
Accompanyin this was a male keg.
Oh how eagerly opened it. l Good
not wait for a hammer, but 1 tore it
open with my hands. Enclosed within
wuz a jug, two-gallon jug. Then
came sickenin thot Wuz this the
work of sum Ablishen feends? Wuz
this jug filled with water? Wuz it
gastly joke? Nervin myself and feerin
the worst. 1 pulled the cork. Halle
loogy! 1t wuz whisky. and the best /
hax- coafhal h0xxyolo xxyitb f<v.
a day. am ivin on that likker, but it
is about out. Wood that that jug wuz
like the Widder Cruse's oil. inexhaust-
ible. But it is ever thus. The pleasant
things of this life is evanescent. A jug
Nv hkker is like frost afore the sun, but
bile stays with you month. 1t wuz
forchinit that it came in q nale-keg.
He'd the corners knowed the contents
Nv that keg, it wood never hev reached
me. Sence Bascom hez dun away with
the credit system a gallon jug NV likker
is sufficient to perdOose a riot.
Follerin this comes this letter:
PHELPS, n. Y, December 25, 1880;
your New YORK admirers My sympathies are
aroused In your behalf. and as you ex-
in sendns the il
tains Hard Cider-whisky not being in my
line. Ii a Democrat had manufactured II,
however. il might have been Apple jack"
Apple Jelly" i trust you win accept it. and
find IL so comforting" and appetizing that
you will begin the new year a Rechabite.
Hoping to hear from you soon, 1 remain
yours truly, c. l.. BIGELow.
The keg contained a large can NV
some kind NV a compound called zap
pie jelly" the yoose Nv wich 1 don't
know. l took it over to Bascom's and
traded it for quart of his moo whisky,
and Mrs. Bascom yoosed it on her ia
BILE. She sez it is delightful thing 10
hev in the house. and she hez never
quit talkin about it. didn't dare tell
her it come from a Moo York Yankee.
for she woodent hev yoosed it, and she
spooses to-day it was made in Ken
lucky. 1t don't make any diffrense. ]
got the quart, and SO it was of some
yoose.
am willin to take most anything.
If / can't yoose it myself, l kin trade it
to Bascom for wat kin yoose. and so !
git benefit. But the jelly-man must
not for q moment spose that kin yoose
cider in that shape. 1t might hev
tasted well when / was q tender boy,
but my stumick hez past tibet sort NV
thing long ago. However, ez it wuz
convertible into whisky, I thank him
jist the same.
My address is still at the Cross Roads.
PETROLEUM ". NASBY,