Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1881-01-18
NASBY.
Ir. Nasty Makes Sundry and Dbl
yers Acknowledgements.
lFrom the Toledo Blade.

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STATE Nv KENTUCKY), January l. 1851
Some time sence some friends in Illinoy
sent me shirt. Bein but six inches in
length from the collar to the eend nv the
tale, it wuzn't Nv any very great yootility,
ez shirt. Ez token Nv remembrance, it
wuz a perfect thing, but considered in the
lite NV shirt for wear, or for pawnin for
likker (Which is the yoose l hev ginerally
put my shirts toy, it was failyoor.
I don't keer about hevin shirts presentid
to me ez rool l don't wear EN-, and when
l go onto republican commodities wher
SIGH sooperfooities are considered necps-
sary, / kin borrer EN- off NV cloze lines any
time after II at mite.
But Iikker, that is another thing. Peo-
pie in the vi~inity Nv the Cross Roads do
leeve Their shirts out FL night SO supply
is alluz attainable. Bnt 1 never knowd q
man in this visinity to ever leeve bari Nv
whisky out over mite, and consistently that
hez to be prokkoored otherwise.
A few days after receevin thst shirt got
q little box by mail, with the 70 lowin lets
ter:
OTTUMwA, To-, December 2O-Petrol-
cum v. Nasty: I have been constant
reader of your letters for some time. and
as you stand greatly in need of a jug of
whisky, take the opportunity of sending
y.u jugfull for Christmas. Hoping it
will reach you safe, subscribe myself.
M. c. CARLoR.
This wuz boiler mockery 1t wuz jig
and wuz sctilly filled with whisky. but the
Jug itself wuzn't bigger than a thimbIe.
and the lik ker it contained wo dent hev
made drink for Tom Thum. I drank it,
however, but the only effect wuz to arowse
slum BERN appetite, and make me insane
for more witch wuz wicked, whatever, and
| hewitt seen dollar sence wuz votin for
Hancock in Injeany.
But mercifel Providence interfered.
ez it aluz does. The very next day l re-
seevsd the follerin letter:
CARMI Ill, December %, 18SO-To
Rev. Petroleum V. Nasty. Confederate X
Roads, KY: ESTEEMED FRIEND-We q
few of your admiring friends here in
Egypt. have read with much pleasure ard
fully indor-s the observation made by yeu
on receiving "a shirt, or what purported
to be shirt, from some of your friends up
at Kinmundy. From your description we
are led to believe that if this particular
garment, or what purports to be a garment,
had been before Tom Hood when he sung
1.-The SongTof the Shirt" he would have
cut his tune to short meter.
We desire to furnish more material
token of our regard to you for your dis
tingnished services in behalf of our time
henored and battle-scarred old party
There is nothing mean or small about US.
We think we know where to touch ten
der, sympathetic chord in the Democratic
heart. We send no superfous articles of
food or clothing. Ours is more substan-
tial thing more in harmony
with Democratic ideas, more congenial to
Democratic tastes, more palatable and
toothsome to Democratic appetites, and
something which the average Democrat
will roll as a sweet morseP' under his
| tongue. In other words, accompanying
this we send you quantity OF as good
whisky as anybody need want. We do moi
| stop to inquire whether this liquor is better
or best We acknowledge no such dis
tinctions: all liquor is goo0-to a Democrat
This is Fishers standard article: it is such
as Democrats use here, and we trust it will
compare favorably with Bascom's favor
tie brands We part with it somewhat
reluctantly, but we are consoled by tn e
thought that you will do ample justice to
it.
We send this as our christmas gift' to
you the greatest DEMO- ratio leader and
chieftaiu of the age, and with it the wish
that you MAJ have merry, jolly old time.
Your admiring frienos.
| Frank j Foster, W. 81. johnson,
| II E. Cramer, Gorge Westcroft
A. Van Tuyl, John q. Shoup,
a. J. w. Fisher
| Accompanyin this was male keg. Oh
| how eagerly / opened it. co d not wait
| for a hammer, but tore it open with my
| hands. Enclosed within wuz jug: two
| gallon ing Then came a sickenin thot
Wuz this the work of some. Ablishen
WIZ it gastly joke? Nervin myself and
feerin the worst. pulled the cork. Halle
loogv! 1t wuz whisky, and the best hev
so thed my bowels with for many day.
I am Twin on that likker. but it il about
out. Wood that jug wuz like the Wilder
Cruse's oil, inexh usttib'e. But it is ever
thus. The pleasant things of this life Is
evanescent A jug of hkker is like frost
af re the sun, but bile stays with 700 q
month. 1t wuz forchinit that it came in q
male keg. He'd the Corners knowd the CO.
tents NV that keg, it wood never hev reech>
ed me Senc Bascom hez done away with
the credit system a gallon jug Nv likker is
suffishent to perdoose riot
seterin this comes this letter:
PHELPS. N Y December Is, 1899 p.
V Nasby-DEAR SIR: l have not the hon.
or of livingvin Illinois, but am one of
your New York admirers. Ny sympai HES
are aroused in your behalf and as you are
expecting a male kegn with Aug n it, l
take pleasure in sending you the keg, but
il contains hard cider-whi ky not being IN
my line. If democrat had manufactured
r. however, 1t might nave Oeen Apple
jack" tut as an a Republics IAN Recha-
bite, it is Apple Jeley ~ trustyou will
accept it, and find It so comforting" and
sppetizing that you will begin the New
Y ear Rechabite. Hoping to hear from
you soon, l remain yours truly,
- : c. L. BIGELow.
The keg contained large an Nv some
kind Nv compound called apple jelly
the yoose Nv wich l don't know. took it
over to Bascom's and traded it fer quart
of his moo whisky, and M g. Bascom
| yoosed it on her table. She SEE II IS q
delightful thing to lhev in the house. and
she hez never quit talking about it. dldn, t
care tell her it came from New York
1ankee, for she woodent hev yoosed 1t,
ana she spooses to day it wuz made in
| kentucky. 1t don't make any difrense, I
got the quart and so it wuz NV some yoose.
4 am Wiiiin to take most ANYTHING. If I
can't yoose it myself 1 kin trade it to
Bascom for what kin yoose, and 80 [ git
a benefit. But the jelly man must not for
moment spousa that kin yoose cider in
that shape 1t might hev tasted we'll when
I was tender boy, but my stumick hez
past tibet sort Nv thing,long ago. However.
ez it wuz convertible into whisky, thank
him list the same. -o -'aECzLzEC