Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1881-05-24

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prospect and there are many more going to
leave soon, so there viii be room for the
tender-foot.
Jerre Fiyman, who recently left the
mine 10 work his claims at Aspen, Is re-
ported to have struck eight feet OF sind.
II this be fact, he has made his pile sure
John Hoffman, who works ca the timber
gang In company with two other, has re-
Gently sold claim in the Garrison for
$4,000 They are to ret tlR ducats in
two months; aud John says ''hy shimminy
the Chrysolite shall take day of at my
expense.
To give you slight idea of what faro is
| will tell YOU that Saturday evening, the
! 5th, two men, one OF them am well ac-
/ quainted with, and he works at the Chrys-
olite, went into the Texas House aud took
seats at a table and commenced the game
by throwing in" small amount of
money; for few hours they were in luck
aud could have pulled out "winner" of
about $1,000; but one Of the men was
drunk and would not do SO ; aud the result
was that later they pulled out only 500
"ahead OF the game. This is an every
day occurance. Cases are quite frequent
Of men winning several thousand dollars
az one sitting. It's not an uncommon
thing that man will sit down and in
few hours he will "bust" the bank aud
sometimes the banker has to borrow
money TO redeem his checks.
was very much interested in Mr.
Frye'> speech IN the Senate, anu l know
his wortS are true. | will tell You that
YOU don't have To 20 South 10 satisfy
Yourself that there is buIdozng. Come
10 Colorado and | will prove 10 YOU 10y the
mouths ot dozen men who live in the
South and are Democrats. and make their
brags OF killing Of "uiggcrs". | will tell
you wha; man from kentucky told me
last fall aud hc thought he had done a
nice thing. lie said THERE'S a town lG
miles below Richmond called Berea, and In
that town there are about 800 ni-gers and
$50 white men. The uiss all vote the
Republican ticke, il lie; alone, so at our
election sc wished to carry that town and
myself iu company with several other men
went 20 Berca carly in the day. and aS
soon a> the polls were open the nigsers
began TO flock in To vote. and we all pulled
our guns and pretending 10 De drunk. be-
Gan - DISCHARGE them indlscriminately.
not AZ IN, ni.g,rs but anywhert. and the
r.f,rers all r1u for the woods. At the in
teryaI. during the day they would venture
out thinking wehad zone. and try 10 get
into the voting place 20 cas-; their ballot
- free l,'i.f.I. but whenever they came
around we would benin frin-. and the
fIr-t f.-.i, woul! run Tor the woods. The
r..yit was that whom 81, b,v w. turr,d
,l,rr, Wen. 40 n.r,,c-.,lc vote. ip f. and
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though they were Democrats themselves.
! had nv \cribUsr for Nay before re-