The south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1879-1883, 1882-08-15
HUMDuRaIN.
Mr.. EdIturc


Mr.. EdIturc:
The battles fot. the victry's1,
Without the firing OF a single gun.
.Jist last Mundy wae the leckshur,
which | spose you no. so on Tuze-
dy | cum up to your town to git the
nuze. Well eur when got on the
street, met my trend, Mr.. Jon Mills,
who told me there wus a party OF
kanidates getin up trip up salt
river, and he suggested thatit would
be nice fur me 10 20 long and take
itums for the nuze papers. SO l hun.
ted up Mr. Campbell aud he told me
they wer TO start ID once, and he sed
they wus collectin then at landin
called Defeat.bury, which wus only a
short distance from Polls-viIle. SO
he went with me and we found MOST
Nv the fellers there oil seitin round
lookin very much like coroner q
jury. Now this ere old town is an
old landin wher many thousands git
abord evry year, but it don't seem tu
impruvc much, frum the fact sum one
NV them told me, that the parties that
cum hero tu git on don't have no
mummy much hardly. Then it looks
like all there trends don't 30 with
them TO see em OF, tn lone EN- a
few dollars until after the leckshnn,
nur nuthiu and sich like. Well, pur-
~ suue we herd the doleful whistle
Of the salt river packet. j looked
down the river aud the ole boat wus
Cummin tarln round the bond,
Loaded down with beaten men.
AS she got nearer / cud reckognise
sum Of them. They wus all setlin
round on their baggage, which wus
all labilled as tn what they had IN EN-.
Fur :nstants:s X unkel Jacobs wus settin
on big trunk marked Bolts. |
gcssed lle lad uzcl en- in boltin the
couvenshun. Then sum Nv EN- wus
marked Trickery and Shenannigin.
And sum big bundles wus marked
with letters six inches long, Lies and
so on. Wei the bote didn't more an
tuch shore, afore we wus al. abord
and she shuyed of like she wus In a
crate hurry, and the captin iolo me
that this wusas yerv profitable trip
fur he got passenvers' AZ everv sta.
sh,n. Bout this time II wus twelve
o'clock and they all got small par
Gel outen their vest pockets, which
wns marked .sympaihy Nv trends, ,
and thew went fur h like there wns
but yery little u,lterment IN n bnt
tler-sed the tasre wis very swat IN
role under there tnngs Purtv sune
arter tbey got outside nv tbere snax
the whissle blode ayin and W. landed
at a place called Dontcare. ville Smn
six or eipht got Off here and se, thev
would stay. don't think l wood
like the place. fur there didnt appee,
10 be very good Recommendations
and don't think them what uot M
will stay long. but iist qot off N chow
their grit. The next thing that han.
pened wus our ole boat run on 4 san
bar and stuck fast AZ thunder. and /
rot DO owerfl,l uuesy fur there WINS
nuilin OH bord 10 live on scpin sim.
pnlhy nv trends. and A nifty scanty
supply uy that. Jist above where we
wus stuck wus landin called Con.
testatio,f. and when sum nv the pas.
sengers found 1t out thew WINS mil,
anxious 10 land, fur that's the landi,
they intended 10 cit or at sez thew
80 small boat from the landin Gun
out tn us, the name nv which WIN,
Advice. uy-frends. Ten or lively,
went on her and then our old boa
backed off and struck ont mn The rive,
agin. We wus glad they got OF I'M
they wus keepin up more racket thar
all the balance. The next landin n,
ana Importance we cum IN. wus ,
very thrivin lookin place called
| Worksb 70 ugh, ,ssaud the most Nv M,
passengers got oil here. AS we naf
| iu stop here AN our or two. i GOT of
and went up town tu look round.
met scyral old AGO uaintances here. .ant
they told me they wus DUN well. s,
they advised our crowd TO get q
something and make an homes, Twin
| which | think they will du. Wyat
| Watt got n lob of carpenterin an,
went 10 vurk nj once and I oin hin
credi. fur Ii. While / wus lookil
round here the old bote left and
wus distrest most IN death, fur l in
tended III have my mummy onten tha
10 Clark iur that drafted colt, ur pusl
him over bord one. But cum TO fin,
out he had stopped here tn and gon Il
work. lie sed he wus goin tn pa,
me shore as soon as he chastised hi
whete. ] wus list goiu to take hi
note fur the kolt, and WIS tryin /
rite II, bat sum body kept shakin m,
culd'nt rite so | jumped up to Sc
who I, wus, and walked up to fin,
Billy Winfrce shakin me to congrstu
late me on his success. You see
had bin with that Dan Merritt agil
anu urunk SUN KIM NV tfuck INA