The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1883-07-12
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More TroubIe IN the Corner', Growing
Cut OF the Liquor tlHesti N.
CoSFRDIRIT y ROADS.
witch IL In the State Nv Kentuky),

| DelIiOn IN ms SOTueIcI uuu 10 hClIuy wv
vim to hey tax put onto BAsconl's biznit
When II wuE tust perposed baaCom gasp
ed with RstonishmeDt, aud staggered ant
wood hev fell PROSTATE on the floor 81 Il
hadn't bin for the bar wich prevented 1t
"Tax mc!' he gasped. "Iax me-a1
likkrr b zint! Wat becomes Nv yer peIs
mel lbeuy?"
And then Joe Bigler struck in.
"Yes, Bacon, We hey made up ouI
minds 10 tax yoo. hsaker hcz been pour
In flood Nv lite into my mind for sever
al niIes, aud Mrs. GAVitt hez bin In tue like
b.znis herself"
"Mrs. GAyilt demands in thunder tones
why 1t Is the wives Nv likker sellers wtct
hev silk dIesses, shoes that button, aud red
silk stUckinB, and not the wives Nv likker
irinktrs! And then Issaker bethawt him
Nv the DimekrAtic Conyenshen that wuz
held there last fall and the procession IN
the afternoon, and be wuE jist sober enuti
10 nOtis that the slool-keepers Of the coun-
ty in that splendid procession all rode In
Eerridges, while the likker drinkers all
hooit i along thru the dust on foot.
"And lSsaker hEz been makiA' other In.
vcstlgashenB with most startlin' results.
lJOe Bigler Is d lier and thsef. These in
yestigashens wuE all his-lssaker Gavitt
htza't sence enuffto investigate nothin'.)
lss4ker went over to the p0oT-house and
diskiYered the Alarmin' fact that 30 per
cent. uv them wich Was there clm to II
thrO' likker, and going from there over TO
the court house hO discovered that So per
cent. NV the criminal bizais cum from out
Nv red headed bar'ls, aud he found also
that VOC held a mortgage on all the proper
ty llGi way 10 SecesBiOuville, and from there
on your broth.I.in.law, wich is in the same
bizuis, commenced with his mortgages,
wich txtendel ekal distance beyont.
"Sow BlsCom, lsaker Is alluz bothered
about taxes when they come 10 be paid,
and he hGz yOOnanimously decided In
gsmuCh u yoO monutakter the paupers,
crininel, winch makes taxes necessary, that
10 simple jes;is yOO ought 10 pay suthin
toward ltEsenin mis- burden. lssaker hez
come 10 the conclocshun that 700 ain't
egg.Ackly benetackter Nv the hooman
race, but quite the reverse, and he heE got
10 be sicn eros Roads iniedle that he
Aktuly holds now that his tntledle and
yougu IL anlagonistik, ind that 700 amt
a.oin 10 run the C0rneis no more. He
hez rebelled. lie is agoin 10 hev the likker
b zuis taxed, with the end In view Of
Iessenin his own taxes. lie So, and |
must agree with him, that intzmuch ez 700
male the most oil the taxes, 700 ought 10
pay part Nv EN-, eSpeShily es OWN 10 the
TACT that you hold mortgage onto his
farm " well ~ his bowls aud stumick,
cu hnv ali the mOupV anVhuW,
"Aud MrS. Gavitt ahe nsz rebelled too,
aud sweaIs that II Issaker can't keep out
Nv yOor place not stroke uVwork Will sue
do, but he may starve, and moreover"
uatcom cOoden't stand any more Nv this
sort uv'ht resy, but histed bottle at Joe
h gl,r r, who lett the bar latin in the most
lrendlsh way, lie cum back in mint and
putin his head Ihro the door exclaimed:
Stand by yer guns, lssakei! III keep ye
in likkCr lew days, TIL yoor sIumick Is
toned, aud then"
He hrdn't any more than gone than he
sent q Methodist parson In, VINO, walkin up
to BAscom, looked him Iquare in the face
and Btt:
"Wo to him wich tuteth the bottle to
his naber's liptw
"Git out NV my place." yelled BAscom,
us BedIam broke loose? Put the bottle TO
my nabtr's lips, indeed! Wat kind Nv
bGrkcepers did they hev In Joodee, that /,
required skriptooral injukShen to pre-.
vent tm from putin bottle to their ma
bsr's lipsP Wat kind Nv naberS did the
JOOdee barkeeper hev, TO make II sale 10
put bottle to his lipsP Do WOO spose I'd
put a bottle 10 any Nv my nabers lipti
Wood il be safe 10 put q bottle to Deekin
pOpram's lips! That bottle wood rename
gloOd to the old patriark's lips I'LL every
drop was cggshaustid. Putin bottles &c
my nabCr's lips wood bankrupt me In two
weeks. Tler amt no necessity Nv YOGI
preechin any sich d)strine az that to me
amt mucn on tkripter, butt do know
the likker biznis."
b. this time Issakcr wis becomin restlis
Will BlscOm WIZ cool and COLLECTED.
"BgRcom,," sed lssaker, humbly, "set out
the bottle"
a understood yer goin' to innoggerate
movement 10 tax me-"
ave won't discuss that jist now" sed
lSsaker, "set out the bottle.n
"You can't hev drop" replied Bai'
com.
Issaker sot out this little conVersashen
and left for PolloCk's store, leayinl the resi-
Nv us 10 a state Nv decentralization. II
this pore luua1ic diskives that he kin bull
doz, BascOm, lie may git to bulldczin' ME
and et tho people gineraIly dissiver that
they kin git on without Us, wat becomes w
lbs organic ishen? Why, lSsAker Gayitt
Ct he Kin break away from sod corn whisky
may git TO vOlin' the Republican tickit."
And ere these tlots he'd past like litenlI
thro my mind, thtr wuS . sound ny tir
pans and dinner horns, and perceshp ny
these wimtnin hallid In front NV the door
They wuS Mirandy l'Ogran, Mrs. GaVit
and Mrs. Kernel Mptler They wua al
without ahoss or stocEins, witch condishr
they showed rulher coDspicuOusly. Nj
randy roSram kerrled banner on wict
WIZ inskrlbet:
BussOm alt Lkker aud our husbands dripj
il. Mrs. BGsC0m tredrG hoc, iUiCh button, re-
six LOckim aud silk gCTaG We diTt 90
siIota Or'tockinS ur any kind, and find Gallo
dDikiA 10 GIL
lIEp srprHINs, on RLppl