Daily Republican., 1884-08-08

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CONBRDBnIT X. ROADS, J
(Which is In the state NV kentucky,) :
Jooly 7, 1884. J
am gettin to be second st. John
in the matter of dreems. l am not
eggsackly certain whether it is inspi.
rashen or cold pork witch perdooses the
vishnns, but they seem to hev some
meening, and hencely, 1 give en- to
the world.
he'd vishun last mite, which left
au impress into my memory 30 strong
that when l awoke 1t was with great
Idiffikilty that l restrained myself
from goin immejitly to Bascom's and
a wakenin HIM and demandin a sus-
taner. But l wuz compelled to re-
NJ ne and LOSS unto my weary piller,
for l knowd that Bascon wood not
arise and open his bar at that hour,
Of st. John hisself, with his revela.
shens in his hand, shood appear and
ask for suthin. Bascom 10 horribly
set in his ways.
| In my dream / wuZ on o rock-bound
coast afar from the hants of men. 1t
wuz island in the midst Nv the oshen,
= bare rock ez 1t were, with nary a
vegetashen, a rock without q shade and
onto which the pitilis sun wuz beetin
Commercially.
Onto the island wuz q badly worn
out female. holler-eyed and gaunt, and
kivered not at all presentable Ell
he'd son wood not that he shood
select SIGH q one for his wife, for q
She he'd blotches all over her, and she
/ al, nd a
never seed on female afore. And
hoyerin bout her wuz three more jest
| like her.
"Whoo are 700 ?" sed "anyhow. F"
Then up spoke the female.
my name" sed she, DRAWN a long
sigh, sis Dlmocrisy."
And who are the three witch mite
be sisters NV yourn, which is clinging
to your skirts?'
"This one IL Slavery, this other one
IL SeoAshion, and the third one is Re-
poodiashen. We are a quartette, alluz
together and never separated. We are
| four in one and one In four"
1t okkured TO me that they constitoot-
cd four flush which / shood not desire
to draw to, but held my peece. No
matter how ugly female may be, she
will resent being called ugly. hev he'd
to do with females. l hev made honist
and injoohishus remarks, and j atn
bald-headed. l hev paid for my wis
dom.
notist a number OF men dodgin a.
mong the rox picking up wat they Good
all nv EN- in the last stages of dis tfess,
and ] asked who they WIZ
"These gentlemen you see about
among the rox, pickin up Twin ez bes
they may, are my vassals. That strap
pin young Teller is my only son ant
chief support, tho Solid South. Tha
big Iujun over there Is Tammany, ant
the rowly lookin Teller in the red neck
tie is Irving Hall, They are rather {
diversiteG lot. Theirs free trade anC
tperteckshun, and theirs honest money
and fiat money. It's ruther large
family, and two of them alike. They
quarrel like cats and dogs, and l find it
difficult to manage EN-.
| I looked en- over, and, noticin thai
no two NV EN- seem to hsv anything in
common, except an intolerable hunger,
l concloodid the lady must hev bin OK
tensively married, wich she blushin g ly
assented to, NO blushipgly that it like
wise okkurred to me that she hedn'i
alluz tarried till the ceremony wuz per.
nounst. This Judgment wuz partly
based onto her psrsuel appearance and
partly Oh the dissi milaritv Nv her off.
spring
| shydent hav picked her out to be the
superintendent NV a ladies' seminary,
anyhow. Italian.
This IL the Island nv Defect. We
hev bin here twentyfour years. The
feend Linkin exiled US, and we hev bin
here subsistin on wat we brOt with US.
We wuz pretty we'll fixed, for we he'd
ccntrole NV Things for many years be-
fore, but oh! il is awful stayin here
lnow! However, we shell aoon be de-
livered from this hell We hev advices
NV a expedishen to our relief. The
good ship Independent, commanded by
Captain Gawge Wilyum Curtis, and
armed with Harper's Weekly, Is on its
! way hither, and it will take us off, aud
we shell, with their help, go conkerin
aud to conker.
We are going to be taken off the desc.
late place immejitly. My enemy hez
|split aud the one faction is comm to
my reskoo. Is comm now and in few
months / shell be delivered from this
wuss nor hell. Look Look Here
comes my salvashen !"
1 L iOohCu ouo anu AZ ePoh sAo OoASAA
wuz a gallant ship standin in toward
the island. With the help NV glass I
Good reed her name-it wuz the In
dependent Republican" On her deck
stood Mr.. George Wilyum Curtis, NV
Harper's Weekly, and that eminent
caricatoorist, Thomas Mast, the one in
command and the other his Fust
lLootenant, and about em wuz some
hundreds NV ofisers. l didn't see no
common salers, and 1 ruther wondered
lhow the ship wuz bein navigated, but
Ianyhow 1t wuz bearin down upon the
lrock, and there wuz scene NV intense
lexcitemeut on the island.
Dimocrisy VIE quiverin with eggs.
Icitement. "Git out NV the way and
hide yerselves, she exclaimed, still
Igit aboard the ship and git in command
myself. Scoot, sisters, scott, and the
lrest NV 700 hide in the rox and don't
show yerselves.
II wuz done ez she directed. Slavery
laid down and counterfeited death, but
abe Good not resist the temptashun t.
,, snatch shot gun that was lytn handy,
and Seceshn threw over her cloak
, llabeled Estates rites" The Tammany
lcheefs hid ahind one rock, Randall be
. hind another, and little Sam Cox found
\ pebble wich hid him entirely from