Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1885-12-25
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make nn Egyptian mummy laugh, aud at Tho
same tino would wiring tears of pity frpTn Nero,
the hard hearted hing of Texas or wherever ID
WINS he nscd "a play the dddlci Jim has hut
one mission on Oartl, apparently, aud llui is
the ruin anti wiplug from iis surinrc, OF all
vcSijgcs OF three mon, aud those mcu arc Earl
Mercy. Charley ENcrs aud Charley FoSSr. Aud
somehow lie rant manage to get along ri Il Just
MS satisfactorily O. hc could wish. and his chief
merit In the undertaking Is his persistence. II
makes no difference whnt subject any of Jims
old fossil associates writo him mn editorial on,
or what he may 0ttUlnM to grind out himself.
let him take Il mud so Ia sex II In type, and N II
makes more than n -.stick -fiill." in will pop
with him like Charles !. with Mr. Dick's mcmor.
lal--honnd to creep into everything he attempts
to write or publish, except his patent outside,
cause why thc dri,ciing nid relic shT,id Tins
continually hurl tc nvnlnnchcs of his hate up-
on them, other than that the two former gentle
men have, In the course of n business experience
OF q or % years, by close attention 10 business
md successful speculation in a limited way,
onch accumulated Substance amounting TO 20
or possibly 25 thousand dollars: perhaps $1,000
that Charley Foster refused 20 appoint Jim
steward (instond oi jnmhte) OF the iaIo,tc asy-
lum, position he WAS 40 more fitted to MI than
he is to edit any other paper than tae old
Journal.
Last week he devoted n column 10 ,nstlng
Evers and Merry because they were wounded III
the army and got n pension and Foster because
he thinks him possible candidate for U. y.
Senator. Jim is evidently an applicant for
htions. But rs IL seems they do not grant pen
sions for tho complaint the bcys say he con
tractcd in the army, he does not get slong very
successfully.
Live in hopes Jim; II the demagogicai eern,,-
BILE for the Soldier vote" continues few years
longer, they win be forced to go to granting
pensions even for that after WHILE or else run
out OF inatcrinl.-- Wood County Sentinel
The above appeared in last weeks
Sentinel, and in their primmer type lead
ed, made very respectable LEADING edi-
torial, for that paper, Of third of n COL
ann In length. 1t represents the com
bined 'cuteness' or cunning OF the entire
stock company of the Sentinel, with a lit
tie physic thrown in from Perrysburg.
To illustrate the physic. Some two
years ngo, when the u. S. Treasurer SEEM
ed TO he at n loss 10 know how 10 find
room or what to do with the accumulat.
ing funds in the treasury, We remarked 10
DIR. Hamilton that it was the first time
that we had felt any desire TO ask the
Government Tor pension. We had sup
posed that the Government yet had II big
debt upon its shoulders upon which il was
paying heavy interest. But we also
snw Senators and Representatives starting
in poor, on borrowed capital and brains,
and becoming millionaries "by close at
tention TO business and speculation, in n
limited way" when it is claimed that
$4,000 year viii not meet running ex-
penses in the style OF WashingtoH living;
and with all this the U. S. Treasury had
become too small to hold the accumulating q
wealth. We felt that just and generous
Government might at least pay the diff.
ference between gold and greenbacks at
the time the soldiers were paid, with a lit
tie bonus TO those whose Affections were
contracted in or had been aggravated by
exposures in prison and army life. There
should at least he something done to place
him on an equal footing, socially and
morally, with those WHO remained at home
and become quite well off in this worlds
comforts "hy a strict attention to busines,
and successful speculation, in limited
way" in selling calico at so cents yarc
to soldiers wives, mothers, sisters ant
daughters.
But we did not and have not applied
for PENSION. We were simply talkin,
the matter over at the time above stated
and stated the fact that we had suffered il
childhood and boyhood with the sal
rheum, but had heceme quite free iron
il Tor several years prior TO entering tn
army-while il appeared ia aa aggraval
ed form after eating rotten pork in n rebe
prson. Yet recognizing ihat the "whol
truth md nothing but the truth" is III
bu'wark OF American liberty, we could M
and would not make affidavit that to tn
best OF our knowledge and belief we con
traeted the salt rheum IN the servic
Yet we have suffered more from that dis
ease since the war than very many bay
from wounds. DIR. Hamilton then an
there informed us that if we desired
apply for pension that the best pla
would be TO base it on the grounds of dys
pepsia. While we had great faith in h
knowledge of this branch of the servle
we did not then and have not since mad
up our mind to apply for pension.
1t will pc remembered that we mentor
ed no names in the two paragraphs In IL
column article in the JOURNAL of tw
weeks ago, but from the fact that Eve
hastily returned to Bowling Green or
week ago last Friday, (from beyond til
Mississippi-a land in which large non
resident ditch taxpayer remarked som
three years ago, that if the Wood count
officials would apply their avocation
diligently as they had here, they would
hung to the first tree) just in time to "ga.
upon this picture and then upon that
and recognized and named them in Il
r above from the Sentinel on sight, and fro
the still further fact that DR.. Hamiltt
implied TO friend that "Poor Timmon
D would catch shall columbia" in Il
1 Sentinel of Iast week, before the paper W
out, has led US to direct attention TO Il
umbiiical chord of "whit leather" ia
has bound Hamilton, Merry, Evers n,
Foster 80 closely together since the famo
Congressional campaigns OF T2-4, tn
when one takes snuff the Other sneez
= "when only twenty miles away" Al
through all of which visions of $50
grabs, $4,000 private sales of public ofiic
y in Toledo, general distribution of publ
I lands to monopolies, free railroad ticks
: to California, free tickets to Washingt,
for those at Bowling Green who were q
: 10 work TO bulldoze the electors of Il
II south part of the county into the trac,
gold watches for their wives on their r
l. turn, busted bucket shop, two bust
township treasures, collapsed msmou
business houses, mills refuse to grin
! vessel stock watered, sell out TO wives,
: church severed in twain-and lastly lhoul