The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1885-08-19
Salt River.
SHREvE, KY, August 10th, 1855.

Possibly you have heard that the
election is over and | need not men,
ton the fact. However,,as Il good story
cannot be too often told, shall just
say that If you have not been posted on
that subject, can inform you that all
is over, and | am "busted."
Your correspondent recently took a
trip up Salt river and enjoyed it hugely,
having along quite crowd, all bound
for the same port. Now John, don't
understand me to mean that IL was
altogether a negro equality, negro
loving crowd. No, sir, We had some
good Democratic company. We had
aboard two distinguished gentlemen
from Breckenridge and one from good
old Grayson, whose robes were white
as the "driven SNOW" nicely contrast
ing with those passengers from Ohio
and Muhlenburg counties. II is good
thing to have robes clean and white
when out on such journey. Yes, l
took passage about p. NJ, August 3D.,
on board the steamer Asbury, and ar
rived at Scrogginsville early next morn
ing. On steaming out from the Fords-
vile wharf attention was drawn to u
spot or the distant shore, from whence
came forth long and deep-drawn
yell. We looked, and alb We beheld a
scene of itself sufficient to melt the
most Obdurate heart. There clasped in
each others arms, rocking to and fro,
we saw two knights worthy of the
Golden time" One was John, the
school teacher, whose nerves had been
shocked, extreme modesty offended and
his rights rs a free white man invaded
by one Henry ScrOggins, of color, and
the other that pretty, sweet, sanity
and much beloved ex-merchant-eX-
school teacher however, if he could
have withstood the examination last
summer, would have been real school
teacher) and would say ex-gentlemen
if were certain that he had ever been
a gentleman. Ex-well anything ex-
cepting bachelorhood, end that un-
avoidable upon his part. Yes, clasped
in each Others arms. tears of joy drop
ping from the nose of the former, and a
mixture of tears, nasal secretions and
saliva dripping from the long foxy
beard low down on the chin of the
latter. Both knights hugging and
patting each other. and through their
sobs, singing that good old chorus of
long ago,
IL am happy, / am happy, and know love
the Lord,
And don't want to stay much longer here"
Amen sounded forth from the wide
open mouths OF Thomas, the Shanghai,
and his good brother, who talked so
freely of the "spilling of blood" / still
gazed and listened, and ere the steamer
was out of sight 1 beheld vast con-
course and all shouting hosanna Now
and then 1 could hear little sketch of
Away down South in Dixie" but it
was so low, so plaintive could scarcely
distinguish it from the more lively
chorus still being sung by John the
teacher, and the ex-merchant. Finally
the scene changed. At the suggestion
of the expounder of the 'Rollan letter
of last November, the teacher and ex-
merchant withdrew from each others
embrace, the former with the sleeve of
his buster wiping his nose, the latter
with a red fifteen-cent cotton handker-
chief drying his eyes and wiping the
saliva from his chin and beard, both
raised their eyes lovingly to each other,
then to heaven, and crying in a loud
voice, exclaiming Glory! Glory Glory
But the sonorous voice of the eX-
merchant was hushed here, but the
teacher continued Glory, gloiy, halle,
Iulah / shall some day be Road and
Bridge Commissioner. AT this point
the ex'merehant again broke forth, ex-
GLAZING "me too ~ But hundred voices
then put in and assured him that
neither Blaine, Logan, Pinchback,
Asbury nor Scroggins was President,
and as his repentance might not be real
only assumed for selfish purposes, he
must wait and not even hope to be
ROAD and Bridge Commissioner. But
now the steamer on which l embarked
was far from the scene, and lost sight
and sound of il.
AS we passed up near the Brecken-
ridge and Grayson line other sights and
sounds greeted us; distinguished pas
sengers came aboard, and from the
distant hills We could distinctly heal
the old National air, Yankee Doodle. "
AS before said. we arrived at Scrog.
ginsville early next morning, and after
4 A;nipn or Starvation Hofal oil hand.