The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1886-10-23
Nasty Finally Gets HIS PostOFce.
CONFEDERATE X ROADS.
(WHICH IS IN THE STATE Nv KI NrUCKY,)
SEPTEMBER 18th 1856


at the Coz felerate X Roads. wirh IL
In the State Nv Kentucky, rercheo
me. and the good old Corners is saved
the disgrace NV receiving the male al
the hands NV disgus,in niger.
My appointment wuz made in the
interest NV Civil Servis Refnrm. II IL
E':gslency the President held out Il
long time agin maxim the change.
but when it wuz represented to him
chat Lubbock, the niger incumbent,
he'd held the place for % years, with
a Site outin when Johnson wuz
President, he fe.t it necessary that
there be change, becuz in so long q
time he felt that there must he rea.
son fur suspectin sumthin in The way
Nv cOrrupshen. Sed he to our Rep.
resentative:
II don't know Nv Democrat witch
cud hold offs % years without
stealth sunthin, and | am not guin
to admit that the inferior Republican
Afrikin liz any better than the proud
Democratic Cawcashen. My expe-
rience teaches me that Lubbock must
be thief and shud be removed"
Consequently hev the place and a
blessed cam rests upon the Corners.
There never wuz a more excitener
time than when the nuze that / he'd
received my cOmmishen got out in
the Corners. They poured out en-
n1dsSe, and insisted that | shO0d en-
ter to-wunst upon my duties. l re-
markt to EN- that my bond he'd VT To
be made out afore [ cud take pos.
seshun, but they wudent hear to il,
They organized into percesshun in
front Nv Bascom's, and, under the
excitement Nv the occashun, he give
en- anvil credit TO stiff drink. The
percesshvn wuZ beautiful site. Ii
wuz headid by Deekin Pogram, who
impervised banner, onto wich WI,
written, "May the Internal Revenuo
foiler the Pos Offs in short metre"
Next cum Issaker Gavitt with my
commishun onto pole, with the
transcripshen "In this sine we
conker :" and after that cum every
Democrat In the Corners, and CRATE
many Republicans. They poured
into the oils and pitched Lubbock
out neck and crop, and triuluphautly
fnata llp6 mo in hIz lIn.ot
l cudent understand the enthusi-
aSm witch the MASSES exhibited, for
hev never bin in the habit NV con.
sidern myself very popier man,
but l wuz not kept long in the dark
ez to the movin and ilnpelin cuz,
1t Wuz not so much iuV fur me, ez II
wuz the fact that l owe every man
in the Corners
''N0w," sed one Nv the most noisy
eheerers, "noW that sou hev got
your place, fur witch we hev waited
so long, Nv course you will imme.
jitly pay me the ten dollars you bor-
rered Nv me 20 long aud dreary years
ago. am not g0in to play any Shy |
lock onto you'll am goin to'be lit.
erel. L shell throw off the interest
and take the original ten dollars"
"Your kindness l shell never for
git," l murmured. you kindly |
throw off the interest-now will YOU
Also kindly consent that Shell throw
off the principle? 1t IL rue dom,
do ez heavy job Nv throw in nf % |
you do, but I am ekal to it. With |
sich an ekitable arrangement ez that,
how easy settlement between us
becomes Let us commence the
THROWN off biZnis tO-WuiiSt, and gii |
onto sound finanshe basis. Ell |
there liz anything | hate it is deb,
and | would be relieved ez soon ~
possible"
To my horror the unfeelin man ut.
teriy refuzed to do anylhin. NV III,
kind, and wen | sot back into my
ehare and asked him wat wuz he soiu
to do about it, there wuz sich pan.
demOnium broke loose 20 it htz sell
dom bin my lot 10 witness. Every
man wich he'd SHOUTED himself hnar. e |
in the percesshun in honor NV my
appointment cum forrertl with hlZ
bill ard demandid imntjil payment.
In vaHe insisted that il wuz awi
wrong; that l he'd not drawed a
penny NV my salery ez sit, that they
cudent expect to git any money III
my first quarter wuz pade, and that
even then awl they cud expect wnd
be an installment, Ell it wudent he
fair to pay one and leave the ret out
and that inezmuch ez the indentidni-
wuz so large that the dividend each
wud receive out Nv the first quarters
salery wud he so small ~ to do them
no good. and ez in lump it wnd do
me power Nv good, Why dividend
at awl? sed awl this to EN-, hut il
Il Il -