The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-01-03

little ornery quarter section You're a good
un to talk bout some rev tuition you leS
| read bout when we had one all of our own
that beats the one you heerd of all hOlier!
Then made him pass ont my pail, and ne
drove on"
Another time" continued the victim of
the emigrants, "a little squint eyed speci-
men stopped and said be was Vanderbilt,
and that he was lookin' over the lay of the
land to see what the prospect was Tor run
ming another railraad through here | was
a little doubtful all the time, but | didn't
know, cause he talked SO smooth and rat
tied away bout ten millions q dollars or
thirty millions O dollars jeS' like you or |
would talk bout the price of pair o boots;
but afterN ards caught him whiStling at
my dog and trytn' to coax him of, and then
knowed it wasn't Vanderbilt
"a year ago a man with a long neck aud
big nose come along and said he was Gen'rl
Sheridan. He drove a team of mules that
looked as if they had been livin' on h n
grass, and ne had a good-sized dry goods
box with Stats nailed 'crost it tied on his
wagon behind full q chickens. thought
it warm a very likely story that Gen'rl
Sheridan would be paclin' chickens 'crost
Northern Nebraska, but noticed both the
mules was branded U. s., and be had on a
blue soldiers overcoat, so | didn't know
| but mebby it was the Gen'r'i
from Fort Niobrara to Camp Rob
inson, and was thinkin' strongly of estab-
lishln' another military post round here.
He wanted to know what I'd take for my
farm in case he decided to put in big fort
here with POO cannOns and 1000 soldiers,
all white says he; I'm down on niger
soldiers; and I'll see that their pants and
the rest of their clothes fit 'em, and that
| there amt no West Point dood officers that
EnONy IN ot ba
| chickens sent here. Privately, Mr.. Walker,
he went on awful close and confidential
like, tween me m you think / shall take
| holt o this here fort myself | shall
also name it Fort Walker He drove bis
mules up TO my haystack and let 'em
stand and eat, and went all round the house
| and barn sev'ral times, lool1in' over the
| ground and showin' ME where he intended
! TO throw up Notifications and put in the
| double-barreled cannon. He said he had a
| new style of six-shootin' cannon, self.
| cockin', that never failed to knock the
enemy Hesaid this kind was pizen on In
| juns, and the 1niuns whom they come down
| otf'n the reserve was what he was after.
| When his team had ieS' about finished my
haystack he stumped me for trade tween
| his Off mule and my Sorl boss. | looked
| his mule over and found it was ring-honed
and spawned, sides bein foundered and
! blind of one eye, and had the heavts and
! poll-evi, and looked 'sif itmight probably lee
balky as a goat, so l told hum couldn't
swap for less than SIS to boot is that TIE
best you can dog saws the Gen'r'l The very
best says I. Amt you got no patritism
bout you, says he, so you can ford to give
the War Department a little better trade
than thatF Couldn't do it, says l. Cant
you give me ali even trader says he, so
can hurry long through and give orders for
massn' 20, 900 troops here and begin buildln'
Fort Walkern I'm sorry, Gen'r'l, but |
couldn't saws L Then you can go plumb
to blazesn says he You think I'd "a spent
all this valerable time a.tellin' you bout my
military plans if Id "a sDosed you was goin
to play me and the department such dirty
trick as this. | won't build the fort here
a-tall if this is the way you're goin to act!
| Here | am. straight as a greenback,
| ommander-in-Chiet of the United States
army and navy, and you, a granger from
the back counties, won't give me a fair
trade on my mule2 Goodbye: sir. Git
your haystqck out of my way or III drive
! over it! When build another fort On your
place You'll know it ~ Then he drove off
the road a-jawin' an a-sweerm' at the
mules a day or two after some men came
long from the fort lookin' for man of
bout his style, that they said bad two gov
eminent mules that had been stole, an they
said he WANT Genrl Sheridan a-tall-and
! I'd been expectin' he WASH all the time
| after be got SO mad but the trade"