The Progress., 1893-03-04
OUR FRIEND "TATER VINE"
M Interesting Letter From Green
wood Horny Handed Sou" Etc.

M Interesting Letter From Green
wood Horny Handed son" Etc.
GREENWOOD, La. Feb p. 1893
To tho Editor of The Progress
As how thought ! would Jest set
down and drap you line or SOW, for
no reason in pertickelar, but the folks
tell me that anybody kin now rite
fur a newspaper, and | kinder
thought | would like tur see how
would show up that way. | have
sorter thought several times NV gwine
inter the newspaper business any
way believe | could do very smartly
in that line; howsonever, ] am get
ting along very well crapping, and
generally speaking crappers, and
partickelar these Liance ones, am fit
for nothing else, and hardly fit fer
that.
Well, your paper, while it is sorter
fresh at times, is got a great many
friends in this settlement, and it
growing in the likeness NV the peo-
pie. We does believe that you is a
friend to the poor man, and particke
lar the crappers. We need friends,
aud God hisself knows it, more than
any other nation NV folks on earth.
We are commencing fur the new
crap jest as usual, at this time nv the
year, and are always powerful busy,
that is, looking round to see who's
gwine tur vance us during nv the
year. Old man Hortan looks power
fully dry; Bryson pertends to be to-
busy to talk vance talk: Alexander
peaks 10 low you can skasely under
,tand him; and MS for Josh. well, h.
IL, as the lawyers call 1t, mon com
ou's mentuss; Sidney is sometimes
tadr, and then agin h- a,t.
VIII. now, hoap tain 9. aud let us
Know hOw every thing Is gwine on H.
town. This he.e s,tilvmcnt is Just
getting over that pural, ziug stroke
given e. 1t Ivy III late grand juri
In the miuds nv the crappers here,
aud hereabouls, twas the alfiredesi
jurl that has been tdrned loose OH
this settlement since the Caddo In
uns quit Us; and / have been stud, :
ng: sposen that ar juii wus put il
one side NV a hamper, and States A :
orney Land in tother, and the hole
biness wus well shuck mp, which side
would drap out first. Holy NV holys
dident they do the thing jam up.
Sich things as murder, raping like. OF
arsin, they never ketched on to, but
when it come to a tecknecal bellely-
mcub, false pretense. or something
NV that kind, they wus thar, and lei
10 their powerful legal minds with Il
psrticklar vengeance. Thar is grass
hopper under this here chip, and the
Hon. Judge who turned loose sich a
volyum OF law on that ar poor little
juri, when he discharged hisself d
them, sum NV which charge wus in
the newspapers, and sum wus not
will see which way that hopper is
gwine ter jump, about three years
from now; likewise the States Attor-
ney mought observe thing or tuw
that will be kalkerlated to interest
him. They do say that your saff
hearted Judge kinder shed tears like
when that juri read thar document.
and the hole bisness slobered over
one another fur a while; then tLay
blode thay noses, wiped thar manly
brows, and went over to Mr.. Dolls
to take something to kinder swage
thar powerful feelings, cept the
States Attorney. who never does. no
never. We are on bended knees. ak
ing cur Heavenly Father to send the
seckond revelation NV this layout on
the next generation, as the Fiction
wuld be mo than we cud bare.
Well, you will here from me agin.
semewhar in the future. eff tbs gree
able. VIII send you scme garden
truck when the blossoms on the later
and the tassills on the corn.
Yours till death Us do part,