Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1896-08-02

VI uip1oAdatsF ai20 H1eSse tO overcome her reluctance and scruplos sufficiently 10 obtain them for publication. glance at them will convince fbe reado,, that the people of q community which could tolerate them would certainly pot be surprised or offended at a,vfbi,,e- that might be found in the "Gbrono icles:'' '9 2iii''Ai. will tell you joke about Joel and Mary 1t 1s neither | jal5e nor a story
 Tor Reuben and Charles have married i've
 girls, '" V But Billy has married boy.
 I5iit 1ae slIIs ne had tried on every side,
 But none could he ge5 to agree.
 All was ill vain. He went home aoai,,
 -iad slnee that he's married to Nattv.
 Do Billy and Natty agree very well,
 1hnd mamma j well pleased with the 1laBca The egg 1t is laid, but Natty's afraid
 The shell is so soft it never will hafcb
 l5lt Betsy she said: ttYou cursed bald bpaa
 4J sritor you never can be.
 Dsslees your il shape proclaims you an apa=
 and tsstg never can aasUer for me-
 That desc coarse Barlesaues= and ,5op. omods saIlies aroused the GriesbV ire ana eventually made Abe the object on which their combined fury was spent goes with tIla saying. IL has been con tended and 8lsh some show of truth too that the fight. famous in that local. 1ty, between Jehn Johnston. Abe,s sten. brother, azd William Grigsby was the oatgrowth cf these earicatures, and that Abe fcrebore measuring strength with G1igaby, whom he considered his phys- 1cal inferior, and selected Johnston to represent him and fight in his stead These crude rhymes and awkward inai- tatloRs of Seriptural lore demonstrated that their author, if assailed, was 4ner- ciless in satire. In after years Lincoln when driven to do so, could use this weapon of mimic1y and ridieule with telling effect He knew its power, and on one occasion, in the reioinder of de bate, drove his opponent in tears from the platform.
 The Lincoln family left Indiana for Illinois i'll March, 1880, few days aft CT Abe's twenty-tirst birthday. Their departure from Gent1yville is remem- bered by persons still living there. In accord with the custom of the day. James Gentry and one or two other neighbors accompanied them short distance the first day The Journey across the country of this strangely as sorted household-13 hopeful, hapless i Immlgrants-at the break up of a severe winter in their cumbersome wagons gleeful and effervescent Dennis Hanks dull, shiftless old Thomas Lincoln, who, after an ownership of II years, had just sold his land at figure much less thar he paid; the dumb, patient oxen, anc last of all the tall, muscular youtI who swung the lash over the rear team have more than once been described by l Mir. Lincoln's many biographers The first night out one of the oxen, bought few days before of David Turnham managed to loosen himself, and before day wanderd back to his old home. Abt was required to trudge back ill searct of the lost animal and, as predicted found him calmly and philosophically chewing his cud ill the old barn lo with as little show of concern as if ht had never left it. Seeing Abe enter, however, he at once began to manifest an interest in the proceedings, and soo1 evinced 6 marked disinchnation to leave the place.
 Turnham, who survived Lincoln many years, used to relate the amusing strug gle between Abe and the bovine and how at last, after throwing over the latter'' head a sort of bridle the reins of whicI he held ill one hand, he caught the enc of the animals tail with the other an6 leaped astride his back Shouting tC Us to open the gate, /" said Turnham, '4he started off Of course old Bob re sisted, but Abe, jerking the bridle reiI and giving now and then an additional twist on his tail, the old fellow had tC go. The last we saw of OK or rider they were going at good rate headed for the country beyond Pigeon creek, where the rest of the party awaited them. J
 The sons of William Jones, the mer- chant, in Gentryville, persisted in the claim that their father sold Thomas Lin coln small supply of goods of the value of $50, which he peddled out at fail profit to people along the way, but sucf good business management was so out o1 keeping with the nature and methods o1 the senior Lincoln it is difficult to ac. cept the statement as literally true, un- less we are allowed to divide the re sponsibility of the transaction with Abe or some other member of the party. It is likewise doubtful if, after meeting his obligations Thomas Lincoln had sur plus funds enough to make an invest lnent of the proportions named.
 Of the further incidents of this jour noy cur knowledge is limited, and MT Lincoln himself has added but little tc the nleager store of facts Among other things narrated by him to Helndon was the story of little dog belonging tc some member of the party which one morning fell behind and failed to catch up till after the wagons had reached the farther side of a stream they were forced to ford A coat of ice had formed 1 ., +I,o x,-.,4o7. d171.i1cr tho uiohf bflt sc