The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1905-04-26
The Lexington Dispatch.
Wednesday, April rs, 1905.
A Warm Reply.

Hell's Half Acre. Co..
July 7, 1904.
Sprsgue Collecting Agency,
Chicago, I'll.
Gentlemen:-Your sulphurous let
ter received, in reply will say it came
opep. with one cent stamp on it.
Il afforded the boys much amuse-
ment, but when the melancholy
thought came back to US that you
had no better sense than to abuse,
slander and dun a gentleman in an
open letter. our sympathy knew no
bounds. Now you speak of honor.
If you are lawyer, you know not
whereof you speak. II you ever saw
an honorable lawyer you have hair on
your teeth. You speak of giving
me considerable trouble. Great
Lord! I have already had enough
trouble to send a brigade of Yankiee
to hell fifty times; you say you are
surprised at my actions. If you
knew what I know, you would not be
surprised much. Now I will give.
YOU few facts in the case, and then
if you are surprised at my actions as
regards the Leasless Oil Co., you are
undoubtedly the worst set of fools
God ever let live on this earth.
To begin With, in 1883 I bought
saw mill on credit, in 1884 bought
an OK team, timber carts, chains, etc,
pair of Texas ponies, gold watch,
breech loading shot gun, a Win
chester rifle, mich COW, pair OF
fine hogs and hired hands to dig
fsh pond.
In 1885 mill, gin and press, corn
mills burned fat to the ground and
never left me q burned thing. 1
hired my only horse to some Internal,
insignificant, prognosticated Jew
drummers, and they killed him.
Then I joined the Farmers Alliance
and the Methodist church, took the
homestead and benefit of the honest
debtors relief law, and had my ap-
plication wrote out to join the Ma
sons.
My father died and my mother
married nigger, and my brother
Jim was hung for stealing. In 1886
my sister choked to death on a but
ton, and I had to pay the funeral ex-
penses. In 1883 I was trying to
make 8 shelter and let it fall on me
and ruined one of my legs. In 1889
I got burned out again and took to
drink, and soon run through b with
the interest on what I owed, which
was all I had left at that time.
Then I wandered around and cold
machinery, and dead beated the peo-
pie until 1892 when I crossed the
dead beat river and was taken with
an ungovernable case of spasmodic
asthma which run into heart disease
and dropsy and I have been down
sick ever since year ago, and my
family is now in want. In 1888 my
wife run away with another man, and
7 don't care continental cuss what
nobody does or what they don't do.
Now, if you feel like tackling me,
pitch in, but my private opinion is
that you had better wait till l die,
and buy my carcass to make Octsgon
soap of, but don't forget I am not
dead yet, or at least have not been
notified. You speak of my making
no effort to adjust the account. I'll
swear if turkeys were selling for ten
cents piece I couldn't buy a Jay
bird. You asked me if I expected to
receive fair treatment under the ex-
listing circumstances, I answer no, by
Juda Priests, don't expect anything
only death, hell and Obstruction
showered down on all lawyers, mer-
chants, doctors, and all other hum
bugs, deformities, etc.
Good by, got to 90 to bed.
Respectfully, e.. w. 5.