The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1911-10-18
PEOPLES FORUM
Ramblinss BY q Veteran.

Editor Richmond Nirginian.
Sir.-I sent you seven pages some days ago. AS
yet have not seen nor heard anything of 1t.
nope you Will not get tired of my corresponding
with YOU / mean any word l say for the bet
terment OF humanity before the Mr.. Dick
Gaulding was the sheriff of our county He and
two deputies did all the business of the county.
Mr. Charles Osborne, our present sherffs faith
er. was q magistrate. He ground splendid meal
also sawed lumber. His father. old Uncle Jack
Osborne, had great many negroes. Cousin
Billy Wills, who was sheriff previous to Mr..
Gaulding, notified him that of all his negro men
he was only called for cut bitches at
Petersburg. Edmund, you go and report to Mr..
wills. Answer to roll call when You get there.
Come back and will feed YOU and you stay in
my kitchen loft. He is the man who told he
took corn sticks and drowned all the Yankees
when Nthey crossed the Potomac river. Edmund
was to have helped to dig bitches for the Con-
federates to fight in around Petersburg. While
the war was going on he was in Richmond in
II hotel. He ran away and left his coat in the
hotel and had to send back for it, and after the
war he and started to BurKeville to take the
oath of allegiance, and he had a great basket of
eggs. carrying them down there TO sell to the
Yankes4 for fifty cents bushel The train
run by the Yankees. just were going
through d cut two engines met, ran together
in freight box cars packed full of Yankees, out
side and inside. His smashed up
and II looked We're going to have eggnog.
One jumped off and sprained his ankle and the
eggs would not hatch at all.
Edmund says. There now, see what you have
done"
sitting In the right hand corner going toward
Richmond. fe WAS pressed Out and fell between
bar of iron and the engine. II he had gone
three inches either way it would have killed
him instantly. This the first time my old
pal and were ever the train, and neither of
us has been since / in a wreck once
before, and came back to keysville and took
an oath, where had mishaps wrecks
heard a young lawyer say down at big meet
ing that he never wanted to be in such wreck
as that This the great fighting man
before the l mean Uncle Jack He
such good friend to the Yankees that he
pected them to give him fifty cents a peck for
his eggs but you can't fool Yankee. you know
He will come out top somewhere. This young
lawyer is judge In of courts Just
can't say where, as am getting too old to keep
up with all these happenings
We have two splendid Judges-Hundley ana
BaTxesdale. have preference for Hundley be-
cause We fought together under Stonewal
Jackson. Our war rich mans war and q
poor mans fight.
We have ticket are going to put in the
feid-and want all the good people to sup
port tt-composed of good white Democrats and
Tom Brown. Jr. good. strong Democratic and
black the hinges of torment There are a few
old men can establish wha. gay If any man
dares to question what have said
Our ticket is like Old Tom Scott--full Of bull
let holes Mr.. Adams not born, and never
ought to have been. No niger in the woodpEe.
J. B. c.
keysville. October 16, 1911