Nuhou, Volume II, Number 6, 1 August 1873 — Do You Know Rumzey? [ARTICLE]

Do You Know Rumzey?

We copy thc following pen portrait lrom the PeiiiUeion Plantcrwhieli we put into our Nuiiou album on account of a very remarkable resem- ; hlanee : :: " 811l Bumzey, who lives at Ilcydserabble. ie the son q£a circuit rider, who camq here to plant the word; aud it produced a v good; crop in tlje shape of a 6ubstahtial homestead and a good etart for. Billy. Young Rumzey did not foI!ow up the old man'g plant, but started a shop of notions; however, he traded on his fāther's 4 cloth/ and eold the words of life for thc flock bound in sheep skins, —for money and a price. And then he expanded and speeulated in thc staple, and * did not disenminate as to whether the lint eame £vqw the patch qr the plantation. His ostensible deialers;were the planters, but it was found tliat a parfc of their proftuce reached bis bands hy ln(lirect pjeanB whieli = made 110 return ; anel henee a disgust ameiīg planters, but the pateh also became disgusted on account of deelipe,of promised pnee and a retoarkable delicieney df weight, , so that the stopped toteing to hisgin, and hie cottotf spccuhtion was spoilt by peeulation, and liis plant was bitten by a hard frost of iraud. He was a busy eritter. however, and turned his hand.b portraite of Lmeoln v ; whieh he sold to loyal darkcys for a dollar or ! two; and them fhr the eake of hle daddy, ami the good old times wheii eircuit riding' and camp-meetings wcre hi their &fory. Itwas' thoughfc by all who liad no dea!mgs wffh himj that our Rumzey was -witbout guiīe but we who know thls gentle brotber, and have lind some oeeaaion to iiote hiē fhitemal wnys, know that he i§ eapahle of sUpping into an account, ap waa nevcr oidered, of not only making fulse eharge«> t>ut false weights; and of readily belying men whoso greater natures belitt!e Kte

weak edwardīy sou3; and, in firie, he is a mean, lean, tallow-faeed hound. wilhoui any personal manhood, and whofn any one might, though they would dirty their hand in so doing, flap in the faee." Rumzey is here ; and though he has not the brains to be the villain of the plaee. he is its petty rogue and seandal monger.