Democratic Sentinel, Volume 2, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 November 1878 — Music Taken Out of a Song. [ARTICLE]

Music Taken Out of a Song.

The latest sentimental ballad is entitled, “Give Me the Home of My Childhood.” Bless your soul, we’d do it in a minute, but—why, haven’t you heard? Old Tadgers closed out three mortgages on it in 1867 and ’6B. and the next year it was sold for taxi s, it was seized for debt in the year following; then your oldest brother claimed that it belonged to his wife and brought suit in her name to recover, and before that was through they found an old flaw in the title, and in trying to straighten that out it transpired that your grandfather had no Government patent on it at all, but had stolen it bodily from the Indians; and now two half-breeds have brought suit to recover the property as the heirs. The house was burned down about two years ago, and the -.neighbors have used the fences for kindling wood; your wife’s cousin is tryingj to get hold of the lot, and your half-brother jumped the property one night, put up a little shanty on the alley corner, lind is now in possession. There doesn’t seem to be much show for you, but you might file your papers, buy a lawyer and sail in.—Burlington Hawk-Eye.