The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1848-12-19

Thus speaks a prisoners gratitude.
.-.1gat OH. lrs.i WM. SMITH O'BRIEy-
ClOmnel Prison, Nov. 4, ls4s.
A DEEP SELL.-We cannot tell what paper
the following first made its appearance in, but
il was somewhere in the small village of Bos-
ton, an agreeable little spot watered by Lake
Cochituste:
Dodge was Standing few mornings since,
upon the pavement Of Browns drug store, cor
ner Of Washington and State streets, when he
observed that near about every body, big and
little, old and Young, darkies and bull dogs,
passing aIOng down street by the open base-
ment door OF a certain eating establishment,
gszed down, as if something was going on
therein of considerably mentary attraction.
DOdge's everlasting penchant fOr joke Undue
ed him TO cross over and take peep down the
cellar, just TO see if something cvuld'nt be
made out OF the matter.
About this time Dodge espes Propeller COM
| ing up State street from towards the Mail Of
ice, with bunch OF "Crisises'' i'm his
hand.
Heavens and EARTH" calculated Dodge look
| ing down into the basement, aud geslicuating
with great emphasis.
Hello! brother,' says Propeller, "whafs
the matter?'
"Only look" saws Dodge.
"WharT says a man, stopping short and
peering over the shoulders Of Dodge, and Pro
pellrr.
"Weli. 1 nerer?' chimes Propeller, taking
the dodge
"Eh! What-what's the matter?" anxious
ly asks third. fourth, tenth and fifteenth per-
son, stopping aud crowding about the door
way, while Dodge kept rolling his big eyes
and saving the air with his hands; and Pro-
pelier, equally excited, dodging up and down,
-fiectualiy keeping others from getting any
thing like fair sight Of the doings in the base
mant,
Can't that be stopped?" says Dodge, sd
like to knowr'
Lets 90 down and see-too bad, )" says Pro-
peller. 90
Whats going on, eh?' <H-
n anybody hurt?'
"Who-whai hurt him, eh?" says first one.
and then another crowding and biockiusl up
the sidewalk.
Hes got knife. BY thunder" says Dodge.
"WhO?" says one.
Stabbed himself. eh?" says another,
who's stabbed? Call policeman echo,d
| third.
No, no! No use" says Dodge, "he only
wants air aud light. Stand back, grntle men,
stand back?'
Yes, yes-,lon't crowd; stand back, gentle
men. If you please, he's only" but before
Propeller cpuId g., the residue Of his speech
out somebody shouted ggr
lies only got fi'!' "
"A fl, is that all? thought he'd cut his
throat: says another,
Whats the matier?" AXIS an outsider of a
newsboy.
| "A mans cut his throat down that cellar,
they say, sir"
| "A mans cut his throat echoes the mob,
and by this lime shop keepers, stock jobbers,
ilOaiers, cab-,lrivers, apple women and news
boys fairly barrtaded the doorway Of the base
ment, and several voices from brlow could be
distinctly heard utterins offensive epithets 10
the mob to move OFF.
"Why don't they send for an officer" said
an old specialized gent.
There Is two down there, now says Pro-
peller.
Only one." says Dodge. '.just look seelr
"Eh, man killed." whispered investigator
almost GREATNESS.
"Man killed?" asks Dodge. -,
| 'Man killed. shout the boys.
Silence. you scoundrels! Who saws a
mans killed." says Dodge. mo mans
killed."
"Wo- man killed. is there, sir97 inquiries an
other.
"Woman killed. No--woman savedr' saws
Propelltr. Glad to see it--any thing to save
the women
"Woman saved! woman savedr again shout
the boys. -..
WHO saved the woman? Was she run
|over--nuch hurt--whcre is she--el--umph?"
asks medical man who had heard the report
and saw the mob as he was riding by.
Didn't say a woman was hurt, sir" says
Propeller. 81 say that thing will save tue
women--save them"
aye! my h.arties, save the wimmin eff the
ships airr-haul out the wimmi n--bast the
goods cries Tar, rushing the rescue as soon
as he heard or thought he heard that women
were in danger.
"Gentlemen' shouts Propeller, as the mob
nearly cowded him, Dodge, and the rest WIZ
were nearest, down into the basement--"gen-
tlemen, nobody is hurt, nor in danger; but
there soon will be if you don't quit pushing i'm
this way. II you will keep quiet, gentlemen,
Ill tell you all about IT. and my friend here
|-Dodge-chanced along. and seeing a man
turning new tangled machine for cleaning
knives and forks, we just '.stopped TO see the
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