Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1856-12-04
Johnny Bull tElc Victim OF a
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tured exceeding all the bounds of reality.
And vet no lie is so monstrous but that
ears can be found which will take it in.
None are so often made victims Of iokers
as the Daily Press, for the reason that its
managers are constantly on tiptoe to deseIy
bit of news, and when caught have not
time to give it the benefit of sober sec
ond thought before it is scattered on the
wings of the wind, by news boys, railroads,
and the ''wires.'
A lie relative to American manners and
customs has gone across the water, received
eredence in England, and become most
savory repast to news mongers. The Lon
don Times publishes the story, and hasnot
the excuse of hasty insertion for its ridicu-
lous credulity, for that paper says:
''It would be great relief TO US if it
could be made out that the horrid narra-
tive in our columns, describing railway
scene in the State of Georgia, was the IN
vention or the haIlucination OF the writer.
Its Insertion was DELAYED for some days,
that we might obtain satisfactory vouchers
for the writer's responsibility, sanity and
truthfulness, and on those points we have
no doubt. Short Of miracle, we never
read any anything SO simply stated yet so
incredible in substance"
1t is said that the Times has sent one Of
its proprietors to this country, TO secure
the services of an American Editor, and as
suredly it is high time that some one should
have charge Of the American department
of that paper who cannot be fooled with
his eyes wide open. The only wonder is,
that the Times had proprietor of such
temerity as to venture into this country,
where, as that PAPER says, nothing but
The terror which possesses peaceful men in
the States, prevents the publication of more
horrors of this sort" The story, as COM
nunicated to the Times, comes from one
who claims to have been an eye witness,
and is briefly as follows:
'The eyewitness left Macon, in Geor-
gia, to proceed to Augusta, in Georgia, at
) o'clock at night, and reached the desti-
nation at 3 the following morning, Two
young women and man were among the
passengers. Owing to fiir:ation on the
part OF one of the young women who had
been engaged in.ihis railway trip by B, but
had subsequently accepted an offer to the
same effect from A, quarrel sprang up
between A and B, the latter having joined
before the cars started. A duel was az
ranged between them in the negotiation of
which c, q third party assisted. During
the discussion, q second duel was got up
by an old man of 60 and one Of As, who
calling on the conductor to stop, they got
out and were left behind; when the next
station was reached, a telegraphic message
reported the old man had been killed. He
had left little boy Of six years old behind
in the ear, who was at this time asleep. c,
who had as 4 negotiator made himself We
ry active, was irritated because A and.B,
declined fighting at once, and used Ian
guage that etfronted B. A challenge en-
sued; the train is stopped; B and c get
out, and the conductor waits the result; B
is killed, and G comes back into the train.
BIS father being there, is offered by c his
revenge for his sons death, but he declines
being killed too. Then c makes an era
ton in which he calls the young woman
vile, and says be will denounce her as such
wherever he meets her. The young wo-
man violently defends herself, and calls upon
the passengers to t;gke her part, i. e. fight
a duel for her. At length BIS father sue
cumbing to her urgent opportunities, con-
sents to fight, and challenges C, who now
refuses and brands B's father as coward
for not accepting his first challenge.
"a Young man, D, enters from the smc-
king saloon; he recognizes the young wo-
man, who enlists him as partizan, and
he challenges C. They fight in the smo-
king saloon with monte Christie or noise
less pistols. All that is heneeforward
heard of d, is his death cry-his body is
put among the luggage-;he young woman
grows desperate, ,awakes the little boy, takes
him into the private apartment, informs
him of the death of his father, tells him
he was killed by c., and counsels him to
tell all his friends, that they may ayenge
his fathers death. The boy shrieks, with
heart broken grief denounees c, and de-
clares that he will acquaint all his friends
that G. has killed his father A compan-
ion of C. now interferes, snatches the boy
from the young woman, and repeats to the
boy the actual circumstances of his fathers
death, but the boy still cries bitterly and
accuses c., whereupon the companion hav-
ing failed to pacify him, threatens TO muir
der him if he is not quiet. The woman
now makes passionate appeals to save the
boy, and a man rises up, and remonstrat-
inc with C.'s companion, restores the boy
to the young woman. But the boy is be-
yond pacitication; he still shrieks and de-
nounces C. Whereupon C.'s companion
seizes the boy, takes him to the platform,
murders Aim, aid .Rings has body on the
railway. This accident caused the eye
witness to faint, and when he or she reeov-
cred, BIS father, the stranger who had re-
stored the boy to the Young woman; c.,
and his companion, were leaving the train
TO fight duel. BIS father and the stran-
ger were killed, and C. aud his companion |
came back; but the conductor started the |
train Just as G. set his foot on it, so3his
companion was left behind. c. tried to
Chamber over the engine to stop it, but the
conductor and the engine driver seized, Sc
cured and placed him lin loose box for the
of the journey. The "eye-wit-
ness" states that the authorities of Angus
Ia took no notice or these events. Nojour-
nal published any account of it, and such
are frequent"
If Munchausen is not in England his
ellow is, and we do not wonder the Times