The Hancock Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Ohio) 1857-1870, 1864-12-02
Gantotk 9etftrsunian.
Local and Miscellaneous.
MIR. Nasby has a FrightfuI Dream.

stait NV Moo Gersy,) Nov. 20.
I'm bein afflicted with dreems. It's
very seldom that / lay my manly
form dowu 2 rest, that dreems NV the
most fritcrld karricter don't take pos
seshun' NV me, aud | awake in the
IheTHin feelin CT tired ez / do after q
hard days dodgin creditors wich is
exhaustin.
Last mite l he'd n dreem. the recol.
Ieckshun whereof is enutf 2 drive q
dray hoss NV ordinary sensibilitles
crazy. Methawt Dimocrisy wuz ded,
that his funeral wuz apinted fer the
4th NV March, that that day he'd ar.
riv, and that the trends NV the deceest
he'd bin inwitid: L wuz on the spot
airly, but 2 my surprize quite a mum.
Der NV mourners wuz there afore me
Their wuz Thomus Jefferson, and
Androo Jaxson, and Steven A. Dug.
lis, and Silus Wright, and Jimmy X
Poke and sich. The corpse wuz that
NV giant, who he'd evidently died NV
dissipashen--wunst strong and wig.
gcrus, but redoost 2 a shal<y skelliton
Presently. Presently Fernandy wood,
Frank Peerse, Vallandygum and
voorhees, hove in site, They kun q
busslin up ez tho they wuz the legit.
init heirs and assigns aforesed NV
the deceest, but ez soon ez they re-
cognized them cz wuz standin round
the corps they turned pale and sneek-
ed of ez fast ez their legs Good carry
en-. These distinguished individooels
wuz aweepin bitterly over the corpse,
particklerly Jefferson. ~ am his
fond parient," he exclaimed, ~ guild.
ell his infant steps, but what the
dev-"
This eXclamashen escaped Tomus,
ez his eagle eye lit onto bootiful
nigger whip wich the dcfmct he'd
clutched into his emashiatid hand
'lle never got that from me-" con.
tinued Tomus with n expreshun NV
intense disgust, 81 sent the gushun
yooth in2 the world TO do away with
them things"
Wright he'd found revolver and q
pair NV handouts in his pocket, wich
he dropped as tho they burnt him.
JaAon took out Nv his vest a packigc
labeld estate Rites" Good Hev.
insH' remarkt he, ningin it from him,
"did the ijeot forgit my teechins cz
seoh ez | left him, and take up with
the heresis NV that scoundril Cal.
heon?'
Dnglis he'd bin serchin, and next
to the hart he found n hcvy packigc
markt "seceshn," at wich they all
startid back with uplittid hands, c2
I've seed play-akters do when they
sec the gost NV ther ded muther.
ale wuz devotid his country
wen | startid him" said Jefferson.
''llim and me put our heel Oh Sc.
ceshn, wunst," wept Jaxon.
"Aly frends," scd Duglis, Il WIZ
the guardian NV the deceest up to 4
yeers ago. He Tell in2 bad hands in
'52, and got wild. He becum quar-
relsome, graspin and ut the saim time
dissipatid. tried to keep him strate
but in vane, Sich men ez Boolannou
and Peerse he'd more inilooense witt
him than |, and they led him astray
lie squandcred all the estate VOC LETT
him, the valyooable part NV wich wu5
bought in by q consern at the hed
NV wich is A. Llnkin, NV my state
who by maxim proper yoose NV il
is doin "A good biznis. To save him
l endorst for him in go, but he bustiC
Inc, and sellin all that he had left, he
went in2 the employ NV that Calhoor
consern wich wuz jest startin up, e,
! left, and / am paned say that h,
contracted do all the dirty work.
1t wuz that wich killed him"
''Bury the cuss-he stinksv' ex
claimed they all in korious, the nois,
whereof awoke me.
feel thankful that we modern dc.
mocrats see Jefferson, Jaxon and
sich, only in dreems.
g PETRoLEYM V. Nasty, /.
Lait Paster NV the Church Nv the Noe
Dipensash9a.