The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1868-05-02
CRY HoTEEs
(Which is IN New Orleans

= 49,
once upon time, when right had s5read
her sable mantiIla o er tae earth. ard pinned
It with E moon, lWent to bed People often
60 70 bed At night with the exception ef lha
Is XXX. s, who never 60 to bed and who
never sleep. They have ears, bat they see
not; they have eyes, but they hsar not
The clocks on the capola Of the Crescent
Office had telled forth the hour of twelve
the stuffed owl IN the Crescent CITY Afuseum
had goHesIo roost; the statue Of Henry Clay
reposed in silence in o perpeDdicular posi-
ton; the snakes had ceased their eroaking,
the frogs their biting, the musquitoes had
begun humming. and all went merry IS &
marriage belle Ito her hash was sleep
ing insny couch of couches ike june bog
il january, but l did not sHore. / never
snore. Everybody would do it, presume
if It was Fashionable. But to resume
As said, It was past midnight, and was
dreaming of my country seat, Ga stool with
three legs9 when was startled suddenly BY
a cold, clammy, shrimpy hand upon my fore
head I awoke and rose sup in bed to dis
ccYer a figure clothed IN white sitting upon
my bed De Il suppose he was q he) held
IN his right hand a roman candle burning
blue and In his left a sky rocket, his ewes
were giaring balls of red fire. and he had two
hoFns in his Forehead, besides several which
he had taken in his mouth. As awoke he
waved the torch three times around bis head
and beckoned like Hamiets ghost, for me to
follow him j arose from my bed and fol-
lowed-entirely il white he led me
through winding streets, up dark alleys, and
finally brought me to a graveyard. All
this time he had never, for moment taken
his eyes of Ere of Of me- Arrived IN the
center Of the grave yard, beside an unberied
skeleton between two thorn bushes he shot
off his rocket, and glaring upon me, said.
AIert0ary mortal, 4 come from the bloody
den Of the bob-tailed sRerPians am the
chiefest among 10000 and the ] altogether
lovely. You see here before you the specter
of the Great Tribe of the Denoniae Deathly
Dragons. am sent to warn, TO defy, to drag
you to danger 8iee the scorpions tongue has
hissed; 3ice the dirge of death IS done 3ice
the bloody grave has gaped Behold
i looked, aud saw IN letters Of blood upon
the skeleton before me, and surrounded by
letters of fire;
n AN DEDf 80
illustrated By cofins aud daggers)
I gazed in horror, and exclaimed, Ia petri-
fed accents 8 believe ye, my. boyF' and
tainted.
When I recovered myself (and my wallet)
found that 1 was transported to a subal-
sterranean dungeon beneath tepra 5ifa50. It
had all the appearances Of a place that was
worse than the place itself There wers
blue lights, blue felleEs aud blue flames.
/ 4LAoAl tEAe 4A2tiAo DNIaACG DfAb. At46
ing paragHaES1 states that. -4qsf paragraph
going might state the same thing
Brightly the taller dip candies shOne
Q er fthrough) fare women and brave menl'
When Ihad been taken inside Of the dun
geen, ] felt that ! was done ] was intro
duced to hard crowd in hard times They
formed around me (the crowd and not tie
times) and IN a Deep sepulchral tone that
shook the cave, said:
' Whence comes this mortuaTy mortral,
and IS he trooly rural p
Ny condutor answered for me, and SAID
in tones Of thunder land lightning
he can keep hotel he eau sing like o
maTtibggale. swim like an angel, gamble on
the green, and Is loiI to the corpsf
Let him pass said the t9coOn, who
thought hadn't a full hand.
/ passed, and found myself ia the inner
chamber, where I saw nothing but. thunder,
the yells Of demons and the railing of
chains | heard nothipg but lightning the
fash of gunpowder and the lastditch, andI
dreamed the dreams of the d(un)Fearyi
A mangled corpse stood open a pyramid
Of skulls, and holding in his right hand
coffin and in his left hand (pristine man)
coughin' two, he exclaimed:
" Mortal, / am the Bloody Butcher Of the
Bogus BIunderers of Babylon. Swear to
keep our secrets, or dye"
As didn't care to dye, l swore.
Ehen 1 was tebOtaIIy surrounded By dee
mons as looked like devils, not one Of whom
bought their shirts at Moodys, who
shriekeG:
He swears by the fiery fagon found IA
ferocious furnaces by feIiers from Feliciana
that he does not, meyer did, and never will
again, so help him Felis T.
/ wac then stabbed By a small sword,
which was held IN the hands of every de-
mon IN pantalets around me, then drugged,
boiled IN caldron, set upon a hot gridiron,
slid down gang-plank, walked over cakes
of ice, mutilated in hair of my head, and
finally tat0oed and scaiped
/ was dragged through tubular boilers to
the tune Of the "Rogues March" stripped
to the suit Of clothes in which I was born.
powdered to atoms, and told that had a
mission to perform to all onfside barbariaDs
which it was to annihilaie every living
thing, and to kill every decade member Of
society. / act seeded.
g Do you swear
swear"
was then clothed with babiliments Of
woe, thrust into a den OF worms with only
one bottle of Mrs. WiHslow's Soothing
Syrup, and told to await the action of the
impeachment COMMITTEES.