Dallas herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1849-1873, 1868-05-23
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April 18th
I have ioinf,l 'fm ! smak d
a. FILLER I run the Tiss ~ dyiss
some day, lur nighu hat ana -
ing "a unl,usnm lsysrli, and make
: Publie expose ~ the X. X. IA
PTa koHss Pslilo,
Once upon time when Night
had spread her sabls manillla Der
the earth, and pinned Il with a
m0on, went a. bod. People often
go l0hel at Night, with the sNceP'
tion Of the X. Il, ks, who noVor
$50 O. bed aud who never sleep
They have ears, bat they SEQ not
they have eyes, hat they hear nai-
The clocks un tho raltoia ~ the
Greseenl Oflico had l0llr,l Firth tho
hour Of ~, the stuffed owl ia tho
Crescent City Museum bad gone 10
rOost tho statue ~ henry Clay
reposed ia silence in a PorPendien, .
lar p0sish, lho snaiN had ceased
their eroaking, the iiogs their bit
ing, tho mosquitoes had begun hum
ming, aud "zll went merry as a
marriage bell"-Io her hashi /
was sleeping IN my couch at couch
Is like June bug ia January, hat
did not snorc. | never sIoro,
Everybody would 'lo il, ] suppose,
lift was fashionable, Bui Ia 70
sumo.
As said, II vas past midnight,
and | was dreaming nf my ciuniry
seat, "a stool with 3 lcgs,l when /
was startled scddcnly by cold.
slammy, shrimpy hanL upon my
forward. ] awokc and rose MP IN
bed to discover figure clnlhed in
white sitting upon my bed, lilo q
suppose no was n ho) held in his
Yight hand n roman candle Burning
blue, and IN his lnil u sky racket
his eyes were glhring balls Of red
ire, aud he had horns in his fore,
head, beside several which no had
taken in his mouth. As ] awoko ho
waived the torch three timcs around
his head and bcckuncd, like Ham.
let's ghost, for me 10 inllow him. ]
arose from my bed aud followed
entirely i u whncr lie led me
through winding streets, up dark
alleys, aud finally brought me to
the grave yard. All this time he
had never, for moment, taken his
eyes of fire on of mo. Arrived in
tho center of the graveyard, beside
an unburied skeleton between. two
thorn bushes, ho shot of His rocket,
and glaring upon me, said:
"Mortury mortal, come from the
bloody den Of the bob.tailcd seer
pion / am the chicfcst among
10000, and the l altogether lovely.
You SEQ before you the specter of
tho Great Tribe Of tho bcmoniac
DcathIy Drsgows,, am sent to
warn, to defy, to drag YOU to dan
ger. 3ice the scorpions tongue has
Missed; Slice the dirgo of death is
gone; 3ice the bloody grave has
CAPPED behold u
- looked, and saw in letters of
blood upon the skeleton before me,
and surrounded by letters of fire
DD~"I AN DEAD " .4Gsa
ILLUSTRATED by collins and daggers.)
] gazed in horror, and exclaimed
in petrifed accents, Il believe yc,
NV how In ond,fnintcd -
When / recovered myself (and
my wallet) l found that | was
transported to sub terranean dun
gcon beneath terra .frme! 1t had
all the appearance Of ~ phico" that
was worse than The Place itself.
There were blue lights, blue fellers
and blue flames. 81 .ijs ...a.a.l
Even "the lights. burned blue"
The 4-going paragraph states that.
Any paragraph going might state
the same thing. ~ -t-- = :! > ~
Bright the "tallor dip" candles
"shonc DER through) fare women
and brave men" .-
had been taken inside
this dun .geon, | felt that l was
done 1 was introduced to hard
crowd in hard times. They formed
around me 0he crowd, and not the
times and, in a deep, .sepulchral
tone that shook the cave, said: "a
""Whence comes this mortuary
mortual, and is no trooly ruial?"t
My conductor answered for me,
and said in tones of thunder (and
lightning:
"Hc can keep 3 hotel; he can
sing like martingale, swim. like u
angel, gamble on tho green, and, is
loil to the corps !''l- aaa a''.i iea1o9
"Let him pass" said the tycoon,
who thought hadn'La full hand!"
~, / passed, and found myself in ;the
inner chamber, where l saw moth
ing but thunder, the yells of de-
mons, and the rafting of chains; /
heard nothing but lightning, the
flash of gunpower and tho last
ditch, and i dreamed the dreams of
the d(un)reary.
A mangled corpse stood upon a
pyramid Of skulls, and holding in
his right hand a coffin and in his
left hand q (pristine mani a cough
in two, he exclaimed: ar .zev
"Mortal-Tam-the Bloody Butcher
of the Bogus Blunderers at Babylon.
Swear to keep our secret, or dye"
AS 1 didn't care to dye, l swore. |
IA Then i was tectotally surrounded
by demons as looked like devils, not
one VI wuoH UUuguISuueIr snirls NJ
Moody's, who shrieked :zou % -
e ale swears by the frey fagon
found in ferocious furnaces furnish
ed by fellers from Feliciana, that
he does not, never did, and never
will again, so help him Felis r.
/ was then stabbed by small
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