Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1870-06-16

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and, finally, it was patent and notorious
that Empire City and Dutch Nick 3 were
one. and the same place, and contained
only six houses anyhow, and conse-
quently there could be no forest bst1oeen
them; and on topJof all these absurdities,
] stated that this aiabolical murderer, after
inffcting wound UPON himself that the
reader ought To hRveN seen would have
killed an elephant in the twinkling of an
eye, jumped on hfs horse and rode -four
miles, waving his W ife's reeking scalp in.
the air, and thus performing entered Gar
son City with tremendous ecIGt.s and
dropped dead in front of the ehief saioon,i
the.envy and admiration of adj behold lders,
We'll, in all my life 1 never saw any
thing like the sensation that little satire
created 1t was the talk of the town, it
was the talk Of the Territory. Most of
the citizens dropped gently into pits at
breakfast, and they never finished their
meal. There was something about these
infinitely .fAithfGl "details thatrwAs,a. .sufh-
cieht1 substitute for food Few dpeople,
that were .ablei to read took food; that
morning. Dan and l. (Dan! was my re7,
portorial associateA took our meals on
either side of, our customary table, IN the
Eagle Restaurant :. and as i nnfOlded
the shced they used to call a napkin in
that estab blishment. I saw at the table two
stalYart mnocents with that sort of veg
s6CaDlo -EIdDuTuIIrs SDTl1k1eQ dDOu6L lneII
clothing which was the sign and evidence
that they were in from the Trukee with a
load OF hay. The one facing ME had the
morning paper folded to aFd0Hgq narrow
strip, and i knew, without any telliD gi
that that strip ifepresepted the ieo7dma
that cOnta ned my plea dhanoiA attire
From the way he was exeitedly hum-i
bling, IsaW that the needless son of hay
mdwswas kibping with ali his might, in
Orfer f0r0et tTtlnse, lOOSS effSaifa as nI1ick-
~ as .pesahieV a4d SO he was missing the
guide boards Hrhad set up to warn
him thatsthe whole thing was p fraud.
Presently his eyes spread wide epens just
as his jays swung asundef3 to- takes in a
potato approaching itQn 2 tork TIE po-
whole han was oho fire; with exei tehent..
Then he broke into a disioipted checking.
off of the particulars-his potato cooling
IN mid air meahtinfe, and hisImouth max
ing a reach for, it occasionally, but always
bringing up. suddenly against a new and
still more direful performance of my hero.
At last he looked his stunned and rigid
,comradej impressively in the face, and
said with an expression pres ion Of concentrated
!" Jim, he filled his baby, and he took the
old oman s skelp. Cuss'd if I want any
breakfast fooD "A .zEsd. o iis. @ s9..i.. :, .
. And he laid his lingering potato rever-
entity down, and he and his friend de-
parted from then restaurant empty but.
satisfied. us1 h.g fgs-4
!, i,HepeYer got down to where, the satire
part of it began. NobodY eyer did They
found. the thrilling particulars sgffcient.
To drop, in with a poor little morafat the
fag; end of such a gorgeous massacre,
was to follow the expiring sun With's can
die and hope Co attract the worlds aattenE
ton to it. sex -Em
D 05FheideR that any bodygould ever take
my, massacre for q, genuine occurrence
never once s1sgested itself 10 me, hedEed
about as itsy9as bYOA An those tell-tale ab-
suFdities and imp ossiblities concerning the
e great pine Forest the /" dressed stone
mansion etc But found out then, and
never have forgotten since, that we never
read the dun explanatory surrounding of
marvelously1 exciting things when we
have no occasion to supposeithat some ir7r
responsible scribbler is try ing to, defraud
US; we skip all that, and hasten to ,revel'
in the blood 7cnFaling particulars and be
Therefore, Theisf d9, being bitterly sIperienced,ZI
tried hard to word that agricultural squib
Of mine IN sueh4a- Way as Ito Ideceive mo-
body-apd partly. .sueceededs but not en-
tlrely.a Howeyer,J I did not do,apy harm
Win 1si anyway, 4r,c sfi-,S ,.,-.. - p