Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1871-01-10
NASBY.
MIR. Nasty Disguised with Life, Attempts Sui
eide, but aiIs-He Leaves New
York Forever

1Orh Forever.
Moo YORK, December ~, 1870.
The Harp NV Erin S'loon is no
more The fire on its harth hez
gone out-there is ashes there now
tho lamp is lit no more, and in the
place Nv pleasant life there is dark
mis- The bar is closed and the cher
fnl gurgle Nv the bottles shell be heerd
no more forever
The owner Nv the bildin, Mr.. Pat
rick Donahue, in which the Harp Nv
Erin Sloon wuz LOCATED, wuz a can
didate for Skool Eggsaminer, and he
expected to git the posishen conf
IDENTIFY. lie he'd bin in this country
three years last Joon, and he'd pros
pered. The eggstraordinary feet nv
votin twelve times the first elecshun
ne participated in brought him into
notice, and gave him contract for
htlln up an armory, on which he
made enuff to purchis this buildin.-.
TO widen his poitikle infiooence and
to sekcor place ez Skool Eggsamin-
er. MIR. Donahue fitted up The room
IN which started the Harp nv Erin,
and lea sed it to me, reservin to him
self the direckshun and control uv
the voters witch the bar controlled.
and also the privilege Nv his own
likker at cost. SO long ez his pros
pecks wuz brite he did not ask me
for rent but after the late eleckshun
there was change. Tweed give the
place he wanted to another citizen
who he'd adopted this country sence,
who controlled two corner s'loons
and consistently he'd more infooence.
and the enraged Mr.. Donahue came
down on me for rent immeiitly. [
coodent pay. Owing to the fact
that the tyranicle Federal Govern
ment prevented repeetin at the last
eleckshun by broot force, there wuz
absolootly no money among my peo-
pie, not dollar. They he'd all de-
pended on reserving their yoosual
pay tor their falls work, but their
hopes wuz blastid. When | showed
my bills at EN-, they left me to
skorn.
"Present it to the tyrant Grant
witch prevented me from earnin any
money, on last eleckshun day r wuz
the invariable reply.
Then flew to my books to see
wat prominent Workin Democrats
owed me besides those witch ] he'd
seen. L took my memorandum and
called of the names, and my assis-
tant, witch knows everybody, inform
ed me Nv their whereabouts as fol-
lows:
"Patsey McGarth ?"
SIN the States Prison
"Dinnis McFaddins 2"
"Hes in the States Prison"
"Peter McGinnis p
''In the States Prison."
"Tom Baker ?"
"Bein tired for States Prison Of
fense"
And so on through the entire list
The half nv these men were servin
out their time for various offenses,
SIGH az house-breakin and highway
robbery, and tother half | ascertain
ed, for violashens Nv eleckshun laws.
That last fact decided me that Moo
York wuz no place for me and that
there wuz nothing worth Twin for
When Tammany can't or won't per-
tect It's friends. | hev no heart to
stay and work for her.
While IN this deprest condishun
DonahUe came in agin.
PAY yoor rent !" sed he.
"Base is the slave witch pays II
retorted.
"Yoo have the rent witch is doc me
ready by tomorrow mornin, or I'll
bundle 700 out nv this, neck and
crop" he returned hingin himself out
Nv the room in rage.
"Ha ha |" | LATED sardonically.-
"Will 700 bundle me out-aoW 700
This property is yoors-this bar and
these fixtures. Hal ha 700 come
to-morrer mornin, and see wat 700
will see."
My mind was very promptly made
up. | determined to make a hola-
cost nv myself-to commit sooicide
and to do it in SIGH a way eZ to
make my endin more glorious than
my life had ben. l determined to
burn the bildin and expire in the
flames. Calmly and deliberately l
perceeded to construct my funeral
pile. The counter and shelves tore
down and broke them up ez fine ez |
Good, and piled the fragments into
the middle NV the floor. took from
the wall my Iithograffek portraits NV
Andrew Jackson, J. Davis, Salmon
2. Chase and George Ii. Pendleton,
and remorselessly mashed them over
the pile. The five glasses belongin
to the establishment followed SCOT,
and the three decanters and the box
Nv pipes were involved in the gener-
al room. The stove | upset and
broke, and tie pipe | mashed ez fiat
ez | Good with my heels. To COM
plete the pyramid, l rolled out the
redheaded barrel from under the bar,
and appended that upon the top Nv
the pile Nv rooms, my intenshun bein
to seat myself on the top uv.the bar
rel, and settin the pile on fire, go up
amid appropriate surrounding, like
Sardonapulus who died amid the
blaze Nv the emblems Nv his last EN-
pire.
Ez | rolled the barrel, | heerd a
gentle swash inside. Thank heav-
en- there wuz still likker inside Nv
it! Good | lose that No, indeed
| drawd it off into bottle there
wuz jest quart and half Of it. [
mountid the barrel, sung two verses
nv the last campane song ez my dyin
dirge, and putin the bottle to my
lips swallowed the contents, intendin
to touch off the pile with a match.
1t wuz fortunate for the insurance
companies that the bottle contained
| jest quart and half. That guam