The Tiffin tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1868-1887, 1871-01-05
TIFFIN TRIBUNE.
rImn, Thursday Eve. Jan. 9Th. 1870.
NASBY.
Mr.. Nasby DisgUsted with life, Al
tempts Suicide, but fails-He leave
View York forever.
Moo YORK, Dec. y, 1870.

Mr.. Nasby DisgUSted with life. Al
tempts Suicide, but fails-He leave
New York forever.
Moo YORK, Dec. y, 1870.
The Harp Nv Erin 'Sloon IS n
more : The fire on its hearth hez gon
out-the lamp Is lit no more, and Il
the place NV pleasant life there
daFknis. The bar is closed and tn
cheerful gurgle Of the bottles shel b
heerd no more forever.
The owner Of the bildin, Alr. Pat
rick Donahue, in which the Harp u
Erin 'Sloon wuZ located, wuZ a candi
date for Skool Eggsaminer, and h
excepted to git the pOsishen conf
IDENTIFY. He he'd bin in this countr
three years last JOOn, and he'd pros
pered. The eggstraOrdinary feet u
vOtin twelve times the first eleckshel
he participated in brought him int
notice, and gave him a contract 70
fittin up an armOry, on which b
made enuff 10 purchis this buildin
To widen his pOlitikle infooence an,
to sckoOr q place eZ skoOl Eggsamine
Mr.. DonOhOe fitted up the room il
wich 7 started the the Harp Nv Erin
anu Ac<-sE4 ~ ~ mt LEoEL y III " nm
self the direcshVn and control NV tn,
voters wich the bar controlled, anC
also the privilege NV his own like
at cost. So long eZ his prOpecks Wi
brite he did not ask me for rent, but
after the late eleckshun there was
change. Tweed give the place h'
wanted to another citizen who heC
adopted this country sence, who con.
trOlled two corner slOOns and cOnse-
kently he'd more infiOOence, and the
enraged Mr.. DOnOhue came down OF
me for rent immeiitly. IcOOdn't pay
Owing TO the fat that the tyraniclC
Federal Government prevented re
peetin at thalast eleckshun by brOO
forse. there wuz absolOOtly no money
among my people, not dollar. They
he'd ali depended on reseeving theh
yosuai nav for their falls work, but
their hopes wuz blasted. When
showed my bills at EN-, they left me
TO skorn.
s1Present it to the tyrant Grant
wich prevented me from eaTnin any
money on lsst eleckshun dayp wu1
the invariable reply.
Then flew TO my books, to see wat
prominent working Democrats owed
me besides those Wich he'd seen.
took nv memorandum and called of
the names, and my assistant, Wicl
knows every body, informed me uy
their whereabouts as follows:
aPatsey McGrath ?"
t'In the States Prison"
ssDennis McFaddinsT'
Hes in the States Prison.
"Peter McGinnis? ?n
siIn the States Prison"
"Timmy McShane ?''
''In the States Prison"
''Tom Barker ?''
''Bein tried for a States Prison of
fence"
And so on through the entire list
The half Nv these men were serviI
out their time for various offences
sich as house-breakin and highway
ROBBERY, and tOther hall, / assertaineC
for violation Nv eleckshun laws. Tha
last fact decided me that Moo Yorl
wuz no place for me and that ther,
Wuz nofhin worth hvin for. WheI
Tammany can't, or won't perfect it:
friends, / hev no heart to stay anC
work for her.
While in this deprest condishur
DOnohue come in agin.
tfPay yOor rent p'seZ he,
"Base is the slave wich pays ~ re
torted.
ffYoo hev the rent wich is doc ms
ready for tomorrow mornin, or I'll
bundle yOo out nv this Nv this, mech
and crop,u he returned, fiinging his.
self out Of the room in rage
"Ha Ha 90 I LATED sardonically
"Will 700 bundle me Out-SOW 700
This property is yOOrs-this bar anC
these fixters. Ha ! ha You come to.
morrow mornin, and see wat you viii
see.
My mind was very promptly made
I'D. / determined to make a holocOst
NV myself-to commit sOoicide--anC
to do it in such a way ez TO make my
endin more glorious than my life had
ben. / determined to burn the bildiI
and expire in the flames. Calmly anC
deliberately / perceeded to construct
my funeral pile. The counter anC
shelves I tore down and broke them
up ez fine as Good, and piled the
fragments into the middle Of the floor.
I took from the wall my lithOgraffeC
portraits NV Andru Jackson, J. Davis
Salmon P. Chase and Geo. H. Pen
dleton, and remorselessly mashed
them over the pile. The five glasses
belonging to the establishment fol.
lowed SCOT, and the three decanter:
and the box Of pipes were involved il
the gineral rOOin. The stove upset
and broke, and the pipe / mashed as
fat as I Good with my heels. To com.
plete pyramid, I rolled out the red
headed barrel from under the bar,
and up-ended that upon the top NV
the pile nv rOoins, my intenshun beiT
TO seat myself on the top Of the barre
and settin the pile on fire, 90 up amid
appropriate surrOundins, like Sardon
apuius who died amid the blaze uy
the emblem Nv his last empire.
Ez I rolled the barrel, ] heerd /;
gentle swash inside Thank Heaven
there wuz still Iikker inside Nv it
Good 1 lose that &? No, indeed I draw
ed it of in a bottle:-there wuz jest {
quart and a half Nv it. 1 mounted tn,
barrel sung two verses of the las
campaign song ez my dyin dirge, an,
putting the bottle to my lips, swal
lowed the contents, intendin to tOucf
of the pile with a match.
1t Wuz fortunate for the insurancr
companies that that bottle contained
Jest a quart and a half That quaint
ty is jest pint over my load, and T.
that fact the buildin owes its safety.
tried TO strike match, but failed mis-
erably. 1 lost control NV my muscles
My brain reeled, my unsteady hanC
grew powerless, and sank back owe
the rOOins, insensible.
Iwuz awakened in the mornin, by
a series NV vishus, vigrOus and vel
directed kicks. NJ. Donohue stoOC
over me administerin NV EN-, with
viii and a unckshen that wuz won,
derful in one so aged. He he'd sus
pected that suthin wuZ wrong heC
busted in the door and he'd found M
on top of his wreekt property. 1 re
spectid his grief and left his premise
without reproaching Nv him-I dit
not even resent the last kick wich =
gave me to assist me OFF the door step
I simply picked myself up out of tn
gutter and walked slowly and witt
dignity away.
] shel work my way back to Ken
lucky; indeed I never shood hev lef
there. j shell throw myself on tn
tender mercies of Deacon Pogram an,
Bascom, and if they they refoose Z
take me to their buZZums I shel finC
me another cross Roads where I she
set up my tabernacle Eff / can ge
state Dimocratic congregashen t
preach TO, l shel do it, for prefer tn
clerical perfechen; if not l shel start {
groseIy in some strikly Democrats
community where the soil is strOnl
and rich enuf to prOdose good crop
without any work but plantin, wicl
the wimin can do.
leeve Moo York forever. I bic
Tweed and his servis adoo. I 60 nev-
er 10 return no more.
PETROLEUM V. NAsBY,
witch wuz POstmaster.)