Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1871-01-19

trolled and also the privilege Nv hi
own iikker at cost. So longez his pros
pecks wuz brite he did not ask me for rent
but after the late eleckshun there wuz Z
change. Tweed give the place he wanted
| 10 another citizen who he'd adopted thi,
! country sence, who controlled two cOrnel
! sloons and consistently he'd more inaoo
enee, and the enraged Mr. Donohue came
| down on me for rel immeitly | coodeni
| pay OWN to tie fact that the tyranical
| Federal Government prevented repeetin al
the last Clcckshun by broot fo%e, there
WI. abs0lootly no money among my PEG
! pie, not dollar. They bed all depended
on reseeying their y0osual pay for Their
falls work, but their hopes wuz blastid
When / showed my bills at en-, they laft
me to skorn
Present it to the tyrant Grant witch
! prevented me from earnin my money on
last eleckshun day. wdz the invariable
/ reply.
Then Y flew to my books, to see wat
! prominent workiu DEMOCRATS owed me be
! sides those witch he'd seen | took my
! memorandum and called off the names,
! and my assistant, witch knows everybody,
| informed me NV their whereabouts as fol
lows
'Patsey McGrath 2"
'In the States Prison
"Dinnis McFaddins2'
Hes in the States Prison"
Peter McGinnis?'
I'm the States Prison"
Jimmy WcShancy'
an the States Prison
TON Barker2"
Ni!piD tried for Gtat.us DriaD,, Dflorno ~
And 80 on through the entire list. The
half nv these men were servin out thpir
time for various offenscs, SIGH AZ house.
breakin and highway robbery, and tother
half, / assertained, for yiolashens NV eleck
shun laws. That last fact decided me that
Moo York WIZ no place for me and that
there wuz nothin worth liyin for When
Tammany cant, or won't perfect its
friends, hev no heart to stay and work
for her
While in this deprest condishun Dono-
hue came in agin
Pay yoor rent - seq he.
Base is the slave WITCH PAYS / re-
torted.
" loo hev the rent WITCH is doc me ready
ny tomorrow mofnin, or III bundle VOC
out Nv this, neck and crop" he returned,
llngln hisselt out nv the room in rage,
" Hal ha?' | LATED sardoncally win
You bundle HE orlt--5etU yoo. This prop
erty IS yOors--this bar and these FILTERS
liza! ha! 700 come to-mnrrer mOrnin, and
see wat you will see"
My mind was very promptly made up.
determined TO make hOloCost Nv myself
to commit suicdc-and 20 do it in SIGH a
way eA to make my endin more glorious
than my life had ben. | determined TO
burn the buiIdin and expire in the flames
Calmly and deliberately preceded to con
struct my funeral pile. The counter and
shelves tore down and broke them up ca
fine rs | Good, and piled the fragments into
the middle Nv the floor / took from the
wall my ithogailed portraits Nv An.
du Jackson, j. Davis Salmon +
Chase and Geo. II. Pendleton, and re-
morsely mashed them over the pile. The
five glasses belongin to the establish.
ment followed SCOT, and the three ocean
tiers and the box nv pipes were involved in
the gineral room. The stove | upset and
broke, and the pipes mashed as flat as
Good with my heels. 10 complete the
pyramid, rolled out the red headed barrel
from under the bar, and appended that
upon the top Nv the pile Of rooms, my in
tcnshun bein to seat myself ON the top NV
the barrel, and settin the pile on fire, go
up amid appropriate surroundins, like SIR
douapulus who died amid the blaze NV the
emblem Nv his last empire.
III rolled the barrel | heeri n gentle
swash inside. Thank Heaven! there wu1
still liquor inside NV il Good loose that
No, indeed | lraSd it of into q bottle;
there wlH lest a quart and a half nv H. |