Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1871-01-12

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uniform row of houses in the FourteeEtt
Ward, says the Philsdelphia Sunds,
5ispatcfI. One m 'onlight night las
week the noise made by the cats on hi
roof was simply awf.I- Mr.. Oliver IL,
kn bed ffryfng fn sain TO geEto sleepant
grinding his teeth II rage, until at las
he upro ar overhead became unendura
ble. Mr.. Oliver crept out of bed s~ftiy
90 that his vie would not beawskened
Eae pps IN his slippers, seized boo'
With each hand, and. clad in the snowy
5obes of,night, he opened The trap door
md eIberged upon the roof There were
thirty or forty eats out there holding a
bind Of q gen raj s. nod the cool o
he evening. enjoying the bracing air
and singing gIees. As Mr.. Oliver ap
preached, the cats moved over to the
next roof. Mr. Oliver advanced and
dung a boot at them. They then ad-
Ijourbea suddenly, to.tha summit Of the
| sijduing residenee.s Mr. Oliver pro-
lIeeted AlIoll.er -feet aud went ovei after
Ehe frst one. ss4s'l 3 - .e1a
In this,manner the synod retreatetl
aud Oliver advanced until the last of the
COW of twenty houses was reached, when
the cats arranged themselves in line
stong the parapeA -rutiird- up their fur,
curved their spices, ana spat fariously
1t Olive. That bold warrior gathered
up his bootsand @deterinined to retreat.
Ae lw&lkedt back zoser dozen houses
md descended through a trap-door. He
~ sl< 10 @tl stsfr< Il his bed room aud
|<,5el5e<l {ise deer. There was a man IN
he room in the act of walking up and
town with a baby. Before Oliver had
recovered from his amazement, the man
dung the baby on be bed. and seizing a
Irsvofver began ngrapidly a Oliver.
1t then dawned upon Oliver that he had
,ome down the wrong trap door. He
proceeded up stairs suddenly, the man
with tile revolver practicing at him in
!, painful manner. When Oliver reach
ii the trap he shut it quickly and stood
,pon it.. The man fired through the
,oards twice, and then honked the door
spon the inside. A moment after Oliver
leard him springing watchman's rat
fsi FROM the front window, As soon as
Tie neighbors knew there as atnan on
ne roof they all few up stairs and las
! ened their trap7ioors, and Mrs Oliver
listened hers, wi the firm conviction
bat some predatory villain had entered
vile she slept and stolen her Oliver
When lie tried the door twas fast, and
Mrs. Oliver was screaming so fiercely
! llst he cou d not make himself .hearfi.
BY this lime the street was filled with
.,oliceme alt-of whom were blazing
.way a. Oliver with their revolvsrs,
vhile the. young men in the houses
.cross lae-street, keptup steady fiie
With pistois, shot-guns and miseellaue-
Susmissil-s Oliver, with every advant-
,,ge forAforraing an opiaion, said thu
iettys6nry was mere skirmish tott.
sie hid behind the chimney, and lay up
tgainst the bricks to keep himself
warm, while the policemen stationed
themselves around t.; capture him when
ne would slide down the water spouts-
q But Oliver did not sIide.z He sat out
on that root all night, with the bitter
,ir circulating through his too trifiing
lssrments. listening to the bowling cas-
!, :, a N, q ,oooa;apuI ,1,out, from, Ia. r,ifl-
1t line be low, and thinking of the old
Jews who used to play from their house
Iops, AMI wondering if Musslemen were
-ver shot at or bothered with cats anu
policemen when they practised their
evening devot;ons on roofs: And then he
how it would do 10 take of
MS night shirt and wave it.as a flag OF
ructl! He concluded not to, because
If the danger Of a bullet fIom some mis-
guided policeman not Familiar with the
rules of war. When daylight the
seie b bors rallied in a crowd armed with
all kinds of weapons from howi,zers
DOWN ansfrmeunted to the roof. Oliver
was taken, down and put to bed and
now has more infiqenza for man of his
size than othsrcitizen ofthe Fourte enth
Ward. He says he is going to move
n soon as he gels welI-he is going to
~ ,ve into q heuse that is next doors,o
nobody, a bouse that stands in the mid
die of prairie of some kind, and he. n
te ads to stenciigshis name in white on
the trapst1oor. > '1's-se '9sl1s.,5 =, ,sr,
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