The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1872-07-18
11R NAsBT HAS A FkARf EL
DREAM, IN WHICH IKE SEES
MANY TEIINES.

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DHEAM,IN yVHICH IKE SEES
i MANY TEIINGS.
/ TFrom the Toledo Blade
CoxTkDRIr 4 ROADS, !
Wich is in the State NV KsntuckyD
!ocR I'D, lo1s.
| don't know wat il the matter with
me but OF late | dream more regular
and more ferroshusly than ever did iu
my hte ! hey had succsshua uv mite
mares ever sence gave in my sdheshun
to Greeley, some NV wich wax stupenjus-
frite;ul. 60 to bed with Greeley on
my mind, ana dream dreams so horrible
that | awake with cold swets onto me,
and shivrin cz tho he'd the aaus. Mite
atore last, Greeley appeared to me with
hoofs. horns. and a tail. He perched
himself On my sturnnick, squatting like
a hedjus toad, and putting on his specta-
cles, deliberately red me. from an old
copy OF the Tribune. Elk yards Nv his
own editorials on the slavery question.
He finally sailed off thro the air, Shrek
in, Lost Lostl'' Wether he referred
to me or to himself ez lost" | reely
don't know. Et he felt ez mean in my
company ez did in hizen, the remark
would embrace both of U.s.
Last Dite he'd another friteful vision.
We hev family in the village wich don't
live in harmony. The husband got In
toXicatea some years ago, and KNOWN
that il isn't the getting drunk that hurts
man, but the getting sober, hez dogded
that trouble by stayin drunk His prln-
cipal amusement is whalin his wits. The
novelty Of this having worn off,yes.crday
morning be rave her couple Of ounces
of arsenic. Vauuting ambition o 'rleaped
nerself-his excessive liberality defeated
his purpus. The dose wuz too big-it
sickened her-she vomised, and lived,
and whaled him within an inch Nv hiz
life. | wuz at the house, and late in the
evenin left, stoppin ut Deekin Program $
where we TUX a genuine Kentucky tea,
wich consisted principally Nv korn Wisky
and cold billed pork. From thence |
went home and retired, with my head
full Nv the pison, and Greeley, mixed in
about equal proporshens. Fallln asleep
| dreamed. .- ...-
| Methawt [ wuz in bildin, where. [
coodent make out. Stretched out onto
couch and kiyered with a flag wuz the
body Nv an enormous giant-the most
huge and comprehensive giant | he'd
ever seen, even in my dreems His legs
wuz like pillars, his arms Wnz like beams
and his hands spread out like the map
up our wunsnt happy but now oppressed
country He seemed to be in the last
stages Nv fearful sickness. He he'd
bin, in his day, giant NV immense
strength, and wuz, even in his illness, as
i. handsome human bein ez | ever sot
eyes onto. But it wuz evident that he
wuz goin fast. He drawcd his breath
painfully, and from ugly wounds on his
body blood oozed slowly but deplentinly.
"Who is hep asked Nv the God
dess Nv liberty, which sot at his head in
deep mournin, and weepin violently.
That's Republikinlsm,' she an
swered, ''the only actooal, genooine
friend | ever hed-the only one who RELY
stood by me. But they are killing him
That cash in his back Chase gave him !;
that stab in the side WIZ inflicted by
Randall, the itch which 50 irritates him
he caught from the Blairs. and-good
heaven here comes another squad Nv
his enemies.
Hooked, and 10 Boss Tweed, Hof-
man, Seymour, Hendricks and dozen
Nv my partckeler friends were comm in.
They he'd masks on their faces, made NV
Moo York Triboons, but knowd them
for all that. Hoffman seized the head
Nv khe PROSTATE giant, while Tweed
poured down bis throat a neauseous
tiouid from q jug marked Cincinnati, >
fairly forced it down him. The victim
shuddered eE be sWalerod it, ez tho it
wuz his last and finall shudder.
g Yoo've killed him" shricked the
goddess
I'VE believe We hev. madam y shout
cd the fellows in korus, pullin off their
masks. and you'll ioller him within a
yeer.'
Kill her, now - yelled one Nv 'em
who wuz evidently from GeorRy, 'she
amt got her champion to save her this
time
And they seezod her and gagged and
bound her, with friteiull yells.
And in their joy they execooted q most
demoniac war dance about the corpse, in
wich | jined with an ABILITY did not no l
possessed. But jist ez our exultation
wuz at it's highest ,the corpse give fear
ful gasp-a convulshun Wv ton boss pow
er. He riz up from the couch. assoomed
q sitting posishun, his face Nv dentbly
paleness, and with n rech that shuk the
lbuildin, vomited CT / never saw human
bein vomit.
Good Heavensl" shrieked Tweed,
| D. " We given MIN ~ ulucu Wv tu0 pldSu
an it's actlng ez an emetlc.
Tho sick man gave heave after beave,
ard in the flood Nv bile wich he elected |
saw Greeley, Grntz Brown. Schurz, Cox
and d score nv sich. A very gentle heave
landed Schurz and Gratz Brown on the
floor, little bigger one throught out
fenton, and gigantic one, which con-
puleed the sufferer from center to clrcum-
over, it wuz u treneDjuos relief to the
sick fndividooai. ImmejitIy CRATE change
come over him. The moment they wuz
off his STUN mick the paIenis disappeared
"a healthy color came to bis cheeks and
his weaknis all left him. Glarin abuut
furiousiy, he put one foot on Greeley and
Brown and their mizzable companions,
ez a man crushes beetles, with the uther
he kicked the jug out the winier, wich
jug wuz followed by Tweed aud his
ture, propelled by the same motive pow
er. He cut the bonds Nv the goddess,
tore off her mournin, and wuz in the act
Nv embracing NV her. when awoke.
! lay for hours cogitatiDg over this
dreem. Wuz it prophesy or billed pork ?
That the conundrum Is it a warnin
to cum or is il disordered stummick ?
Hev We dosed the Republican party too
freely with CINCINNATI, and hez wat We
fondiy hoped would be pizen enough to
kill our great enemy, going TO be an
emetic wich will rid him Nv the dlsturbln
hunors witch wuz destroying Nv him,
and make him stronger than ever?
4 1t troubled me so that coodcnt sleep.
; tossed about In the most restless and
frantic manner, and Good only induce the
gentle goddess to tech my eyelids after
: four solid drinks from jug wich | kept
in my room, wich isn't marked 'Cincin-
natti' by no means Heaven grant thar