The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1872-07-17
MIR. NAsBY's DREAM.
A Prophetic vision.
CoNFEDER1T X ROADS,
WITCH Ia the State of KentuRky,

awake Win colo SWets ONO me- anu snlV'
rim ez though he'd the ague. Mite afore
last Greeley appeared to me with horns,
hoois, and a tall. He perched hisself on
my stunick, squattin like q hidjus toad,
and putin on his spectacles, deliberately
read me, from on old copy Of the TFibO0R6,
six yards Nv his own editorials on the sla.
very question. He finally sailed of thro
the air shrekin Lost Lostp Whether
| he referred to me or hisseli ez lost, RELY
don't know. RI he felt ez mean in my
company ez l did in hizzen, the remark
would embrace both Nv Us.
Last mite had another frightful vision.
We hev o family In the village witch don't
| live in harmony, The husband got in.
toxicated some years ago, and knowing
that 1t isn't the gettin drunk that hurts a
man, but getting sober, hez lodged that
trouble by staying drunk. His principal
amusement Is whalln his wife. The
novelty Nv this hevin worn of, yesterday
mOrnin, he gave her couple Nv ounces
Nv arsenic, Vaultin ambition o'erleaped
herself-his excessive liberality defeated
his purpus, The dose wuz TOO big-it
siCkened ber-she vomited, and lived,
and whaled him within an inch Of his
lie. wuz at the house, and late in the
evening left, stoppin at Deakin Programs,
where we took . genooine Kentucky tea,
which consisted principally of korn
whisky and cold billed pork. From thence
| went home and retired with my head
full Nv the pizen and Greeley mixed in
about ekal proporshens. Fallen asleep, l
dreamed
Methawt Iwuz in bildin where l
couldn't make out. Stretched out onto q
couch and kivered with a flag wuz the
body Of an enormous giant-the most
huge and comprehensive giant l had ever
seen, even in dreams. His lege wuz like
pillars, his arms wuz like beams, and his
hands wuz spread out like map Nv our
onct happy, but now opprest country. He
seemed to be in the last stages Nv fear.
full sickness. He-hed bin, in his day, a
giant Of immense strength, and wuz, even
in his illness, ez handsome human being
ez ever l sot eyes onto. But it wuz EVIL.
dent that he wuz goin fast He drawd
his breath painfully, and from ugly
woonds on his body blood oozed slowly
but depletinly. ,-a-l' ,
"Who is hep" l asked of the Goddess
of Liberty, witch sot at his he'd in deep
mournin and weepin violently.
"That is Republicanism," she answered,
"the only actual, genuine friend l ever
had-the only one who RELY stood by me.
But they are KILN him. That cash in
his back Chase gave him; that stab IN the
side wuz inflicted by Randall; the itch
witch so irritates him he caught from the
Blairs, ::and-good Heavenl here comes
another squad nv his enemies.
looked, and lol Boss Tweed, Hoff.
man, Seymour, Hendriks, and dozen Nv
my pertikeler friends were comm in.
They he'd masks on their faces, made Nv
Moo York TrijO0neS, but | knowed EN- for
all that. Hoffman seezed the head Of the
PROSTATE giant, while Tweed poured down
his throat nauseous flood from o Jug
marked Cincinnati" fairly forcin it down
him. The victim shuddered ez he swal,
Tered it, ez though it wuz his last and
final shudder.
you've killed hlmp shrieked the God.
dess.
ave bleeve we hev, madam" shouted
the fellows in korus, pullin off their masks,
"and you'll follor him within yeer"
"Kill her nowp yelled one nv em,who
wuz evidently from Gcrgory, "she amt
got her champion to save her this time"
And they seezed' her and gagged and
bound her, with fritetul yellS. -
And in their joy they eSecooted most
demOniac war dance about the corpse, in
witch l iined, with an ability didn't know
| was possessed. But list ez our exulta
ten wuz at its highest. the corpse gave Q
fearful gasp-a convulsheR Nv ten hos
power. He riz up from the couch, as
4 soomed sittin position, his face Nv g
dethly paleness and with reich thai
shook the buildin, vomited ez l never saw
human bein vomit. I,
"Good Heavensp shreeked Tweed
"we'vc given him too much Nv the pizeI
and its actin ez an emetic." Il
The sick man gave heave after heave
and in flood Nv bile which, he elected
saw Greeley, Gratz Brown, schurz, Co!
and score Nv SIGH. Avery gentle heavt
, landed Schurz and Gratz Brown on the
floor; little bigger one throw out Fenton
and a gigantic one, which convulsed thu
sufferer from center 10 circumference
hused out Greeley. But, once over, i
wuz q trenienjus relief to the sick indi
vidooal. 1mmejitly great change com,
over him. The moment they wuz off BIZ
stumick the palenis Disappeared
healthy color came to his cheeks and hi
week.-Mrs. all lett him. CORN about furoi
ously, he put one foot on Greeley an
Brown and their mizarable companions
ez a man brushes beetles, with the othe
: he kicked the jug out Nv the wlndel
witch Jug wuz followed by Tweed and hi
, friends who went through the sam
apertoor, propelled by the same motiv
power. He cut the bonds off the goddess
;. tore of her mourning, and wuz in th
: act Nv embracin Nv her when I awoke.
Hay for hours cogitatin over this dream
: Wuz 1t prophecy or billed pork? That
!, the conundrum. Is 1t a warnin Nv iudl
= ment 10 come, or is it a disordered stun
u mick? Hev we dosed the Republica
party too freeley with Cincinnati, and he
\ wat We iondly hoped wood be pizen emu
y to kill our great enemy, goin to be emeti
= witch will rid him Nv the disturbin hi
y mors witch wuz a dcstroyin Nv him, an
y make him stronger than ever? -
II 1t troubled me so that I coodent sleeI
" l tossed about in the most restless an
I frantic manner, and Good only indoose Il
q gentle goddess TO touch my eyelids aft
= four solid drinks from a jug which l kee
~ in my room, which isn't marked "Cincil
n natl" byno means. Heaven grant that n
: dream is simply a baseless fabric.
: PETROLEUM V. Nasty,
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