Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1872-07-25
MIR. NAsBY'S DREAM.
A Prophetic VISION.

4 at .Joon %, 1872.
I don't know what is the matter
with me; but Nv late / dream more
reglarly and more feroshiously than !
ever did in my life. / had success
suhn Nv nitemares ever since 1 gave
my adhesion to Greeley, some NV wich
wuzfstupenjusly friteful. 1 go to bed
with Greeley on my mind, and dreams
SO horrible that I awake with cold
| SWEETS onto me, and shivrin ez though /
he'd the ague. Mite afore last Greeley
appeared to me with horns, hoofs, and
a tail. He perched hisself on my STUN
ick, squattin like hidjus toad, and
putin on his spectacles, deliberately
read me, from an old copy of the ITi-
boone, six yards NV his own editorials
on the slavery question. He finally
sailed off through the air shrekin 'sLosti
Lostl" Whether he referred to me or
4 hisselfe lost, 1 reeIy don't know. If
he felt ez mean in my company ez I
did in hizzen, the remark would en-
brace both NV us. gs.,
LaStnite had another friteful Yis-
ion. We hev a family in the village
wich don't live in harmony. The hus-
band got intoxicated some years ago,
and knowing that it isn't the gettin
drunk that hurts a man, but getting
sober, hez dodgedthat trouble by stay
ing drunk. His principal amoosement
is whalin his wife. e.8tThe novelty Nv
| this heyin worn off, yesterday mornin,
he gave her a couple uvouhces NV. ar
senIc. Vaultin ambition o'erleaped
| herself-his excessive liberality defeat
ed his purptis. The dose was too big
| it sickened her-she von1ited, and lived
and whaled him within an inch of his
life.' i Iwuzat the house, and late in
the evening left, stoppin at Deakinl
Pogran's, where we took a genooine.
Kentucky tea, wich consisted .princi-
pally of korn whisky and cold billed
pork. From thence { went home and
retired with my he'd full NV the pfzen
and Greeley mixed in about, ekal pro-
porshens. Fallen asleep, 1 dreamed. /
| AMethawt wuz in a biIdin where /
couldn't make out. Stretched out onto
a couch and kiyered with flag wuz the
body of an. enormous giant-the most
huge and comprehensive giant Ihad
ever seen, even ih Dreams His legs
wuz like beams, and his arms wuz like
pillars, and his hands .wuz spread out
like map NV our onet happy, but now
opprest country. He seemed to be in
the last stages nv a fearful sickness.
He he'd bin, in his day, a giant of inn inn
mense strength, andwuz,G evenyin his
illness, ez handsome a man ez everI set
eyes onto. But it wuz evident that he
wuz goin fast. He drawd his breath
painfully, and from ugly woonds on his
body blood oozed slowly but depletinly.
'Who is he? asked of the Goddess
OF Liberty, wich sot at his he'd in deep
mourpin and weepin violently.
sEThat is Republieanism," she an
swered, ''the only. axual, genooine
friend 1 ever had the only one who
RELY stood by me. But they ar KILN
him. That cash in his back Chase gave
him; that stab in the side wuz inflicted
by Randall; the Itch wich so irritates
him he caught from the Blairs, and
Good HeavenIrgh here comes another
squad Nv his enemies. ~ -1alsssf IL. I
Hooked, and 10! Boss Tweed, Hof-
man, Seymour, Hendriks, and dozen
NV my particular friends were comm
ine.a They had masks on their faces,
made NV Moo York TFi5ooaes, but Z
knowed EN- for all that. Hoffman seiz-:
ed the he'd of the prostrate giant5 while,
Tweed poured down his throat nau-
seous. fiooid from a jug marked sCincin-
nat, y fairly forcin it down him, The
victim shuddered ez he swallered it, ez
though IT wuz his last and final shud-
der. 7i. aa'' = iiiil.iiiil1
you've killed him!'' shrieked the
Goddess slsf. ay-q ssg as5 ,i
ssWe bleeve we hev, madam,1 y shout
ed the feIiers in kortls, pnElin of their
masks, ''and yQq,l oolll0ff1 foll0fr him 45f Within i
yeerY Il ~. .sliilrl4a. -ls.. r.
- ssIxill her nowW yelled oneFuv 'em,
who wuz evidently from Gregory, ."she
amt got her champion to save her this
time.n. s,.,.,lss..l,.,i,3.,a F'i,,6-5 -.
And they seezed lherIand gagged and
and bound her, with fritefuli yells.s
And in their Joy they execooted a
most demopiac war dance about the
corpse, n,which j jined, with au ability
didn't khowfI possessed. But jist ez
our exultation wuz at its highest, the
corpse gave a fearful gaspr-at conynl-
'shen NV ten hnss power. He riz mp
from the couch, assoomed a sittin posi-
tion, his face NV a tlethly paleness and
with . reich that shook the buildin,
vomited ez I never saw human bein
vornit.h -'fa .og-l loi ssliiss.9 >.'s II
Z .sGood Heavensp' shrieked Tweed;
"@e've given him TOO much Nv the
pisen and it's actin ez an emetie." = \
! The sick man gave heave after heaye1
and in flood of fbile which he elected
/ i saw Greeley, Gratz Brown, Schurz,
Cox and a score NV sich. A very gentle
heave landed Schurz and Gratz Brown
on the floor; little bigger one threw
out Fenton, and a gigantic one, which
convulsed the sufferer from centre to
!! circumference, hused out Greeley. But,
once over, it wuz'a tremenjus relief to
the sick individoeaI. Irnmelitly a
great change come over him. The mo-