Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1872-07-11
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MR.. NAsBY HAS FEARFUL DREAM, IN WHICH
HE SEES MANY THINGS.
CoNFEDERTT ROADS,
(Wich is in the State nv kentuckyD
JooN ~, 1879.
/ don't know wat is the matter with me;
but Nv late dreaTa more reglarly ana more
had a succeshun NV nitemares ever sence
gave in my adhesion to Greeley, some Nv
wich wuz stupenjusly friteful. l go to bed
with Greeley on my mind, and dream dreams
so horrible that I awake with cold SWEETS
onto me, and shivrin, ez tho 1 he'd the ague
Mite afore last Greeley appeared to me with
hoofs, horns, and tail. He perched his
self on my stumick, squattin like hidjus
toad, and putin on his spectacles, deliberate
ly read me, from an old copy of the TffbOon,
six yards NV his own editorials on the slavery
question. He finally sailed off thro the air,
shrekin sLosti Lost!" Whether he referred
to me or hisself ez sLost," l reely don't
know. Eff he felt ez mean in my company ez
l did in hizzen, the remark wood embrace
both Nv us.
Last mite I he'd another friteful vision. We
hev family in the village wich don't live in
harmony The husband got intoxicated
some years ago, and KNOWN that it isn't the
gettin drunk that hurts man, but the gettin
sober, hez lodged that trouble by stayin
drunk. His principal amusement is whalin
his wife. The novelty of this hevin worn of,
yesterday mornin he gave her couple Nv
ounces of arsenic. Vaulting ambishen DER
leaped herself-his excessive liberality de-
feated his purpus. The dose wuz too big-it
sickened her-she vomited, and lived, and
whaled him within an inch Nv his life. l
wuz at the house, and late in the evenin left,
stoppin at Deekin Pogram's, where we took
a ginooine Kentucky tea, wlch consisted
principally Nv korn whisky and cold billed
pork. From thence went home ana retired,
with my head full NV the pisen and Greeley,
mixed in about ekal proporshens. Fallin
asleep, / dreamed.
Methawt wuz in bildin, where, I Good
ent make out. Stretched out onto a couch
and kivered with flag, wuz the body NV an
enormus giant-the most huge and compre
hensive giant l had ever seen, even in dreems.
His legs wuz like pillars, his arms wuz like
beams, and his hands spread out like the map
NV our wunst happy but now opprest coun-
try. 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, ez handsome human bein ez
l ever sot eyes onto. But 1t wuz evident that
he wuz goin fast. He drawd his breath pain
fully, and from ugly wounds on his body
blood oozed slowly but depetinly.
'tWho is he?'' l askt Nv the Goddess Nv
Liberty. wich sot at his head in deep mourn
in, and weepin violently.
"That's Republikinism," she answered,
''the only actooal, ginaine friend ever he'd
the only one who reely stood by me. But
they are KILN him. That cash in his back
Chase give him; that stab in the side wuz in
fiicted by Randall, the itch wieh SO irritates
him he caught from the Blairs, and-Good
Heaven! here comes another squad NV his
enemies"
Hooked, and 10! Boss Tweed, Hoffman,
Seymour, Hendricks, and dozen Nv my
pertikeler friends were comm in. They he'd
masks on their faces, made Nv Moo York
Triboons, but knowed em for all that. Hoff-
man seezed the head Nv the PROSTATE giant,
while Tweed poured down his throat a naus-
eous flooid from jug marked "Cincinnati,"
fairly forcin it down him. The victim shud-
dered ez he swallered it'ez tho it wuz his last
and final shudder.
dess.
eve bleeve we hev, madam" shouted the
fellows in korus, pullin off their masks, "and
you'll foller him within a year."
"Kill her nowp' yelled one Nv 'em, who
wuz evidently from Georgy, "she amt got
her champion to save her this time.''
And they seezed her and gagged and bound
her, with friteful yells.
And in their JOY they execOOted most de-
moniac war dance about the corpse, in wich
1 jined, with an ability didn't know pos
sessed. But jist ez our exultashen wuz at
its highest, the corpse give a fearful gasp-a
convulshen Nv ten hoss power. He riz up
from the couch, assoomed a sittin position,
his face Nv a deathly paleness, and with a
reich that shook the buildin, vomited ez I
d
t'Good Heavens!" shreeked Tweed, "We've
given him too much of the pizen and it's act
in ez an emetic.'
The sick man gave heave after heave, and
in the flood Nv bile wich he ejectid 1 saw
Greeley, Gratz Brown, Schurz, Cox, and a
score Nv SIGH. A very gentle heave landed
Schurz and Gratz Brown on the floor little
bigger one threw out Fenton, and gigantic
one wich convulsed the sufferer from center
to circumference, histed out Greeley. But,
once over, it wuz a tremenjus relief to the
sick individooal. Immejitly great change
come over him. The moment they wuz off
his stumick the palenis disappeared-a
healthy color came to his cheeks, and his
week.-Mrs. all left him. Glarin about furiously,
he put one foot on Greeley and Brown and
their mizable companions, eZ man crushes
beetles, with the other he kicked The jug out
Nv the winder, witch jug wuz followed by
Tweed and his friends, who went throo the
power Hecut the bonds off the Goddess,
tore off her mournin, and wuz in the act Nv
embracin Nv her, when 1 awoke.
lay for hours cogitatin over this dream
Wuz it prophecy or billed pork? That's the.
conundrum. Is it a warnin Nv judgment to
come, or is it disordered stumick? Hev we
dosed the Republican party too freely with
Cincinnati, and is wat we fondly hoped
wood be pizen enuf to kill our great enemy,
goin to be an emetic wich will rid him Nv
the disturbin humors wich wuz destroyin
Nv him, and make him stronger than ever?
1t troubled me SO that coodent sleep. I
tossed about in the most restless and frantic
manner, and Good only induce the gentle
goddess to tech my eye-lids after four solid
drinks from jug witch keep in my room,
wich isn't marked s'Cincinnati' by no means
Heaven grant that my dream is simply a
baseless fabric.
PETROLEUM " Massey,