Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1872-07-19
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Nasty.
CoNFEpRIT X ROADS.
(Which is in the Staff of Kentucky.)
,Joon 29th, 1872.


more feroshusly than ! ever did before. l
hey he'd succession of nitemares ever
since / gave my adhesion to greeley, sam
wich wuz stupenjusly friteful. go to
bed with Greeley on my mind, and dreem
dreems SO horribul that / wake with cold
SWEETS onto me, ann shiverin ez tho l he'd
the ague. Mite afore last Greeley ap-
peared unto me with huffs, horns and
tale. He perched himself on my STUN
mick, squattin like hideous toad, and
putin on his spectacles deliberately,
read me from an old copy Of the 1ri6oon
6 wards ov his own editorials on the slav-
cry question. He finally sailed off thru
the air, shreeking "Lost, Lost" Whether
he referred to me or hisself as ''Lost," |
RELY don't know. Eff he felt ez mean
in my kumpany ez did in hizzen, the
remark wud embrace both nv us.
Last night / had another frightful Vi
sion. We hev family in the village
don't live in harmony. The husband
got intoxicated sum yeers ago, and know
in faint gettin drunk that hurts a man,
but gettin sober, hez lodged thar trubble
by stayin drunk. His principle amoose-
ment is whalin his wife. The novelty of
this heving worn of, yesterday he gave
her kuppul ounces of arsenic. Vaultin
ambishun o'erleept herself-his excessive
liberality detected its purpus. The dose
wuz too big-it sickened her, she vomit-
ed and lived, and whaled him within an
inch Nv his life. | wuz at the house,
and late in the evenin left, stoppin at
Deekin Programs, where we tux gen.
ooine kentucky tee, which consisted
mostly Nv korn whisky and cold billed
pork. From thence went home and re-
tired, with my head full Nv the pizen,
and Greeley mixed in about equal pur-
poshuns. Fallin asleep, dreemed.
Methawt wuz in bildin, where, |
coodent make out. Stretched out onto a
couch and kivered with flag wuz the
body Nv enormus giant-the most kom-
prehensiv giant l he'd ever seen. even in
dreems. His legs wuz like pillars, his
arms wuz like Deems, and his hands
spread out like the map Nv our wunst
happy but now opprest country. He
seemed to be in the last stages Nv fer
full sickness. He he'd ben, in his days, a
giant Nv immense strength, and wuz,
even in his illness, ez hansum a human
bein ez ever | sot eyes onto. But it wuz
evident that he wuz goin fast. He drawd
his breth painfully, and from ugly wounds
on his body blood oozed slowly but de-
pletinly.
"Who is he" / asked NV the Goddess
Nv Liberty, wich sot at his head in deep
mournin and weepin violently.
"That's Republikinism," she answer
ed, "the only ginooine friend / 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
his side wuz inflicted by Randall the
itch which SO irritates him, he caught
from the Blairs, and-good heavens here
comes another squad Nv his enemies p
l looked, and 10 ! Boss Tweed, Hof-
man, Hendricks, and duzzen NV my
pertikular friends were comm in. They
he'd masks on their faces, and made Nv
New York 1riboons, but | knowd EN- for
all Nv that. Hoffman seezed the he'd Nv
the PROSTATE giant, while Tweed poured
down his throat nauseous flooid from a
jug marked Cincinnati fairly forcin it
down him. The within shuddered ez he
swolered it, ez tho it wuz his last and
final shudder.
"Yoo've killed him |" shrieked the
Goddess.
"We bleeve we hev, madame" shout
ed the fellers in korus, pullin off then
masks, "and you'll foller him within less
than a yeer."
"Kill her now" yelled wun Nv them,
witch wuz evidently from Georgy, she
haint got her champion to save her thi;
time"
And they seezed her, and gagged and
bound her, with friteful yells.
And in their joy they execooted q
demoniac war dance about the corpse in
which jined with an ability | didn't nc
l was possest. But jest ez our exhulta
tion waz at its highest. the corpse gave q
fearful gasp-a konvulsion Nv ten hose
power. He riz up from the couch, as
soomed a sitting position, his face Nv
dethly paleness, and with reich thai
shook the bilding, vomited ez I never
saw human being vomit.
GOOD hevens p shreeked Tweed =
"wee'xe given him too much Nv the pi
zen, and its actin ez an emetic."
The sick man gave heeve after heeve
and in the flood Nv bile wich he elected
l saw Greeley, Gratz Brown, Schurz
Cox and score Nv SIGH. A very gentl,
heeve landed Schurz and Graft Brown
onto the floor; little bigger one threg
out Fenton, and a gigantic one, wicl