The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1872-07-11
NA1DY'1 LAST LUTTBR.
01r. Nashy has Fearful Uream. in
Which he sees Many TAings.
CONFEDERATE X RoADsl
(Which is il. the State NV Kentucky

OOON ~, l0tz.
don't know what is the matter
with me /; but NV late l dream more
regularly and more feroshusly than l
ever did In my life. Ihev he'd q sue
cession NV nite-mares ever since
gave in my adhesion to Greeley, some
NV wich is stupeMusiy fritefnl. go
to bed with Greeley ON my mind, and
dream dreams SO horrible that 1 awake
with cold SWEETS unto me, and shivrin
ez tho he'd the ague. Mite afore last
Greeley appeared to me with hoofs,
horn and tail. He pcrched hisself on
my stnmick, squattin like hidjus
toad, and putin on his spcctacles, de-
iiberately read me, from an old copy
Nv the Tribune, six yards NV his own
editorials on the slavery question. He
finally sailed off thro the air, shrekin,
"Lostl Lostp Whether he referred
to me or hissclf ez "Lost, reeiy don't
know. Eff he felt ez bad In my COM
pany ez did In hizzen, the remark
would embrace us both.
Last mite / he'd another ffiteful Wis
ion. We hev a family in the village
witch don't live in harmony. The hus
band got intoxicated q few years ago,
and KNOWN that it isn't the gctten
drunk that hurts a man, but getten
sober, hez doged that trouble by stayin
drunk. His principal amusement is
whalin his wife. The novelty of this
hcvin worn of, yesterday morning he
gave her couple NV ounces Nv arsenic.
Vaulting ambishun o'crleaped herself.
his excessive liberality defeated his
purpose. The dose was too Target
sickencd her--shc vomited and lived,
and whaled him within an inch of his
life. wuz at the house, and late in
the evening left, stoppin at Deekin
Pogram's, where we took genuine
Kentucky tea, which consisted princi-
pally of horn whisky and billed pork.
From thence l went home and retired,
with my head full NV the pizen and
Greeley, mixed in about equal proper
ti0ns. Fallin asleep, l dreamed.
Methawt wuz IN bildin, where I
coodent make out. Stretched out into
a coach and kivered with q flag wuz
the body NV an enormous giant-the
most huge and comprehensive giant
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 onct happy but now
opprest country. He seemed to be in
the last states uv fearful sickness.
He he'd bin, In his day, a giant of inn
mense strength, and wuz even in his
illness ez hanson q human bein ez
ever sot eyes onto. But it was evident
that he wuz gOin fast. He drawod his
breth painfully, and from ugly wounds
on his own body, blood oozcd slowly
depletinly.
Who is he? asked NV the God
dess NV Liberty, which sot at his head
in deep mournin and wecpin violently.
"That's Repnblicanism," she answer
ed, /" the only actooal, ginuine friend
ever hed-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 was inflicted by
Randall the itch witch SO irritatcs him
ne caught from the Blairs, and-good
heaven here comes another squad NV
his encmicsi"
looked, and 10 BossvYwced, Hoff.
NAV, Seymour, Hendricks, and q dozen
NV my pertickeler friends were comm
in. They he'd masks on their faces
made nv Moo York Triboons, but
knowGd EN- for all that. Hoffman
seized the head NV the PROSTATE giant
while Tweed poured down his throat
a nauseous flooid from jug marked
"Cincinnati," fairly forcin it down
him. The victim shuddered ez he
swallered it, ez though it wuz his last
and final shudder.
"You've killed him!" shrieked the
lGOddoss. s-s----4--5-
"We blecvc we hcv, madam" shout.
ed the fellows in chorus, pnllin of
their masks, land you'll foller him
within ycer."
Kill her now yelled one ov EN-
who wuz evidently from Georgey
" she amt got her champion to save
her this time"
| And they seized her and gagged
and bound her, with ffightful yells.
| And to their joy they cxecooted ,
most demoniac war dance about thu
corps in witch jincd, with an ability
didn't know l was possessed. But a,
our exultation wuz at its highest, tn,
corpse give a fearful gasp-a convul
shen NV ten horse power. He riz NJ
from the couch, assOOmed sittin pos
ition, his face NV deadly palencss, ant
with a reich that shook the biidin
vomited as never saw human beini
vomit.
"Good Hcavensl" shrecked Tweed
we've given him too much of the pizel
and its actin az an emetic."
The sick man gave heave after hcave
and in the flood Of bile witch he ejecte,
l saw Greeley, Gratz Brown, Schur7
Cox and score nv SIGH. A very gen
tie heave landed Schurz and Graf
Brown on the floor; little bigger on
threw out Fenton, and q gigantic one
witch conyulsed the sufferer from cen
ter to circumference, histed out Gree
ley. But, once over, it wuz q trcmen
jous relief to the sick individooal. I'm
mcjitly great change come over him
The moment they wuz of his stumicl
the palenis disappeared health,
color came to his cheeks and his weak
mis- all left him. Glaring about furi
Ously, he put one foot on Greeley an,
Brown and their mizable companions
cz a man brushes beetles, with the 9th
or he kicked the jug out of the win
dow, witch jug WIZ followed by Twce,
and his friends, who went through tn
same apertoor, propelled by the sam,
motive power. He cut the bonds of
the goddess, tore off her mournin, ant
wuz in the act NV embracin NV he
when awoke.
/ l lay for hours cogitating over thi
dream. Wuz it prophecy or billed pork
That's the connndrum. Is it q war1iil
NV judgment to come, or is it a disor
dered stumick? Hev we dosed tn,
Republican party too freely with Gin
cinnati, and hez wat we fondly hopcG
wood be pizen cnuff to kill our grca
enemy, goin to be all einctic witch viii
rid him NV the disturbin humOrs wicl
wuz destroying NV him, and make
him stronger than ever?
1t troubled me SO that / coodcni
| sleep. tossed about in the most rest
less and frantic manner, and Good only
indooce the gentle goddess. to fetch my
eyelids, after four solid drinks from
jug which l kept in my room, wicl
isn't marked u Cincinnati" by no means
Heaven grant that my dream is simply
q baselcss fabric.
| PETROLEUM v. Massey,
4 (Which wuz postmaster.)
| The special correspondent of the
Missouri Democrat has the following
to say in speaking Of the assembling oi
the Baltimore Convention:
| "The same men who dug up the
Il cf,.nef hou1.1ora IN thrnxu ~ IJ,,stoJ