The Tiffin tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1868-1887, 1872-07-04
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Mr.. Nasty has Fearful Dream, In
Which he sees many things.


CoNFEDRIT X ROADS, !
(Wich is in the State NV Kentucky,) 7
JooN %, 1872.
I don't know wat is the matter
with me; but NV late 1 dream more
reglarly and more ferOshusly than 1
ever did in my life. hev he'd q sue
ceshun NV nitemares ever sence I
gave in my adhesion to Greeley, some
NV witch wuz stupenjusly friteful.
90 to bed with Greeley on my mind,
and dream dreams so horrible that l
awake with cold swets onto me, and
shivrin ez tho 1 he'd the ague. Mite
afore last Greeley appeared to me
with hOof, horns, and a tail. He
peached hisself on my stumick, squat
tin like hidjus toad, and putin on
his spectacles, deliberately read me,
from an old copy of the IribOOH, six
wards NV his own editorials on the
slavery question. He finally sailed
off thro the air, shrekin "LOst Lost !"
Whether he referred to me or hisself
ez "I,ost," RELY don't know. Eff he
felt ez mean in my company eZ did
in hiZZen, the remark wood embrace
both Nv US.
Last mite 1 he'd another friteful
vision. We hev family in the vii
lage wich don't live in harmony.
The husband got intoxicated some
wears ago. and KNOWN that it isn't
the gettin drunk that hurts a man,
but the gettin sober, hez lodged that
trouble by stayin drunk. His princi-
paI amusement is whalin his wife.
| The novelty of this heYin worn oil,
l lnn hnF a
couple NV ounces of arsenic. Vault
| ing ambishen o'erleaped herself-hls
excessive liberality defeated his puf-
pus. The dose wuz too big-it sick
ened her-she vomited, and lived,
| and whaled him within an inch NV
his life. 1 wuz at the house, and late
in the evenin left, stOppin at Deekin
Pogram's, where we took a ginoolne
Kentucky tea, wich consisted princi-
paIIy NV korn whisky and cold billed
| pork. From thence 1 went home and
| retired, with my head full NV the
pisen, and Greeley, mixed in about
ekal prOposhens. Fallin asleep, ]
dreamed.
| Methawt wuz in bildin, where,
| 7 eoOdent make out. Stretched out
onto a couch and kivered with a flag
WIZ the body NV an enormous giant
| the most huge and comprehensive
giant I ever seen, even in dreams.
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 country. he seem
ed to be IN the last stages NV fearfu
sickness. He he'd bin, in his day,
giant Nv immense strength, and wuN
even in his illness, eZ handsome "a
human bein ez 1 ever sOt eyes onto
But it wuZ evident that he wuZ goir
fast. He drawed his breath painfully
and from ugly wounds on his body
blood OOzed slowly but depletlnlY;;
"Who is he ?" l askt Nv the Goodies
NV Liberty, wieh sOt at his head III
deep mOurnin, and weepin violently
"rhats Republikinism, +" she answer
ed, g the only actoOal, ginuine trlen'
L ever hed-the only one who reel.
; stood by me. But they are kllllf
him. That cash in his back Chas
give him; that stab in the side WI
inflicted by Randall, the itch wich s.
irritates him he caught from tn
BIairs, and-Good Heaven! her
comes another squad NV his enemies.
L looked, and 10 Boss Tweed, Hofl
man, Seymour, Hendricks, and do2
2 en- NV my pertikeler friends wer
| comm in. They he'd masks on thei
. faces, made NV Moo York Ifi6OOni
, but | knOYd EN- for all that. HOt
!. man seeZed the head NV the prostrat
r giant, while Tweed poured down hi
: throat a nauseOus flOOid from Ju
] marked Cincinnati" fairly fOrcin
I down him. The victim shuddered {
l he swallered it, ez tho it wuz his la;
d and final shudder.
: ssYou've killed himu shrieked til
? Goddess.
o awe bIeeve we hev, madam
o shouted the fellows in kO-us, pulli
T off their masks, "and you'll foll'
# him within q yeer."
: "Kill her, now" yelled one Nv 'el
T who wuz evidently from GeOrg.
II "she amt got her champion to sa'
Il her this time"
, And they seezed her and gagg,
7. and bound her, with friteful yells.
> And in their joy they eXecOOted
is most demOniac war dance about q
l. corpse, in wich jined, with an all
n ty that 1 didn't know 1 pOssesse
d But list eZ our eXultashen wuz at
IS higest, the corpse give a fearful gasp
Le a cOnvulshen NV ten hOss power. +
l. riz up from the couch, assOOmed
Is sittin position, his face NV a death
is paleness, and with a retch that shO'
TO the buildin, vOmited eZ l never sa
le a human bein vOmit.
lie "GOOd Heavensri shreeked Twee
is "We've given him too much NV {
ty pizen and it's actin eZ an emetic."
as The sick man gave heaye All
u heave, and in the flood NV bile WI
Mt he ejectid saw Greeley, Gratz Bro"
as Schurz, Cox, and a score Nv sich.
u very gentle heavo landed Schurz 81
st Gratz Brown on the floor; little b
IL ger one threw out FentOn, and
W. gantic one, wich cOnvulsed the sun
sr- er from center to circumference, IN
a. ed out Greeley. But, once over,
of wuz a tremenjus relief to the sick
ZEE dividOOal. Immejitly a great char
a come over him. The moment Il
ire wuz off his stumick the .palenis Z
Ia appeared-a healthy color came to
is cheeks and his Weaknis all left hi