The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1872-05-03
From tho Kansas City fMo.1 Times.
I'M CHAINS AWAITING MAD
NEAS.
Am Expected Fate Worse than
That Of YrOmetheus-

Am Expected Fate Worse than
That Of Yronetheus-
There is farm house about two
miles from Arnold Station, Clay
county, over which sadness and sor-
row and terror are brooding, for in
one of tho rooms OF the house are
two strong men heavily ironed and
chained to tho floor.
THEY ARE WAITING THERE
for most terrible malady to take
possession of them, and after putting
them to torture thousand times
worse than that of the Inqnisition,
to destroy their lives.
.. WHEN A MAD DOC KILLED
by Campbell, at Liberty, was on its
destroying mission throughout the
country, several days ago, these two
men crossed its path, and received
its terrible bite. The maidstone was
applied, but. fearing and doubling
it's efficacy, they prepared for the
fearful ordeal Of mn attack of hy-
drophobia. Not knowing at what
hour the fell disorder might make its
appearance, and fearing for the safe
ty of their wives, little ones and
friends. they had heavy irons made
for tho purpose, and bound them
selves no securely that it would re-
quire almost the strength of Samson
TO break their fastenings. Their
hands are securely manacled, strong
iron band is locked around their
waists, and 10 this band is welded n
heavy chain, one end Of which is
fastened to heavy ring bolt in the
floor and there they stand
WAITING
for the dread approach of the awful
maddening stupor that announces the
flow of the poison through the blood
and the brain; waiting for the stupor
from which they will revive by the
quick and sudden twitching of the
muscles. deadly pains III the head
md through the body. and burning
eyebulls, while poisonous froth will
gather at the mouth. They Will be
seizud with IN uncomfortable longing
To bite, TO tear, to destroy.
THE sTUFog GONE
tEey will be writhing, swapping,
snarling, growing, bowling, tortured
pressing hard upon their
fustenings. glaring savagely upon all
around them, the ties OF love, oil
blood. Of humanity obliterated from
their understanding-going in horri-
BILE commissions Of ruge aud pain,
clanking and rattling their chains
in order TO free themselves from
restraints, aud with but one
thought, one desire-to kill and de-
stroy-to rend with teeth aud nails
every living thing. and after this,
with hot scorching eyes strained and
twisted back in their sockets, and
blood and foam streaming from their
parched aud burning lips, to die-to
die amid the eonvul-ive ugonies and
tortnres OF hydrophobia, worse even,
it is said, than the pains of hell it's
self.
lS "uht LleSt
men are waiting for, and there is ter.
ror in eyory breath they draw.
LITTLE CHILDREN.
with saddencd faces, fondle and ca
ress them with increased love, foi
the dreaded fate of their fathers has
been whispered i'll their ears. Fond
wives and mothers, with fearful eyes
and faltering hearts. tenderly care
for them, and see that every want is
supplied, and the bondage made as
light as love and sympathy can rem
der it. These loved ones are also
waiting, watching, not knowing the
hour when they will be drawn out oil
the reach OF the two men whose very
touch may soon be almost instant
death.
UP TO THIS TIME
no indication of madness has been
manifested, and as the time has
already passed in which the disorde,
attacks its victims after the poison
has been infused into the blood, the
friends are very hopeful that the
maidstone has proved effective, but
the men declare they will wear their
irons several days yet, so fearful are
they that the poison is still lurking
within them.