The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1873-05-28
This oomea from irregularities. in. 3fani.

Thi. comes from irregularitiss in. fami.
"And who." said another man, s.au
thorized yon to print this hideous stuff
about my deceased son? Do you mean
to cay it waa not With your authority that
your low comedian inserted with nv ad-
verttsement the following soandalous
bnrlesque? Listen to this:
Willie li,,,i. had purple monkey. climbing on q
And The5 h 2 he sucked the paint all off, it made
! key in his hand,
And BID goodbye to earth and went into
| obi no more he'll shoot his sister with his
And no more he'll twist tho pussy's tail, and
49, make her yowl for fun,
The puss,'s tsil now stands out straight, the
The monkey decent Jump around since little
Willie died."
ihe utterly ntrocious character Of
this balderdash will appear when say
that William was twenty years old; that
he never had purple monkey on q
stiok that he never sucked such a thing:
thai he never fooled with cats, and that
he died Of liver complaint"
Infamous-uttsrly infamousi" groan.
ed the editor, as he cast his eyes over
the lines. Sand yet." whispered OFT.
TO- himself, she told me to tighten the
gloom and to cheer the afflicted family
with the resources of my art; and I Ger.
tainiy thought that the idea about the
monkey would have that effect somehow.
It is ungrateful."
Just then, a knock was heard at the
care you the editor?" she inquired of
Brimmor.
Brimmer said he was.
"W-well, she said, in a voice broken
by sobs, "w-what d'yon mean by pub.
fishing this kind Of poetry ab.bout nv
Johnny? My name is Sm- NTH, and
when looked this morning for the no.
tice OF Johnny's d-death in your paper.
saw this awful wicked verse:
-Four doctors tiokled Johnny Smith-
They biistered and they bled him;
With squilis sud anti bilious pills
And ipecac they fed him.
They stirred him up with calomel,
| And tried to move his liver;
But all in yain-his little soul
Was waited DER the river"
''lt is falsel falsei that's what it is.
Johnny only had one doctor. And they
didn't try to m-m-move his liver, and
they didn't bleed him and blister him.
It's wicked falsehood, and you're q
hard. hearted brute flor printing itl''
MADAM, shall go crazy if you CONT
nue." exclaimed Brimmer. "This is
not my work. It is the work OF q SER
rent whom l warmed in my bosom, and
whom will slay with my own hand as
soon as he comes in. Madam, the mise.
rable outcast shall diel"
HStranpef atraDoat - ropoa5 ~ ttx. \
this man told me to combine eleyatipp
sentiment with practical information, II
the information concerning tho equills
and ipecac is not practical, I have mis-
understood the use of that word. And
If young Smith didn't have four doctors.
it was an outrage. He ought to have
bad them, and they ought to have e.-
cited his liver. Thus it is" thought
OFT, 'that human life is sacrificed to
carelcssness.
at this juncture, the sheriff entered,
his brow clothed with thunder. He had
q copy of the Morning Glory in his hand.
be approached the editor, and pointing
to death notice, said:
"1sead that horrible mockery Of nv
woe. and tell me the name OF the writer,
SO that can chastise him."
The editor read as follows:
'We have lost our little Hannah in a very
| painful manner,
And we often asked, 'How can her harsh suf-
! ferings be borne2
| When her death was first reported, her aunt
- got up and snorted
With the grief that che supported, for it made
her feol forlorn.
She was little serapl, that her father VIII,
is a sheriff.
Really doesn't seem to care il he never smiles
in lifo again;
She has gone. we hope, to heaven, at the early
ago OF seven,
(Funeral starts eff at reven,) where she'll
| never more have pain"
'.As consequence OF this infamy, I
Withdraw all the County nd dvertsipg from
your paper. A man who can trifle in
this manner with the feelings of parent
IL q savage and u scoundre!'
Really" OFT reflected, ''lhat person
must be derangel. 1 tried, in his case.
to put myself in his place, and to write
as ii l WAS ono Of the family, according
to instructions. Tho verses are beauti.
tul. That allusion to the grief of her
aunt. particularly. seemed to me to be
very happy. 1t expresses violent emo.
tlon with fellcitous combination of
| sweetness and fDrcn Thasa ,,aooI, Lor,