The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1874-02-19
JoY IN DETROIT.
Extraordinary Scenes IN a EewsPapsr
once.
DAILY FREE PRESS OFFICE, ,
DFTRoFr. Jan. %, 1874.

OAIIlX FREE HRESS OEEICE,
DErRoIr, Jan. %, 1874. 4
In response to the request made few
weeks since, throughyour columns, Col.
Bogardus, of your city, the inve2tor of
the celebrated g Bogardus Kicker" ar
rived 10 Detroit as soon as steam could
bring him, to repair our Office kicker,
which had strangely refused to do duty.
The colonel was not long in discover
ing the trouble. The blood and hair of
the victims had passad dlwn into the
knee-cap of the kicker in such quanti-
ties that the springs could not work.
When steam was turned on, the leg,
from hip to knee, would jump and shake,
but the foot and ankle hung, listless, and
the victim sitting in the chair above
went on perusing the Dubuque Herald
without a thought of how near death
was
We. got a barrel of kerosene and a
bale of rags and went to work, and be-
fore morning the kicker was all right
even better than when first set up. The
colonel was In high spirits, having about
made up his mind from my letter, that
the kicker vas going to be failure in
! the north, where the need of it is great
est He remained around the Office to
see how the old thing worked, and as
soon as the morning mail was brought
in we arranged the chair and sat down
to wait.
In less than fifteen minutes old Dob
son struck the stairs, and we heard him
breathing hard as he tOiled up. He had
heard about the failure of the kicker,
and as he came in and sat down he bold
Where in he'll. is Deacon smiths
pepper? ?"
He was a man of family, and wanted
TO give him a chance for their sake So
told him -thatif heswasn't down stairs
Ia three minutes any common-s'zed hat
box would be sufficiently large to hold
his remains. p
g Go to thunder - he replied, paving
over the papers q" yon'd better guam
der another Eve thousand dollars on 8
kicker which won't kick Where in
! thunder and Goldfish is the New York
World, and the Pittsburgh Post, and
the gi5BEH lBit8 EH III
The colonel touched the spring at that
moment-and, need state the result
! Dobson drew down his left eye and
made a horrible attempt to smile, as he
! felt the first kick but the second shiv-
cred him. We tried to sell the re-
mains TO amedical college, but they
said they couIdn t make any use of pulp,
| and We gave the basket to a glue fac
tory. n $50
1 ON the second day after ''the Judge, >
as we used to call him, came up. He
had been hanging around for two years.
and, owing TO his having wooden leg,
we had been little soft on him-and
he had come at lastto think he owned
the controlling interest in the establish.
meot. he sat down in the chair, puff:
ing and blowing, and called out
-" Who in thunder has lugged off that
Logansport Sun?" WE
tried to give him hint by asking
if he had ever heard of the Bogardus
kicker, but he got red in the face an6
screamed
"Young man don't try to come any
Jokes on man who lost his leg IN hii
eonntry's servicel" faEE# ftf
he lost his leg in a saw-mill, but w
used to let him tell the story in Lis owl
way. He sat moment, and then yelled
out:
"Cuss that Albany Argus. Where, il
fury, is the Boston Post %
The colonel raised him Just then
"The Judge yelled like a wild Indian
but it was all over In a moment. W.
had forgotten his wooden leg, anC
hadn't thought 70 dodge. At the thirC
kick it came off and struck one of tn,
editors between wind and water, laying
him up for a month, and a splinter jus
missed the city editors eye. We ROLLED
the body down four pairs of stairs, anC
called a coroner, who wasn't two min
utes coming to decision that dealt
resulted from heart disease, though h
couldn't for the life of him I ee wha
had mutilated the corpsefo.
Allow me to assure you that the kick
er is just what we have long wanted
and that in our opinion it will soon b
as much the outfit of every newspape
!, as power press. The Brooklyn Argu
man and a representative from the Re
chester Chronicle are here to-day t
examine the machine, with Wow. to OF
, dering. NJ. QUAD.