The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1874-02-13
JOY IN DETROIT.
extraordinary Scenes I'm a Newspaper
Office.
DAILY FREE Pass OFFICE.
DETROIT. Jan. %. 1871.

correspondence or the COuf1er-JOurnai.
DAILY FREE PRESS OFFICE,
DETROIT, Jan. %, 1874.
In response to the request made few
weeks since, through your columns, Col
Bogardus, of your city, the inve,tor of
the celebrated "Bogardus Kicker" ar
rived In 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 d. wn 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 aud ankle hung listIess, and
the victim sitting in the chair above
went on perusing the Dubuque Herald
without 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 was going to be a failure III
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
1 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
/ ly inquired:
"Where in hell is Deacon Snith's
pepper? ?"
He was a man of family. and wanted
to give him a chance for their sake. Sc
/ I told him that if he wasn't down stairs
in three minutes any common-siZed hat
box would be sufficiently large to hold
his remains.
eco to thunder !" he replied, paving
over the papers you'd better guam
der another five thousand dollars on {
kicker which won't kick Where IL
thunder and Goldfish is the New York
World, and the Pittsburgh Post, and
the"
The colonel touched the spring at thai
moment-and, need state the result
Dobson drew down his left eye and
made horrible attempt to smile, as he
felt the first kick but the second shiv
cred him. We tried to sell the re
mains to medical college, but they
said they couldn't make any use of pulp
and we gave the basket to a glue fac
tory.
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 q wooden leg
we had been little soft on him-anC
he had come at last to think he owned
the controlling interest in the establish
meot. He sat down in the chair, puff
ing and blowing, and called ont
Who in thunder has lugged off tina
Logansport Sun?"
I tried to give him hint by asking
if he had ever heard of the Bogardui
kicker, but he got red in the face and
screamed
"Young man don't try to come any
Jokes on man who lost his leg IN hli
country's service y
He lost his leg in saw-mill, but We
used to let him tell the story in his 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 moment. w
had forgotten his wooden leg. ant
hadn't thought to dodge. At the thirC
kick it came off and struck one of thu
editors between wind and water, laying
him up for month, and splinter jus
missed the city editors eye. We ROLLED
Gn0 DOuy GOWn fun pairs OF stairs, anC
called coroner, who wasn't two min
utes coming to q decision that deatl
resulted from heart disease, though hC
couldn't for the life of him ee wha
had mutilated the corpse 80.
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 a 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. M. quad.