The Louisiana cotton-boll. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], Attakapas, La.) 1872-1883, 1874-02-25
10Y In DETROIT.
Extraordinary Scenes ia " Newspaper
Office.

Extraordinary scenes In Il NSNsF"PNA
Office.
Correspondence of the Courier-Journal.
DAILY FREE PRESS OFFICE,
DETROIT, Jan. %, 1874.
In response to the request made a few
weeks since, through your columns, 0
Bogardus, of your city, the lnvoAt0r Oh
the celebrated "BOgardus. Kicker, ar
rived in Detroit as soon MS 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
kncC-cap Of the kicker in such quautl-
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 tho Dubuque Herald
without IL thought of how near death
was.
We got a barrel of kerosene and n
bale Of a e 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 II failure IN
the north, where tho need of it is great
est. lie remained around the office to
see how the old thing worked, and as
soon as the morning mail was brought
in W. arranged the chair and sat down
to wait.
In less thnn fifteen minutes old Dob
son struck the stairs, and We heard him
breathing hard as he t0ilcd up. lie had
heard about the failure of the kicker,
and as he came i'll and sat down he bold
Iy inquired
"Wherc in hell is Deacon Smiths
pcpcr?"
He was a man of family, and [ wanted
to give him n chance for their sake. So
[ told him that if he wasn't down stairs
in three minutes any commons Eed hat
box would be sufficiently large to hold
his remains.
eco to thunder !" he replied, paving
oven the papers "you'd better guam
der another five thousand dollars on a
kicker which won't kick Where in
thunder and Goldfish is the New York
World, and the Pittsburgh Post, and
the"
The colonel touched the spring at that
moment-and, need I state the result q?
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 a 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"
MS we used to call him, came up. He
had been hanging around for two years,
and, owing to his having a wooden leg,
we had been a little soft on him-and
he had come at last to think he owned
the controlling interest in the establish
meot. He sat down in this chair, puff
ing and blowing, and called out !:
"Who in thunder has lugged off that
Logansport SUM-"
I tried to give him a hint by asking
he had ever heard of the Bogardus
but he got red in the face and
screamed
"Young man ! don't try to come any
on a man who lost his leg in his
country's service y
He lost his leg in a saw-mill, hut we
used to let him tell the story in his own
way. He sat a moment, and then yelled
out:
"Cuss that Albany Argus. Where, in
is the Boston Post ?"
The colonel raised him just then.
d" The Judge" yelled like a wild Indian,
but it was all over in o moment. We
had forgotten his wooden leg. and
hadn't thought to dodge. At the third
kick it came off and struck one of the
editors between wind and water, laying
him mp for n month, and n splinter just
missed the city editors eye. We rolled
The body down four pairs of stairs, and
Il coroner, who wasn't two min
ltes coming to n decision that death
resulted from heart disease, though he
couldn't for tho life of him see what
had mutilated the corpse o.
Allow me to assure you that the kick
or is just what we have long wanted,
md that in our opinion it will soon be
rs much the outfit Of every newspaper
rs a power press. The Brooklyn Argus
man and a representative from the Ro-
Chronicle are here to-day to
the machine, with q Wow to or
1ering. M. QUAD.