The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1875-02-03

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land, ,glistepipg oyes hissed and CLEANED
i - me-. Egehed fr0n tha saloon and
started, did not knoy 9riesfa where,
90 that ], pight escape my tormentors.
I had only rushed along little way
when af dog as large 90 calf jumped
up before me. aud with raised; bristles
and Ginning teeth. planted itself in
my path. I picked up stick about
three feet long. thinking to defend my
self. just ss soon as took the stick
In my hand it turned to q snake.
could feel its slimy body writhe and
squirm in my hand, aud in trying to
hold it to keep it from biting me,
every fnger-naii cut like knife into
the palm of my hand. and the blood
streamed down over the stick, which
to me was writhing, bloody snake.
He'll is Heaven compared TO what /
suffered at that time. At last dashed
the aooursed thing from me. and ran
as for my life. I got to the Little
Miami Depot and took the cars. At
the time did not know where / was.
Invent about ten miles above Cincin-
natl and left the train. At times, for
awhile. I could reason and understand
my situation. eoOn found that I
was in town where young man
lived who had been my companion
and sohool.mate in the city. L went
to him and told him my condition.
He did everything for me that can be
done for one in that condition. But
as night came on my tormentors re-
turned in ten thousand hideous forms,
and drove me raving mad. went to
q hctel, where they pursued me, to lie
down. just az soon as touched the
bed, reached my hand over and it
touched cold dead corpse. The
room lighted up with q thousand
bright lights, and that dead body now
appeared to me like nothing that had
ever been visible in human shape. 1t
opened its glazed dead eyes, and stared
me in the face. Then its whole face
and form turned to demon, and it's
wiid eyes cleaned aI ME, whiie it's
whole form Was full Of passion, fierce
ness and frenzy. jumped from the
bed. and as I shrank back from the
loathsome monster, everything in my
room turned to living devils. Chairs,
stand, bed. and my very clothes took
form, and became living demons that
crawied and sat about me, some hiss
ing and others oursing at me. Then
all at once there appeared in the cor.
ner form larger and more sonl.sick.
ening than all the Others. Its appear
ance was more ghast,y than any de.
eoription I had ever lead about witches
and old hsge. This mixture Of devil
and human marched right up to me
with face and look that will haunt
me to my grave. It began by making
threatening gestures, aud all the time
talking to me, aaytn' lt would thrust
it's fingers through my ribs and drink
my blood. Then Il would stretch out
iss long bony skeleton fingers. that
looked like sharp knives, and hal hal
Then 1t said Is voLid sit upon me
and press me into h.iI. That it would
roast me with birthstone and dash my
entrails into my eyes. Saying this It
sprang upon me. an.. for what seemed
to me an age. fought the nnearthly
thing. At last it said, ''Let me co."
and when I did it gIided to the door,
and. giving me ona deadly look, it
aaid, II will soon be back with all the
legions of hell, and then I will be the
death Of you: you hhall not be alive
one hour" loft my room and went
out into the night. Just az coon as
touched the street pa. my foot on
dead body. The whole street aud
pavement was covered with men, wo-
men and children. lying heaved close
tosetheT. with their cold, pale. white
faces turned up to heaven. Some
looked like they were sleeping, whilst
others seemed to have died in awful
agony, anil their faces presented hor-
rid contortions. Others had their eyes
bnrsted from their heads, and hanging
out on their faces. And when I would
step on them they would come to life,
and with their bloody eye.balls elaring
ct me. raise up to my face and curse
me. could not move without placing
my feet on dead bodies, aud when I
would step on dead body it would
open ito eyee and cry; then the dead
mother would raise up and pronounce
a curse upon me for trampling under
foot her child. And devils would sur
round me, and, with horrid oaths,
curse me for disturbing the dead. I
voald tremble and beg and try to fiud
some place to put my feet, but the
dead were In heaps. and covered all the
ground 30 that I could neither walk
nor stand without pntting my feet on
q dead body. I would stop and pant
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