Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1875-01-25
HOW IT FEELS TO BE FLoGGEp.

The English papers record recent
cases of the uses Of the lash in criminal
punishmentw which was cruel but efficient.
1t IS great mistake to suppose that the
whipping-post is obsolete in Great Brit
ian. 1t is not. The "cat" still plays
its part in suppressing savagery. AT
Manchester reporter has interviewed a
man who was whipped for robbery with
violence, and the proceeding was not a
pleasant one. although calculated to in
spire wholesome fear. The man him
self is the narrator
The first stroke went right across my
shoulders. and it was something awful.
I'd never felt anything like it before,
and | howled out sharp, and roared as
loud as l could. Just where the lash
went it seemed to burn right into me,
and the skin felt as if it had swelled up
and was going to burst 1t went through
me like, and if hot iron had scorehed
me it wouldn't have been half as sharp.
1t was slow time. for counted thirty
before | got number two, and that came
as sharp as the first. The doctor stood
close by. and pointed out where every
stroke was to drop, and the screw
(warder) put it down just where he
showed. He was bad 'un, that doctor,
for every cut was as bad as the others,
ond the pain was just like dying over
and over again.
The hardest pull was in trying to
make out where the next would drop.
The doctor would point, and waited
till heard the whip coming, and then
l cried out louder every time. Some
times it would drop on one of the cuts
that had gone before. could have
sworn my back was as big again as ii
should be, for after the cat was pulled
sharp back the flesh went after it and
rose up until | knew | was bleeding
and that the skin had burst. The blood
ran down into my trousers thick. nc
cheese (mistake) about it. How did i
hurt me? Why every now and then the
cat tapped round my chest, and tina
was worst of all. 1t knocked me out O.
wind, my breath went as if I'd jumped
into cold water, choking like, and M
mouth as dry as could be. Id nothing
to chew, so | hung on to the rings will
nv hands as hard as [ could, and thi
only pulled my chest across the Woo
and made my back tighter. The las
was as bad as the first, every bit of it
if not trife quicker, but | shouldn'
have minded if they'd laid it on quicker
1t was the slow time that licked me. an,
if I'd had the regulation three dozen
think it would have done for me. 1t
! all stupid about not feeling it after tn
first Ave or six. Your back don't groV
dead (numb) at all, but only gets tende
as you get more of it. Is there anythin
: else like flashing? Nothing that [ kno'
, Of I've had most kinds Of knockin
about, but it ticks all there's no pun
Ishment comes anywhere near it. 1t
as bad while you're waiting as whe
0 you're getting it, and both are smart.
While the Democrats of the Mort
are holding meetings to denounce whs
> they are pleased to call an unwarrante
7 interference by the general Governmer
e with the affairs of sovereign" Stat,
$ the Legislature of Mississippi are takin
a more practical view of the matter. o
> Monday. resolutions passed both House
declaring that the actions of Gener;
/ Sheridan in Louisiana should meet til
G approval and sanction of all w-abidin
! and peace-loving people, and that if I'll
: policy annunciated by hun were carrie
e out, not only will murderers who hay
'e long escaped justice be punished, bl
e that peace and security for life will 70
} low The Mississippi Legislators appe;
to carry level heads-Cedar Rapic
II I61ca) Republican, Jan. h.
II The telegraph can beat all the lrisi
J. men out of Ireland, at making bulls.
'r few nights since it very gravely process
1t ed to recite the following harrowin
y tale Scouting party from Camp Nerd
ia Ari.. out in storm that lasted six day
"a and flooded whole country. There w
n three feet snow on the ground, and The
$ spent thirty-six hours searching for W
Is ter" Poor fellows, how they must ha'
ID suffered Recently 1t told of m;
a who was ''shot fatally four times. =
u giving an account of duel. it said
ID one of the parties that he "was severe
u wounded in the breast, while his opp
rs nent fired in the air. ''-Territorial (N
eF rain Enterprise.
r. Miss Clarie Ellen George, a beau
os ful and well-educated girl of We
Is Springfield, \. H., Is years old, h
ID mysteriously disappeared, and James
or Hardy, married man 80 years old. W
~ has been very attentive to her, Is su
av posed to have some connection with t
he affair, though he still remains in tow
i A certain runner for Boston house