The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1876-11-11

New Ork H6FuLn: ~ CHUNKY, SOFceyCu
man wearing n monkey jacket and light
trousers and carrying n baggy gingham UNI.
brella which had seen years of service, made
his appearance last evening in First avenue
near Sixth street, and entered lager beer
saloon. HIS air was quite mysterious and
his language more than alarming. ~ fat
German boy, whose eyes almost protruded
from his head, so tight was the skin drawn
over his face, handed the mysterious man a
glass of lager beer, having first gazed at the
chunks in the shutters 10 see If any of the
metropolitan police were in view. The man
with the baGgy umbrella, whose name was
subsequently ascerlaincd to be James Marvin,
native of Ireland, aged thirty.four years,
having blown the frOth off the top OF the
glass of beer, proceeded to drink it slowly,
mrpnwhile fastening horrible gaze on the
fat boy, wh2 became u little frightened at the
"o"toriOns made by the strangers features
aud SAID:
WHATS dc me6dher, hch? You shake
mid de beer? Dod's goofd beer, aind id -
The umbrella man laid down the empty
glass, glarcd nj the bulbouseyed boy and
whispered to him across the counter.
MY God! you only knew what Is gong
to happen to you within twentyIour hours
you would he down on you knees saying your
PRAYERS and chewing iightning-rodS."
"Shoolng litnin rond. Get Oud of de haus :;
you are crazy | gall de bolIze," said the
fat boy. as he picked up fivccent nickel for
the beer. But the man with the baggy um.
brella spoke his speech as follows:
II notify you, Dutch boy, to close your
shutters between nine anu ten O'ClOCk-yes,
make it eleven o'clock-to morrow morning,
put all the glasses away and saltwater bot.
Ties, and don't come out of your bed until
you see the carpet crawling arognd the bed.
posts Gen. Newton ordered me 10 come and
notify all the people on First avenue to close
mp tomorrow and 10 tell anybody that could
leave the city TO go 10 Staten Island or TO.
Sandy Hook until the explosion has come of.
Mind what | tell you, Dutchy, now or you
will he blown up. Some of the rocks Will be
blown five miles. One about pound weight
Will do you, I'll bet"
James Marvin, as he calls himself then
left the lager beer saloon as mysteriously as
he entered and began TO make u regular can
vass of nearly every house on the west side.
of First avenue. The boy IN the lager beer
saloon was thoroughly scared when Marvin
left, and the next place he entered was CT
gar shop, kept also by n German. He stood
in the doorway, the rain pouring off his mn
hrella and making little lakes on the dirty
floor. He said to the cigarmaker:
"Shut your store early tomorrow. Plug,
up all the keyholes and stuff the windows
with cotton or you are gone. Gen. Newton
told me at breakfast this morning to visit AL
the poor unfOrunatcs on First avenue and
tell them to close up their stores. The cx-
ploslon Will begin al nine O'Clock tomorrow
morning precisely. ltyou wish TO save your
life go up and take u swim in the reservoir.
Put some corkS around your neck and stay
IN the water. Dive whenever You hear a re-
port, and If the water shakes little it won't
hurt you. Mind, if you dlsobey Gen. Newton
IN this you will not be able 10 recover any
damages from the company"
The cigar man was a little incrcdulousI
about the notification, rs the stranger had
more The look of a hard.wCrking mechanic,
u front bricklayer or stone.maSon, than the.
appearance which might be expected To be
horne by an aide-de-camp of Gen. Newton.
The stranger did not have the appearance OF
intoxicalon. and he talked very earnestly, as
It he was anxious Ia preserve the people,
whom ne visited from any harm by the eX-
plosion which he announced TO take place.
The cigar veneer said to the Herald report
or, who called al a great number of places on
First avenue: I'll go 20 de dhoOr ven he goes
oud und hollow AL him, Say, YOU god de,
chim-chams"