The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1881-08-11
AQUITELUS.
Another Mortal Visits the
Mysterious Realms.
Condemned to Die and Shot from a
Mortar Back to the Abode Of
Mortal Man.
A Warning to Billiard Players.

A Warning to Billiard Players
Hot SPRINGS, ARK Aug. 1, 81
The citizens in and around Hot
Springs, Ark, were shocked at the
mysterious death of Mr.. A. B. Iglie
a well known citizen in that commu-
nifty, which occurred last week.
Indeed, the circumstances sur
rounding this sad event are of such
a peculiar nature that your cores
pondent ieels that he is bound to
give the facts just as they were told
by Mr.. Iglie on his deathbed.
He said, just before death took
him away:
l have been, as you all know, en-
gagged in boreing an artlsian well. /
had reached the depth of several
hundred feet, when the augur, with
which l was boreing, suddenly fell
through, and by an irresistible in
fuence, l was drawn after it. Down
1 went, utterly helpless to check my
descent, till 1 became unconscious,
and only regained it by feeling my
self suddenly alight on top of a
four horse coach. The coachman,
who took no notice of my sudden
arriyal, was SO completely muffled
up that l could only see pair of
arms. The horses were yellow, and
| had seen no more than this when,
at the sound of the guards horn,
we pulled up at an inn. A waiter
came out and appeared to collect
four bags from the passengers with
in. He then came round to me and
said:
"Dine here, sir?'
Certainly" said Land he replied !:
"rll take your stomach, sir" ,
While the waiter was looking up
into my face with polite stare, the
coachman put one hand within his
outer coat, as if to feel for money,
and pulled forth an enormous sack,
which 1 knew by observation of its
form and texture to be his stomach,
with the esophagus attached. This
was thrown to the waiter who had
four or five smaller stomachs hang
ing on his arm, collected from the
passengers within.
Just then the guard came for
ward, touched his hat, and said:
"Beg your pardon, sir, hutyou've
been and done it,
"Done what?"
"Why, sir, the Baron Teroro' s
eyes had the box seat, and you've
sat upon them"
/ looked and saw that l had com
pletely crushed an eye. The guard
then informed me that the other eye
had time to escape and would inform
the Baron of my completely, and
furthermore that the penalty under
the laws of Aquitelus was death.
BY persuasion, l took seat in
side the coach. 1t contained living
limbs, eyes, tongues, and every or
gan of human being, occupying
different portions OF the coach
There was only one passenger, a
young lady, that had a complete face
of flesh. She had one living hand,
and the other was bony, but in order
to conceal this, she had it padded.
When she walked l noticed that she
skipped the kangaroo gait" just as
our girls do.
l also noticed two pairs Of legs,
and one pair was in wooden stock
ings. Over in one corner of the
coach was a pair OF eyes, with
spectacles on, which kept watching
the wooden stockings. The eyes
belonged to an old fellow that was
of i'll another part OF the country,
and did not learn who owned the
legs.
"DinnersP" said voice at the
window, and the waiter handed In
a lot of stomachs, which were
placed by their owners in their
proper position. The coach then
started, and my Face and Hand
friend informed me that l was 60
ing to court. l told him that 1 was
from another world, and that of the
very people who Inhabited this
country l knew nothing. My
friend smiled incredulously and
said:
"In Aquitelus, the inhabitants re
tain that illustrious appearance,un
til they come Of age, which you have
been so fortunate as never to have
lost. During the night of their
twenty first birthday, each Aquite-
liam loses the limbs which up to
that time have received no care, no
education. l, for example, devoted
to the study of law, forgot all occu-
patton but to think, to use my
senses and to write. l rarely used
my legs, therefore nature has de
pIived me of them. We have the
power to detach any member of our
bodies on any service, and a simple
force of nature directs all CORES
ponding organs whittier to fy that
they may reassemble.
L was anxious to get out of the
coach. The muchness of the sur
roundIngs was too severe. My wish
was fulfilled at the next pause
One eye, followed by six pairs of
strong arms, with hard hands, flew
in at the window. | was collared
and dragged out, and while the
twelve hands whisked me through
the air, the one eye sailed before US,
like an old bird. leader of the flock.
We a., GIFTED near the outskirts of
large and busy town Twas dragged
Through tue streets, which were
filed with disjointed organs of the
body. was hurried through the
streets to prison, where / was placed
in a cell so dark that l could very
family see the figure of some being
who was my companion. My thu st
for information was uncoDquerable,
so / said:
Stranger, what are those things
l see shining in the sky st midday,
that look like starsT'
He gave an awful groan and in
a sepulchral voice said:
"Murderers are shot up out of
mortars into the sky and stick there.
Those glistening specks are their
skeletons"
] fully expected to suffer death
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