The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1883-03-29

STABBED me TO the heart with butcher knife.
| have received my death wound, my boy and
my hot, Southern blood, that | offered up so
freely for my country in her time of need. is
passing from my body, and soon your pa will
be only piece of poor clay. Get some ice and
put on my stomach. and all the way down. for
/ am burning up went to the water pitch
er and got chunk of ice and put inside pas
shirt, and while ma was tearing up an old skirt
to stop the flood of blood. asked pa if he felt
better. and if he could describe the villains who
had murdered him. Pa gasped and moved his
legs to get them cool from the clotted blood. he
said, and went on, 'One of them was about six
feet high, and had sandy moustache. | got
him down and hit him on the nose, and if the
police find him his nose will be broke. The
second one was thick-set. and weighed about
200. had him down and my boot was on his
neck. and was knocking two more down when
| was hit The thick-set one will have the mark
of boot heels on his throat. Tell the police when
l am gone about the boot heel marks BY this
time ma had got the skirt tore up. and she
stuffed it under pas shirt. ri ht where he said
he was hit. and pa was telling Us what to do TO
settle his estate, when ma began to smell the
liniment. and she found the broken bottle in his
pocket. and searched pa for the place where he
was stabbed. and then she began to laugh. and
pa got mad and said he didn't see As a death-bed
scene was such an almighty funny affair. and
then She told him he was not hurt. but that he
had fallen on the stairs and broke his bottle.
and that there WAS no blood on him. and he
said. DO you mean TO tell me my body and legs
are not bathed in human gore: and then pa got
up and found ii was only iiniment. He got
mad and asked ma why She didn't fly around
and get something to take that lniment off his
legs. as II was eating them right through to the
bone. and then he saw my chum put his head
i'll the door. with one gallu> hanging down. and
pa looked at me and then he said. 'L0okaherc.
if find out it was you boys that put up this
job on me. I'll make it so hot for You that you
will think liniment Is icc-crram in comparison.
| told pa it didn't look reasonable that me and
my chum could be six burglars. six feet high
and bOot-hecl marks on our neck. and pa he said
for Us to 60 to bed alfred quick. and give him a
chance to rinse of that liniment and we retired.
Say. how does my pa strike YOU a> Il good sin
ge-handed liar:" And the boy went up to the
counter while the grocery man Went after a
scutte of coal.
best customers. a deacon in the church. had
come in and sat down on the counter. over the
darning needle. and as the grocery man came in
with the coal the boy pulled the string. and
went out doors and tipped over a basket of ru-
tabagas. while the deacon got down off the
counter with his hands caSped. and anger in
his feature. and ted the grocery man he could
whip him in two minutes. The grocery man
asked what vas the matter. and the deacon
hunted up me source from whence the darnng
needle came through the counter. and as the
boy went across the street the deacon and the
grocery man were rolling on the floor. the gro
Gerry man irving to hold the dcaton'> fists while he
explained about the darning needle. and that il
was intended for the boy. How it came out
the boy did not wait to see.
The case of William Jones. who attempted to
shoot Guiteau. has been assigned for trial in
Washington.
Thirty five Young women graduated with the
degree ". d. from the Womcn'> Medical Col
ipge of PENNSYLVANIA.