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Dof farTHE ORIGIN OP ERIN.The following verse* ore said to have beencited by a young Irish lawyer at a dinner Y(New York city many years ago, in re onse to the toast “Ireland/’id all condescension, I'd call your attintionEiro what I'd r*ow mlntion of Erin so green; ad wld’out hisltatlon, I'll tell how that nationBeklm of creation the glm and the queen.bapponed one mornln* widont any war-rhat Vay nus was bom in the beautiful say; q' by that same token-ea* sure 'twas pro-vokin'—Her pinions was dhroopin* and wonidn’t gi ve play.lin Niptune, who knew her, in order to woo her,Began to pursue her, the wicked ould Jew! n' very, nigh caught her, on top o’ the wather,Great Jupiter's daughter, who roared “phil-lilooain Jupiter, that Jaynius, looked down and seen Vaynus „ .An’ Niptnne the bay nius pursoon' her wild,n' he roared out like thunder (an* sure 'twas no wonder).He'd tare him aaundher for taysin' his child.that round him wastiin a sun-star lyin*He saysed widont sighin' and hurled itbelow!rbieb win* oat ^llke winkin’, bat aa it was sinkin'.Struck Niptune, I'm thinkin', a broth of a blow.ow this sun-star made dryland, both lowland and highland.And formed that sweet island, the place of me birth;[ioce, strange is the story, the Erin so hoary, Was sint down from glory, a heaven upon earth.bin Vaynus stippld nately on Erin sosttGlyAn* bekase she so lately was bothered and prest,; did her much bewilder, but ere It had kill-ed bei*Her father distilled her a drop of the best.his glass so victorious, it made her feel glorious,A little uproarious I fear it did prove;Er;o how can ye blame us, that Erin's so famousFor whisky—an* flgbtin'—an’ murther^ an' love ?A HORRIBLE DEATH.I Body-Suatcher, Polsoued bya Corpse, Rota lo Death.outh Bend Special to Chicago Times.Several months ago the grave of iarab Platts, a young lady who diedt consumption, was found disturbed nd an examination showed that the iead of the corpse was missing. Vbat led to the discovery was the mding o( a human jawbone by Fred Luer, a farmer who lived near the ounty graveyard, some eight miles rom the city, where the body was turied. The fact that only the bead ras taken threw suspicion ou an raateur phrenologist named Gordon rruesdale. Truesdaie occupied a mall farm in the vicinity, with bis rife and a family of four girls, tbo ildest not more than eight years old.Ie was a handsome, broad-shoulder* d fellow, with a fair education, but azy and shiftless. His great hobby vas phrenology, and he occasionallyectured on that subject in country choolhouses. His ambition to pos-esa a collection of skulls was well mown in the neighborhood, and theleeecrAtion of the Platt6 girl’s grave vas laid^t his door, although be was lever openly charged with it. *About three weeks ago l’ruesdale vent to a physician and asked if a jerson could become poisoned in land ling a dead body. He received in affirmative reply, and appeared to e much troubled. He complained * bis wife that bis nose pained him erribiy, and be believed bo was tak-ng the erysipelas. He began doe*,oring himself with bread and milk poultices, but without success. His ace began to swell rapidly, and in ess than three days it and his bead aecame twice their natural size, and lost all semblance of human shape, A physician was called in, against the wishes of Truesdaie. He found the man suffering terribly. His lips were irawo by the tension of the skin, and writhed themselves away from the teeth in uoceasiog pain. The cuticle neross the bridge of the nose and over tbe forehead was so distended with Lhe mattery substance underneath Lhat it seemed as if it must burst Bvery moment. The eyes were swol len almost to bursting from their 30ckets, and were turned with pain until bardiy anything but the whites could be seen. It was evident that a terrible poison was slowly, but surely, permeating the man's whole Bystem,The physician, after a careful examination of the unwilling patient, cut open his skin from about the center of the nose almost to the roots of Lhe hair, and then made another cot across the forehead almost from temple to temple. From these incisionsthere oozed a mass of loathsome, detestable putresoence, so terrible in its Btench that the attendants, save one, ran from the bouse. Other iocisions were made in different parts of the scalp, from which the hair had been shaved, and from these this terribly offensive matter oozed constantly, until the swelling was reduced and the bead and face assumed nearly their normal size. Attempts were then made to free the incisions of matter by injecting water into them. It was noticed that when water was forced ioto the cut in the forehead it poured out of the boles in the scalp. .As one of the attendants said, “It seemed as if all the flesh between the skin and bone had turned to corruption and ran out.”When Truesdaie was told that be could not possibly recover, he called bis wife into the room and confessed to her that he robbed the Platts girl’s grave, and referred to a certain nigbt when be left tbe bouse and refused to tell her wbere he went at the time, when be committed the crime.found there and giw»o to the Platts family.The last throe days of Truesdaie** existence were terrible, not only to himself but to those wbo watched him. Tbe poison from some corpse (for it Is believed lie had recently opened several graves), which was communicated to bis system by prickiuga raw spot on tbe inside of bis nose, appeared to course through every vein in his body. Not only was his person offensive to the eye, but tbe odor apd heat of bis breath was so offensive that it wus impossible for tbe attendants to wait on him properly. The breath was so poisonous that when one of the attendantsheld his hand six inches from tbe dying man’s mouth it stung the flesh like hundreds of nettles., Those who waited upon him were compelled to woar gloves, as it was impossible to wash the odor from their bands. The day he died his flesh was so rotten that it seemed as if it would drop from the bones if touched, and his eyes actually decayed until they became sightless.For two days before bis death a coffin had been in readiness, and tbe orders of the physician were to place him in it as soon as tbe breath left bis body, and get him under ground immediately. After his death none of the attendants had the (temerity to touch the corpse, for beingpoisoned,so they gathered ^besheets on which the body lay at each end, and thus lifted him into toe coffin.The lid was quickly screwed down,but before a wagon could bi procured the body swelled and burst it off. It was then strapped on, but when the coffin was taken from tae wagon at the graveyard just at daylight, it again flew off, and the bodj! appeared to swell visibly before thejhorrified attendants’ eyes. Tbe fetid, noisomo steocb from tbe putrid mass within was such that no one could attempt to replace the cover, and the coffin was covered from sight as hurriedly as possible.frlonatbaitehigim0!blTaiaTno8lt;Wdglt;wIIe:Pis»lnbna:eiwrttlbvaagH6btinTiie Way “Plain People”Illluoit# Talk.Peoria Tran script.Our country friends, “plain people,” as Mr. Lincoln callid them, have a way of putting this fair years’ experience of General Grant In another and very striking light “What has Grant learned during the past four years?” they ask. “The ways of kings and courts, tbe splendors attending European and Asiatic sovereigns—pomp, parade and show I He knows very little about tbe common people of bis own land, the bone and sinew, the ‘plain people,’ on whom ho is to depend for his electron. He has not been in their society. The little time he has spent in this country since he landed in San Francisco has been in tbe company of courtiers, flatterers and parasites. He has not mixed with the people. He knows nothing of their wants, or their desires, or their feelings. His sympathies are not in their direc^on, or if they are he has taken precious good care not to reveal that fact.” That is the way lots of “plain people” in this section of Illinois are talking, and they are quite as much entitled to consideration as some others—not even excepting “old soldiers.stosbt2ecr8ttII\Itt1II»»1Corn in Illinois.American Agriculturist.The corn crop for tbe single State of Illinois, for the year 1879, is reported to be 305,813,377 bushels, and estimated to be worth $97,483,052, or about 31cents per bushel. It is difficult for tbe mind to take in the full magnitude of these figures. Here are some calculations that will help the conception : Load this corn upon wagons, 40 bushels to tbe load, and start them off on tbe road so near together that there shall be 100 teams to every mile. The line of wagons carrying this one crop of Illinois corn would stretch away 76,453‘miles, or more than three times around the world! Again : Load tbiBcrop upon railway freight cars, 285J bushels,or about eight tons to the car, and make up these cars into a continuous freight train, allowing 30 feel of track to each car. The train would extend 6,080 miles, or nearly twice across the continent, from the Atlan-tic to the Paci6o oceans! Again : Suppose we put this corn crop into a square bin 20 feet deep. Let tbe arithmetical young readers of tbe American Agriculturist reckon bow large tbe bio would be each way. Also, how many acres it would cover. Also bow mauy pounds of pork it would make if given to pigs weighing 100 poonds each when they begin feeding upon the corn, and 250 poonds when killed for pork.Hesaid he dog down to tbe head of the coffin, broke it open, and takinghis knife cot around tbe nook of the oorpse through the flesh to the bone. He then placed one of hie feet on the breast of the oorpse, and taking the head in his bands polled and Jerked and twisted it until it came off by mere force. He afterwards disjoint* *4 the lower jaw and threw it wbere Fred, Auer found it. He doesd hiecoofeeeion by telling wbere the skullinmwould be found under the strew in a certain manger in the stable. It weeA Ran WUh Iron Feet.Baltimore American.Brooks’ blast-furnace in Canton boasts of a “man with the iron feet.” John Lemuel, a colored man who works around the cupola When the iron-ore is melted down, is enabled from the exceeding callousness of the soles of bis feet to walk around over the pigs of almost red-hot iron, as they are run out from the furnace in the sand, and left to cool. He moves about without his shoes freely, and never seems to fqpl any sensation or pain in stepping on a piece of iron at a heat that would frizzle up a feather. He is oonsidered a great cariosity, and is boasted of by tbe furnace bands extensively.A Good Housewife.A good housewife, «wheu she is glv-uilog her house its spring renovating, should bear in mind that the dear inmates of her house are more precioustheir syiterns need cleansing by purifying ththan many houses, and that their s;a*eblood, regulating the stomach and bowels to pro vent and cure tbe diseases ,arising from spring malaria and mtas-a. and she must know that there la nothing thatso perfectly and p Hitters, the purest and best of medimnes.—Conoord N. H. Pa-surely as Hoitriot—Ade.Vim MLB-taadrstkllWw—MAM***
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Greencastle Dollar Press
Greencastle, Indiana, US
Wed, Mar 31, 1880
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