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Frank Foster, of the Pierceton Independent, and Charley Nash, of Toledo, started out from this city on Monday evening last, hunting* for blackbirds. Up to this writing we have not heard from Foster, and fear something has happened. He had a black grip-sack with him, and it seemed to be loaded but whether with shot or Aqua Vibe, vulgarly called “tanglefoot,” we are unable to saw While digging for blackbirds this terribleoo “weapon may have been discharged— accidentally.— lUrown- RejadtUcan.Foi the information of our friends we would state that we are here all 0. K.. and not injured, nor transformed into a floating bologna factory bv~ i •• *»the “accidental” explosion of » gripsack, from the fact that upon our arrival at the “blackbird grounds, we made the aquisition of a third partywhose sir-numo was John, who being* of heavy weight, it was thought hazer-v/ O ' » /dous to carry the grip-sack in the boat while digging for blackbirds, and upon a suggestion from John, the little black grip-sack was hanged upon a. limb for future reference; but alas, little did the party think that it was the last time we should ever meet that “little black grip-sack” on this earth; its horrible fate is told in a few words, while we were out digging for black-no obirds, that ollt;l gorrilla, Quin Hossler, of the Warsaw Republican, chanced that way, and completely gutted the poor little fellow, devouring it* inards, leaving the skeleton lay on the banks of the Tippecanoe^ a prey to the ravages of lialiiilu'. Now, what wasn *the sequel to all this:' why, the old gorrilla was so completely under the influence of grip-sack when we returned to the city that he did not know*•coots from mallard duck, and a joker—who had gathered up a lot of the former fowl that we had dug up and abandoned as unlit for service—traded him four of them for a.years subscription to the Republican, and as we left the city while he was yet under this baneful influence of grip-sack, he thinks, poor fellow, that we were lost in the Tippecanoe marshes.
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Pierceton Independent
Pierceton, Indiana, US
Wed, Oct 01, 1879
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