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Show A pew days ago a dispatch from Thompson, N.Y. gave what purported to he the particulars of a fiendish outrage out-rage and murder. It was atatsd that tramps bad first grossly abused a school mistress, and then to prevent her telling of tbe occurrence and describing des-cribing tbe criminals, cut out ber tongue. The woman managed to draw herself to the blackboard and writo a description of tbe villains, when ehe expired. It now turna out that the atory bad not the slightest foundation in fact. It was first put afloat last summer by village loungera and is repeated by thorn with great assumed seriouBneaa to credulous strangers. It is a hoax without even wit to recommend it, and is most discreditable to the originators. Tbe story is similar to that other fabrication fabrica-tion telograped over the country last summer, about a lady being kidnapped kid-napped from a railroad train in New York, taken to a bouse of illfame, drugged, outragod, robbed and left to ba found by her huabaud. Only the people who can invent such stories are capable of making the terrible doings that they describe poisiible. |