Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 3, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 March 1860 — A Glimpse of Pandemonium. [ARTICLE]

A Glimpse of Pandemonium.

An individual who is in tHe habit of visiting the different saloons in the city, and, whenever he can sponge a drink, or has wherewith to buy it, imbibing freely, went into one a few nights since, and aking a seat bv tne stove, was soon fast asleep. All effbr a to awake him proved ineffectual, until a gentleman, who had some experience aa a pyrotechnist, suggested that a small display oi Sre-.vork3 would not only arouse th® sleeper but afford some amusement for the company. Accordingly, a wheel was procured, which, when lighted, revolves with great rapidity and throws out fire and brimstone in n manner truiy astonishing. Attaching this to the wall, the gas was turned down and the wheel set on fire. Th® individual tor whose benefit the exhibition was given, jumped from his chair as though shot Torn a gun, but looking around could not realize where he was. The wheel kept spitting fire, the individual making every effort to find his way out, when to his utter consternation, huge balls of fire—appearing, as he atterward asserted, as large aa a rainbarrel—from the Roman candle, completed his fr ght. He fell on his bands and knees at once and begged for mercy from the gentleman in black, in whose dominions he supposed he was. This was too much for the crowd, the gas was turned on and a party of six or eight discovered,almost in convulsions o, laughter. Tfie victim broke for the door nnd haa not been seen in that section Zince. Lafayette Journal.