Rensselaer Union, Volume 6, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 July 1874 — A Persian Story. [ARTICLE]

A Persian Story.

A terrible story conies to us from Persia. In one of the districts a laboring man had been sentenced to be bastinadoed for sonic oftcMo, receiving 150 blows on the soles of’his feet. As lie sank down on his knees alter the sentence had been carried out, and it was believed that liis injuries were of a serious character, lie called the Judge to liis side, intimating that lie had a terrible secret to reveal. As he could only speak in a whisper the Judge placed his carlo the lips of the fainting man, when the latter seized it with liis teeth and in his agony hit it completely off. In. Persia the loss of an ear, no matter under what circumstances, is considered a lasting disgrace, an(J the Judge so felt it. He at once orders to have the prisoner carefully cared for, assuring the physicians that if they did not save liis life their own should pay the penalty,, and they succeeded. When the prisoner had fully recovered he was sentenced to have liis teeth pulled out one by one in presence of the mob. and this frightful sentence. was carried out, two days being exhausted in the .work. No pains were taken with the horrible job, and the jaws were broken and crushed and the whole lower part ot the man’s face was a mangled mass, and liis sufferings were so great that many of the men fainted in w itnessing the operation. Two days after the little life in the man won beaten out of the soles of hitt sect, and the Judge, having fully satisfied his thirst for vengeance, committed suicide. [ . Tmc Oswego Time* says: “ The cormorants who tried, to shut the public oqt from a view of the Niagara L alls have succeeded Ticyond their expectations. In consequence of charging twenty-five cents admission to the bank where a good view of the falls is obtained, people are zealously staying away this summer. The hotels are still empty. 1 *