Mexico Weekly Ledger

One by One the Roses Fall.

Another pleasant story has been rudely swept away. The Franklin (Mass.) Journal does it. It says: The thrilling account of the escape of Mr. Hall, a butcher in this town, from death by suffocation in his ice chest, published in the Woonsocket Patriot, has been read with absorbing interest. An escape so miraculous, and all through supernatural intervention, coming through the dream of a little boy, awakes new interest in those matters of a higher spiritual nature, and the agency of those intelligences who are no longer dwellers upon the earth. We have made diligent inquiries into the matter, and have gathered the following additional facts connected with it: The young lad, Adolphus Washington Hall, did not dream that his father was in the ice-chest. He had been promised a whipping that morning, and as his father did not return to the house to administer it, he became solicitous for his safety and started out to find him. Mr. Hall, the butcher, was not in the ice-chest, nor were his sufferings so protracted as stated. He has no ice-chest or any other chest. He is not a butcher. He has no son by his present wife. He doesn't reside in Franklin; and we don't know where he "hangs out."