The Susquehanna register. (Montrose, Pa.) 1849-1854, March 13, 1851, Image 1

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VOLVAIE XXVI,.
THE REGISTER.-
PUBLISHED .EVERY 'PHU ' DAT BY
_James W. Chap
Advance payment in Cash per year
If paid, within the year,
If not at, the end of the year,
Wilt Thou Love Me Thus rder ? ;
THOU gazt, deep and earnest-4- • •
Deep and earnest are thine eyes ;
I know that in our being •
There are answering• sympathies
I know there dwells upon - me •
An affection rich and pure,
Ane ask, with anxious yearning,
•. Will it ever, thus, endure!"
'.Quick changes come upon us—
Changes not in niorontrol ;
'There are shadowsAbti
And dark tides uptia the adtii.
With tremulous emotion,
I accept thy bOUII COW;
But ask, with anxious yearning.
Wilt thou love me evermore I
Thou krinwest all my weakness,
• ! Thou knowe.it all my power;
Thnu'et heard my life, and knnwest
Every weed auli every fluwpr;
And if within my nature
Any graciouQ if there Ile,
rxrpuld its brighte-t ntdianee
Should transfuse itself to thee
God knows, no selfish impulse,
Draws my heart thus close tp thine;
would th tt all thy i
Should partake of the divine ;
I would be wise and perfect,
Living truly, heartily:,
That life s most glorious halos'
Should surround and hallow; thee I
And if upin thy pathway.
I have cast one tiny 'ray,—
Made one moment brighter, I4pier,.
By my life or by my lay,—
Then thou panst not love a nature •
That's less worlliy than my lown ;
Thou canst never have enjuyment
In a Foul of lower time.
So I rest, my heart contented.
For, an this clearer view,
I see thoult not withhold ma
Such love a, is my due ;
And, if, some richer nature
Win the gift I would were mine,
I must bow nix,heild subrnisive
To a law of the Divine :
But, with earne.t. vtron,gendeavor,
I would labor by thy side.
Earn the right to be eornpaninr,
Fellow•wiiVker, and thy guide ;
Thro' - all earth's'weary turmoil ‘.
Keep a laving soul, anTpure,
i
That thy munti..-1.4.44 gtreetion •
I might ever, thus; secure.
The following appeared in the " Register" some
weeks since, we again insert it by request..
Re-Union in Heaven.
IF TON BRIGHT STARS WHICH GEM THE NIGHT,
BE EACH A BLISS/rt. DWELLING SPHERE,
WHERE KINDRED SPIRITS EE-VNTITE,
WHOM DEAi HAS TORN ASUNDER HERE--'7
HOW SWEET IT WISE AT ONCE TO DIP,
AND LF....trE TDIY BLIGHTED ORB AFAR.
Mix SOUL TCTIH SOUL TO CLEAVE THE SET,
AND SOAR AWAY F 11.0.11 STAR TC:.
BUT OH! How DARK, 110 w DREAR AND I,ON€,
WOULD SkrE7.4 THE BRIGHTEST WORLD OF BLISS,
IF, WANDERING THROUGH EACH RADIENT riNE,
WE FAILED TO FIND THE LOTED OP THIS
IF THERE NO - SIORE THE TIES SHALL Twisa,
THAT DEATH'S COLD HAND ALONE COCLD SETZE.,
THEN THOSE STARS IN MOCKERY SHINE,
MakE HATEFCL AS THET SHINE POCETER-1 •
IT CANNOT - BE-EACH HOPE, EACH FEAR.,
•
TSrT -LIGHTS THE EYE Oft CLOUDS THE BILONV,
Paoc 4OZrS,IIIF.ILE IS A HAPPIER SPHERE,
THAN THIS BLEAK WORLD THAT HOLDS US NOW,
TaERE isji.-1-cncE WHICH SORROW HEARS, ;
WHEN HEAVIEST WEIGHS LIFE'S GALLING
HEADER THAT WHISPERS-" DRY THY TEARS,
THE PURE IN HEART SHALL MEET AGAIN."
A Tete-a-Tete Game.
We were very much amused, a few evenings
!since. by the following game of questions ate] ens
..wers. Which. when played upon one as yet uniniti,
sited into the mysteries, is well calculated td afford
endless laughter. A Lady may be pposeti to re
quest a gentleman to write down this list :-- 1 -
Set'dnwn a lady's name. -
Set down some time past. •
Write thr name of a place.
, Write either Yes qr, No.
Yes or No again.
A lady's name.
Some time to come:
Yes or No.
Yes or Noit&aip,
•
Name of a town.
Some eolor.
Any number not exceeding six.
Some color.
Yes or No.,
A lady's name.
A gentleman's name.
Another gentleman's name.
Name of a Clergyman.'
A sum of money.
Name of place.
'Any number al an.
When these conditions bare heentotnpliel
the gentleman is requested to read off the -
prepared as answers to the series
To *bona did yon make your. first fifer
I Nn
In Whit place 9 .
Does she love yolk!
love her
-lines will-you marry
•
How soon I
' . . ; DOiskshe loveirou I s
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Where du eishikresidet
What is the color of- her'isiri •
allrhatiklier,beightt. - 4 •
theoalkocbM'Vekt •
Ia ha Vwftlfi -
the bridmMakit
17 _111ItiWii)e - grOlilitinan I
t el i fidl e t ,
tti
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m, • ItinlT• AOKI= f;•,4-',.'
limeT away Wiwi&
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REWARD OF VIRTUE;
Or Blanche Raymond.
Every; natiori possekses prejudices respeet
,ing its neighbors. A prejudice is an opinion.
formo without having in the first place ac
quirdd a sufficient body of facts whereon to
forma correct judgment. The French •en
tertaln some strange prejudices respecting
the Faiglish ; they consider them tts be gen
erally a coarse, over-bearing, money-rnakin,
and il.ensual people, without taste or delicacy
; Of felling. The Etiglish, with . equal injus- •
tice and ignorance of facts, are in -the habit
of cohsideringtheFrench, universally, to be
silly,;frivolous, and deceitful, with' the addi
tional misfortune of being vett- por and yes.
t
ry idle. Anxious. to correct all su It wrong
impressions. which tend to foster national
animosities,we shall tell a little story respeet
ing a young Frenchwoman, whose character
fur industry, good sense, and benevolence,
whilst no way singular in her own country,
could not be excelled in ems.
• The- I:liine of our humble heroine was
Blanche Raymond, and her occupation was
that of a washer womau in one of the large
barges which are moored, for the convenience
of her class, within the maroin the margin •
of the Seine. At boats of e this 'kin, all the
launrdY washing of Paris is performed
—the clear water of the river as it runs I
past,_ with a piece of soap, add a mallet -to
beat the clothes, being the sole wails of pur
-1 ification. The labor is considerhble, and the I
payment for it small, yet no women are more 1
cheerful than these laundresses,. Exposed at.
All seasons to perpetual damp, which satur
ates their - ganuents, and preidaturely stiffens
their limbs, they still preserve their national
vivacity, which finds %ent in many a song ;
and, in a spirit of cordial fellowship, sympa
thise with each other in prosperity or advers
ity. Earning on an average tittle more than
two francs, or twenty -peace daily, they nev
ertheless agree to get aside rather more than'
two pence out of that sum towards a fund
for unforeseen calamities, and, above all, to
prevent any of their number, who may be
laid aside by illness, froin being reduced to
seek other relief. The greater part - of them
are married women with fatuities, .
Unromantic-as' is the occupation of these
women, yet incidents occur among them, as
in every other class ofsociety, howeverhum
ble, of the most interesting and pathetic
kind. This was well illustrated in the life of
our heroine, Blanche ltaymouti. blanche .
was no more than twenty - three years of age,
endowed with a fine open stinting counteu=
ance, great strength of body, and uncomtuon
c:everness of hand. She had lost her moth
er some time before, and being now the on
ly stay of her old blind father, a superanuat
ed laborer on the quay, she had to w Jrk dou u
le-tides for their joint support; though the
old man, by earning a few pence daily by
weaving nets, was saved the feeling of being
altogether a burden on his child.
'lnere was a nobleness in Blanche's con-
duet towards her her poor cid father, that '
mounted like a brilliant star above the ordi
nary' ci roe ins lances of her condition. After
preparing her father's breakfast, at his lodg- 1
lugs opposite the stairs in the quay leading to 1
her boat, she went down to it at 7 o'clock 1
every morning came home at noon to give !
the pour blind man his dinner, and then back
to work for the rest. of the day. Returning
at its close to her humble hearth, where
cleanliness -and comfort reigned, she would
takout her old father fur an Lour's walk on I
the uav, and keep him merry by recounting
all the gossip of the= boat ; nut forgetting the
atteMpts at flirtation carried on with herself
by certain workmen in a merino manufacto
tory, whose pressing -machine immediately
adjoined the laundress's bark, and never fail
ed, ill going to 'aud from twenty times a day,
to thug passing compliments at. the pretty
laundress. The cheerful old man would re
!
echo the lighthearted laugh with which 1
those tales were told ; but following them up
with the soberer counsels of experience over
the closing Meal of the day, then fall gently
asleep amid the cares and caresses Of the
crest dutiful of daughters. , . . '
t $I
2 00
2 50
Three years had rolled awayaince her mo
thees death, and Blanche, happily engrossed
between her occupation abroad and her filial
duties at home, had found no leisure to listen
to tales of lure, there was, however, among
the
„young merino-dressers a tall, tine, hand
some fellow, named Victor, on whose open
countenance were written dispositions corres
ponding to thoseuf his fait neighbor ; whom,
instead of annoying with idle fimiliarities,he
gradually won upon. by respectable civility
towards herself, and still more by kind
inqui
ries,rafteder good old father.
By degtees lie took upon him to' watch
the time when she might be
_toiling, heavily
ladehed, up the steep and slippery steps ;
- and iby coming just behind - het, would slily
east her `of more than half her, burden. On
parting' at the doOr of one of 'the great pub=
lic 14Undry establishment's (where the work
begun on she river is - afterwards toolpleted,)
stould leas:,i her with. the &gent 41nii
ticM1 in iblog:iifore was meant than met the
" Good-by, Blanche till we meet. a
gain."
with,
t thus
ques-
, .
gineh' persevering attentions aiiihr- hardly
be ttepaid withindiffereial saidlilinebe was
of ,tee kindtpw nature: , to remain unnioved
bythem; , But While she. ,eandidly„'aeltnowl-,
edged' thil impreadonAbey_!md made
Asait, and thittit Arai atie- Which - -.46 '-wcos*. l
ca to grave; sbeiwitb, - saittal hoiviof.
4.4 wsiluWthe'etialt allaw - no.ititi4mentr
to - another to come , between her *alba* de
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MONTROSE, PE
votedness to her blind father. " And why
should it, dear Blanche ?" was the . young
man's rejoinder ; " surely two oil us can do
more for his his happiness' than ne. I lust
my own father when a child, andl it will be
quite a pleasure to me to have sme.one I
can call so. In marrving'me, yo' will only
‘
give the old man the most dutiful f sons."
"Ah, but I should ( - rive myself .
ma.,,ter,
who would claim and engross the greate_st
- part of my love, for I know I should so love
you, Victor ! And if we had a family, the
poor dear old mal would come to have but
the third place in my heart, after having it
all to himself so long ! He would find it
out, blind as he is. though' he would never
complain; but it would make him miserable.'
No, nu; don't talk to me of marying as lung
as he lives, or tempt me with thoughts of a
happiness which I have quite enough to fore
go. Let poor Blanche fulfil the task G o d has
given her to perform ; and don't lure her by
your honied words to forget hUr most sacred
- 41uti' ! "
Pour Blanche might well say - she bad
enough to du to maintain her dutiful resulu-
Lion, between the gentle importunities of her
betrothed, and the general chorus of plead
ings in his favor 'among her sisterhood in the
boat, whom Victor s good lookg and good
behaviour had converted into stanch ahies,
and who could nut conceive it possible to re
sist so handsome and su constant a lover.—
Borne down by - their homely remonstrances,
.which agreed but too well with her own in
ternal feeling's, Blanche came at length to
confess that if she had wherewithal to set up
a finishing establishment of her own, where
she could preside over her business w;thout
losing sight of her ft:they% she would at once
merry Victor. But the capita: required fur
its fitting up was at least 5006 or 6000 francs,
and where was such a sum to be gut, or how
Saved out of her scanty wages 1 Victor, how
ever, caught eagerly at the promise, and nev
er lost Sight of the hope it held out of attain
tug darling object.
He was able to fire francs a day, and
had laid by something ; and the master whom'
he had served for ten years, and who expres
sed a great regard for him, would,
_perhaps,
advance part of the sum. Theti, again, the
good women of the boat, whose united year
ly deposits atnountvi to upwards of 9000
traut., kindly expressed their willingness to
advance out of their sitving,s the needful for
the marriage of the two lovers. But Blanche
whilst over flowing with "gratitude 'for the
generous offer, persisted in her resolution not
to marry till their own joint earnings should
enable her to set up a laundry.
• That she worked the harder, and saNad
the harder to bring this about, may easily be
believed. But the race is not always to the
swift; and the desired event was thrown
hack by a new calamity, which Well nigh
'dasK-il her hopes to the ground. Her old
father.wh o had been subjected fur fifty years
of a laborious life to the damps of the rkler,
was - seized with. an at tack of "rheumatic ;cwt,
'-whicii rendered him completely helpless, by
depriving him of - the use of his limbs. •
Here was an end at once to all his.remain
ing sources of amusement and occupation—
it might be said, to his very animated exist-
'ence ; for he was reduced to : an automaton,':,
moveable only at the will, and by the helpl
of others. He had nut o!:ly to be dressed
and fed like a new-born infant,-but to be kept
from bruodingover his state of anticipated
death by cheerful conversation,by news from
the armies, by words of consolation and read
ing
mute precious still,in all of which Blanche
was fortunately an adept. The old man now
remained in bed till nine, when Blanche reg,
ularly left the boat, took him up, set him in
his old arm chair, gave him his breakfast,
and snatching a crust of bread for herself,
ran back to s lier work till 2 o'clock ; then she
might be seen climbing up the lung steps,
and running breathless with haste to' cheer
and comfort the old man with the meal of
warm soup, so dear to a Frenchman's . heart.
Unwilling as she was to leave him, his very
I necessities kept her at wink till a late hour,
I when, with her hard won earnings in her
hand, she would seek her infirm charge, and
fall on a thousand devices to amuse and cunt
sole him, till sleep stole atlength on eyelids
I long strangers to the light of day.
One morning, on coming home as usual
Blanche found .her dear invalid already up
and dressed, and seated in• his elbow chair;
..and on inquiring to whom she was indebted
fur so pleasing a surprise, the old man with
an odd look said he was sworn to secrecy.
But his daughter was not long in learning
that it: was her betrothed, who happy thus to
anticipate her. wishes and cares, had prevail
ed on his master to alter his own breakfast
hour, so as to enable him to devote a great
part of it to this pious office. Straight to
her heart as this considerate kindness went,
it fell short of what she experiencd when, on
coming Lome some . days ii .to.. - a r fte .k r e , she hiadis found her
-41 . caf father
- not only up but . in. a ntedicated.
bitf4 . itarnitiiitered by Victor under the. di-.
reitionS ot X 'sk)
~ brought .
" rt _ i tfi'vis y i n i.. o t i he ed pa ris tie t ni .d A f t te st e g i b y t ; 7 a f t tl 4
mot.
his
halyis„ , :whieb she held to
. 4er ' heart, she
gocAiiiiiiiilfeir,e'r cati . I ;repay what you
Iniii:diiialKinn.l' - "Witt • Blanche wts
, - thi•k6kiicus — irer;',i . c.ii, have but rtu say one
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N'A., THURSDAY, MARCO 13, 1851.
struggles of the poor workihg, girl to with
stand at once a father and a lover ! to set at
nought, for the first time, an authority never '
before disputed, and defy the power of a love
so deeply founded on gratitude. In spite of
them - all, filial duty still came offconqueror.
Blanche summoned all the energies of a tru
ly* heroic mind, to declare that not even the
happiness of belonging
tolhe very best man
she had ever heard of in her life, could induce
her to sacrifice the tender ties of nature.—
The more her father's infirmities increased,
the more dependent he would become on his
daughter: What t 6 her was a pleasure,
could, she argued toliim be inly a burden
•..time and painful task; in a word, her reso-.
lution was not to be shaken. Victor was
therefore obliged to submit, even then when
(from a delicacy which -would but incur obli
gations on which claims might be founded,
too difficult, if not, impossible to 'resist)
Blanche insisted on . defraying, from her own
resources. the expense 'of the medicated baths
thus puttinfr more hopelessly far ofl thin ev
er the long deferred wedding.
She had not the• heart, however, to deny
yietor the privilege of puting the patient
into the healing waters; which seemed daily
to Mitigate his pains, and lend his limbs
more agility. While her father was at the
worst, Blanche had been obliged altogether
to forego the river and obtain from her em
ployer permission to do what she could in
the way of her vocation at home. But whern,•
on his amendment, she resumed her out-of
door labor, a circumstance occurred so very
honorable to the class of workwomen we are .
commemorating. to their mutual attachment
and boneet feelimzs of benevolence, that to
leave it untold would be doing them and the
subject great injustice. "
With the motives for enhanced industry
which Blanche had to spur her on, that she
should be first at the opening of the boat,
with her daily lot of allotted labor, will he
little matter of surprise: or that her good
natured compitnions knowing the necessity
for exertion on her part:should abstain from
wasting her precious lime by any of their ht
tle tricks and gossip. But one morning,
when, from her father having been ill at
night, she had arrived at work unusually
late and had consequently, when the hour of
noon struck, left the greater part of-her task
(which had often detained her till night set
in) unfinished, it was nevertheless accom
asif,by magic.withimthe usual ti m e
AA her days work iriiiead of being dimin
ished rather,inereased.
Next day, and the next, their amount was
the same, till the grateful girl, suspecting to
what she owed so unforseen a result, and con-
cealing herself behind the parapet of the
quay. ascertained, by ()miler demonstration,
that during her necessary absence, her piece
was regularly occupied by one or other of
her neighbors, who took it in trim to give up
clip hour of rest, that- poor Blanche might
he no loser by her filial duty, as not one of
these worthy women would forego her share I
in this token of goodwill to the best and
most respected of daughters.
Blanche though affected and flattered,. as
may well be believed, by this novel sort of
contribution, was led, by a . delicacy of feeling
' beyond her station, to seemien e• orant of it,
till the additional funds thus procured had
enabled her to effect. the complete cure of her
father, whom she then informed of the means
by which it had been purchased. and eagerly
led the recruited it,valid to reward, better
than she could do, her ffenermiii companions.
Amid the hand shaking and congratula
tions which marked this happy meeting Vic
tor, we may he sine, was not behind-hand t
only, lie managed to 'whisper, amid the gen
eral tide of jOy, "Am I to he the only one
you have not made happy to-day r' Too
much agitated to reply, Blanche only held
the faster to her father's arm.
Among the laundresses of the barges there
is a custom of choosing annualy one of their
number, whom they style their queen tc 4 pre-
side over their festivities, and decide disputed ‘,
points in the community. Mid-Lent the,
the queen of the boat
season fur appointing
.arrived, and Blanche was duly elected at the
fete always given on the occasion. The boat
was pity dressed i ap with. ship's colors, and
a profusion of eatlly spring' flowers ; and all
were as happy as possible. -
In England, on theioccasion of any appointment
like that with. which Blanche was. endowed, there
would be no kind of ceremony, and no ornaments
would be einployedi but 'it' is doubtful whether
we are any the better for-thus despising.a tasteful
and joyous way of performing a gracious„and useful
public act. Be this as it' may. the barge of. the
laundress was as we have raid, gaily decOrated and
there was to
be a species of 'ceremonial at the in
stalatioo,of Blanche.
What a happy moment it was for the good
daughter—how much more happy for the aged fa
ther of such a daughter. Old Raymond, firmer on
his 'hubs than ever, led .on his blushing , daughter,
and had the Welcome office assigned hirtiof phieing
'on ve r bead, the ro s y crowne-a task which . his
trembling Angers could scarcely artinapliati. .4f
. ter. bars; madea prayer, and called! down on tbis:
bead of Ore dutiful girl, wheat -he,:lialf smothered
witlrkisses; the best blessings of:Heaven, he left
her to receiTO the . felicitations at her new made
• subjects,
_wen whom the diatorolite Victor was
*gain 400_0 exclaim ; se I ant still the only oast
yon'won't.tnake. • e.' •-• ,• •
The tnelettchßT words proved tag potentsfae s
. the oeftenedl2 i sof Blauche'S hiSiest neighbor
'PeTtiee* l l.Y* 'e trhwe boat t it liras of ; mbet'.
;ais.q.o«a usitti,tithisly; the st_aisi'tr
stress tst:ll4
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laundry establishtnent, who' having long had
thoughts of retiring, freely °tiered her the businesi
whenever she should be able to muster 5000 francal.
"Oh cried Victor, I have already a fourth of it
and Fit engage my master will advance' the rest r
- " It is not to bethought of; it wonlatbe a,debt
could never repay, cried the upright Blanche ; wr
never should be able to make ups. large tisuni."l.
" Pardon Mademoiselle," replied an elderly geti
tLeman who had unobserved, mingled as a. spectaL
tor in the scene, " You now have the,tneanso l f,
paying it with the prize of 6000 francs. left for - the
reward of virtue in humble lite by tiie latedil. Mon;
thyon, and awarded to you by- the French Acade
my, at the repreientations of the sniijor of, th i b y
eighth arrondissement of Paris. The mayor it ie
pleasing to know, hail become acquaintetfwili i,
your excellent fi lial devotion from the laundresses `.
of the city now assembled." I
.
Aslinut ofjoy burst from all around and that
which followed may be left to the imagination:
will suffice t 6 state that Blanche, simple and n4l-_
est as ever, could sca , cely believe in the honor slit;
so unexpectedly received; while her surrounding
companions derived from it she lesson, that the
filial piety so decidedly inculcated and rewards 41.
by Heaven. and equally admirable in its effects_ in
the cottage and the palace, does .not always go
unrewarded on earth.
Begin Right.
BY AN op CORRESPON-DENT.
Thoi'following if not new, is at least tru ;
and is worthy attention, at this partieuhir
time when so tuany " ut 'eni"; are, rushing ii
etattinently into , the bonds of ni4trimony, to
be hist to us forever.
This little fable. said my Uncle, may pet--
haps be of service•to some poor devil, mote
willing than wise.
A certain man- Once married a ladY, swho.e
reputation for amiability of disposition
seriously qu(tqiuned, if it was not in reality
seeitusly questionable. At the wedding
thing went off merrily, •of coursi4 the
party gay, the supper magnificent—the
whole r had been eminently successhil,
and all parties extremely delighted:
On retirin7,*tu his apartments, the gentle
man found himself annoyed by the mewing
and purring of a cat,
" What iu the devil's name is that 1 he ex
claimed. -
. .
"Oh ! nothincr; Tr" dear,"` replie&the
" but .my favorit a el eat., Prussita.'
.". O , h d hate:Oa4-17,:.W1
with this he most unceremoniously
Prussitaout of the second story window., L.-
" Nell ! if you haven't got a temper !"
" Yes : my -dear—you'd better believe 4.7
" Ever2i thing," continued my Uncle, went.
on well, in that cstablishmeut--even to a
warm dinner on Sunday.
.Now it so .happened that a friend of the
above mentioned gentleman who had
months before committed the error of imir r
Vying an angel tuck occasion to inquire
him—
" How- it was, that with him,- every thing
went. merry as the marriaire bell,'-while, on
the contrary he, (his friend) had almost giv
en up the idea of wearing the pantaloons at.
all."
Whereupon he related to him the story
of Prussita and the second story window,
without, said Uncle, "fully impressing- u pen
his mind the important tnoral ; that it isnec
.essary to begin right .", Nevertheless, there
was that in his eye when he started for hnthe,
" that told of treason."
" ? saidr-his wife, " you've conie home
at last, have you—after keeping me sitting
up for you—andf what's the matter; you
haven't been drinking have you ? you idok
very strange." -
" Not in the least, my Tlear—but I hate
cats. lovey."
" You do ; do von;; well, I like 'em ; that's
all the difference."
d
hereupon the unfortunate huSband made
a dash at poor Tabby ; who was quietly .
snoozing on the sofa—and rushed impetuous
ly the window,
" You have been drinking. What are
you going to do monster I .- • -
,•
"Throw her out of the window c."
" You better try it; I'd like to see yottl: do
it ; I'd break every bone in your lxkly why do " u't you ; throw Ler out ; r dare you, to; do
He put the cat,aotily down, on the, sOfa,
hung his hat on a pe g , in the .entrk.his:nian;
liness and his pantaloOnS:Oni an, nail. chair
and exclaimed—
" Go in, duckey anaiil44.4-dido , t ;
begin. right."
" I rather think you didn'tt-,Y*l?e:t*,
take a fresh start—but don't try *iv*,
again, or you'll catch it ; cute
went." - '
" Wrong from the beginning," aaid.U.,a:ele.
Oh dear me.—Spirit of the. Tinies..l'
•
Ose CossotaTioN.---An Irishrain a clay
or two since, who had been often itatiprOtt,
ably employed as a stevedore; wai'etsatr*ed,
One day intently gazing at a steaaf..ogleii
that was whizzing away a „swift . 044 4 - 4
jog his work tor'him,.anti
out-from the hold' of a ship, qaiOcerAhlis-. yea
can 4ay,.."Jack itobinSon." Pat looked till'
his anger was - pretty: well=np, then'Sjiakrpg:
his fi it-it it, be e.xelAimed-r:,t[Cheiik,h**
s PetiCfPet , anletneti4
YoPuld 'dolt
wprkoftweet ;fejlieS4i,-2iii#;t44Fiej
Vread 11 6 1 104j*
by the* -I 'ilbut , w4 cl4st#K
blazer mind°t {,~~ , ptck
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Yon .ask" me taco; )1011, man.,
• I smoke:B%44i
I frankly" ansWi6eilie — tirimi.„!d`•,
And mean-itist ititiff"
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Too seeem fill in , a kin
• And dOnbt
Bat• how , eancone_do more
What on i do#'
Rather
• Ro ma ntic
We heard' - of ab incident of
from the lips of ESq. Tailoro
a good deal or-thi-Minalitic;'
none the less true.l In the fail
man by t he , riameof-Eleazei'l
in company with Job Kendall;
for New Orleau.s,)he boat hen
produce : owned by the two - itier
succeeded iu di:Owing of wit.
_the whole reelt4s.eanluant
$5OOO, being divided betweek„,
passed, and Mr. Fitch did : ' not
mush to the surkise 'or his . *.. ~... _
whom he had lea' behind With t*ckelki)i k 44
nor could she
,gain ah37`slaeli . io° O;A' .ll4 t .
after Mr. Kendallparted With - liiiit',it 2: Ii ` t 4 '',
f
Orleans to returnl, -,.. - ;-':-i - , - 2.?'-, ,, ,,4' 5 ' t o
It is true the Wife, soon. after • I
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Mr. Kendall, received a patief,:whiP4wllialk r V
ed an announcement of the dialk.„- - :#V - 04- ; .4
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Fitch killed in a i:aming salCiOn'_Witiii*4 i # ::Y4' . ;.;*
'from Cincinnati,l but 'still 'hcife--.:71ihi:,,""
is g:_•,:
,thacit, could not t r ie her husband,f,494 l ... :4-
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came not. A felt ' monthi over lii 4*(1'4 . !
over her head, and theu - she'sgitirenopOK .`,-•.,
'departed one wasilost, and_Sher.h4d''; - „..tiel,
dressed by atibthir, and frequetiqiiii ' rtli , i4;l4E.
and to marry, - her condition'imlik'",:',, l il
none of the best she,yielded aMtlrittiK44,V
Well, the long anki . theshort.of t4kiiltiAtils i
that the bride lisied very happily : "2 .- siritV4* - t i
new husband until Sunday- nigiit;',:itiatiii
who should welkii• into -the , presence..if;:'ol'
double wife bat Ur: Fitch him5e1f...1;46114
a "scene ensued, a but no damagiiwl: J i
He then gave a r4esn for: his leng
On the day liecfreOivect 14 Ini
produce in New deans; he went
the gambling he L ! rind lost'all;
the following day; Mr - California,.
.ed purpose, went= into the empl
Sutter until the gold fever broke
he left for the inirm: succeeded.'"
-about $7,000 in hellbst; with
ted-for San - Fnimiiscorwhr'''
the first hotel -that was opened 4
Rortunw l poured ill upon hinii-and
ded to return horde, and he:ditt 4
stated with a pock et full of rocksi.
Toe romance i to come; lie,
take her again a&i',,a‘wife, and,also
youngster she had bpher. seconi
to which she consonted, in despi'
mous - trances, as •rierq last niarri
legal. The nextoa.y Esq. Tayli
in, and united for3the second' ti
lock, a man and ?as wife, tibia li;
arated for a term,"of years. Thy
in'a, few days to California. girt
happen occasionally- in this buti
Cincinnati .Enq. fi -
k ---- T
A ...-,
A NAVAL ,-.. in-- person in!!
temperance refoOnation had
effect, entered *I a state of el
temperance grocery in a neigh
" Mr. ----, eichthned be,- , 44-
-any—thing— , •o take herel74';;...
I" Yes replied the Inesphgn#,lti
excellent cold water.; the best„:, , ..k
world to tske.” 1 4 -::`,.::,X .. :.
-" %yell, I knot ij," repli4triioa,„..,
"there's no one-thing; that's d6iitr4. - 4iiiiii4.
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for navigation as hat,'. ' ''. 'I , : - -'22.374'1 4 7 4.
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posed of certain gases,one,nf them. s e44 - 0141
Some time ' since} , when' Profe*r . :lloo4l! si
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in Pittsburg jwi#:decoiniosing i:iii4iti;.l-00, 1
causing terrific eso6sioruc , of iti - e - n - rnOisipa-
gasses, a:rather free liver.inlhesifitidiesig I
claimed, as he 'Feld - hiillial)Cfii;latfW t :Lli
1
" Catch me putting waterin., ukt - .hitiiiiiidijklt i
ter this—l iiikil r e be..blOvin - ip -, iliaAliiticiiii 4,5
er of a steamboif." '- ' 7 .. ,-, , , :' - ' l,- :.C - :.( 4 :' =- Mii;i - ;.:
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A negro preaelletj'aa lrklteethintkiadirkAtA 4
the'Bos.-on Muae l pin; teferiineter44liiii* 2-
ment day in oge- Of kis;seiinoint . l .
" Bredren and si#ters, iretlint : diCiAl4rtii4 tl
shall divide the sheep Oum: ,. thi 7 esititif: . .aliill4 q
bress the Lord we , VinciiiL,Wldeliiiiireitiiiii , i4
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