VOL. X.--NO. 10.]
A 1) VEIII'ISENI ENTS
To - t%w© 'Voters of. .Adams
l; Du ltt 1 .
FELLOW CITIZENS :
offer myself to your consideration as a
candidate for the offices of Register, and
Recorder (under such combination as may
be adopted by the Legislature,) at the onsu•
Ling election.
Under a knowledge acquired from attend
ing to several of the duties appertaining to
said offices, and practical skill as a convey
uincer, I hope (if nominated and elected) to
be able to execute the duties thereof person
rally, in a prompt and correct mariner.
Yours, respectfully.
_JOHN L. GU BERNATOR.
March 12, 1839: if-50
To tine,- Voters of ~Adams
C ouut .
FELLIVW CITIZENS:
Offer myself to your consideration as a
• a • candidate for the offices of Register, Re.
corder and Clerk of the Orphans' Court, at
the ensuing election.
Having, from practical experience acqui
red a perfect knowledge .of the dutieb of
those offices,l hope (ii nominated and elect
ed) to be able do the business promptly, cor
rectly and in person.
The Public's Humblo Servant,
, WILLIAM KING.
Gettysburg, Feb. 26, 1839. to-48
'loo• the Voters of ,dams
Comity .
lIIHE Subscriber, offers himself to the
Jo- consideration of his fellow citizens of
Adams county, as a candidate for the offied
of Prothopptary of said County, (providee
Le shall receive the nomination of the Con•
vention to settle a county ticket.) And res
pectfully solicits their support.
B. GILBERT.
Gettyaliurg, Feb. 26, 1639. te-49
To the Independent Voters of
Adams County.
FELLOW-CITIZENS:
I offer myself to your consideration,
at the ensuing General Election, as a can.
didate for the offices of Register, Record
er, and Clerk of Me Orphans' Court: And
pledge myself, if elected, to discharge the
duties of those offices with fidelity and
promptitude.
JACOB LEFEVER.
March 19, 1839. to-51
STUERIFF ALTY.
To the Free and Independent
Voters of .tdams County.
FELLOW CITIZENS :
Through kind persuasions from
many of my friends, I have been induced to
offer myself as a candidate for the .
Office of Sheriff;
at lb, ensuing Election, and respectfully
solicit your votes. And should Ibe so for
tunate as to receive your confidence, by be•
ing elected to that office, I pledge myself to
discharge the duties of the office with fideli
ty and impartiality.
FREDERICK DIEHL.
Franklin township,
!larch 19,1839. S
S 12 11 Arra .L Tlr •
To the free and Independant voters of
Adams County.
FELLOW CITIZENS :
1 oiler myself again to your con
sideration as a Candidate for tho
Office of Sheriff;
at the ensuing Election, (If I receive the
nomination of our next General County
Delegation) I would then warmly solicit
your suffrages. And should I be so fortunate
as to become the Honored Candidate of your
choice, I would evince my gratitude to you
all, by a faithful discharge of the duties of
said Office, and by adhering to punctuality,
and to iiiipartial,humane, and social feeling.
The Public's Humble Servant,
Wll. ALBRIGHT.
Conowago Township, April 23. tf-4,
A.IATY.;
To the Voters of Adams County.
FELLOW CITIZENS:
Through the encouragement of
many of my friends, I offer myself as a can•
didate for the
°like of Sheri ff;
for said County at the ensuing Election,
should I receive the nomination of the Con
liention to settle a county ticket, and be
'elected, I pledge myself to perform the dut
sea of that Office promptly and impartially.
JACOB KELLER.
.Manutjoy township,
'April 23, 1833.-
MILIE UAW IF < .
}GEORGE W. M'CLELLAN„
Returns his sincere thanks to his
friends and the public in rneral, for placing
on the returns with th•e preseneand
former Sheriff, and again offers himself
once. tnomus a candidate for the
Onice or Sheriff,
at the ensuing Election. Should' he be
honored with their confidence in placing
him in tlint office, no exeriinn on his part
shall he wanting to a faithful discharge of
the duties of that important trust
March 19, 1539.
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THE GARLAND
—" With sweetest flowerienrich'd
From various gardens cull'd with care."
The Broken Heart.
BY TUE ETTILICK BLIENIEBD.
Now lock my chamber-door, father,
And say you left me sleeping ;
But never tell my step mother
Of all this bitter weeping.
No earthly sleep can ease my smart,
Or even a while reprieve it ;
lor there s a pang at my young heart
Thet never more can'leave it !
0, let me lie and weefirriy fill
.O'er wounds that heal can never;
And 0, kind Heaven I wore it thy will,
To close these eyes forever:
For how can maid's affections dear
Recall her love mistaken
Or how can heart of maiden hear,
To know that heart forsaken?
0, why should vows so fondly made,
13e broken uro the morrow,
To one who loved as never maid
Loved in this world of sorrow 1
Nor pity's eye more dreary ;
A quiet sleep within the grave
Is all fur which I weary !
THE SPOT WHERE I WAS BORN
I have wander'd on thro' many a clime,
Where flowers of beauty grew,
Where all WU blissful! to the heart,
And lovely to the view ;
I have seen them in their twillight pride,
And in the dress•of morn !
But none appeared so sweet to me,
As the spot where I•was born.
I have wandur'd on thro' many a clime,
And gazed on Palaze wells ;
Yet never wished that step of mine,
Should tread these stately halls ;
For midst the pomp that circled me,
I still should be forlorn ;
Give me, give me lowliest cot
On the spot where I was born.
4113 a FII~p~QII4OFi3~'fo
From the New, Orleans Picayune
Fun on Board a Steamboat.
PLAYING A STRONG GANZ WITH A POKER PLATER.
Not long since a gambler had a game
played upon him by the deck hands and hro.
men on board one of our Western steamers;
a game even stronger than that played by
our Second Municipality on this class of
the community in New Orleans.
It seems that he'had made out to "strike
up a small game' of poker with some of the
deck hands, and that, by dint of cheating,
putting up the cards, and other tricks known
only to those up to and who make a living
by "handling the papers," he had transfer.
red nearly all the surplus revenue frorp their
pockets into his own. He "cut and shuf
fled" to all appearance fair for some time,
but was finally caught at some trick, which
at once let the honest . steamboat men into
the secret of "hovi, the thing was done,"
and,oved that , they lost their money by
anji,Athjr than the "clean thing."
'iyga.ne, as a matter of course, was
"Mocked" at once, and a demonstration im
mediately made that the . gambler shou!d
Fork over his ill gotten gains. This he flat
ly refused to do—said that he had won the
money fair, and that ho was very clear of '
parting with what he had come honestly by.
They still persisted, and he still refused.
The boat at length stopped to wood, when
the men, finding it useless to attempt re•
gaining their Money by fair nicans, resort.
ed toe plan wgich the gambler undoubtedly
thought foul. flaying gained the consent
of the engineer to use. the engine for a short
time, they fortharftlr-put. a pen in execu•.
tion—a plan rather bordering on that code
of laws generally known as coming under
the especial jurisdiction of Judge Lynch.
They in the first place made one end of
the rope fast round the neck of the Wonder
ing gambler, wli.!k. the other was tied to the
end . of the piston rod, allowing. him only
two or three feet slack. They told him
that unless ha• shelled out their money in
stanter, they would - work the engine, and at
the same time that they were not responsi-
We for any injuries lie might sustain. Loth
lICPFEWIRLESS .1.4"D-FILIEE..Z3I
ROBERT S. P.IXTOJr, EDITOR .I.VD PROPRIETOR.
etwaiwreazarame terszatur awicwat auo.
to give up his gains, the follow cast one look
at the new system of extortion, cooly cal
rallied his chances, and then told them
"they might work away and be d—d."
No sooner said than done; and the gam
bler was immediately seen first chasing the
piston rod upon all fours, and then backing
out of its way. His eye all the time was
as firmly set upon the rod as ever that of
Herr Chno or Gabriel Ravel was upon the
tight rope. After working him forward
and back several times, one of his tormen.
tors asked him—
Dont you think it beat to hand over?"
"Dont bother me," retorted the gambler.
"You'll get sick of that fun," said anoth•
er of the boatmen, as he was following the
piston rod up in the attitude of a bear.
"Not as you know on," rejoined'the gam
bler, as he backed out of its way.
In this way they ran upon the poor fel
low for some time, he still manifesting en
unwillingness to give up his spoils By
this time all the cabin passengers had heard
of the fun going on below, and went down
to witness it. Alter a few moments respite
The engine was again. set in motion, and
the gambler along with it. The laugh from
the bystanders was boisterous and hearty in
the extreme, as the poor fellow, intent upon
nothing but his own safety, followed the.
piston rod up to prevent his neck being
jerked off, and then backed out of its way
to avoid being fairly ran over end crushed.
We can liken hie look and actions to noth
ing save au old bear being dragged by a
chain up to some point against his will, and
backing out the moment a foot of slack was_
given him ; or else to a savage and hungry
bull dog with a rope round his neck, fiercely
endeavoring to get at some prey, and then
being dragged back the moment his mouth ,
was opened to secure it.
"Fire and fall back," was heard from an
individual in the crowd.
"Root hog, or die," came from another.
"Twig him—only logic !" says one.
"Here he goes, there he goes," said
second.
"Ha, ha, he, he, hi, hi, ho, ho," laughs
another.
"Aint he in a pretty fix ?" cried a third.
"Serves him right," says the fourth.
"Good enough for him," said a fifth, the
piston rod all the while keeping him in full
exercise, with the prespiration rolling duwn
his cheeks in streams.
"flint you most ready to hand over now?"
said one of the plucked deck hands. . 1
"Dont bother me, I say' retorted the
gambler, "if you do lone my lick:"
"Wont you give up the - intiney V' said
anal har of those he had floicceeLL _
“It dn, ; but if I do, I'm d--:01,
continued the coinnanion of the rod. "I-'yo
got the hang of this game—uuderstandihe
principles of this machinery now, and you
may work me from one end of the Missis
sippi to the other before I'll give up the first
red cent—that you may."
The 'gambler was worked in this way tin
til the boat was ready to start-, without
flinching or showing any disposition to give
up. Considering that they had got the
worth of their money out of him in the shape
of filo, and that he had worked hard, and
afforded sufficient amusement to more than
compensate for their odd bits and picay.
Imes, the engine was stopped and the man
let loose.
After puffing, blowing, and wiping the
perspiration from bib face, the gambler
looked at his tormentors with a self-satisfi
ed air, and exclaimed, "You can't come it
over this child with any of your common
games. I've stood three pluck, once too
often to be bluffed off even if there was for
ty against me. Any time you want to get
up another game, and ther's any thing to be
made by it, I'm your man."
The boat was soon under way, arid all
hands adjourned to their respective call
ings.
Eccentric Incident.
During the late American war, a soldier
who had been wounded and honorable dis•
charged—but perhap not paid—being des
titute and benighted, knocked at the door
of an Irish farmer, when the following die.
lugue ensued.
Patrick. And who are you, now 'I
Soldier. My name is John Wilson I
P. And where are you going from John
Wilson t
8. From the American Army at Erie
sir.
P. And what do you want here 1
S. I want shelter to.nialit. Will you
permit to spread my blanket on your
floor, and sleep to•night?
P. Devil take me if I do, John Wilton
—that's flat.
S. On the kitchen floor, air.
P. Not I, by the Hill o' Howth!—that's
flat.
S. In your stable, then 7
P. I will not do that - either —that'sflat.
S. lam dying with hunger. Give me
but a bone and a crust—l ask no more.
P. I will not—that's flat.
S. Give me some water to quench my
thirst, I beg of you. •
P. Beg and be hanged., I'll do no such
thing—that's fiat.
S. • Sir, I have been- fighting to secure
the blessings you now enjoy. I have ass's•
ted in contributing to the glory and welfare
of the country which has hospitably receiv
ed you, and can you so inhospitably reject
me from your house ? •
P. Reject you Who talked a word
about rejecting you 7 May be lam not the
scurvy spalpeen that you take me to be,
John Wilson. You asked me to let you lie
on my floor, my kitchen floor, or my stable.
Now, by the powers! d'ye think I'd let a
perfect stranger do that, when I hire hull
a dozed soft feather beds, all empty 1 No,
by the Hill o' Howth 1 John—that's flat.
In the second place, you told me you were
dying with hunger, and wanted a hone and
a crust to eat. Now, honey, d'ye think I'd
feed a hungry man on bones and crust,
when my yard is full of fat pullets and tut.-
keys and pigs 1 No, by the powers, not I
-that's flat. In the third place, you ask'd
me for some simple water to quench my
thirst. Now, as my water in rime of the
best, I never give it to a poor traveller
without mixing it with plenty of wine, bran
dy, whiskey, or something else wholesonie
and cooling. Come into my house, my
honey. You shall sleep on a bed, nod have
the best Supper and breakfast that my farm
can supply, which, thank t h e Lord, is none
of the worst. You shall drink as much
water as you choose, provided also you pre
feeit. Come in, my hearty, come in and
feel yourself at home It shall never be
said that Patrick O'Flaherty treated a man
scurvily who has been fighting for the dear
country that gave lain protection—that's
Waste of Property in War.
It is incalculable, because we can esti•
mate only its expenses, a mere fraction of
what it wastes : but these alone , are enor
mous, even in a time of peace. The ex
penses of the United States in one farm or
other tor war in 1832 were $30,554,000,
and for all other purposes only $3,702,000.
From 1816 to 1834, a period of 18 years,
our natioeal expenses were 8463,915,756,
an average of 825,773,097; a year, all of
which, except about three millions and a
half, were for the purposes of war I Of
the whole sum, more than 398,000,000
were for war, and only about 64,000,000,
less than ono sixth, for the necessary op
erations of government ! The war debt of
Great Britain is nearly 4,000,000,000.
From 1719 to 1817, she raised by revenue
$6,192, 806,066 ;, ap average of 1,143,444
evere day for twenty years, and full fifty
nine sixtieths of it all for war.
LOSS OF LIFE BY WAR.
Julius Caesar once annihilated an army of
303,000 ; of another he slew. 400,000 1
and on another occasion he massacred more
than 430,0001 Jenghiz-Kahn once shot
00,000 men in cold blood. At another time
he rirasacred full 200,000, and sold 100,000
for slaves. In a mingle district he butchered
1,808,000, arid in two cities with their de
pendencies, 1,780,000 I During the late
wars of Europe, no less than 6,800,000
livea-are supposed to have been lost iu
'ro.:years ; and the spurner& are said
ifilmMe - destroyed in 42 years more than
12 000,000 of the American Indians! How
Lug Will Christians connive at such a cus
tom
NAPOLEAN'S SACRIFICE OF LIFE.
'Never was there a conqueror,' says an
European paper; 'who fought more battles
or overthrew more thrones than Napoleon.
But we cannot appreciate the degree and
quality of his glory, without weighing the
means he possessad, and the results which
he accomplished. Enough for our present
purpose will be gained, if we set before us
the mere resources of flesh and blood which
he called into pay from the rupture of the
peace of Amien in 1854 down to his e•
ventful exit. At the time he had, as he
declared to Lord Wentworth, an army on
foot of 480,000 men ; and from 1&04 to
;14 he levied at !cast 2,965,904. This
statement is deficient ; but, even if we do.
duct the casualties, as well as the 300,000
men disbanded in 1815, we shall be much
under the mark In affirming that he rlaugh
tered two millions and a 'halt of human be.
logs, and these all Frebchmen. But we
have yet to add the thousands and tens of
thousands of German, Swiss, Poles, Ital
lane, Neapolitans, and Illyrians. whom he
forced under his eagles, and at a moderate
computation, these cannot have fallen short
of half a million. It is obviviously just to
assume that the number who fell on the
side of bis adversaries was equal to that
against which they were brought. Here
then is our data for asserting that the latter
years of his glory were purchased at no
less an expense than six millions of human
lives !"
LOST OR STOLEN.
By a system of ceaseless depredations
during some years past, the undersigned
has lost the following items of property
viz:
An unincumbored estate,
A vigorous canstitutbn,
A fair moral character,
A good standing in society,
An an active healthful conscience,
And an immortal soul.
Also at the same time, or soon after, the
of of wife, children and friends.
It is supposed that these things were fe
loniously abstracted from the undersigned
by a gang of fellows, whom he had long
entertained as friends, and who are known
to roam about with fair and alluring pre
tence for the commission of similar acts ;
their names are various, such as Rum
Brandy, Wine, dr.c., and they are known' to
be harboured at certain places in this
town. If any 'person will aid in bringing
the culprits to justic, he studl be rewarded
with all that is left to the aubscriber,.a cup
of clear, cold water. '
There is a manufactory of pins at Derby
in Connecticut, which it is said, takes tho
shine off kern all the pewter button manu
factories in that state, and will make n new
chapter for the clock pedlcrs. Hitherto
Melt bus hal mule a tao , :apf.lv f to
pin business; and his patient subjects were
content to make pin heads for sixpence per
diem and go supperless to bed. This Der.
by manufactory saves more than nine tenths
of the labor and makes better pins—inas•
much as the heads are formeft!, out of the
same wire with the pin, and thoznfore can
not come off Instead of seeing -a stalwart
John Bull moving the wire with his clumsy
fingers, we have a curious machinery by
which the pins are manufactured by one
process from the wire faster than one per
son can count them.—Boston T imes.
A new vegetable has been introduced in
London which bids fair to outdo the Chi-
nese cora, Morns Multicaulis, gotten pota
toe and cotton seed at fifty cents a kernel.
It is a species of clover from Bachsra,
which grows to the height of to. or twelve
feet, can be cut every month; and multi
plies at the rate of 300,000 seeds for oach
grain sown.
TELE RETORT NOT CORTEOIIB.-'Dr. Por
son,' said a gentleman to the great 'Gre
cian,' with whom he had been disputing
'Dr. Person, my opinion of you is tnost
contemptible.' .Sir,' returned the Doctor,
never• knew an opinion of yours that was
not contemptible.'
The man or woman of peevish temper
may be morally and, intellectually good
in other respects, and none can tell whence
an irritable temper may proceed. Disease
adversity, intercourse with mankind, and
many other circumstances, give a bias to
the temper which it would be unjust to
censure, since who can tell but it might
be his own case ►n like circumstances 7
Anon.
BEAUTIFUL EXTRACT.-Deduct from the
calculation of human life the years of help-
less infancy and thoughtless childhood, take
from it the years of decrepitude and the
days of sickness—think of the hours that
are unprofitably and idly spent—how few
are left for the cultivation of the under.
standing, for the improvement of the heart
and, in a word, for the great purpose for
which we are sent into the world.
A GENUINE COXEDY OF ERRORS occur.
red in New York a day or two since, which
is related in the New York Despatch. A
foreign gentleman, named Fanigantus,about
a year since, paid fits addresses to a young
lady named Devlin. He was accepted, and
led her blushing to the altar, where the ma
trimonial knot was tied, not sufficiently
tight, however, to effectually secure the
husband, who, in three weeks time, gathered
about eight hundred dollars' in moody be
longing to his wife 'and her brother, and
then ran off: All the means the forsaken
fair one had recourse to, failed to discover
the place of his retreat. On Sunday last,
as she was returning from church, she dia.
covered Mr. Fanigantus standing upon the
steps of a hotel, employed in picking his
teeth with a quill. Miss Devlin hastened
to a magistrate, stated the case, obtainedi a
warrant, and had it served upon the gent e
man who was picking his teeth on the hotel
steps. He was brought before the justice,
and accused of his cruel desertion of her.
The gentleman was astonished to find that
he lied a wife, as he had always suspected
himselfof being an incorrigible old bachel
or, but was still more surprised to hear that
his name was Fanigantus—as he had been
christened as Cox, and had only been in
this country four months from London.
As the lady persisted ho was her husband,
Mr. Fanigantus, and he was equally positive
that he was Mr. Cox, the husband of no
body; the magistrate was perplexed how to
decide, until the lady recollected that there
was a certain mark upon her husband's
body by which ho could be identified. A
committee of investigation was immediate
nilmintoll In PV:.ntino , t' , o f:OtIth'r11:111.1:1
VAGABOND.
From the United dtates Magazine.
The Ballot Box.
Freedom's consecrated dower,
Casket of a princely gem ! '
Nobler heritage of powar
Than imperial diadem! •
Cornor.stono on which was reared
Liberty's triumphal dome,
When her glorious form appeared
'Midst our own green mountain home I
Purchased by as noble blood
Ac in mortal'veins o'er run,
By the toil of those who stood
At the side of WAsuuvriTos,—
By tho hearts that met the foe
On their native battle plain,
Where the arm that deals the blow
Never needs to strike again !
Where the craven that would dare
Mar it with polutcd breath I
&awned and cursed, be his to share -
The traitor's shame—the, traitor's death!
Let his faithless heart be torn
From his recreant bosom riven,
And, upon the whirlwind borne,
To the carrion be given
Guard it, freemen !--guard it well !
Sisitleas as your maiden's fame
Never let your children tell
Of your weakness—of your shame—
That their fathers basely sold
What wee bought with blood and toil,
That you bartered right for gold,
Here on freedom's sacred soil l .
Let your eagle's quenchless eye,
Fixed, unerring, sleepless, bright,
Watch when danger hovers nigh,
From his lofty !ponntstins height
While the stripes and stars shall wave
O'er this treasure, pure and free,
The land's Palladium, it shall save
The home and shrine of liborty.
[WHOLE NO: 478
person, tut all their scrutiny' was unable t
detect the mark described. This settled
the magistrate's doubts, half satisfied the la
dy, and the gentleman departed, with
stronger determination than ever to keep
clear of the females.
Mr. Jacob Min°, a loco loco physician,
has been appointed a leg treasurer in Mich•
igan. Ile "will no , doubt show himself an
adept in the heeling art.—Prentice. -
VUV - Al2M?dala(Dre W2P4ll?4Zqial92
CHILDS WARNING.
BY ROBERT MORRIS, ' e.r4.
The world had gone wrong `with Ralph
Cecil, a false friend had betrayed and nearly
ruined him, and his enargiesfaltered beneath
the blow. Moody and depressed in spirit,
and without the divine light of religion to
cheer his-seal, or brighten his path, he neg
lected his farm, and resorted too frequently
to the neighboring and deceptive sign of
"the plongh."
Ralph was a husband and a father, and
bitter and burning were the tears that fell
from the tender and sorrow•speaking eyes
of his gentle wife. She still loved him,
but more in memory of the past a and what
be then was, than in virtue and acquittal of
his present condition and :conduct. Then
on each return from market, the smile of
contentment and hippiness brightened his
features—and he urged his horses to a more
rapid pace, as the green vines and white
washed fences of his happy home broke
upon his gaze, and he saw the bright eyes
and chubby cheeks of his little boy,
peeping from between the leaves and over.
shadowing branches. Now the midnight
hour frequently passed by, and found him
still away I—and his return was otten more
fearful than his absence, for unkindness was
in his heart and madness in his brain. His
eyes were .wild and bloodshot,and he threw
himself upon the floor, ashamed to ask for
his child, or worse, unable to shape his
thoughts into an intelligible form:
Thus rolled the months away. Ralph
was rapibly sinking in morals and in mind
—in character and fortune. His boy
was now six years old, a bright intelligent
child, who loved his father despite his faults,
for in his calm and sober moments, Ralph
was still capable of noble and generous
impulses, of emotions that do honor to our
nature.
The month •was -April, and Ralph had
determined to go to market early, especi
ally as he said, he intended in his return to
stop and vote at the plough. His wife pre
vailed upon him to take the 4 ilittle George"
, along—and also expressed a hope that he
would return before 'nightfall.
The market over, Ralph put his horses
to the wagon, and hastened homeward.
George reminded him of his promises to
return before nightfall, and hoped he would
not stay long at the lection.
"No—my son l I'll just get my vote in
and hurry on horn`"
Italph meant what he said, for he knew
his weakness. Besides the child's look was
full of meaning. It went to the • heart of
the father, and called the blood to his sun.
burnt temples. He saw that his child' also
knew his infirmity, and desired to hasten
him from the scene of temptation. For an
instant he determined to avoid 'the plough'
altogether, and go directly home. But the
fiend within was too strong for him.
Arrived at the Tavern, he threw the
reins to George, and said he would soon re
turn Alas! how little did he know his own
strength t Hour atter hour passed, and still
the wretched man lingered ih the bar:* room.
The election was animated and exciting,
and friend after friend invited him to drink,
and had the compliment returned. The child
saw the sun decending, and his little heart
became full of anxiety and aprehension.
At last he summoned courage, pressed
through the crowd just as his father was
about to toss off another glass, and seizing
him by the hand said—
Father, dear father, don't drink any
more or the home will runaway and kill
The words and the expression of the
child, touched the heart of more than one
spectator, even in that boistrous moment—
but they produced no effect on the wretched
Ralph. He saw nothing but the fatal glass
all his senses were absorbed in one, and as
again put the liquor to his lips, the poor
child burst into tears, and hurried to his
place in the wagoni-. -
It was near midnight, when the election
done—the excitement over—Ralph stag.
gered to his horses, seized the reins, and
endeav Ted to make his way twine. Ut
terly intoxicated, he commenced beating
the poor beasts in the most furious manner.
They bore it pretty well for a time. The
darkness deepened-the blows were redmibled
—and the animals dashed off at a fearful
pace. The sequel need scarcely be told.
The wagon was broken into a thousand
pieces, and the body of the wretched drunk
ard was found gashed and mangled in the
most appaling manner. The wheels strik
ing his head made bare the cheek bone,
tore across the temporal muscle and. ar.
teries, separated them and the integuments
from the skull as far as the upper and back
regions of the head, and ground them to.
gather with the ear, completely to latters.....
filling Chem with sand and straw, and leav
ing
the skull bare with the visible marks of
the iron upon it.
A neighbor travelling that way catty the
next morning 84cv the bloody and bloated
course. Little George sat beside it, while
in an agony of childish grief, be exclaimed,
"On, atY BATHED, Mr POOR DEAD ;wit-
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