Virginia Argus. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1796-1816, 1805-04-10

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E rasrose in temper lost TO all sense either
e 1 ct honor or shame, lost 10 all afie6licn 10.
h wards the wife OF his bosom, and the chill
dren OF his own body. Mark the stupidity
: OF his conntenance, the, ruorose aspect Of
. his blood shotteB eyes. his, palsied hand
and the leproas letter that COVERS his
skin.-Turn nov-, and behold his wife,
there she. sits in that corner. covered
with q. thin tattered robe and.shivering o.
yer handful Of Goals See her pale and
cmaciated-her eyes dim with, weeping
aid, her checks .furrowci with. tears
Hapless woman who can but Pity thee
who can but 'mingle his tears with thine
Look next on those suffering children
They receive noughtJ but frowHs & curses
and blows from the, man whom they had
been taught to call by the endearing name
OF father :--yct they have friend whose
BOSOM throbs with tenderness towards
them: but her haad is TOD feeble To sup
ply their needs. They ask their, mother |
Tor bread, but she has none to break to |
them.--Thc storm howis through the
broken windows, mad, they, say "we are
coid'r--Sh answersthem only With sigas.
A'as.:' she has none TO bind up her own
bleeding heart. And isthis he once sem
s'6le and sPrightiy Saerxs, fortunes child,
VINO inherited large parimony 1.-THE 4
same -" Flow fallen, how lost !'.---And
what has wrought this terrible reverse in
their circumstancess What has turned
THIS man into brute Z What hss plunged
this woman into the deepest distress. in s
asmuch as that her tears are her meat ! .
What has rendered these children mi.
SCRABBLE f--What fcnd has poisoned & de
stroyed the happiness of the whole family I !
That cured .Jfend is drunkenness.- !
Time was when S'lenus was a kind hus
band and 40 affe6tinDatc father, who, his
company gladdcned the heart of hrs vile. |
when his little prattlers used to meet HIM |
ut the door and receive his fond caress,s g.
ime waswhen every room in his man /
sion was silded with domestic happiness
when be ranked in society as a useful
member and an ornament, and when the
eye that saw HIM blessed him, and the
ear that heard him was respectfully al
&ienns looked on the spark
ing liquor while giving its color and
tempungly moving itself in the cup--he
tas'ed, he atiength tippled daily the ha- i
bit became riretsed--he plunged occa.i. !
onally into intoxica,ion, and became at
last a downright sot.--His estate is con.
sumed, and of all roor people his family ,
are among the most wrstciied --ss DIG,
they cannot" having never been taught !
TO labor-"to beg they are ashamed."
This IS not romance THERE are ,n.nv
families in our country, whose deplorablr
situation corresponds with this Dissertation.
CATHOLIC cArHEDRA AL cauRcH LorrKax.
BALTIMoRE.
FVf'efh Cond iassJ Dov's Dros;u..
500 tickets were drawn this day.
Prize Of 1000 csolls.-No. Lsoa6. fl..,
drawn blank
Prize OF 1000 dolis.-No. 1896.
Prizes of 100 doifs.--nJos. is7us 1908. |
Pr,ze OF so doils--No. 1929.
Prize of IS doils.-No. tels4.
~ OF twenty and 81 OF fifteen.
One telling another, that he had once
50 excellent fowiins, piece. ,la, il w.n
on immediately on th;cfs coming into !
mouse, although it was not charped. !
TOW ne d. can that be :" said the o. |
.neI. because, said he. the thief carr. |
:. W, ana what was worse, before I had
s.me 20 ehorer him with IT."
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