The Delaware register, or, Farmers', manufacturers' & mechanics' advocate. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1828-1829, 1829-06-20
WOMAN

Phers, clustering heromes, and vrago queens She who
makes her husband and her children happy who recams b
one from vices and trans up the other to virtue is mnS
greater charact than ladies' described in romance who
whole occupation is to murder mankind with shafts from The
quiver OF their eyes, Women not formed for great o
themselves but to soften Their tenderness is the nn
reward for the dangers undergo for their peseryatp
and the and cheerfuness of their orr des
BILE retreat from the atgues of intense application Tbev
confined within the limits of domestic assiduv
and when they stray beyond them they their pro-
per sphere, and consequently without grace.
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Dreadful Escape.-Some months ago Young Iadv &c
family and moving in the higher circles of our northern
metropolis, in the habit of extending her charitable visits
to the most fobidng haunts of poverty vice. to admins
ter in person spiritual well corporal relief to the sick
and sueringthe lady question had times yiseda
sick woman who had been confined for weeks to her
wreched pallet in dark haunt of of the most deara
ded outcasts of the and oathsome alleys which
still abound in the old part of Edinburgh On one of these
OCCASIONS the weather being cold and wet great degree
she had spent an hour conversng and reading the Sp
lures to the poor sufferer and rising depart when The
husband of the invalid n and after thanking her in re-
peated expressions of gratitude for kindness towards them
appeared particularly distressed the depth of and dirt
she had come through that day. adding that there back
entrance which led to the by perfectly dry passage
through which he would gladly conduct her She thank
ed him and proceeding follow but the sick woman
said the way she the peasanest the repeat
ed his assurance of the other being preferable and leading
the lady through the back door, when the ee-
menty recommended the other road the lady DELAYED her
departing step listen her. but vas persuaded
by the husbands assurance the comparative comfort ofh
arose with frantic eagerness and undesed she
ped her coverd around her, and Selling the lady by the a
dragged her out of the door by which she had entered
huryng her with totterng but rapid steps the alley left
her at the entrance to the street, which frequened
way and begged her to return.
The lady surprised and under alarm that she had
been trusting herself with woman sought her home in
considerable degree of agitation, and did the
squald abode few weeks after, the discovery Of the
late aocous murders in that town. and when numbers
daily ockng to visit the of hem then exposed the
public gaze the fair object of tale from the descriptions
she heard was curious to be eye witness also of those
dens of guilt and horror she with relations and
entering the fearful abode of the murderer Hare
found, with unspeakabe horror that the very apart
ment she had repeatedly visited and recoected with appa
Ing sensations, how narrowly she had escaped the death
grippe of the monster. English Paper
Mental Ahenation.-A singular case of this disease
and one which would probably come under DIR Mitch.
ellis classification of " Somniun 1Dih ,calking
ning" has been related to us as having occurred in
nelghboring town. Mr. II. young man 22 years Of
age, carpenter by trade, strong, robust and of very
sangune temperament, the night of the 9th, sooR
after retiring to rest, awoke deranged sprung from
the bed, and in spite of the efforts of young man
who slept with him to detain him, made his escape
from the house naked, with the exception of his shirt
During the night, which was rainy and cold every ex
ertion made by his friends to trace him, but With
out effect and during the forenoon, though than
hundred men were employed in examining the bull
dngs, fields and woods of the vicinity, he could NOT
be found About the middle of the afternoon OF the
9th he reused from his covert nearly mile from
the spot where he started, by some boys who were
hunting, and happened to discharge gun very near