Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 182?-183?, 1832-05-04

passion with the child and scold it at which
the women opened upon him, the gentlemen
swore and between the squalling, growl-
ing, screaming and threatening, delightful
tumult ensued. Al length Rossignolle pre-
tends to throw the child away into puddle.
Here suiting the action TO the word, he
made noise as if he had actually deposited
the infant in ditch, the cries of which grew
fainter as they passed on. The uproar that
now ensued in the vehicle would have done
credit TO st. Giles watcbhousc on st. Pat
rick's day. The women yelled and the
men thumped the roofwith their sticks, and
swore out OF the windows. Stop, coachman,
stop! murder, murder; she's killed the child !;
she's thrown il into the ditch; will you stop
coachman:-'ln three minutes Marm,' he
replied, It change horses But there's a
child lying on the road !'-I'll send some
un from the inn pick it up, Marin Imusn't
lose time between the stages
The torrent of abuse now turned on the
coachman and one of the passengers, who
was lawyer, swore that if the child died he
would prosecute the former for manslaugh-
ter and the mother for murder.
On arriving at the inn, Rossgnolle Jump
ed down and ran into the kitchen TO dry
himself-The house was thrown instantly
into confusion; the French woman was or
dered to be seized, lanternslighted and a par
ty set off TO retrace the road, headed by the
humane lawyer. No infant, however, was
to be found; and after grouping abouttill they
were all thoroughly drenched, they return
ed to the inn. The lawyer was then told
that the French woman had made her escape
and that another gentleman had taken his
place In the coach, which was now out of
sight.
singular Effect Of Imagination.-O of
The most singular cases Of the effect of the
imagination upon weak and credulous minds,
stated in Darwin's Economic, is that of a
gentleman in England, who walking over
his grounds, found poor old woman upon
ms premises, gathering sticks He ordered
her to lay them down, and go off his lands
She obeyed the command ; she cast her wan
eye upon him, and lifting her nerveless arm
to heaven, exclaimed in a plaintive tone,
DIdyest thou nerer knolU the blessing to be
10Grnl The man was struck with her
suppllant impreCation he returned 10 his
house, retired 10 his chamber, complained
of cold, and Notwithstanding the application
of woollens and heat from fires, he continued
| TO labor under this disease of imagination for
a few weeks, when he died His offence was
| comparatively small, he performed lawful
act, and that in a comparatively lenient
manner but her imprecation upon him
was too powerful for his nerves 10 sustain
-GEGo-
Petort.--A lady who was blessed with
a son, noted for his fclle-mindedncs was
one day lecturing him upon that falling, and
| advising him TO settle down to some active
pursuit, and give up changing from one vo-
| cation 10 another. "Remember," said she,
quoting the old adage, ''that rolling stone
gathers no moss" every true, mother, .
replied he, "but does not the bee that sips
| constantly at one flower stand poor chance
of obtaining honey -
-SGSe-
! In speaking Of the wonderful natural re-
sources of the state of Maine, the Gardner
Chronicle, remarks =" We have sulphuret
| of iron, or copperas rock, sufficient to make
copperas enough when added to our maple
bark, TO dye all creation black as the ages
of Egypt"
--.sSs~-
A Comic Magazine is announced for pub
LEGATION in London. People would always
rather laugh than cry-so we give them the
very latest goodtn. II sleepy hat.-"W Why,
Bob, what a sleepy hat you've got %
sleepy hat What do you mean by that 70
Why it must be sleepy it's so long since
it had nap?"
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