Martinsburg gazette. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1833-1855, 1833-10-31
GET ME ALoNEn-M,r, .,


son, in reply to the expostulation OF
his father: ''let me alone, | will do ns
! please, and your talk is OF no use. :"
In a few days, this CANISTER and do.
bauchee finished his race in the grave.
"Let me alone, am my own guar.
dian" said one in reply 10 his bcseech.
ing wife who was kneeling at his feet.
imploring him in plaintive strains not
to SO again TO the tavern and card ia.
ble.-"Let me Alone" he said, and
leaving her in tears, he went to tho
place of rendezvous, and in few hours
this work was finished--he was in O.
ternity, self-murderer! and his wife
and little ones were beggars.
"Let me alone, said poor creature,
as he came Keeling to the grog shop to
complete his debauch; "Let mo alone;
| know what am about; / drink no
more than | need; can govern my.
self; despise drunkard. He went
ON his way, and the next morning no
was found stifIcncd corpse upon the
frozen ground.
"Lctme alone" said man who was
taking his morning dram, TO his vito.
who mildly expostulatcd with him, and
tenderly limited her fears that he was
becoming too fond of morning drinks;
''Let me alone; drink no more than
! need; | can drink or lei it alone"
A few months after, the same man
staggered home from militia muster,
and for his abuse to his family, recciv.
ed in prison the Just reward of his
deeds.
''Let me alone," said manufactu.
rer Of ardent spirits, us friend pre-.
scented him the tract called "An als,,n
to distillers and their Allies:" "let mo
alone: am in free country; my bust.
ness is honest: must support my fam
ily." In a few months his son was
turned out of the church for intemper.
ance; his eldest daughter married
miserable drunkard, his own disiiller:
and he himself became cndorser for
one of his best customers, who ran
away; and in one year, ruin, beggary
and shame, came upon the whole fami.
ly.
''Let me alone" said the tavern
keeper: "Lct me Alone" do not sell,
to drunkards; if | do not sell, some ono
else will, and only sell to support my
family" A year or two made it man.
iiest, that his bar had at least one good
customer, and he ended his days a
drunkard and in prison.
American Generals. ~ Washington
was surveyor, and in after life far
mer--''Expressive silence! muse his
praise" Knor was book binder and
stationer. Morgan The of the Cow.
pens, was a drover. Iarleton got
from him sound lecture on that sub.
ject. Green was blacksmith, und
wthal Quaker, albeit through oil his
southern campaigns, and particularly
at the Eutaw Springs, he put off the
outward man. Arnold-[l ask par
don for naming him in such company
was a grocer and provision storckecp.
err, in New Haven, where his sign is
still to be seen; the same that decorated
his shop before the revolution. Gatcs,
who opened Burgoyne's eyes to tho
fact that he could not smarch through
the United States with 5000 men,"
was "reg'lar built" soldier, but after
the revolution farmer. Warren, the
martyr Of Bunker Hill, was pbysi.
clan, and hesitatcd not exhibit to his
Icountrymen q splendid example of the
manner in which American physicians
should practice when called upon by
their country. Marion, the ''old fox"
of the South, was COW boy. Sumter,
the "fghting cock" Of South Carolina.
was shepherds boy. More anon.
Ney Haven Herald.
A German priest walking in process
sion at the head of his parishioners,
over uncultivated fields, in order to
procurca blessing on their future crops,
when he came TO those of an unpromIs.
ling appearance, would pass on, saying.
"Here prayers and singing VIII avail
nothing; this must have manure.
Strawberries. Stamford Con.
lSentinel states that full grown native
Strawberries have been picked in seve-
Iral fields in that town since the lst in
lstant.
Late Stra,cberries.-A gentleman
IcalIed on Monday, and presented US
with bunch Of wild Strawberries,
which had been gathered in field near
the village. They were fully ripe.
and as well favored as the same kind OF