Litchfield enquirer., 1839-02-14

Sketch is from the last number of Temper
0nce Tales, entitled g As a medicine" 1t Is
part Of the relation of one Of the travellers
who formed the incOngrnols group at the
country tavern. Wethink the narrator is
one of Major Downing's kinsmcn. No woil-
der Mr.. Swivel almost :" died a laughing"
"Crissy Swivel, the tailor's wife got a 60
ing as bad as any on 'em but Snivel's pouty
much bruk her on il. You sec he put a met
&c int. She was upon gin then. So she
went TO Merrick's shop and told him his gin
didn't agree with her, and got some brandy.
Swivel watched her motions, and she'd no
sooner got it into the house, than, unbeknown
to her, he put metic into that. So she went
to Merrick again, and told him his brandy
served her jest as bad as the gin did. So she
got a little Jimaky and 'twasn't in the house
half an hour before Swivel had motto inthat
too. She got, that way, to think sperrit wasn't
Jest the thing for her stomach, but she never
suspected the leastest thing about the metic.
About month arter, dozen wimmin kim
to spend the AFTERNOON at Mrs. Snivel's house.
So We see, as she had the good stuff by her,
and couldn't make no use on'therself, on ac-
count of her petiklar weak stomach, and as
most Oh 'eln was 0ilin somehow, and took u
leetle now and then, as a medSon, she treated
'em all, and was as liberal with it, as ifitwaS
TO- no more vally than rain water. Some on
'em took gin, and some on 'em took brandy,
and some ON 'em took Jimaky. But ii didn't
make mite o. differ which twas they took
1t sot 'em chatterin like all possessed for
about halt an hour. Then, one arter anoth-
or, they began to feel leetle squally; and,
at last, they got o goin every one on 'em.-
Such a time Swivel says he never heer'd tell
OH. He was workin in his shop at the be-
ginnin ont. So, when he heerd the first
noise. he peeped through the key hole, and
he said he thought he should a died u laugh
ing. So he ran back into the shop, for fear
they should suspect sothin,. and he fell TO
work cuttin out pair o rigimental smalls for
Gineral Tweezer but he laughed SO, that
he spoilt the breechcs, and cut 'em, by mis-
take, arter Parson Dearin's measure, so that
the Gineral couldn't got into 'enn at no rate
arteR they was made up and bein of bright
yallar,' they wouldn't "a bin the thing for a
minister no how. So, We see, twas totle loss.
But the end o. the joke wasn't like to come
out so pleasant. Several on 'em hada narrer
squeak on it, and old Miss Hanks cenamost
wrenchcd herself to death. But the best O.
the hull I'm goin to tell We. Not a soal on
'cm ever suspected the least trick and Mer-
rick got SIGH bad name for sellin what
wasn't ginivine, that he lost almost oil his
custom in our town arter that. Swivel got
thought twas SIGH q good story he couldn't
keep it to himself no how; so he told it to
one, and another, and at last it got to Squire
Pronk s ears, and the Squire told Swivel, that,
if old Mrs. Hanks, who was ailin a long spell,
should happen to pop off afore the year was
out, 'twould be manslaughter, as sure as fate.
lHowsomsever, the old woman's liven vet /;
but she han't taken drop since that day
A number on 'em hasn't. So goods come
out ont arter all. a1g 1.tT.as
Ho,o to Cure tie Ferer and Agae.--An cmi-
grant Of means from the Emerald Isle. pur-
chased farm in location among the hills in
the interior Of New. Jersey, adjoining an ex-
tensive Lake marsh, and having settled his
family on it, was busily employed in lcaFn-
ing the Yankee mode Of cultivation. How
ever, before the first year came to an end, he
was violently attacked with that discourage
ing disease, the terer and Ggue. He accord
tended the call, and after little inquiry, q
touch of the pulse, &c, observed to PhePm
and his anxious rib, that he must take copi-
ously Of wine and bark, which would break
the fever, and that he would soon get WE'LL
On calling again on the fourth day 10 see
how his patient was, he observed him on his
knees on the floor, the bottle by him, and he
just in the act of turning off glass Of wine,
then pitching forward on his hands, and loud
ly barking, canine race likc-bow, WOW, WOW;
bow, bow, WOW, bow. On which his excited
wife exclaimed" There, Doctor, my poor
husband has taken his two bottles Of wine n
day, for this three days, and between every
glass which he had turned down, he has bark
ed drcadfully, as you now see. in long spells /;
and pom my honor, Doctor, cannot perceive
| tho Dhalpyr, ic n houh0o tho hnffnP IN HE far
rible shakings."-N. Y. Jour. Com.
Lone, TreGchery and Despair.-The follow.
ing romantic story is related as fact in a
letter from Thessalonica, dated Nov. 1O:-
" Mustapha Pacha, reputed TO be the ablest
of all the public officers of Turkey, has just
delivered Macedonia from formidable band
of brigands, who have invested the country
| for upwards of four years. The means lie
| took are too singular not to be mentioned
Having learnt that young Albanian girl,
bearing the name Of Theodosia Maria Samik,
residing at Mielnik, a town on the frontier Of
Greece, had secret communications with the
robbers, Mustapha had her watched and ques-
toned, but could not obtain any disclosures
He then engaged one of his lieutenants, man,
ed Ismael, a young man of remarkable per-
sonal beauty, TO 60 and endeavor to gain her
affections. This officer succeeded TO such
degree that she became warmly attached to
him, and informed him that her real name
was Eudoxia Theresa Gberundaxi, and, that
she was the niece ofthe chief of the brigands,
Michael Gregorio Gherundaxi, whose troop
amounted to between 1.400 and ], 500 men,
She painted in glowing terms the charms of
their Grant and adventurous life, and urged
Ismael to join them. Heprefendcd 10 yield
to her entreaties, and then learnt further from
her that her uncle would hold general mus
ter of his band on October 23d. in the forest
to Mustaphn, but, in order to avert suspicion,
went with his fair one to the rendezvous