Bloomington herald. [volume] (Bloomington, I. T. [Iowa]) 1840-1849, 1843-10-27

Truly E1oQUENT.-Wa shingtonianism
has given birth. 10 as brilliant specimens Of
true eloqucnce. as heart could desire.-I
Witness the following touching appeal 70
the young, made BY an aged man at re-
spectacle temperance jubilee. Newman
ke,, New Hampshire:
II have come twelve miles to attend
this meeting yet do not value my time
Il feel rewarded by what ! see around
me. My friends, have seen more OF the
world than most Of you. | have trgd The
streets Of proud old London, and the
winds of distant India have famed these
furrowed cheeks of mine. My keel has
been upon every sea, and my name upon
many tongue. Heaven blessed me with
one Of the best Of wives-and my children
oh, Why should | speak Of them! MY
home was once a paradise. But ! bow.
ed, like brute, 10 the killing cup-my
eldest son tore himself from his degraded
father, and has never returned. My young
hearts idol-my beloved and suffering
wife-has gone broken hearted to her
grave. And my lovely daughter, whose
image l seem to see in the beautiful around
me-once my pride and my hope-pined
away in sorrow and mourning because her
father was drunkard, and now sleeps by
her mothers side. But l still live to tell
the history Of my shame, and the iuin OF
my family. l still live-and stand here
before you TO offer up my hearts fervent
gratitude 10 my heavenly father, and
have been sna.ched from the brink OF the
drunkard's grave. l live to be a sober
man. And while I live | shall struggle
to restore my wandering brethren again TO
the bosom society. This form of mine is
wasting and bending under the weight ,f
years. But, my young friends, you are
Just blooming into life the places of your
fathers and mothers will soon be vacant.
See that you come up to fill them with
pure hearts and annoin.ed lips! Bind the
blessed pledge firmly to your hearts; and
be it the Shibbole,h Of lifes warfare!
OLD T1MEs.-The New Haven Couri.
er favors the public with several amusing
extracts from the ancient records Of that
Colony.
A law relating to "young men and mai
dens, enacted as follows:
Whosoever shall inveigle or draw the
affections of any maid or maid-servant,
either for himself or others. without first
gaining the consent Of her parents or
guardians, besides all damages the parents
may sustain, shall pay TO the plantation
4Os. for the first offence. and for the Sec
ond towards the same party, A.; for the
third shall be fined. imprisoned, or cor
porally punished, as the plantation court
shall direct"
Under this law, as appears by the New
Haven records, at a court, held May l.,
1860.
"Jacobeth Murine and Sarah futile
were prosecuted "for setting down on
a chest together, his arme about her waste
and her arme upon his shoulder or about
his neck, and continuing in that sinful
posture about half an hour, in which time
he kysed her and she kysed him, or they
kysed one another, as ye witnesses tesli.
fed. MIR. futile pleaded vt. Jacob had
endeavored to steal away his daughters
affections, but vt. Sarah denied. and it did
not appear to ye, cour.e,' but nolwi.h-
standing "as they had carried itin such a
wan,on, uncivil and lascivous MANNER"
they were sentenced to pay, each Of them
20s. 10 the treasurer.