The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1844-12-09
Vol. 5. No. 20. Whole No, 1854,

cnmstnnce so nunsuas mat MS VIE could not he'p
feeling degree of uneasness She went to the door
and listened for him after the clock struck eleven and
stood there for time expecting every moment
to hear the sound of his footsteps in the disance.
but she waited in vain, and at last re.entered the
rouse with troubled feeling
At last the clock struck twelve, and almost at the
time she heard her husband at the door,
deavoring to open it with deud-latc key In this
he was not successful from some and thniong
that she might have turned tho key, Mrs Peters
quietly and opened the door for him. She found that
sho had not locked it.
As she lifted the latch, the door was suddenly %
pened against her, and her husband came staggering
in AS he passed her, he struck against tho wall Of
the passage rebounded struck the other side, and
then fell heavily upon the floor.
The dreadful truth instantly flashed upon her lie
was drunk. For a moment her heart ceused to beat.
her head reeled and she then had lean against the
wall to keep from falling. Then all tho tender
tons Of her heart rushed freely into activity. 1t was
her own husband who lay before her overcome by
the master spirit of strong drink.
With almost superhuman strength, sho raised him
up, although a large man, and supported him with
her arm, until she got him up stairs, and laid
him upon the bed by this time, he seemed perfect.
ly stupid; and only mun,bed incoherent replies to
the frequent and tender opportunities OF his wife.
After some time she got him undressed and in bed.
But he grew more and more stupid every
ooh what if he should die - the poor wife
moancd anxiousy, while the tears that had nj first
gushed ont still continued 10 flow freely She also
washed his face with cold water, and tried various
means to arouse him from the lethargy Of drunken
ness. But all to purpose.
At last desParing of success, she laid down beside
him, in tears, and tendely threw her arms around
his neck. She had lain thus FOR about five minutes,
when her husband called her in a whisper.
oh, how engerly did she listen, after her response
10 his call.
"T my husband weTe 10 do so :"
As he said this, sti in a whisper, hat with very
expressive one, he looked her steadily in the face
with rogueish twinkle of the eyes, and quiverirg
of tho lips, the muscles of which could with difficulty
restrain from wreulhing those expressive organs into
merry smile.
Mrs Peters understood the whole scene in mo-
nent, and boxed her husbands ears soundly on the
spot, for very joy, while he laughed until his sides
ached as bad his ears.
In all after discussions upon the various unfortunate
relations OF man and wife Mrs Peters was very care
iu' No" shc declared ner course oil action, were she
placed under similar circumstances If, in any case
she was led unthinkngy to do So the remark of her
husband made with peculiar infection of the voicec
''Oh, yes lfmy husband 10 do so''-had
the hapPiest effect imaginable, and Immediately put
an end tothe Improbable discussion. Anonymous
Boy SrRANGLED. correspondent of the
Mobile Advertiser, under date of the l4th ult. from
Claiborne, Ala gives the details of tho death of q
lad named II. c. Steele, under the most melancholy
circumstances.
He was in the daily habit of amusing himself by
swinging on rope suspended from the limb of a
tree, near the dwelling Of his parents. Tho day on
which he came 10 his death being rnny, he went to
the clubhouse by himself, with the evident intention
OF INDUCING in his fayorite amusement Not having
rope enough TO form loop Of sufficient sjze to ADM,
his body, he vntwisted the lower end tying kno, in
the same after fastening the other TO n oist above
and was probably attempting to balance himself in the
opening, through the strands in the line, when the
staging Gan old trunk placed end) he had erected
TO get within its reach gave way, leaving him
pended by the neck and thus stranged to death be-
fore assistance could reach him, or even before he
was discovered. lie was eleven years and months
old-was the youngest child of Stephen and Eliza
beth Steele.
"Willy, said doating parent, the breakfast Ia
BILE, TO abridged edition OF himself, who had Just
entered the grammar class the High School, willy
my dear, will you pass the butter?'
'Therainly Thrift takthe to parthe any thing.
Butter it'll a common thubthanve, neu,er gender,
agreeh with hot buckwheat cakthes and it'll govern
cd by thugar houth molathcs undelsthood.'
Coon FoRTUNE,-A young Yankee, named Col
emau who used to play the accordan in some of
cities FOR Il subsistence and who patented some
improvem nts that instrument, has suddenly
sprung into affluence and fame In New York 500.
900 has been agreed to be paid him FOR his improve
ment of the piano; and in London, where he is now,
he has become tho lion of the day. and it is said he
will recover halt million of dollars for his patent
there, besides being peted by the nobility of Great
Britian.-Phild Paper.
TPA baif, calling at the residence Of distress
ed Quaker to serve a writ, refused admitance.
lie said the servant, "your master is at home, but
will not see me- ''IIe has seen thee friend' re-
E.I,., L. a.