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XIV SYAUNYON WAY THURSDAY, 5

passive hand. The surgeon gently pushed the wo-
man aside, and took the hand in his.
"My God!' he exclaimed, letting it fall invol-
UNFAIRLY, "the man is deadn'
The woman started to her feet and beat her hands
together: "Oh don't say so, sir" she exclaimed
with burst of passion, amounting almost to phren-
zy: ''oh don't say so, sir can't bear it indeed
| L can't! Men have been brought to life before,
when unskiiul persons have given them up for
lost f; and men have died who might have been re-
stored if tho proper means had been resorted to-
DON'T let him lie here, sir without one effort to save
him! Tbs very moment life may be passing a
way. 10 trN,,sir--do. for Gods sakelo And
while speaking, she hurrediy chafed first .he ftr-
head and then the breast of the senseess form be.
fore her, and then wildly beat the cold hands, which
when she ceased to hold them fell heavily and list
| lesSly back on the coverlet.
cit is no use, my good woman" said the sur
geoH. soothingly, as he withdrew his hand from the
mans breast. Stay. undo that curtain"
| "Why :" said the woman starting up.
| "Undo that curtain!' repeated the surgeon i'm
an agtated Tone
81 darkened the room purpose" said the wo-
man, throwing herself before him, as he to
draw it. sob! sir, have pity on mel If il can
be OF no use, and he is really dead, do not do not
expose that corpse to other eyes than mne!"
| 'This man died no natural or easy DEATH" said
the surgeon. 81 must see the body!" And with
motion so sudden that the woman hardly knew that
he had slipped from beside her. he tore open the
curtain admitted the full light of day, and returned
TO the bedside. .t
''Ihere has been violence here ~ he said, point
ing toward the body, and gazing intently on the
face, from which the black veil was now removed
In the excitement of minute before, the female
had dashed off the bonnet and veil. and now stood
with her eyes fixed upon him. Her features were
those Of woman of fifty, who had once been hand
I~l lAs,,
them, which not time itself would ever have pro-
duced, without their aid her face was deadly pale,
and there was nervous contorton of the lip, and
an unnatural fire in her eye, which showed too
plainly that her bodily and mental powers had near
ly sunk beneath an accumulation of misery
''There has been violence here!" said the sur
geOn, preserving his searching glance.
There has !'Aseplied the woman.
'']hls man has been murdered"
''That call God TO witness he has!'' said the
woman passionatey, "piteously, inhumanly muir
dered!"
"By whom ?" said the surgeon, seizing the woz
man by the arm
"LQol at The butchers marks, and then ask me ~
she replied
| The surgeon turned his face toward the bed, and
bent over the body, which las; full in the light of
the window. The throat swollen, and blue,
livld mark encirced it. The truth flashed sudden
ly upon him.
This is one Of the mon who were hung this
mornng!" he exclaimed, turning away with a
shudder.
sit isl replied the woman, with cold, I'M
meaning stare.
''Who was he?" inquired the surgeon.
".Hy s0n!' replied the woman; and fell sense
less at his feet.
And her son ii was. A companion guilty with
himself, had been acquitted for lack of defence
while he had been left for DEATH and executed
The mother, a widow, without friends or money
had denied herself the necessaries of life TO bestow
them upon her orphan boy, who unmindPll Of her
prayers, and forgeful of the incessant anxiety OF
mind and voluntary starvation of body which she
had endured for him. he plunged into a career OF
dissipation and crirne which had resulted in his
own death by the hangman's hands and caused his
mothers shame and incurable insanity. 1t was our
painful lot, on an occasion well known to metropol-
itan readers to witness the fervent anxiety with
which the relative of a condemned criminal, when
the concentric wings of the law were closing up tC
their victim, sought aud relnquished hope afte
hope, that in some way his life might yet be saved
and it is perhaps owing to this circumstance tina
the preceding narrative made so deep an impres
sion upon our mind. And now let us ask how
many persons, familiar with Pickwicb, Olive
} Twist, Nicholas Nicholhy, Banaba Rudge. Chuz
zewit, &c, are aware that the 'Back Veip' is b,
the same author and was first published years be
|; fore the earliest of those works were written.
A 'Lorycr's" Vengcancc-SHooTiNG AM
DEATH.--We learn that came off, yester
day. in the western part of the CITY, which is wei
calculated to illustrate the violence of unrequite,
love- and the strange mode of vengeance to which
E it will turn for relief a young man who had bee
paying his addresses TO lovely girl, received tn
g ''miten," and took it quite ungraciousIy he wen
, home disconsolste. dwelt upon his blighted hope
| in , of hc cd i.tnl
went down 10 the house of his lady love, waited hi
opportunity, and at the first chance which present
, ed itself, ne shot-her little dog.-Bah. SIN.
The LATE Thomas CAMPBELL--It is we
known that Campbe's own favorte poem, of al
his compositions, was his Gertrude ! once hear
him say II never like to see my name before 9Th
pleasures Of Hope" Why, | cannot tell YOU, III
less it was that when young was always greete
: among my friends MIR. Campbell, author OF ..Th
: pleasures Of Hope" Good morning to YOU NJ
Campbell, author of The pleasures Of Hope
When got married, was married as the authc
of "The pleasures ofHope,'" and when BEGAN
father, my the son of the author of 9TH
pleasures ofIIope" A kind Of grim smile, i'll sui
dued, we are afraid, stole over our features, wher
. standing by the poets grave, we read the inscri
ton his coffin ''Thomas Campbell. l.. J.. d
J. Author of"The pleasures of Hope" Died Jun
J, Is, 1874 Aged o." The poets dislike occurre
" to our memory there was no getting the better
:, : the thought-Fraser's Magazine.
a PREvENTfoN OF INFBcTIoN FROM TypBus r.
1t vER.-The London Weekly Despatch, Of the :
3 of May, says, Dr. j. G.. Smith obtained ESQ.,
d from Parliament for the following recipe:
), "Take six drachms of powdered ntre (saltpatr
) and six drachms of suphate acid. (oil Of vitriol
mix them in tea cup. BY adding one drachm
1t the oil at time, copious discharge of nitrous &C
t. gas will take place The cup to be placed duri
the preparation on hot hearth or plate of heat
Dr. iron and the mixture stirred with tobacco pipe
x MTha nnantiiN Of Gas may hc rannlaI Cd h., L.