The examiner. [volume] (Louisville, Ky.) 1847-1849, 1849-10-20

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ing hfssen thousosist
we're even due fafs r.
not vosds butshs lookof
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lied 10 dat bliadhssl dcss al r III
any tang sbout,' q1lSlh Clsuss H.
'faw,' said the esod cd vonGn.
band has been tsst Sniy eleven = II
teen days
.Huyswife der du,vsll' unuttuu1 \
soon enyeloped hiissslf I'M TIE O.
great log OF MS own rainng.
IL was even 80. The eurioui1y q
had become ungoyernable. ID We
life and death to bet. She must knou
Joe Bowers or die. At last she camo
| niastiCn 10 mary hum, having discoVn
! The sure instinct oil An experienced w
Joe had no objection 70 such procedug1
III don't get 1t ali out Of him then,' III
she, I'm no widow. One thing Is certain.
shall get at his mama
Not long alter, the good people Of New Am
! slerdam, mora especially tie widows, were scam
dallked al the manage OF the widow Van Heilis
Scnrlit and Joseph Bowers, EsQulIe, as he vss
pleased 10 denomlnate hImsels TIE widov :.
| lsst got al hts name, but she had Ike To as
Missed n; ior whea The domino cane 10 enou]
about II, he aske Sle good man 40 manv m
lions IN reply that he shut I'D his look IN ,l,,]
geon, and was just on the point Of bTesEin1 n
the match. SO Joe Bowers vas Obliged 10 az
sger one question a. last
But TINS was The beginning and the end Of M.
oommnnicallons. The willow never got another
direct answer from him dunng the Whole COLO
OF her life Afterwards; at which she vas 80
disappointed, especially as the governor caJIs5
almost every day TO know II she had broogbt he,
husband 10 confession. She TOOK these ,Issn-
pointmenis % to heart, that she plned away al
lost all her beauty. And so, indeed, dli lf,ls
hantchee, though Il was not on account OF be,ng
disappointed in heI eunosity.
'Yoa don't love me, JOssy,' SAID the so.d
whilome widow ,eosxinsy. You cont love ne
or you'd tell me ali about il, Josey'
'Ali about whall' quOth Joe.
why, about who you are, how you cam,
here, and what ls yOur business al home, Ay
dear. Now do tel ne, won't you.
you've maybe heard something Of Connecu-
cut nvefi' said Joe.
40, tn be SIRE have, my DEAR SAID the sooi
: creature, rubbing her hands and n nkIng II "A,
all coming now-''you mean the VaIscEe riveI;
D velll'
well, DO you think was such a ganderast
D be bonn theIef But you've heard Of the Houss
tonic, close by, just q great way of yondeIl'
80, yesi Welli'
well, suppose wasn't born IN another
guess place than that
+ The whilome widow hereupon took ID broou,
D and made such martial demonstrations toward,
Joe Bowers, that he vanished from her sisht m
5 the tvinkllng OF bed-Rost. She tOok 10 her
3 bed, and sent for a doctor, who sad she had
; something on her mind, and 90 she hsd-It vas
Q earnestly.
y But Joe was inexonable, or rather he could MOI
get over the force OF habit. Upon this the WIDOW.
went all about town praising her frsl hasUauc
y To the skies But Joe was not content with ssev
; ing his own secrets; he had another pes,. .ent
y habit, which al rs- excited the disgust then ne
y wonder, then the admiration, and finally he "a.
tation Of the good people Of New Amsterdam
lie was forever moving about from one house
i TO another, and hartly every staid sl1 months Ia
i the same place. lie was pefpteualiy making
o alterations and Improvements, and eOlBiO1ad-
i ing his fellow-eitiztns with new plans BIZ he
CLIMAX Of his enoum6es was Duildlgg house
with the front 10 the street instead Of the gabo
end. The good people looked on al frsi, a.
o said before, with disgust and horror 10 see Joe
IS Bowers buying one house, selling another, rent
e ing and abandoning, ull In process Of time as
;, had hyed IN sImost every house IN the eiiy.
e They inquired what could possibly SCI I'm Va :
eng and frisklng about IN this fashion, b., a.
d they got was question, bow they cJ.ld bear 10
e live all the time IN one place.
D. l don't knew hcw 1t came 10 pas, bnt - (
m certainly is, there h. IN ell living thnss synoa-
thy, which renders it next to possible ioI one
person to sit still when all about him s N no
Is ton. Il was not many years before TIE neI.
At door neigh5or Of Joe was smitten With rs ha5l
g Of locomotiOn, and began 70 move rOn one house
to another. Anon, a third, fourth, AM 50 on.
e followed his example, until al last the Guyyei.
as Governor Kieft SAID, got into The vhOe town,
which seemed running round IN a cIrce, as
children do IN the sport OF the hen snd Chickens
They were lnsuch hurry 10 gel out Of one house
into another, that they trod each OtheT heels
and such was the confession Occasiouel ~ this
n perpetual motion, that Governor klsit vas ian
Is TO pass ordinance that they should be restnct
Ell TO oneday in the year for playing puss N The
he corner. And this IS the OIgil OF that ancient
and venerable custom Of moving on the .lrE dGy
Of May, which y peculiar TO the city Of New Am
ell steniam.
In the meantime poor Ms. Joe Sewers had
ID fallen victim TO he unsa lsfec curiosity. she
g. died of what the doctor called decline; bUt Il
was in fact nothing but broken heart, Occa-
n stoned BY her successful endeavors to I'M cut
what brought Joe TO town, aud Wheie be cane
ie from.
re Not many years after her dec-ase, Joe, not
70 being able to endure the tyrannlesl resincton
Of being allowed 10 move only once year, dis
Ie posed OF all the property OF the widow AMI her
step-dsughteT, little Mautchee, and departed
y from New Amsterdam with thatdeslrable maiden
a. his lawful wife. Report says that she actual
y got al his secIet at last, but the story some
&c what doubtful. Joe Bowers thus far L ce1ainl
passed the rest of his days MOVING TO AL iIo,
and building houses up and down The Nsische
10 river, which he sold before they were hsii hnsa-
Is ed, and wss wont 70 boast TIL hs dying CAV nat
he never directly answered but two questions N
u his life and those he would have dodge. e0tId
he possibly have got manned without te-Ans rs
= name