Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1850-09-05
The Mistake of a Night.


Queer things may occur amid the blaze of
noon, but queerer still take place among The
still hours of night. The following, for in
stance, is one of the queerest in the category,
and as Waits says,
!The deeds of darkness we have done,
Must all appear before the sum-"
II may not be quite improper TO make it
public. positive that the parties therein con.
cerned will not object thereto, as their iden-
'iiy must remain mystery TO The inquisiIive.
|. was upon public occasion, when all The
hotels iii, call the place what you will,
were filled from Top to bottom. Landlords e.
conomized room and space with amazing Gun.
ning packing as many as three fat men in one
bed, on dog day nigh. TOO ; or on the floor in
such cOpiOus confusion as to make the property
of certain sets of limbs TO particular bodies
matter of great doubt. Boniface could not pu,
out single individual, bu. he could put him a.
way some how or olher.
One of these obliging hosts, however, was
sadly perplexed where to lodge a particular
friend. He-could not, consistently with correc,
notions Of amity, run pole out of the window
and reques, his friend 10 roost for the night, as
a Kentucky landlord is reported 20 have done
when pressed for room and it was only after
much calculation that a bright and generous
idea came TO his and his friends relief.
My old womans's gone to see her folks said
he, 'and won't come home till 10 monow-now
you take my bed, for shan't have any occasion
for it seeing | must attend TO the folks and keep
them ar chaps, sea llered on the dinner hall
floor, from fighting
Accordingly The guest seg's sRssesion of Bon
faces bed-sunk up 10 MS nose amid the
feathers, and soon went 70 the land Of Nod,
thanking his stars for having escaped the con-
fusion below. Had he known what some poet
had written, with chuckle, smothered in his
two pair of pillows, he might have exclaimed /:
" In this tumuliuous sphere for the unfit,
How seldom ART thou met, tranquility"
He slept and snored, but for little while
only. An intruder appeared, and he woke with
the inquiry,
Who's that 2
It's me old mango to sleep again. was
the reply, given in female accents, but don't
take up all the bed
III ain. your old man. said the stranger,
whose voice much resembled that Of Bonlface,
whose wife the reader must have already guess
ed was the new conner. Being very bashfuI,
The poor fellow drew the clothes over his head,
and in smohered accents besought the landlady
to clear righ, out.
'Jss. as expected exclaimed The old wo-
man, drunk again when the house is full OF folks
what can steal, rob and murder the hull on Us,
and she proceeded TO the bed and cropping in
the dark, ccnlrived to uncover The unfortunate
mans head, and then he had TO take IL in ev-
cry sense of the word.
Being bachelor he had merely heard OF a
matrimonial combing down Of locks, but his
experience of The operation SO far oulslriPped
his conceptions that he beloved murder most
Justify.
Cry murder and raise the hull house, will
you !! cried the lanlady, shaking her victims
scalp from The root almost
Let me co. shouted the man, i amt her
man-murder murder !!
The last yell wrung by the intense pain
from The creates, power of the victims lungs
brought Boniface and posse TO the door. A
general rush was made 10 the apartment and
the matter was soon explained amid the shouts
of the assemblage.
Now, whispered the jolly landlord in his
friends ear, when leading him TO 'licker,' just
think now how I've got TO be put through