Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1850-08-07

the old maid could not love his wife, though there was ~
outward objection to her. The bride was cheerful goou"
tempered and pretty but the old maid looked o' SOME
thing inside and could not find It, there was no aeP III
her eyes-they shone like painted glass.
The old maid left the home where she had been happy
for go many years. and returned to her cottage daesay
the minister and his wife not sorry to get rid Oh he,
for she was rather check upon them moreover She nao
become they said, and odd;" and there was ol'en
no pleasing her. do what they would. But she was grow
ing DID, and the weight Of years will bend down the strong
est mind and whe the outer covering the heart hough
| not the heart itself.
She returned to her cottage and became acquainted win
few old people like herself who could feel for her one-
ness and at their homes she used 10 spend her evenings
But she was longer the gentle, suffering woman oi '
ty wears before she had become fretfu and peevsh and
now her frequent amusement rubber of whist, at
which game she began to be an adept You seldom saw
her face look peasanas Of duness when seated at the Ia
BILE with partner satisfaction She nowwoe several
rings on her fingers and though her dress was OF the same
quiet kind as ever, it oraamened with brooch and
chain which did not use be there She would talk to
YOU of things you had forgotten long agoof her visit to
Abbosfrd with an anecdote of Sir Walter, which she
had heard from the old housekeeper. She would c1lclse
Edmund Kean, and inquire if you knew John kembe.
She used to praise the latter and say she never cared to
90 to the play unless to see his Hamlet" it was so quiet
so melancholy and solemn She would wish TO see it a.
gain she said, but she had no one take her, would
then tell her that that celebrated man had died years ago.
and she would only change the subject aad ask me what
| thought of Scott's last novel.
Sometimes she would show you miniature representing
man of noble features IN military dress. Ihei she
would tell you how brave he was, but he was ambitious,
which made her very unhappy and how ne went abroad
aud his name had been returned among the serous woun
dedn in the skirmsh at Quartre Bras For many long
years she had expected he would return Tor his dean mao
not been reported and she could not but believe that lie was
still alive II you asked her who he was she would turn
away, and give you no answer.
One day the Rev. Mr.. - received a note from phy.
scan informing him that his aunt dying was anX-
ious to see him once MORE On the evening Of the follow
nr day he SET out and reached the cottage few ours a
ter she was Dead However, he was in time 10 'ead her
burial service.
AndI believe he pl aced the upon her grave which
SETS forth that she the daughter ofa certain person. and
and that she died on such day in such year. And then
follows if recollec rightly, verse from Hoy ," I'll
This was the concusion.-Even her nephew, welded in
the ties of wife and children the living, would forget his
benefacess soon She passed away if she had never
been and no one now, but some solitary dreamer, like
myself, recalls even fitting memory Of the Old Maid.
Why EpIpEM1cs RAGE NIGHT.-lt was one nsn'
that 1000 perished in the Plague OfLondon Of 1000 1t
was at night that the army oSenaachene was destroyed
Both in England and the continent large proportion OF
cholera cases in its several FORMS have been observed to
have occurred between one and two o'clock in the morning
The dsnqer ofexposure to the night a has beena theme
o nbvscians from time immemoria but it is remarkable
,bo, bev have never called in the aid OF Chemistry TO
count for the fact.
Il is at night that tho streams of air nearest the ground
must always be the most charged with the particles OF ami
maized matter given out from the skin, and d'leerlons
such as carbonc acid gas the product of respiration,
and supurhetted hydrogen the products of the swes In
the day gases and vaporous substances Of all kns rise in
the air by the rareacton of hest at nigh! when he rare
faction leaves them they fall by an increase of CAVITY, if
imperectly mixed with the atmosphere, while the gases
voved during the night instead ofascendng remain at near
" the same level 1t is known that carbonc ac gas at
low partakes nearly of the aud
that 1t may be poured of vessel into aEoher 1t III
ses at the temperature which exhaed from the lungs
but its tendancy towards the floor the bed OF he sleep
er, in cold and unventilated rooms.
Al Hamburg, the alarm Of cholera at night, in some parts
Of the city was so great that some occasions many reius
ed 90 to bed lest they should be attacked unawares in
their sleep. Stt ng up, they probably kept their stoves or
open fires burning for the sake Of warmth and that warmth
giving the expansion to any deleerious gases present.
which would best promote their escape, and promote their
diluon in the atmosphere, the Of safety were thus
unconscousy assured At Sierra Leone, the natives have
practice in the sicky of keeping fires constantly
burning in their hus at night assigning ha! the fires keep
away the evil spirits, to which in their ignorance they at
tribute tho fever and ague Laerly Europeans have be-
pun to adopt the same practice and those that have tried
assert that they have entire immunity from the tropical e
vers to which they were formerly subject.
In the epidemcs Of the middle ages fires used TO be light
ed in the streets for the publication OF the air and IN ihe
plague of London of 1865, fires in the streets were kept
burning necessarily, till exnguished by violent storm o'
ran Lattey trains of gunpowder have been fired, ana
cannon discharged for the objec but 1t is OBVIOUS
that these measures although sound in principle must ne
cessay ont Of DOORS be on TOO small scaie as measured
acans, an ocean of atmospheric air. TO produce any sens
bo efec Within DOORS however, the case is different
is quite possible to heat room to produce rareac'o'
and consequent, duton of any malignant gases may con
tain and s OF course the air of the room and that alone
at night, which comes into immediate contact win 'h
lungs Of a person sleeping. -Westminser he c'e'0.
FrAyEp AL1vE-A statement was copied into the ne"
papers sometime ago, that belonging 10 party oOu
for California having declared that he would shoot 'e
Indian that he met deliberately shot squaw, and Del'
taken by party Of Indians, was skinned alive 10 10
port was subsequently, contradlced Nowilhs'a"o"e u"
the Bangor Mercury says that letter has been receive
from one of the party to which the man belonged wh'
was company bound to California overland giving the q.
tails Of his crime and its punishment in the manner stated
Soon after this cold booded murder OF the squaw the