The Plymouth pilot. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1851-1852, 1851-07-30

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SO you may go along"
And the arbiter of the fate of this
woman, and many others in the same
miserable situation, strobe off TO enjoy
his cigar, while the seamstress retraceG
her steps back to her home o: forlorn
wretchedness. As she paced along, in a
frame of mind bordering on frantic des-
pair, she passed an apothecary's. A
strange, mad notion flashed npon her
BRAIN as if propelled by some inYisi-
BILE spirit of destruction, she entered the
medicine shop and called for an ounce
of laudanum! The shopman, of course,
/ hesitated not, as wild and desperate as
his customer looked, to sell her the dead
ly draugnt, ana extracting his pay from
the poor woman last, hard-earned coin,
he threw her the change. and she again
bent her steps towards her dwelling.
The few pennies remaining suffused to
buy small l5sf at a neighboring groce
ry,-thiS, and some dregs OF tea warmed
over the blaze of a handful of shavings
Oh the hearth, provided for the meagre
repast of the widows children.
After their meal, on some pretence or
Other the widow sert her children to
neighbor's house, and then drawing the
vial from he. bosom. she prayed God TO
he s protector 20 her offspring, while she
sought refuge from her unbearable burd-
en- Of poverty and woe, in self-destruc-
tion.
s.She's not dead, she's warm yet, and
breathes," said one.
"Poor dear SOUL" sighed another
''She has looked like death for long
time; and her little girl says her mother
never went 10 bed last night q. al; the
poo- dear creatures worn out, good
long sleep will do her good"
"Ay," says the first speaker; an old
woman, ''and she'll sleep a sleep that
knows no waking; run quick. some OH
you, get the doctor, the woman's taken
poison: look, I've found the bottle under
her head!"
Sore of them cried, some screamed
and bawled, while none started for the
doctor; and, amid all the din and wailing.
in come The widows children, though
some pains had been manifested to keep
them away from the scene. The chill
dren, supposing their parent dead, scres m
ed in concert with the neighbors, who
had come in upon the first intimation
from the children, that returning home
about noon, they could not arouse her.
Sue swoke; the Sirai aiia a. a. aasesias5sed her. Her
eyes Were CLASSY. her lips parched, but
over her still pleasant and comely feat
ures played smile. She gazed around
her for moment upon the anxious faces
bending over her bed, she grasped her
children to her breast. aud in a calm,
sweet voice, spoke:
80, why did you call me back from
heaven"
"Mother, Motherr" screamed the chill
drer.
"My God My God" and with the
first force of resettted consciousness. the
widow almost frantically hugged her chill
dren, and then in the next instant bound
ed off the bed, bya wonderful effort of
mind over matter, flew to an old chest in
an opposite coFaer. throwing back the
lid, she snatched out mauS -evorn Guar
to Bible, over the leaves of which ran
her bony fingers. until certain page was
found; tearing apart the two closely ce-
mehted 4eaves, out futtered 500 bank
motel
"My dream! My dream is tIuei We're
saved, my children, we're saved"
The wonlen helped the exhausted seam
stress to her bed. A few days suffused
TO recover her from the effects of the
weli -adultefated drug-too weak to kill.
The 500 note, placed in the family Bible
by her late husband, and revealed tc her
by he- opium slumber, proved one of
those mysteries and rare oases in the wea-
ry desert of "a lone woman" who essays,
by her daily toll, to rea- her little ones
in populoas city.
EXTRACT FROM THE ADDRESS OF
THE CALIFORNIA DEMOCRATIC
CONVENTION.
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the ancient faith of the Democratic party
"a strict construction of the constitu-
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