Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1852-10-01
SELECT VARIETY.
A DOSE;
Or Whnt Did She Take
ny r. HOOD.

"Ellen, you have been out" ri
"Well, know have' =. .a
"To the Kings Head?' s@af.
"No, John, no; but no matter, you II be troubled
| no more with my drinking"
| "What do you mean?''-
"I mean what say, John,'' said the wife, look
ing very serious and speaking very solemnly and
deliberately, and with strong emphasis on every
word. e-troubled-no-lnore-
with-my- drinking. have took it at least''
al knew it" exclaimed the wretched husband,
desperately tossing his arms aloft, as when all is
lost. tT knew it!' And leaving one coat flap in
the hand of his wife, who yanly attempted to detan
him, he rushed from the room, sprang down three
stairs at time, along the passage and, with
out his hat, stick, dashed out of the street door,
| sweeping from the step two ragged little girls,
quarter loaf, basin of treacle and baby. But he
never stopped to il the children werr hurt, or
even to fthe infant drppedwith gore or molasses
Away he ram like rapid dog, straight forward down
the street, needless alike of porters load, basket
and butchers tray. ta.t.. sr..aH ..
edo that again" growled placard man, as he
| recovered the pole and board which had been
| knocked from his shoulder.
"NIind where you're going" bawled a hawker,
as he picked up his scattered wares while dandy,
suddenly thrust into kennel, launched alter the
runner of of those verbal missires, which are
said to return, like the boomerang, to those who
launched them. e'sa
But on, on .campered the eetotaler, needless OF
| all mpedments-on he secured, like u he Camilla
| to the shop numbered 240, with the red blue and
green bottles in the window-the chemist and
druggst-ino which he started, up to the little
bald man at the desk, with bare breath to grasp
| out. fE 4a a-g..
"My poison-pump"'
vegetable or mineral ?'' inquired the surgeon
apothecary; with the utmost professional co3lness
| "Both-all sorts laudanum- arsenic-oxahc
acid-corrosive sublimity-and the teetotaler was
abont to add pine apple rum among the posons,
when the doctor stopped him.
| "Non .-.....a. F. III.
| But remembering the symptoms over night the
teetotaler yentured to say, the strength OF his
dream that she had turned all sorts of colors, like
| rainbow, and swelling almost as big as a house.
s'There is not moment to lose," said Esculapi-
us, and accordingly clapped on his hat, and arming
| himself with the necessary apparatus-a sort OF
elephantic syringe, with very long trunk-he set
off on trot, guided by the teeoaler, to unpOiSon
the rash and i'll faed bacchanalian, Mrs. Bulrage.
| Now, when the teetoaler, with the medical man
at his heels, arrived at his own house. Mrs. BuHage
was still in her bedroom, which was great con-
venience, for before she could account for the nru-
sion of q Stranger-nay, even without knowing how
it was done, she found herself seated in the easy
chairs and when she attempted TO expostulate, she
found herself choking with the tube of something,
which was certainly neither maccaronl nor sick
liqnorce, nor yet peppermint. l.-
To account for this precipitancy, the exaggerated
| representation of her husband must be borne in
minds and if his wife did not exhibit all the dolphin
like colors that he had described-if she was not
quite so blue, green, yellow or black as he had
painted her, the apothecary made sure she would
soon be, and consequently went to work without
delay, when delays were so dangerous
Mrs. Burrage, however, was not woman to sub
nit quietly to disagreeable operation against her
own consent; so with vigorous kick and push at
the same time, she contnved TO rid herself at once
of the doctor and his instrument and Indignantly
demanded to know the meaning of the assault upon
her. #t.-..-,
at is to save your ife-your precious life-El
LEM" said the teetotaler, very seriously.
,,%, fln SfD pnnh npo mi "a
doctor.
"Empty fiddle, retorted Mrs. B., who would
have added "stick.'' but the doctor, watching his
opportunity had dexteronsly popped the tube again
"For the Lords sake, Elem continued the
| husband, confning her hand, edo, do, pray do sit
quiet.'',g i
| bub-bubble,'' attempting in vain to speak with,
4 another pipe in her mouth besides her wind-pipe.
tsHave the goodness, ma am, to be composed"
9 mplored the doctor. ID f.l,,, ms. dfs.ll-, ~
\ az won't" shouted Mrs. Buuage, having again
released herself from the instrument by desperate
struggle. s'What am to be pumped out for!"
go, Ellen, Ellen, you know what you have ta-
ken?" a.t.ii .ss,. gj.gt.s sy.4..g;5r:. :.ij
doctor. .,.t.ss.44 Ii
ssArsenic and corrosive sublimy,'' said the tee,
totaler. 55 +. ID ,.s,.t ID. .sf.gs,f
"Oxalic acid and tincture Of opium added the
doctor. sf n lS 5.s--.,.. ys ,ls.zS Is ri
aFly water and laurel water" said Mrs. Buuage.
'.Vitrol, prussc acid and acquefortis, ,"contipued
have taken no such things" said the refractory
patient 5tz.i...z4 ....t
"Oh, Ellen, you know what you said:'' II. ,,'Ti
! s'Well, what?" as.4,i .l,. -fsiig. ,l,y,n
/ .sThat your drinking should never trouble me me
/ any more.'' 7,5s. .I..55fs..,,4,5fr5a
s.And no more it shallp' screamed the wilfnl woT
I man, falling, as she spoke, into conyulsiye pai5
o2ysms of the widest laughter. No more II snaA.
for Pve took" 545,.s . -i-..tlslJ .5flj
( ttWhat, ma am, pray whati =, y, !.,f4 10 sburi
! 'In the name of Heaven, what!" 4, 3Jl6asl
"Why? then, I've took the PLEpGEE' N 'isilE5g
Counter filter Arrested-A named Amos MOI r1son
was arrested in Youngstown, Westmoreland CO. "a on
Friday last for passing counterfeit money; s. bill on the
Ohio State Stock Bank, Springfield. He was taken TO
the jail at Greensburg and committed for trial IheIe
were ass found sewed up his In notes OF the
I same bank, all counterfeit
The Linz Of Battle shP Pennyirq,s ship which
cost the nation $500 CO. built at Phladelpha In 1880
now lying at Norfolk Navy Yard and has been
converted into for the OF Inc oi
cers on that station She is the largest ship IN the Amer
can Navy the costly She carries io guns
the only voyage made from Phadeiphia te