Southern reveille. (Port Gibson, Miss.) 1851-185?, 1852-06-09

IN December. Undressing ne prepared 70
s bed, and then seizing the phial Of poison b
!. drank its contents unfalteringly. Getting int
; bed he aroused lis chum, who had slep
2 throughout the whole Of this terrible scene
and babe him arise and call his parents. all,
also send for his false lady-love to come an,
see him die. Ills request was complied with
and soon bis weeping parents arrived to blest
their dying son. While they we're lamenting
over him the door opened, and Susan-thc
cruel, but now repcntant object Of his love
entered the room. As she approached TIC
bedside Of the expiring youth. he raised HIM.
self feebly up. and said
Susan, for thee die and sunk back
helpless on his pillow.
Who shall paint the anguish, the agony u
the lovely maiden? With shrieks that rent
the air into shreds and drove the ancient tab
by from the room, she rushed to her doomed
lover and implored lis forgiveness. She
called him by every endearing epithet. but
alas, it was too late-too late Fondly she
embraced him. tenderly she parted the hair
from his brow and kissed his pale forehead.
They we're rcconcied while lie was on the
brink Of eternity.
But the poison was at work within LIZ
felt it cOursing its burning way through every
vein. lie was conscious that he had but
Few short moments to live, when lis chum,
who had entered to bid him last farewell,
inquired what lie had taken Perhaps there
was an antidote.
Alas. no. murmured lie unhappy vic
tim, it is too late 70 think Of remedies.
am almost gone. The bottle Of poison is on
the mantle do not know its name.
The chum seized the phial he looked at
what remained Of the fatal draught-dubi-
Ously he sighed, and extracting the cork, be
applied it to his olfactory proboscis. Three
long shifts took he, and the phial fell with
crash from his almost palsied hand, while il
tones Of wonder he cjaculated-
Cataipt BY thunder"
IIhat ?" exclaimed the expiring lover,
springing bolt upright in bed
Extract Of catnip as sure a skunks you
are not poisoned at all
With one bound the dying man gained the
middle Of the room. Ills lady-love fed in
dismay at beholding him in his scanty Coz
tune, and he, picking up the fragment Of the
phial, soon satisfied himself that it was indeed
catnip that lie had swallowed
Great was his rage at the discovery; with
horrid imprecatious On the luekless wight who
had deceived him, he got into his clothing, I
and arming himself with big stick, he sailed
forth to wreak bloody vengeance on his deyo-
ted hoad.-But to his deep disappointment
the drug store was closed and the attendant
gone. Taking the edge Of Of his wrath b.
shaking out Of his boots q small boy whom
lie encountered on his homcward way, he
swore a deep and terrible oath Of vengeance
on the druggist clerk, to be inflicted The first
time he encountered him at large and in the
open air after sun down. Horrible to hear
were the words he brcathed, and the oath was
registered-somewherc
And now each nigh: may be seen a slender
STRIPPING vending his way homeward, at a
rapid pace. lie has big bowie knife and |
revolver in each hand, yet he starts at every
shadow Ever and anon he casts looks Of
terror behind, for be fears the areHgert Il
i the doomed druggists clerk, and since the
threat Of the poisoned man has been told him,
he has grown 70 thin that his employer in
ends to use him as an illustration to a course
II lectures on anatomy.
MoEAL.-When a rejected young man, bent
IN suicide, seeks to purchase poison, let him
nave il il is decidedly the best thing he
'ould take, and BY complying with his re- /,
Iuest the apothecary may escape future
rubbing.
Secondly-Young men, when you /" get the
nitten, don't commit suicide in hurry if
rou do, you may liUe % repent IL -lEdgar
Somers.