Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1855-09-05
VOL. 2.--N0. 6.-TOTAL,. 5S.
a Sad Scene.

The following sketch is taken from che cor
| respondence of the Boston Journal. No re-
Elections of ours can add to its beauty and pa
thos, or deepen the force of its simple elo-
quence. The writer says:
As painful scene met my view in the cars
from Philadelphia to New York, as l had ev-
er seen in my journeys. a lady and her hus-
band came INTO the cars at the former place,
and were seated near us-very respectable in
appearance, and the lady, in pafticular. un-
commonly interesting. After a little while
noticed a strange manner in the gentleman,
which seemed TO indicate he was not in .faror
of the Maine Liquor-Law. At every place
the cars stopped he evidently replenished the
vacuum in his throat by new drink, until he
could not sit without help in his seat. He
then rose hastily and went and opened the car
door, and seated himself in it, with his feet
hanging outside. His wife was much distress
sed, and tried to prevail upon him to come in,
and he gave her push which almost sent her
TO the floor. Two gentlemen rose, and with
the aid of the conductor, he was helped in
and placed in a reclining position on one of
the seats beneath a window. He soon appa-
rently fell asleep-and it was enough to break
ones heart TO see the attention that that de-
voted wife Iavished upon senseleSs husband
She covered him up with her shawl, TO keep
the dust from making him uncomfortable; if
his hands fen in an unpleasant positfon,a She
gently replaced them; and perhaps bedewed
them with fear. 'A 20 Hs-'t i7
Before arriving in New York She seemed
anxious to have him walked, and asked one of
the gentlemen to ssplease wake him ..as it was'
a strange city, and she did not know what to
do" Two or three reused him a little and
then she went to him with sweet smile, and
said-..We have got almost to New York, and
am glad, goa are so fired,'' and he struck her
Ia fhe face She had TIE sympathy of all in
the car, know; for there Was many moist
eye among the ladies', and many a bitter look
on manhood's cheek. Arrived in New York,
he would not leave the cars till he was ordered
of by the Conductor. and her attentions, in
crossing the ferry were assiduous as ever, and
met with pushes and blows from her brutal
husband The last I saw of her was in the
station houSe on the New York side begging
him to go and see tO. their baggage, and he.
answered her that, she was a fool-to mind
ion remarked -..That is womanly love, and
when he speaks kindly to her again, she will
forget it all !. .--..-..-s
Sir Isaac Newton q Lover. ..
1t appears from Sir David Brewster's Life of
Sir Isaac Newton, Just published. that the.
great philosopher. at the ripe age of sixty,
made proposals. Of marriage TO a widow, The,
lady was the widow of Sir William Norris,
who died in 1122, The following is Newton's
way ofspopping therqpestion:,'',
.Aadarn-Your lldyship,s grief at the loss of
Sir William shows that if he had returned safe
home. Your ladyshiP would have been glad to,
have lived still with husband, and therefore,
your aversion at present for marrying again
can proceed from nothing else than the memo-
ry of him whom you have lost. To be always
thinking on the dead is-to live. a melaneholy
life among sepulchres, and how much grief is.
ln eReny to your health is manifest by the
sickness it brought when You received the first
news Of your widowhood. And can your lady
ship resolve to spend the rest of .your days in.
grief and sickness? Can you resolve to wear;a
widows habit perpetuapy-a habit which is,
less acceptable to company -ahabit which will
be always putting You in mind of your lost,
husband, and thereby promote your grief and,
till you leave it Off The proper.
remedy for all these mischiefs is a new fusb-
and, and whether your ladyShip should admit
of proper remedy for such maladies isa
question which l hope viii not need much
time to consider of. Whether your ladyship
should xo constantly in the rneIancbol, lra.s
of the widow, or flourish once more among the
ladies'; whether yoa should spend the rest of
your days cheerfully or in sadness, in health
or sickness, questions which need not
much consideration to decide them. Besides
that your ladyship will be better able to live
to your quality by the assistance of
d husband, than upon your own estate alone:s
and therefore, since your ladyship likes the
person proposed, doubt not but that in lit.
tie time 10 have notice of your ladyship's in
clination to marry at least that you will give
him leave to discourse with You about it.'oI
am, Madam, your ladyship's most humble and
most obedient seryant.a i G9ilT din -
4.-ss--
IIGmING THE LAMPS ~ HEAvEN.-I send you,
says correspondent of the Knick., the follow
ing little incident for your Table 1t struck
me as one of the most uniqe explanations of
electrical phenOmina had ever heard. A lit.
tie girl, the idol of friend of ours, sitting
by the window one evening during violent
thunderstorm, apparently striving to grapple,
some proposition too strong for her childish
mind. Presently smile of triumph lit up her
features as she exclaimed: ..oh, ! know what,
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