Kenosha tribune & telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1856-1859, 1857-06-18

listened and sure enough there was a mys.
| FERROUS noise, as it somebody was ascending the
kitchen stairs with great rapidity
| jumped out of bed, put on pair-no matter
lit lamp armed myself with my revolver and
sailed down the stairs followed by my wife.
We looked all over the house, aud found moth
ing but strange eat in the coal cellar We
went to bed again
| thought ! had not been asleep more than
half IN hour, but in realty had been wooing
the drowsy god five or six hours when was
swoke by the window of the room we were sleep
ing in, being raised, and man softly entered
the room.
Halo my fine fellow. I've caught you have
? and levelied my revolver at him.
For mercy's sake, don't shoot = said the
man.
What are you doing here p
Matters were soon explained; he was only the
man engaged in painting the outside of our new
house, and by means OF n ladder obtained &C
cess to our room, not TO rob or garrote us, but
merely to get his paint pot. that he had left there
the evening before Ho apologized for disturbing
us, not knowing that there was any one in the
apartment The new house had no gas in it,
bnt the landlord had put it in, 10 the detriment
OF ceilings in some of the rooms, and floors in
| others. This however Yvas already accomplished;
the pipes were laid the metre set. and the floors
and ceiling repaired, the whole being finished
The day before we moved in so that there were
several large spots of newly spread plastering
on the ceiling of the parlor.
had Just completed the task of driving some
picture nails in the walls ofths room from which
to suspend our family portraits, when scream
OF horror from my wife, and rafting sound
caused me TO turn suddenly, which movement
tipped my step ladder over, letting me down in
| rather hurried and 1indignifed manner, produ-
cingan extensive andlpaintul abrasion on my left
knee.
As soon as l recovered my senses from the eff
feet of this unexpected shock perceived that
the iarring, caused by driving in the nails, had
shaken Down the fresh plasterng on my wife S
head, and worse yet, upon our new Brussels car
PEI, purchased expressly for our new house.
Notwithstanding that gathered it up, as
quietly rs possible, our carpet was completely
ruine9, for the beautiful figures, large wreaths OF
red roses with greeuI leaves observation-disclosures
d very diuPy yellow color, wherever the lime
contained i'll the plaster had touched.
Mywife happened to be looking up at the time
and some small PARTICLES of the lime had fallen
into her eyes, resulting i'll much redn SIS and O
little inflammation. and regret to say. grea
i'll humor for the rest of the day.
At last everything put to rights in Sul
new house. But it wasn't Il comfortable new
house. The doors wouldn t shut or when shut
wouldn't open. The kitchen range wouldn't
burn, OF when it felt inclined to burn, wouldn
bake. There was a scarcity of water. There
was superGbundance of coc,rOaches. There
| was this thing, and that thing, the other thing
so that in fact, nay wife disliked the new house
My wife grew melancholy.
Surprising. my dear l said TO her one even
ing, as our old house is not yet let, we move
back again
She Jumped up from her seat, kissed me and
told me | was her good, kind, dear old Tommy
She always calls me her Tommy when please
her.
We moved back again to our OLD home.
had to pay 4 quarters rent TOR the new house
was at the expense of twice moving, had two
carpets COMPLETELY destroyed lost, don't know
| how many things; had my sons clothes ruined
ditto my wite's temper --and-thats the wa y
| saved fifty doiIars a year.