The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1858-12-25
Incident at tho Five Points.

There Is crow d over at the corner By
the din light of tho street lamps, aud the
lesser light Of two or three candles held alon.
the face. Of the miserable beings gathered
there look very haggarl they are clothed
IN rags they are bootrd in Visngc they
come and move around with tottcring steps
thew seem to talk to each other in drunk on,
maudlin tones but shull above all the din
may bc heard the oath and the curse that roll
naturally, alike from old md Young, in that
nrighborhood, There ore police uniforms,
and the light occasionally flashes from their
Sfit'5S as they bcaf something heavy 10
tween them down the rickeIy, ilIhy stairway.
Now, as they reach the level OF the sidewalk.
the crowd seems 10 gather closer around them.
aud the ligat shines brighter upon each face,
revealing deeper shade Of haggard woe.
Soon We hear loud voiced boy cry out, ~
dead womon"
"A dead woman' But is that all p
Eighteen years ago, She WAS the pet Child Of
dotng parents, who lived aud spoiled her.
In her childhood, as she passed You IN the
street, you might have said, "Whlt Aprctty
little girl" You might have said it truly,
for her features were still regular. We can
not tell the vicissitud,s through which, G
poor thing passed. hptwuGu that Tong GONE
day and the present SO sad an end of life.
She may have fallen an unwilling victim To
the scduccr's art she may have been trained
10 n iiT'e approximation arc young girls
trained TO such ends all around these Points
to.day-taught that It is life of mirth and
ease, and their sensibilities early dsndened to
its shame To rescue little girls and boys
from so sad an end, is the MISSION Of the
House Of Industry.
This moruiug. this that is now "a dead
Gaaaan1 1nliaht-haNe- -heen seen stnggcrng
along the street to-day at noon she sat on
the sidewalk nearly opposite our house lean
ing against the fence OF, the Park. They saw
her try to raise her hand, that trembed like
a leaf in the wind, up to her head, and then
they saw both head and hand sink trembling
down to her drawn-up knee Soon after,
Mind policeman came and aided her home
she called it her home in that corner. Once
inside the door she laid herself down along
the side Of the passagc-way and slept. One
o'clock came, and still she slept. Boys and
girls ran in and out, and men and women
went cursng up and down, and still she slept
Many n kick she got from passers by. At.
length, some woman less british than the
rest wondered, as she gnzcd, that the drunk
en- woman slept so long. She tries to wake
her without success. She turns her face up
from the floor, then drops it, and runs fright
ened into the STREET. is a dead woman
Lights were soon brought, policeman.
comes, policeman's rap brings his partner,
* with it gathers a crowd-ft representatives
of pandemonium. They stand and gaze and
shuddcr. The policemen soon place what is
left Of the long since mothers pet in a rough
hnnd- cart and so she i- conveyed to the dead
house. The crowd stand a moment and gaze
then return % the accustomed channels,
aud tho waves of just such death roll on
pgain.
. yc whom God has surrounded with bar
riers that protect you from such fate, re.
joice With trembling, and seek to throw a
saving iuiuenc c. Ervead-snWc iitle child aha