Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1859-02-19

oil nightw vociferuted the olo ils"'
Wool hastily closed the Offending portai
and hurried 10 his masters SIDE.
We'll sir. who was u rnng the ueiil
,Ssr dc Reverend Mr. Parson Goodwin,
and he saws how he must see you yourself,
personally, alouel
SEC ule, you villain Didu't you tell
him that had retired =
Yes Marse, tell him how yOu were
gone TO bed and asleep more'n an hour ago,
aud he ordered me to come aud wake you
up, and say how it were matter o life
aud death 2
Life and death What have TO do
with life and deathH l won't stir IL
the parsou wants to see me he will have 10
come up here aud see me in bed
Mus fetch him reverence up sar
Yes, wouldn't get up aud 90 down 10
sew Washmgton-shut the door, you ras-
cal or I'll throw the booJack at your
wooden head
Wool obeyed with alacrity and IN time
TO escape the threatened missile.
After nm absence of few minutes he
was heard returning, attending upon the
foots,eps of another. And the next mn-
ute he entered. usheriug ia the Rev. Mr..
Goodwin, the parish minister OF Bethle-
hem, St. Mary's.
How do you do? How do you do p
Glad to see you, sir glad To see you,
though obliAe to receive you in bed !
Fact is, caught cold with tbis severe
change of weather, and took warm negus
and went TO bed to sweat it of! 1Ouu
excuse me Wool draw that easy chair
ND to my bedside for worthy Mr. Goodwin,
and bring him glass of warm negus. 1t
will do him good after his cold ride
Il thank you, Major Warheld will
take the seat, but not the ncgus, 1t you
please tonight.
Not the negusl Oh, come now, you
are joking Why, it will keep you from
catching cold, aud be most comfortable
nightcap, disposing you to sleep aud sweat
like baby OF course you spend the
night with US
il thank you, no ] must take the road
again in few minutes
Take the road again tonight Why,
man alive, it is midnight, and the snow
driving like all Lapland.'
Sir, l am sorry to refuse your proifered
hos pitalty and leave your comfortable roof
liO.nighr and sorrier still TO have TO take
you with me- said the pastor, gravely.'
Take Me with you No, no, my good
sir no, no, that is too good q joke-ha !
ha
Sir. / fear that you will End it very
serious oie Y0aF servant told yor that
nv erraud was one of imminent urgency I!
yes, something like life and DEATH
'Exactly-down in the cabin, near the
Punch Bowl, there is an old woman dy-
| ing.
There. knew it. l was just saying
there might be an old woman dying. But,
my dear sir, what's that to me What
eau do?
Humanity, sir. would prompt YOU
But, my dear sir, how eau l help her
! am not physician to prcscribe---.'
She is far past physicians hep
Nor am l priest to hear her confes
SION
Her confession God has already receiv
ed.'
well, and Pm not lawyer to draw up
her WILL
NO, sir but you are recently appoint
ed Que of the Justices of the Peace for AL
leghany.'
Yes well, what of that That does
not compromise the duty of my getting up
out of my warm bed and going through q
snow storm to see an Old woman expire
Excuse me for insisting, sir ; but thi
is an official duty" said the parson, mildly
but firmly.
.Tll-il throw up my commission tC
morrow growled the old msn.
Tomorrow you may do that, but mean
while, tonight, being still in the commits
sion Of the peace, you are boundsto get uI
and go With me to this wOman'S bedside
And what the demon is wanted Of mi
there p
TO receive her dying deposition
TO receive dying deposition Goo
Heaven was she murdered, then ? ea
claimed the old man in alarm, as he Starte
E out of bed and began TO draw on his meth
er garments.
BE composed--she vas not murdered
t said the pastor.
! well, then, what is it Dying depos
tiou 1t must concern crime exclaime
the old man, hastily drawing on his Goa
1t does concern u crime
What crime, for the love of heaven p
4 am not at liberty to tell you. Sh
will do that
}. Wool, go down and rouse up John, an
, tell him 10 put Parson Goodwin's mule
q the stable for the night. Aud tell him
n put the black draught-horses to the cloi
: carriage, aud light both the front lantern
|, for we shall have dark stormy road
= Shut the door, you internal II beg yo,
pardon, parson, but that villain alwa
|. leaves the door ajar.'
: The good parson bowed graVely al
n the major completed his toilet by the Tia
d the servant returned and reported the ca
u riage ready.
e. TO the Devils Punch BowP-was Z
order gwen by Old Hurricane as he folio
,ft ed the minister into the carriage. "A
d, now, sir he continued, addressing his coI
II, panion, Il think you had better repeat TIL
port Of the church litany that prays TO
as delivered from battle, murder and sudd
as death : for if we should be so lucky as
sd escape Black Donald aud Lis gang,
r.. shall have ut least an equal chance of [
al ing unSet in the darkness of these dreadf