The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1859-01-07

th0o oitlliS Oh duOtueF pOIlIon Oh TIE IeuEoH
bean.
The spectators could do no more than leave
him 10 his fate. Gathering in dense sem-icr-
Gle close to his couch, they stood silent and
with uncovered heads awaiting the departure
of a human spirit to the bar of the final Judge.
{ Stranger though he was to them ALL and dying
as they believed, by rash persistence in the
use oil an inetfcacious antidote, the fact that he
wasundergoing the extreme penalty common
to humanity on account of the primal sin, ma de
has fate and bis suffering objects Of mysterious in
terest, for the moment, to every one in the
room Death is not only the leveller and the
sanctter, but its presence makes all beholders
feel OF kin 10 the victim which il has seized and
is bearing 10 the jaws of the remorseless grave.
Apparently exhausted by the effort which
he had just made in speaking, The snake tanner
sank back upon his couch and remained for
few moments silent and still. 4 fresh parox-
ism Of pain having Supervened he groaned hea-
yily, turned his face TO the wall and began to
muttrr like one who talks in disturbed sleep.
( Imperial reason had, at length tottered upon its
throne and the wild delrlum, produced by
frvered brain and a tortured body, had come.
over the sufferer.
He babbled long and inCoherently of snakes
aud Cedron beans, performing his feats with the
one over again, and recountIng the marvellous
cures made in eastern cIimes with the other
As the shades of the mental eclipse grew dee
per, he spoke less and less audibly, until his
voice sank 10 a whisper, and then by degrees,
his lips ceased 10 move, and he was, 10 all APP
pearancr, dead
After the lapse of half an hour be began 10
revive. The respiration deepened, the pulse
quickend and sweled in volume, the stupor lift
ed like cloud, from mind aad body, and, in
short time, hr opened his eyes and spoke. The
vigor of his constitution, or remedial power OF
his Cedlon bean, but more probably both COM
bined, had triGmphed. He rapidly coavalesced
ana IN a few days was able to go about a 8 usual
His snakes had been left undistuIbed In their
boxes, and he proposed to resume bis expert
ment of tanning the one that had bitten him
But the andlord and The visitors, satisfied with
what they had seen, protested against lis beng
repeated, aud gathering uphis boxes and carpet
bag, vanished from the theatre OF his recent sul
te'ings as he now does from this tale.
A ROMANTIC AFfAIR.-Quite a romantic
affair occurred in the western part OF Philade
2hia week or two ago. The facts are these
Mrs. B--,(a handsome and rich widows
and the mother Of pretty daughter OF l6 sum
mers,) by some means became acquainted with
a young carpenter, who, although fine
looking man, was in rather poor circumstances.
The carpenter visited the lady's residence very
frequently galanted her to the church, the
theatres, g., scarcely paying any marked a:ten-
ton to the daughter, Mho sometimes
accompanied them. Madame Rumor, with her
thousand tongues, soon noSed ii about that the
carpenter aud the widow were about 10 be
made one, and his friends congratulated him
the prospects he had of SO shortly being able to
chang up his hat" The widow, too, was
complimented by acqualntances, and in fact she
began to think that the thing would take place,
although the carpenter had not, as yet, "poped
the question:" With the craft naturally
possessed by "widders,', she threw out a hint
to her gallant at his next interview, and from
this hint he took it for granted that she was
anything else than averSe 10 a matrimonial
UNION Will HIh. IlS thouShl IL " 10 titiiS W at
and undeceive the lady, which he certainty
did and astonish her too, for the next morning
he eloped with the daughter! This set all the
gossips in the neighborhood going, and they
one and all pronounced it ':scanalous." The
girls mother, however, being woman of sense,
takes it phllosopbically, and has forgiven the
young people, who are now domiciled at the
family residence. She gives her daughter
credit for the shrewdness the latter exhibited
in her courtng, and also the carpenter for his
discretion in picking OF the two, the youngest
and the prettiest.
BEAUTIFUL ExTRACT.-I saw a man at even
tide near the grave of one dearest TO him on
earth. The memory of Joys that were passed,
came crowding on his soul. And this: said he,
all that remains of one SO loved and so lovely!
| call but no voice answers. Oh my loved ore
will YOU not hear, O death ineXorable death