The Carrollton sun. (City of Carrollton, Parish of Jefferson, La.) 185?-1???, 1860-10-03


returned, redeemed, regenerated' and
aisenthralled.' Bras 50 satisfied now
that there was nothing left in my par
Iors to be killed.. that / could hardly
sleep that night, SO impatient was to
see Mrs. Sowerby.
That pestilent woman, when she came
next day, looked Wound in evident dis
appo intment, but texclaimed with evident
nos declare its oil perfect;
thass isot q IA dDomerr DOM in town.
thought L, I have
corni Esd 10 more blunders. But l
roekcned without my host. was
destined to go on numbering in spite
sof myself. The spring was coming on
and the weather being mild, the folding
doors being thrown open between the
front and back parlors: This latter
was furnished with green somewhat
faded confess. had heretofore
considered it the sancfp1 aanctorum
of the establishments MI only used
on extraordinary ocea 6zs, such as
Christmas ana New ar' y days, when
all the family dinel ish mo. bringing
lstheir lif51 q children with them to gorm-
fbenselves sick. The room
lool ~ ery well by itself, but, alas
ths Mrs. Sowerby caught sight
! B her eve brightened-fatal omen!
/ y bY, NY dear Mr.. Sobersides, what
hiss go into your back parlor? p? Il
used to he 50 genteel and smart. Why
/ j belle am losing my eyesight
The x&en curtains and carpet looi
n low, think. Oh, l sec it now
}foast parlor has killed the bacI
II The q j Here was another prett.
Iniece Of business. / must either kee]
1.-The door shut in summer and be roasted
sIor be. Charged with killing whole par
carpet, chairs, sofa, walls and al
II Ut would be but mere repetition, t
) relate how this wicked woman led IN
from murder to murder. First the me-
CARPET killed the curtains, then the ne
curtains killed the walls, the new paint
ed walls killed the old satin chairs, an
so little by little all my honest old fu,
niture went the way of the homes
t yellow.
The spellwas broken at last l erie
IL.
= rubbing my hands in eXtasy. Neith'
+. my front nor my back parlor can con
v nit any moro assassinations. Elate
@ with tho idea, was waiting on Mr.
Sowerby to tho front door, when SUI
S denly she stopped short at the foot
r the old fashioned winding staircas
G the carpet of which [ confess was i
5, tested here and there with that mode
@ abomination, a darn. 1t was moreove
rather dingy and faded.
,r Your back parlor has killed go
1t hall, said Mrs. Sowerby.
IF And so it had. Coming out OF t
splendor of the former, the latter h
s. the same effect on the beholder as
ou bad set of teeth in fine face or a rus
al iron CRATE in fine room. =.
~ I began to be desperate. L had be
is accessory to so many cruel murd'
mt that my conscience had BECOME scar
ed and l went ON led by the wiles OF t
pegtilent woman, TO Inusder my
We from ground-foor to cock-loft, with
ow sparing u single soul. Nothing csc
by ed but the garrot, which having b'
ne for half a century the recepticle for
all our broken or banished househ
ith goods, rcscmbled Hogarth's picture
ow the sEnd.of the World and dciied
yrs arts Of that mischiGYous woman y
ext Soworby.
My house was now fairly revolut
ing lied, or rather, reformed, after the
9ti- French mode by Il process Of indis
not inmate destruction.
sirs Il did not. like Alexander, after ha