Juliet signal. [volume] (Juliet [i.e. Joliet], Ill.) 1844-1???, 1863-08-18

I 1o - Hine !! salu ne TO himself, with
rather a benevolent smile. He feels his
error. de will do wrong no more. How
much better thus to overcome errors, than
with the british use Of HiS.' and be regar<
oed small bamboo cane, which he us,
uaIiy carried out with him in his works.
The month had expired, and this was the
day appointed for the visit Of Mrs. Costing.
In the afternoon Strap went into bis libra,
ry, where be had sent James on some er
rand. The boy not returning, be followed
nlmVh lie bad been detained by curious
attraction. A beautiful little canary bird,
accustomed to FIJI the house with music,
| had been hanging in its cage against the
wall the repentant BOY had taken il down.
and plucked off allits feathers, and was
amusing himself by regarding its tcontOr-
lions and distress with grin Of delight
Strap forgot bis system, but, obevine the
honest and doubtless correct impulse Of his
soul, seized the young reprobate by the col.
lar, and having accidentally In hand his
bamboo cane, gave him what people in the
everyday world would term a regular
trouncing. Mrs. Costing entered while be
was In the act. The naked canary bird
revealed the story.
I ought to apologize said Strap, taking
breath. Sac
For licking my Jim p asked Mrs. c.,
surprised.
No, madam, but for having ever been
such fool as to suppose myself wiser than
Solomon. l shall renounce ne,o systems,
and hereafter take the world as ii u.s. And
poor Jim, after his brief rep.ieve, rece lived
has daily portion as regularly as ever.
A BIZ OF PATHos IN REAL LIFE There
are queer histories in the world. Walking
towards home few nights ago, in a
drencbing rain, we overlook two females.
very composedly moving along under the
shelter Of q wide umbrella. The parties
were mother aud daughter. The latter
is about twenty-one, the former about six.
ty. HFF3
In the Rogue's Gallery is the picture Of
man named Burke. The original is
still in the Eastern Penitentiary. He was
sentenced for the murder, in house of Ill
fame, in Locust street, above Ninth, of a
constable in the Office of Alderman Nc
Mullen. The victim was named Johnston.
Johnston was engaged to be married at
the time of the murder to young girl who
then lived in a court near Fifth and Chris
| tan streets. and who lives there STILL
The young man was not worthy of such
love as that entertained for him by the girl
in question.
A quarrel arose in the house, and a stab
with knife in the hands of Burke took
effect in Johnson's breast, and killed him.
The females whom we met in the pnuring
shower, as above narrated, were the girl
to whom the murdered man was afianced.
and her mother. The death of her lover
caused the girl to become demented. She
remains IN that condition to this day. Her
form of madness is melancholia. She be-
lieves, however, that at some time not de-
fnitely fixed, between the hours of one and
two in the morning,by visiting the scene of
the murder, her betr Othed will appear to
her. OF her mind this one idea has taken
sole possession. Gls ----. gs. .--{ b
Every night, for three years past, in
company with her afflicted mother, the
girl has visited the locality of the tragedy :;
neither rain, cold, heat has interrupted
this nightly visit. They take one regular
rOute-up Fifth street to South, up South
to Ninth, and thence to Locust street, in
an alley running from which street, the
murder was committed. During the whole
walk the girl talks necessarily to her
mother, in low tone of voice, and the
bObbOl WIN
ly but hopeleSsly. She knows the fruit
lessness of the nightly walk, but takes il
that her unfortunate child may TO that ex.
tent be comforted.
They walk to the alley where the sad
event occurred, needing no one, and stead
lily moving to the house where the murder.
Gus deed was done. They wait there some
minutes, sometime as much as an hour
Then the girl says, "never mind. mother
dear, he won't come to night. He will be
here tomorrow, And the poor creature
returns hopefully, som etimes even cheer
tully, and nearly a Thousand to-morrows
have since transpired. yet each night the
girl, with her devoted mother, comes to
the spot only to-ret;re in hope that the
disappointment Of the present night NAV
be consummated By better results in the
next. --. = 81 % -
So well is the history known down town
that even the Vilest rufian in Moyamens.
ing passes the women by without 40 in
suit. The girl is comely, with fresh
complexion and fair shape, but no man
says aught to her; as with her sorrow
stricken mother she makes her nightly Wis
it. The mothers steps are growing fee
ble. They are poor, and not many DAYS
hence the girl will have to make her Jour.
ney alone. God help her!-Phila. NORTH
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