The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1864-11-15

on, bot ioflauly, Wth az idea
/ ihat | bad volcano behind me, which
might Blow OFT a. any moment
After halt an hour Of waiting, and
when my new friend hsd apparently
found himself little cooled. | heard
Mr., Wilson's deliberate spp coming
up ,he stairs, and tc came into the
room the next apment after As be
did 50, turndel e tie gentleman in
/ lhc chair, and sad
There Is Mr. Wlson--you wanted
TO see him.
I, The man th chair sprang up as
iii q ealednic battery lial been .adden-
/ - applied to him, rapidly crossed the
/ room to Wilson, pulling ont newspa-
/ per, out ofhis pocket a the same time,
| Opened lhe paper, slapped i with his
witch, and burst oat in language not
enough broken 70 need reproducing il
IN that particulars
Are you Mr. Wilson: What do
/. you mean by abusing my wife I
Abusing your wife, my dear sir p
who is your wiie ?--I do not know
what you are talking about t exclaim.
ed Wilson, slighy starting back.
'lhen look here 7 said the loud
man, slapping bis hand on the paper
this time, instead Of the switch. You
call my wife 'depra,ed' and 'abomin-
able 7 Ny wife was never deprayed
or abomnable +
VINO is ysur wife ] broke on; vii.
son, now about as angry as his visitor.
My wife has been mrlliug fsr you
under the name OF Julie, said the loud
man. You promised 10 look over her
story, and she said you were a gentle
man. But | see you are big black
guard I
Take care ! said Wilson with a mo-
iion that looked ominously like an IN
lention TO strike, aud which he eyi-
dently reconsidered. Your wife, my
dear sir-JuIie--I did not say SO
about any such woman Where is
what you mean
Here 7 Numbered the loud man.
handing the paper to Wilson with
another slap OF the hand. saw that
IT was a copy Of the last Balloon news
paper Wilson took the paper-read
rubbed his eyes-read again-then
he burst out with one single word that
told several volumes.
/ have seldom seen man so ang-
ry. He rushed to the desk where |
was yet sitting--tirew down the pa
per on it with "A slam, and said:
'What does all tits mean? Didn't
you read chat proof 2-that proof $-
there Answers 10 Correspondents,
.Julie."
OF course | read It, Mr. Wilson, !
said, and so did you, for | saw you !
What is the malterH
Yes, did read it myseIfp said
Wilson, 'but there was no such cussed
stuff there Maa See hat il is, noaoo
lle gave me time, now, to read, and
read. The notice, tile original Of
which have before given, read al that
j1ncture as follows:
JULIE The MS has been exam
iued. The style Of composition is
abJmnable, and the story exhibits a
highly deprayed taste which cannot
/ fail 10 bring the witer into eventual
/ misery. We have made arrangements
tor immediate destruction
Some printer had drxterously
/ changed admirable to 'abomnable,
cultivated TO 'doprayed, celebrity
to 'misery, aud publication, to de-
struction, making, it will De observed,
rather 4 marked difference in the tone
Of the notice.
Perhaps Wilson did not wish 10
have me for a witness to any more OF
the conversat on, for he invited the
loud man inside. ! have no doubt he
made any quantity Of explanations, of.
tered to publish the matter next week,
aud rendered a thousand apologies to
the aggrieved lady. J heard ONE Of
tie worls, especially those Of the hus-
band, though moi enongh 10 give me
the chain OF his observations. What
ever may have occurred, The loud man
did not look IN much better humor
when he came out, and noticed that
I he took the roll Of manuscript away
with him. Ii never came back 10 the
Balloon office ! may as well say here),
nor did the lady Of the dark eyes ev-
er again cross the threshold while
remained in that employment.
The visitor had scarcely gone, that
day. when Wilson. came out Of his
room again, came up to my desk, and
said
Do you know anything about this
+ cursed trick, sirl Yes Or no, upon
the honor of a man
Upon my honor do not know any
\ thing about It, was the answer | made,
aud do not believe that he really
suspected NE. The next moment /
heard bis long legs goingsup the stairs
that led 70 the composing room, two
steps at a time. For what happened
there ] had afterwards the word ol
the foreman. and was only only what
have been expecied-a numbr 81 au-
cry inquiries on the part Of Wilson as
TO WHO had meddled with the matter
on the galley -denials % the part OF
ths printers that any oi them lad done
-a--fhe eod ii an Nhirb was thar the