Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1870-02-28

''AND He PASSED TO SHUNEM. The
words of my text, my hearers you will find in
, Kings iv chapter, verse S,
Aud he passed to Shunem."
Take to heart the lesson our text teaches
and when temptations try you, and evils lie in
wait to cuSnare you, pass to Shun en-
When you see men OF wrath lighting and
breaking heads and sticks, and hear them ours
ing and swearing mind the words OF the text,
and "pass on to Shun en-
And if you should happen to go to the Cos
mopolitan Corner--And sec men drinking beer
that will bring them to a bler-and gin-slings
that will sling down the strongest, and smashes
that will smash mans fortune faster than
commission merchants who advance supplies
on the last crop-ah-o oh, pass on to shun
cm.
But, oh my hearers if you should go down
10 New Orleans-that modern Sodom and Co
morrah. where have lately been--ah-nnd
when the gas lights are flashing, and, ah, gllm-
merng and the cabs are dashing along the
>trects-and obIiglng drivers arc ei1arlngo car
" you where only steamboat H.ptalnS ana the
first gentlemen 70 o-ah-ar>i st. Charles street
!, on n riD and a rn.r-ah--and the brass
Lands arc crashing music from bllcouics-ana
men in littIc Iolcs arc ready TO sell you little
tickets to 80 SEQ the Black Crooks dance with
no,hirs to wcar-and make spccacles of them
,rlvcs-ah-oh, my friends, pass on 10 Shun'
IN.
ind, all ! il later in the evening, with very
particular Irend-you 90 up stairs into most
sulendidiv furnished rooms--ah and see the
supper table spread with dcIicaces from every
cline snd couutry--and teal duck. and sni pes
and ycllow-lcgced puiIeta and phcasnants, and
a.. that fish, flesh and fowl can att0ri-and
chamracuc aud brandy, and Burgundy and
Chateau Laiitte, older than Waterloo and
nothing to pay and all trcc-and nice gentle.
,i!an with ,ngS on his iiugcrS and diamond
brcaS,pin, playing with little spotted paste
boards, and another turning machine and
dropping in little bali that rolls round and
round and stops sometimes on the eagle bird,
and oftcncr don t-ana wien the players put
town more than they take up-and men some
times win, but mostly don l--all-- oh, pass on
Ia Shun' en-"
And in conclusion, my friends, when the
world, the flesh, and the dcviI---ah-!ie IN wait
for you-"pass on to Stun cn.
FEVER AND AGUE Versus DIVORCE a
nw weeks ago one Of our citizens informed his
us;ounlcd family one morning that business
required his presence at the South, and he
houll probably be absent for i year OF
course the announcement plunged them in deep
despair. The weeping wife hung upon his
neck and the sobbing children olung to his coat
tails while the husband and father mingled
his tears with theirs. At length he tore him
sell away, and departed upon his journey. But
instead of going TO the South he stopped at
New Albany, Indiana. where he took steps to
procure a divorce, 4 younger and tafcr form
having uSurpcd the place In his heart which
his faithful wife had so long held. But while he
tarried he was stricken with the fever and aguc
IN lis most violent form. and while he lay upon
his lonely couch, alternately shaking with chilli
and consumed with the burning fever, hi:
rhouchts reverted to the wife he had LETT, who
had so often stood by him, when nc lay upon Il
bed of languishing and pain in the days gone oy
And he thought how pleasant 1t "ouid nc
She wcrc Lv 20 draw the clothes more closely
,r,rrI him when the 'Shivcrs' came on, or &c
lav her soft, cool hand upon his burning bro"
when thr fever was on. And as he thought
he :o;y how base his conduct was IN seeking
divorce from one who had mlnlstered 50 laltn
luIIv to his necessities for so many years. %
one day when the fever lct. him, he arose AM
returned to his deserted home, where his SIM
were all forgiven, and he was received again u
the heart OF his ipj pjured spouse, whom we ven
,,,,c 70 rrcdct he will never desert again. -
fiacinadH Gd-ette.
\ Nrw nopGE-On "Wednesday, tic 9t
y
instant, y young man about twenty one year
o! age, Giving his name as David lan1erE' an
representiug himself as farmer IN h"cSlnS
ham county, Virginia. went to the C!crk
our Court and asked for marriage lic;nSs
hut as he did not have four dollars ana ha',
the price charged for the license the U'ei'
declined the request Mr.. Landers then re-
turned to Harpcr's Ferry, where he had lei
the Young lady he intended marrylng' until at
came here for the license. 4 lew days atte
Mr.. Mani received letter from Mr. hlndcr
r,auostinr bin to send him the license t
illrrcr's Ferry by Adams Express, marked
CO. D., which he did. In due time IN
license reached Harper's Ferry, when Lander
was Informed o! it, but instead OF getting IN
license nut of the Exnrcss office, and maxim
good hi; promiS: to the young lady, whom !
the r.,artinc, he had grossly imposed upor
ne a%arIoned her aud left for parts unknown
not leaving her a cent to pay her board at tn
hotel or 10 get home With. The iathcr OF III
sir ON getting information Of the affair, wen
TO liarpcr's Ferry and took her home. IN
lovers were To have been married on this SID
ol the Potomac, and it was to have been VIII:
is called runaway match" but through
van, ii coustancy and fidelity on the part
the gallant woocr, it was Il signal failure
Frctrni EcUmtncr.