The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1871-03-02
WnAT a MoMAN do.

WHAT n. WOMAN DID
a BuHalo paper tells hon ! Woman pu!
% diehta mob d twenty druhken men,
81 The Fillnse Of Holland as follows The
mob vas On the general 'spree, ? and the
disposition 10 do mischief was manifest
Entering the tavern Of.Nt Paul. theland.
lord was speedily driven from the scene
bis two young sons. one eighteen, and the
other twenty years Of age. coming for
ward to deal with tho rioious visitors
( Thc boys. Who yainly cndcayorcd to
pacify the drunken, savage gang, and
% induce them 10 leave Tho premises.
were finally SET upon and badly beaten
as reulso 9 couplc Of men boarding in
the house, Who came 10 their rescue
up to this time Mrs. Paul had not appear
ed. It was not until one Of her SONS,
covered with blood and bruises, retEeated
to her, in the rear apartment Of the house,
that she felt herself summoned to action.
Her FIRST instincts were altogether woman
". She thought that she conld persuade
the rutiaus, by appeal to the ordinary
respect Of man for woman, 10 desit from
the violence, and she went into their midst,
drunken and armed with clubs as they
we're. Her appearance and her appeals
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had no effect upon them. They threaten
ed lhoriown person with violence, and
-swore they would burn the, house and kill
lhe iamates. Then this sirppg;hcartcd
woman iosc.t arms. and declared for
battle with the savage mob which would
not be cOnciliated by peaceful persuasions.
Escaping from side door, she attempted
to rally the ,Rcighbors, Of whom there
wore enough near at hand, to the defence
.of her threatened tousc and family. But
tthe ueighbors would not rally; the mob
looked too formidable to them. She could
gather no force to assist her; andperhaps
1t is-not singular that the villagers stood
'timidly aloft, because, without some rcso-
; lute leadctto give them confidence il each
other. men are aptto appear towards in
such an emergency, though every ones
fear that he may expose himself without
good Decking from his fellows. At all
events the neighbors Of Mrs. Paul declined
to assume the defence Of her premises. so
she was left to her own resources. Moth
1ng damned she borrowed two revolvers,
despatched messenger to The village store
to purchase a hundred rounds ofcartridges,
and returned acknowledgement homo
The rioters were in full possession Of its
front rooms, and engaged in indiscriminatc
smashing Of windows and furniture. help
ing themselves to liquor and appropriaIing
property. She loaded the revolyeFs that
she had borrowed, placing them in tho
hands Of her two sons. stationed them at
the two doors leading into the bar-room,
where the mob was mostly copgregated,
and detected them to FIRE several shots,
.frst into the ceiling of. the room, above
the heads Of the crowd. in the hope that
that might suffice TO alarm the narauaders
and drive them Of. That tho shots were
go fred is attested We are told, BY the bull
let mapts in the ceiling. They had no
effect, the rioters were too mad with liquor
and with their passion to be sobercd by
the warning. Some of them on the con-
trary, made rush toward NouO Of the
boys, and thcnhis brother fred a sho.
which struck The foremost of the assailahts
In the abdomen, and then, too, under tue
direction of tho courageous mother, who
reloaded tho revolvcrs as fast ashley were
emptiea, the firing was kept up straight
into the mob, until itbrokc into the panic
aud aed. One man was Killed outright.
or dropped dead q few PAGES from the
door, and, was found lying as he fell, with
a bottle of whiskoy under ono arm and a
piece ofclothing rlunderedfrom the tavern
under the other. Two others are likely
to die from wounds that they received.
A Mr.. shefain, of Portsmouth, Ohio,
while under the influence of liquor, killed
a. Mr.. Burke, of jackson county, for
which DO was tried. convicted Of mans
laughter, and sent to the Ohio PeDitentia-
ry for period of three years. His wife
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