Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1871-12-08

tePing crones, and he could see no hop
! ofany better fate for her. She follow
ed him round the barn-like rooms, re
turning every now and then 10 he
question, " Don't you think l nigh
| 60 home now ?'
The weak-cyed girl had been called
away for moment, and Ralph stooC
looking into cell. where there was &
man with a gray red plume in his hat
and a strip of red flannel about hi.
waist. He strutted up and down like
a drill-sergeaHt.
am General Andrew Jackson, "
he began. "PeOple don't believe it,
hutI am. had my head shot off at
BUena Vista, snd the new one that
gTOwed on isn't nigh so good rs the
old one; it's pOtatoe Oh one side.
That's why they take advantage OF
| me to shut me up. But | know some
things. Sly head is potatoe on oEe
side, but lis all right on t'otl.er. And
when l know a thing in the left side
of my head, L know it. Lean down
laere. Let he tell you something out
OF the left side. Not out Of the pOta-
toe side, mind ye. / wouldn't a-toli
you if he hadn't locked me up fer
sells the bodies of the dead paupers,
and then sells the empty cofiins Lack
to the county agin. But that amt
all ~
Just then the weak-eyed girl came
hack, and as Ralph moved away,
General Jackson called That amt
all. III tell the rest another tine.
And that amt out of the pOtatOe side,
you can depend on that. That's out
Of tile left side. Sound as nut on
that side ~
But Ralph began to wonder where
he should find Hannah's mother.
Don't go in there !" cried the
weak-eyed girl, as Ralph was opening
a door. Ole Mowiey's in there, and
she'll cuss you"
oh! well, if that's all, her curses
won't hurt" said HarIsOOk, pushing
open the door. But the volley of bias
phemy and vile language that he re-
cciycd made him stagger. The old
hag paced tile floor, abusing every
body that came in her way. And by
tiie window, in the same room, feel
ing the light that struggled through
the dusty glass upon her face, sat a
sOrrowful, Intelligent English woman.
Ralph noticed that she was English
at once, and in a few moments he dis
covered that her sight was detective.
Gould il be that Hannah's mother was
the roommate of this l0athsOmc
creature, whGse profanity and obsceni-
ty did not intermit for moment
Happily the weak-eyed girl had not
dared 10 brave the curses of MOwley.
Ranh stepped forward 10 the woman
by the window, and greeted her.
1" Is this Mrs. IhOmsOn:'
"3hat is my name. sir" she said,
turning her face toward Ralph, who
could not but remark the contrast be
tween the thorough refinement of her
manner and her coarse, -scant, un-
SHAPED pauper-frOck of blue-dIilling.
II saw your daughter yesterday"
did you see my boy :"
There WAS q tremulOusuCss in her
voice and an agitation in her manner
which disclosed the emotion she strOve
IN vain to conceal. For only the day
before Bill Jones had informed her
that Shocky would be bound cut on
Saturday, and that she would find that
gOin' agin him warn't payin' busi-
ness, So much as some others he mOut
mention.
Ralph told her about Shock s safety.
I shall not write down the c0avsrsa-
ton here. Critics would say that it
was an overweight scene. As if the
world were as cold as they! All | can
tell is that this refined woman had all
she could do TO control herself in her
earerness to get out of her prison
house, away from the blasphemies of
Mowley, away from the insults OF
Jones, away from the sights and
sounds and smells of the place, and.
above all, her cagcrness TO fly 10 the
shocky-head from whom she had been
banished for two years. 1t seemed to
her that she could gladly die now, il
she could die with that haXCn head
upon her bosom.
And so, in spite of the opposition OF
Bill Jones's son. who threatened her
with every sort of evil if she left,
Ralph wrapped Mrs. Thomson's blue
drilling in Nancy Sawyer's shawl,
and bore the feeble woman Off to Lew
isburg. And as they drove away, a
sad, childlike voice cried from the
gratings OF the upper window, Good
by! g0od-by" Ralph turned and saw
that it was Phil, poor Phil, for whom
there was no Gelivcrance. And aiI
the. way back Ralph pronounced men
tai maledIctions on the DOrcas Society
not for sending garments 10 the Five
Points or the South Sea Islands
Whichever it was, but for Icing sc
| blind to the sorrow and poverty with
in its reach. He did not know, for he
had not read the reports of the Boards
of State Charities, that nearly al
aims houses are very much like this
and that the State of New York Is moi
better in this regard than Indiana
And he did not know that it is true in
almost all other countries, as il was in
his own, that Christian " people &c
| not think enough of Christ to Look fol
him i'm these Warehouses.
And while Ralph denounced the
Dorcas Society, the eager. hungry
heart of the mother ran, flew toward
the little white-headed boy.
No. Oan not do it; L can not tel
YOU about that meeting. i am sure
that Miss Nancy Sawyer's tea tasted
exceedingly good to the paupcr, who
| had known nothing but cold water FOL
years, and that the bread and butter
were delicious to a palate that hae
eaten poor-house soup for dinner, anC
coarse poor-house bread and vile mo
lasses for supper, and that withou
change, for three years. But can no
! tell you how it seemed that evening (,
Miss Nancy Sawyer, as the poor En-
| glish lady sat in sPeechless ecstacy
rocking in the old splint-bottome;
rocking chair in the freight, whiit
she pressed TO her bosom, with all tht
might Of her enfeeblcd arms, the form
of the little Shocky, who haif-sobbe,
| and half-sang, over again, God ham
forgot US, mother; God ha'n't forgo
u.s."
ITO BE CONTINUED.)
REsTGNATIoN OF JUDGE NELSON
Hon. Z. 4. r. Nelson has tenderes