Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1871-04-27
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NY LODGEk'S UIFE.

THE alarm from ftnlan outbreaks
is too recent TO require any decription
here, even if were capable of writing
one; but as plain widow woman
which | AMI have no pretentions to
write history, l only know that
down at Weymouth, as well as every.
where else, I'VE were always being star
tied by some fresh reports of what
the fenians had done, or were going
to 10, generally the latter. This wa
common to all places; but we had
special interest III them eymonth,
because most of the men when convict
ted, were sent to Portland, and we
sometimes caught a sight of them On
the platform of our station, when they
were changed to the !ittlr branch line,
| suppose almost everybody who reads
these words know that Portland l..
land is only two or three niIos from
our town an1 that there are nearly
two thousand convicts there. They
have built the breakwater, aid made
a regular castle on the island. and SO
have done a great deal Of work there,
if they never did any before they
came.
Now and then one escapes, but he
is nearl Y always retaken directly or
gets drowned in trying TO swim off to
some boat. Ny husband who was a
master-hshermau, saw one drowned.
Although he was convict, my hus-
band tried to save him, but he went
down like stone, not twenty yards
from the skif.. My husband was very
much upset by it, instead Of being a
forbiddiag. looking, rnlfian like Bill
Skies In "Oliver Twist" he was a
mild looking, fair haired young fellow,
who didcn't seem to be above one or
two and twenty. However, my poor
husband was drowned himself not
very long after this; and have lived
ever since on avery little income lie
left ne, and by letting furnished apart
ments in the season. @
In the winter, Weymottth IS very
dull, and |, living alone, would almost
have b'n glad to accommodate any one
for nothing, in order to have company
in the house; so | was very much
pleased TO have a chance of letting
my hlst rooms to a very respectable
young man who wanted them at re-
duced rate. | had been with many
others,t to the station,to see batch Of
Fenians changed FOR Po, tland, bnt we
we've Obliged to come backrunsa satisfei
because the railway companies would
not allow strangers IN this was the
more annoying as we all wanted TO
see a Colonel La Troulle, from New
Orleans, who had fought desperately
when taken, and he had been terribly
hurt about the head and rendered
senseless before he would surrender.
As it happned,we were not able to see
him; so we all went back as we came.
! bad been at home about ten min
ults and was warming my cocoa for
my snpper, when | heard knock at
the street door, and on opening it, |
saw a very gooa.lookirg young fellow
very slight, very dark, with q black
moustache, and altogether foreign
air. lie spoke English, however, and
said he had been advised TO apply to
me for cheap apartments: that he was
not very rich he had come to Wey.
mouth believeing he should have an
appoifitment in one Of the hotels he
look5i a. # he wSoihd have made
a capital waiter-but was disappointed
for the present. H. wished to re
main in the town, TO be in readiness,
and 50 had applied to me. | was
glad he had done so, and offered him
my rooms cheap. IL agreed to take
them, and sent for bis BIKES from the
station at once. He had a great dea |
OF luggage more than most young men
possess.
never had 1nietet, gontler, lodger
IN my life than he was no trouble, no
noise, never ont Of an evening BY any
chance, and his manner was always
80 soft and quiet, that. A. | osed 10 tell
him, II Sls morg IKE having girl IN
the house than man, lie would