The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1873-10-30
DANBURY NEWS NOTES.


and health in dissipation. is subject |
that is at present is receiving considerable
attention in the public print, and many |
remedies are suggested. One of the |
best We clip from an agricultural paper.
We don't know how it may strike others,
but it seems to us that the plan suggest |
ed by our agricultural friend will prove |
effectual We do not sympathize with |
his language exactly, bus we know not |
how much he may have suffered from the
actions of hayward sons. He says:
ITO Keep Damsons them into
stone jars; set the jars up to their necks
into kettle OF cold water and boil them
half an hour then cork up tightly"
Mr.. Coville says looking glass affords
a woman a marvellous amount of comfort
and qualification. He says his wife thinks
just as much ofconsulting her glass when
she ties on her apron as when she ties on
her bennett. He says that when there
is knock at the door he goes there at
once, but his wife, on the contrary, ejacu-
lates, Mercy, Joseph, who's that p
and dasbes for the looking-glass the first
thing.
One of those distressing accidents
which no amount of preparation can
guard against, occurred yesterday on
Pine street. Mr.. Hopley, the insurance
agent, intended going to N. Y. at 9:45
a. m. to see the Graphic balloon A
friend suggested it to him just about a
half an hour before the train would leave
aud Mr.. Hopley fastened home to change
his clothes and tell his wife. When he
got to the house he found it vacant, but
hoping that his wife would come in be-
fore he departed, be got out his Sunday
suit and began dlsrobing. He had got
on his clean shirt and was adding the
collar before drawing on the pants, when
he remembered that his sleeve buttons
were in the stand drawer in the dining
room, and he cautiously moved in there
after them. He found the buttons, and
secured them, when the hall door opened
and his wife's voice and the voice and
the voice of female friend were heard
approaching He would have fed back
to the bedroom, but he could not leave
the apartment he was in without having
been seen by them. Forone instantitseem-
ed as though he would drop dead and
run into the carpet. The next he per-
ceived the open door of the china closet,
and Immediately bolted in there and
closed the door, Mrs. Hopley and the
lady friend came into the room, and re-
marking on the heat, drew their chairs
close to the open window and brought
out their sewing. Then they fell to talk
ing about the weather, and Mrs. Rob-
bins black corded silk, and remedies for
worms, and other topics of engrosslng in
terest. Mr.. Hopley hung to the door
with awful tenacity, ard perspired and
thought. The darkness was intense, and
to add to the unplcasantness, mouse or
rat was heard in among the papers on
the floor. Mr.. Hopley was not timid
man, but he was bare legged and bare
footed, and when a man is thus situated
a mouse is about the last thing ne wants
to think of. Still the voices outside con-
tinued and greater grew the heat in the
china closet. Mr.. Hopley did not dare
to make the least noise to alarm his wife,
because Of the presence of the other lady,
| rrLo 1o
he did curse that balloon and the man
who suggested his going to see it, and
Prof Wise, and how bitterly he regretted
he could not think of that other areon-
nuts name (Donaldson) that he might
curse him too But still the two ladies
glided on through the mazes of the neigh
bors' affairs, without the least sign of
abatement. He heard the clock strike
ten and also eleven. Once or twice the
mouse came quite close to his feet, start
ing the perspiration afresh, until he could
feel it trickle from his chin and down his
body. Then he moved his foot to rest
himself and it struck against something
soft and hairy, and he uttered half
stifed shrek and jumped up striking his
head against a shelf, and bringing a
piece of some kind of crockery to the
floor. His wife sprang to the door in
alarm, but Hopley caught the knob, and
chung to it with the grip of death. Mrs.
Hopley tried in vain to open it. Then
she thought Of burglar being concealed
in the closet, and screamed for help, still
clinging to the door, to prevent the fero-
cious intruder from dashing out and
Draining them both. and burning up the
house. Her screams added to those of
of the female friend, alarmed the neigh
bors in an instant, and among those who
dashed in was old Mr.. Stocton with a
shot gun, and as soon as he learned the
trouble, he turned the dreadful weapon
full upon the door. There was stunn
ing report, a chorous of feminine shrieks
mingled with a terrific howl from the
other side of the door, anc the next in
slant the unhappy Hopley, with both
legs full of shot. was writing on the floor
of that closet. The door was opened !;
the women moved up to get sight; got
it; and Immediately dispersed with
another shrek. Hopley was put to bed,
and DIR. Meyers summoned, who picked
out the shot, which had merely pricked
through the skin, and applied the need
full remedies, and the patient to-day is
quite comfortable and will be at his Of
| fee again this week.
| An Unexpected Bill
A few days since, well dressed couple