The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1875-10-27

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can scarcely hold my babe"
One of them offered to hold it for her, and
took it from her arms. My poor wife then
went and got the lamp, which they lighted
and started on their search. They all cooked
their revolvers and passed the word to kill at
sight, and started for the cellar. I laid my
self just as fiat as could be and turned my face
to the wall, for knew my face was thinnesi
from ear to ear. The light came to the door.
/ tell you, brethren, just quit living. You
have heard it said that when man is drown
ing all his past life comes up before him.
The speakers voice trembled, his eyes be.
came stffused, and his whole frame shook
with suppressed emotion as he continued {"
stood then before 4he Judgment seat. was a
dead man. Ny heart ceased to beat. l al
ready stood before my Judge. Brethren,
what could do but just trust myself to the
Lorda The man who carried the light was
tall, and providentially stopped SO low in en-
tering the cellar that the light, shining against
the bank of earth, threw deep shadow over
mes They searched through the cellar, but
did not find me, and went back up stairs. My
wife afterward told me that when the men
went down cellar, she took her babe and went
into the parlor, and stood there holding her
hand against one ear, and her babe against
the other, expecting every moment to hear
the report of the revolvers in the cellar an
! nouncing the death of her husband. The
soldiers set fire to the house in several places,
and leaving one of their number to prevent
nv wife from putting it out, departed. The
man seemed to be touched with pity, and told
her that if she wanted to save some furniture
he would help her My wife thinks that
holding the babe in mis- arms had touched his
heart She pleaded with him If he had any
consideration Of her or her helpless children
J., AYE the house and let her put out the fire.
~ snted, and left. My wife then came
- qked me whether it was all right
~ God. "I am afraid they will
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greatest comfort to know 'na' you leel pre-
pared to de-" told her th., : WV was
prepared to die
"Telling me to pray. she left me. ~,
moi long before another party of Quantre4
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RAIDERS had become intoxicated by this time
demanded whether was in the house.
"Do you suppose said my wife confident
ly, that he would stay here and you shooting
and burning all over the town? No; he left
this morning as soon as thefring commenced,
and unless some of you have shot him and
killed him outside, he is safe. Some of your
4. I,al fIa
house. However, you may look for your
Selves"
In this way she bluffed them. They set fire
to the house, and left one, who drew his re-
volver on my wife, and said he would kill
her if she tried to put it out. He stayed till
the house was so far consumed that there was
no possibility of saving it. My wife pulled up
a carpet, and in taking it to the yard, dropped
it accidentally by the door.
My wife was afraid, and SO was /, that
would be burned alive for / had now no
Thought of doing anything but what my wife
told me. The floor was on fire almost over
me, and the flames were creeping nearer. My
wife stood and threw water, pail after pail,
upon the floor, and was doing this when a
neighbor, Catholic woman, came and said
"Why, Mrs. Fisher; what are you doing p
What good will it be to save that floor? Be-
sides you can't save it"
"I don't care what good it will do" replied
my wife, 81 am going to keep on wetting
that floor"
But finally, when she saw she could not
save it, she asked the neighbor whether she
could keep secret. She then swore her by
the Virgin Mary never to reveal it.
"Well, then, said my wife, my husband is
under that floor"
The soldiers were still everywhere shooting
and burning, and the air was filled with the
shrieks of wounded and dying men, the wall
ings of widows and orphans, and the sound of
falling buildings. My wife then called me to
come out, and threw dress over my should
err The two women picked up the carpet,
and | crawled under it between them, and SO
we three proceeded to small brush about
four feet high out in the yard. There my
wife saw four soldiers ready to fire. They
were not hundred yards off Then, for the
first time, the poor woman despaired. A pang
shot to her heart, and she gave up all for lost,
Nevertheless, skunk under the bush and they
threw the carpet over me.
"Save the chairs ! " cried my wife /; and
they rushed to where the chairs were piled,
close to the burning building, and ran with
them and flung them carelessly upon me, and
piled up all that was saved of our household
goods about me. The soldiers evidently
thought the pile only lot Of household fur
niture and left it unmolested. I stayed there
till two hours after they left, and then gather
ed my wife and my four childron--for the two
boys had come back-and in the garden We
knelt and thanked God for deliyerance.--
Brethren, you don't know what it is to be
thankful"
"No,' he said contemptuously, "it's easy
enough for man to make money nowadays.
Times are different from what they was.-
Then there was solid work about. Now, all
you have to do is to take your surplus and
buy things when they're low and sell when
they're high, and there it is in nutshell. A
child could do it. BY the way" he added,
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