Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1875-09-08

An IpITORS Cool WIFE.-Nllliam
Young managing editor of the New York
Sun. who lives ut 239 Dean street Brook
lvn.lost $50. SATURDAY, night. by a burglar,
but kept his life, perhaps through the cool !
ness of his wife The couple We're sleeping
in the middle paror and Mrs. Young, who
was wakeful. on account of spralned
limb saw the burg lar enter the front par
lor window and approach the bed about
four o'clock in the morning. She tried to
rouse her husband by pnching him. but
netlrctallv and the burglar coming to the
bed. held club or pistol over her head
while he put his hand under the pillow
and took ont her gold watch, and the gold
cross which was attached to 1t 10y 4 silk
cord The cross clicked against the watch
and Mrs. Young stirred and made slight
movement as though She expected to clutch
the robber. whose face was 50 close TO her
that She could detect the fumes of tobacco
in his breath The thief quickly took out
handkerchief that smellrd strongly OF
chloroform. but rs Mrs. Young quieted
down he put it up. Then he went to the
other side of the bed and tried to get Mr..
Younrs cold watch from under his pillow.
He could not reach it and snatchng up
Mr.. Iounc's ptntaloonS he went out rs he
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pinching. ut length aroused her husband,
and told him that Il robber was in the
house. He jumped to the floor and ran to
the front of the house to the balcony. He
cried e" Thief but no one was in sight,
and he started back to see what had been
stolen He found his pantaloons on the
balcony under his feet His pocketbook
containing so was gone. but the thief had
left 800 which was in the watch pocket.
In his haste to get away the burglar also
left Mrs. Young's watch and cross on the
chair by the window, where he had lain
them to rifle the pantaloons pockets Mrs.
Young was awake all the time. but feared
that if she spoke the man would shoot her
husband or herself, and she cOOllv deter
mined to awake her husband by pinches.
At one time she fe prompted to clutch the
thief by the throat as she could easily have
done, but she feared that he might shoot
if she did so. Her eyes were wide open,
and she saw every feature of the burglar S
and saws that she will be able to identify
him if he is caught. The description she
gives corresponds with that of a man who
the evening before, saw Mr.. Young open
his pocket book, which was bulky will
small change, to pay for some CONNECTION
cry.
1t was observed, on the day of Cole''
circus exhibition, that our Park fountain
and its mythologies were study and puz
zle to some of the stranger multitude, wh'
gathered in the shade about it. One stud.
was, to ascertain the true number of TN
dolphnes that hang by their tails, head
downward, trying to plunge into the waite
below and two of the party. determined t
know, repeatedly walked about the circle
with steps not the ste;,dest and eyes nc
the clearest counting as they went. Their
were always two Of these strange fishes
sight, but others, one or more, not IN slSi
, at any point; and so. not noting just wher
they began or where they quit the coun
! the puzzle remained insolublc to on
D curious friends.-th one swearing ther
: were four, and the other five. The specie
$ of the fish, not without much debate. W;
n satisfactorily determined they were pr'
:, nounced to be 'amprey eels. Our pluvlo'
Neptune was more readily recognized
; the statue of Ethan Allen Standing upon
II sheU Sad waste, this, OF classic lore
. Burlington Free Press.