The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1878-01-10

Nothing whatever wouldn't look Ike
+ that, u vas you. Yoa eaH't belp a.
Him that permits en-, lie strikes EN- %
our books, now aud thcu, into tiis, mad
am Au best for Him and them aud Us,
take Il, when Il happens.
+ Now, last night, The 23d Of February,
ths, woman, she'd jast made onl her
foarieeu,h night consecutive; and bad
/ Il planned to seHd her TO Towksbury TO-
day. She'd be warm 10 The poor-house,
a, least, and sure Of her rAtions. CAp'n
aud both felt glad OF il when We saw
her stAgger Ia, lie said We've got Der
this time. And said; Here again, Doh
eryl
went mp TO speak to her, for ! felt a
little sorry, TOO, knowing IL was the last
time. For you couldn't understand how
familiar their faces grow, nor the kind OF
feeling that an officer gets about them,
now aud then.
There is the entry just as put il down
after so many times.
No. 81 (shs came in rather early No.
81, D:-Doherfy, Ellen, Pdgrdney.
Sick, For we saw at once that she was
pretty sick. She'd been beating about In
the storm. The snow was ell over her.
| noticed she had on a clean calico dress.
She stood just where you're standing,
ma am, while | made the entry, II took
the snow some lime to melt, for II had
tleeted some. She looked almost as If
she was IN a white dress, she was so COW
cred She had her hair done up neat,
! too
/ thought I'd go aud see her in the cell
myself. So went down. She walked
very slow aud seemed weak Tired,
Doherly? said T.
Lieutenant, said she, folks used to call
me Nell. Nobody called me Doherty till
| begun to come TO the police station. ]
don't think anybody called me that till
Ia been into the house, says she.
Then said, for thought I'd pacify
her, if could, Are you sick tonight,
Nell?
Oh, my God says she--just like that.
Then she threw up her arms over her
head, and began to sob and take on. But
she didn't swear. She felt too sick, !
take it,. So we put her in with the rest,
and she got into the corner and sat cry
Ing.
] II was not till toward midnight that she
begun. They didn't get well in and
quieted before that. But every now and
then the men would call: Sing us to
sleep, Dohertyl Where is Doberty?
Doberty! Sing us to sleepl
The storm set Ia hard toward midnight.
1t beats heavily here upon the Office win
dows, as you see, ma'am, and we get a
pretty clean sweep Of the wind, on ac-
count OF the street running to the
wharves. sent down once TO ask how
Doherty seemed, but the officer reported
thst she was quiet, aud be wished The
rest were. They'd all set in, men aud
/ WOlHfhI hS sotbI ih SOhNVlb a " 9ibH OhAs
Sing us TO sleep, Doheify!
i Pretty soon she began. could hear
her plain above the roaring of the storm.
4 She began Doherty began that the
poor miserable e--creetur-she that had
once been woman like other woman
folks--excuse me, ma'am but she's been
on our books good many years. And
I've heard her sing thingsl never look
ed to be taken by surprise, as Doherty
took me. You're not surprised very easy
J 10 such place as this, at anything your
fellow sinners do.
! But about midnight, when the storm
was at its thick aud the cells were grow.
Ing still, Duherty, she sat up and began
to slug hymn. She sang:
Shall We gather at the River.
, Ny boy sings that at Sunday school,
aud my wife, she strikes it up the first
thing on the cabinet organ every Sunday
night. Doherty sang il all through:
At the msrgin Of the River,
Washing up lie silver spray,
We shall walk and worship ever,
An the happy. golden day
Those are the words. lhonght perhaps
you Wouldn't suow ihen F1k- ,ing
them a great deal ia the Baptist church.
Before you cpu'd have cooked pistol
Il was a, quiet as the grave al through
this pl.ce The Ulcers looked at one an
othe. All the men walked up. The
women, they got togetbe" ia heap about
her. The Captain said TO me: Doheftys
singing hymn tunes! said thought
we'd 20 down and see; and down we
went.
When we looked in at the grating.
wish, maam, you could have seen those
men ragged, rough, red, drunk. Some
Of 'em taken in awful crimes. No, don'i
wish you had seen them. But there they
set, a. silent as row Of angels on the
Judgement Day, listening TO bear that
: woman sing. One aud another, they
0 said Hush! Hushl And one fcllow
I said; used TO sing that song myself
= lie was up for assault aud battery. Bad
e ly beaten, too, himself, about the face
h lie crept along The wall, noticed, on BIZ
: knees, 10 get where he could hear bel
!. better. When she stopped, be hoilereC
e out:
: Give us some more, Dohertyl
y Aud the rest said
z Doberiy, give US another psalm tnne
Bat one Of the women said:
j Come, Nell Sing RS TO sleep with to-
y hymns.
q So then she began again; aud she CAV