The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1880-11-05

at, knocking down and half-killing while
IN ped, by inserting in her mouth con-
siderable portion of sheet or blanket. {"
The speaker took another draught,
everybody looked at everybody else, and
exclaimed: "Horridr'
1t appears in evidence, gentlemen, !"
continued Mr.. Boulton, "that on the
evening of yesterday, Sawyer the baker
came home in reprehensible state OF
beer. Mrs, s.. connubially considerate,
carried him in that condition upstairs
inte his chamber, and consigned him to
their mutual couch. in a minute or
two she lay sleeping beside the man
whom the morrow's dawn beheld a
murderer! Entire silence informed the
reporter that his picture had attained
tue awful effect he desired. The son
came home about an hour afterward,
opened the door and went up to bed.
Scarcely gentlemen, conceive his feel
ings OF alarm) scarcely had he taken
off bis indescribables, when slrieks Ito
his experienced ear maternal shrieks)
scared the silence of surrounding night
He put his indescribables on again, and
ran downstairs. He opened the door of
the parental bedchamber. His father
was dancing upon his mother. What
must have been his feelings In the
agony OF the minute he rushed at his
male parent as he was about to plunge
knile into the side of the female. The
mother shrieked. The father caught
the son (who had wrested the knife
from the paternal grasp) up in his arms.
carried him downstairs, showed him into
a copper OF boiling water among some
linen, closed the lid, and jumped upon
the top of it, in which position he was
found with ferocious countenance by
the mother, who arrived in the melan-
choly wash-house just as he had 30
settled himself.
Where's nv bovp' shrieked the
mother.
6" In that copper, boiling coolly re-
piled the benign father.
Struck by the awful intelligence.
the mother rushed from the house, and
alarmed the neighborhood. The police
entered minute afterward. The father.
having bolted the wash house door, had
bolted himself. They dragged the life
less body of the boiled baker from the
caldron, and, with a promptitude COM
mendable in men of their station, they
Immediately carried it TO the station-
house. Subsequently the baker was ap-
pretended while seated on the top of a
lamp..post in Parliament street, lighting
his pipe"
The whole horrible ideality of the
mysteries of Udolpho, d" condensed into
the pithy effect of ten-line paragraph,
could not possibly have so affected the
narrator's auditory. Silence. the purest
and most noble of all kinds of applause,
bore ample testimony to the barbarity
of the baker, as well as 10 Bottoms
knack of narration; and it was only
broken after some minutes had elapsed
by inteTjectional expressions of the in
tense Indignation of every man present.
The baker wondered how British
baker could so disgrace himself and the
highly honorable calling to which he
belonged; and the others indulged in a
variety of wonderments connected with
the subject; among which not the least
wonderment was that which was awak-
ened by the genius and information of
MIR. Robert Bolton. who, after a glow
ing eulogium on himself, and his un-
speakable influence with the daily press,
was proceeding, with a most solemn
countenance, 10 hear the pros and cons
OF the Pope autograph question, when
took UP my hat, and left.