Jasper Republican, Volume 1, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 December 1874 — "Don’t Wake My Mother.” [ARTICLE]

"Don’t Wake My Mother.”

Among the passengers by the west-ward-bound emigrant train which arrived yesterday was a Mrs. W. 8. Crediford, an aged lady from Albert, Me. Poor, feeble and alone, she left her home to cross the continent on an emigrant train to see her children, residing in this State. Two grown daughters awaited her at San Jose, and her son had gone up the road to meet her. He found her worn out with the fatigues of the protracted journey in a comfortless emigrant car, and very weak. About six o’clock in the evening she reclined her head on her son’s shoulder and fell asleep there. Just after the train left San Leandre a gentleman who had got on the train at that place, noticing something peculiar in the attitude and appearance of the old lady, approached her son and inquired: “ What is the matter with that lady?” “Hush!” said . the young man; “don’t wake my mother.” “No fear,” said the gentleman; “she will never wake up again in this world.” He was right. Quietly leaning on the breast of her son, the poor old lady had yielded to fatigue and peacefully fallen into a slumber, from which she passed into that deeper sleep that knows neither waking nor weariness. The emigrants composed her limbs to rest and brought the body to this city for the bereaved children.— San Francitco Chronicle. The most astonished jury ever seen in Connecticut is one that has been serving, off and on, for three weeks, and now finds that the law creating the Norwich City Court makes no provision for the payment of jurors. —The highest prize in a Chinese lottery is twenty-nine cents, and the man who draws it has his name in the papers and is looked upon as a heap of a fellow.