COBLEIGH ON THE MOVE.

Evening Star, Issue 4190, 1 August 1876, Page 3

COBLEIGH ON THE MOVE.

Mr Cobleigh moved on the first of M w. Wo were going through North street when we met him with the insignia of the act upon him, viz.-a looking-glass, clock, and lamp. If we had suddenly discovered our own family moving we could not have been more astonished. He had lived in the house whence he was moving for at least eight years. He set the lamp on a fence, and propped the clock and looking-glass against the same. “You are surprised to see me at this?” he said with au anxious look. We admitted as much. “ I little expected it at one time myself,” and he sighed drearily. “ Any trouble with the landlord ?” “No, no.” “ With the house, then.” “ Oh, no ; good landlord and good house.” “You see, ’ he went on, “about six months ago, one of those-chaps who believe in a series of sudden and unexpected judgment days—Second Advent they call ’em - moved in next door (where Parker used to live). He was a strong Second Adventist and so was his wife.” ‘•But why should their peculiar religious

belief make you dissatisfied with your home?” we ventured to inquire. “ Why,” he ejaculated, staring hard at us. “But, then, you don’t know anything about it. You never lived next door to a Second Adventist, perhaps?” “Not that we can remember.”

“You’d remember it if you had,” he replied with significant emphasis, “I’ll never forget my experience. That family got acquainted with us, and then it had its revelations. First they borrowed a little sugar, and then a little tea, and then a little saleratus, and then this and then all that. They said the world was going to be burned up m two weeks, andjthey didn’t feel like going to the expense of getting a barrel of sugar when eternity was so close, and ■wouldn’t we let them have a small teacupful ? Then two days after that they came in and said that owing to the immediate approach of the end of all things they did’nt think it advisable to lay in a ton of saleratus, and wouldn’t we just loan them a cupful ?” “ He’d got that notion bored right mto his skull, and all he could see was clouds of glory, and angels, and harps, and my sugar, and saleratus, and the like. By George,! it got to be awful, I can tell you ! Day in and day out that fellow, or some of his folks, was repairing their accession duds or going for my groceries, and it did seem as if Vd go u.ad, and get up a judgment day on my own hook. , “He got my axo’fone day, with a lot of the same foolishness, and while he was naing it the handle broke, and the blade went down the well. He came over right away, to see if I had another axe. And when 1 told him that I hadn't, and I didn’t know how I was to get along without that one, I’m blamed if ho didn t want me to borrow one from some of the neighbors, so he could finish the little job he was at. He said there was no use me buying a new axe with the crack of doom staring us in the face. I was mad though about the axe, as mad as I could be, and I told him if he didn’t get me a new axe I’d bust him in pieces with the right arm of the law. And what do you suppose he said?—why, that he’d go home and pray for me! And now what could Ido with such a chap as that ? There was no us© in getting made, and you couldn’t reason him out of the foolishness. And he wouldn t move, and the day of judgment showed no signs of being in earnest. So there I was. The only thing I could do was to get away, and I’ve hired a house at the other end of the town, and I’m moving there. And now,” added our unfortunate friend, steadying the looking-glass and clock under his arms while he grasped the lamp, “ I’ve got where there is a gaol on one side of me and a graveyard on the other, and I don’t care a darn how many Second Adventists move in on either side.”