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GENERAL IMTELLIGEMcE.
INTERESTING NARRATIVE.

- Skw-ioRE PoLIcE.
Katharine Salyer, an interesting gen .
teeliy dressed girl, aged only rs, wa.
brought up for an assault and battery
on Emma Whitehouse. II appeared in
evidence, that Kate had lent Emma
the play Of Romeo and Juliet 10 read.
and that on seeing it announced for la II
evening az the Park Theatre, she had
applied for her book, when il was re.
turned to her in n torn and tatt.rcd
condition, in consequence Of which she
threatened to reduce one Of Emma's
silk dresses to the same prcdicament.
when high words arose, and eventually
Kate " clinched" Emma and boxe,I
her ears; for this she was bound over Ia
keep the peace.
CThe history Ofthis little girl is such
a perfect romance in real lie, that we
here subjoin it.-She was born near
Cleveland, in the state Of Ohio, Of re
spectacle parents, and was the ONLY
child her father had by his first wife
Her mother dying soon after her birth.
her father married woman who treat.
ed Kate IN the most cruel and brutal
manner. About eighteen months back
a young merchant who had los, his way
IN the woods, was found by her father
nearly persisted in the snow. and taken
by him TO his farm house close by.
The stranger, who was Il Frenchman.
and gave no other name but that of
Henry. stated that he had a store at
Washington I'd. c. and had been
travelling for his health, and to see the
country. While staying at Mr. Sal.
yeE's he was confined TO his bed by a
vV&aps fever, and the wife deputed
hAAte to wait on him as a nurse; and
she ultimately became SO much attach.
ed to him, (he being the only human
being that had ever manifested any in.
terest in her welfare that on his de-
parturc she
-" Lost all her mirih-
Forevent all custom Of exerci,e-
IN short, young as she then was she had
fallen violently in love with him: and
the loss OF her accustomed activity in.
dueed her step.molher to beat her and
increase her before unmeri,ed harsh.
ness towards her. One day (the father
being from home.) after being severe
ly beaten. Kate turned on her stem.
mother, wrenehed the cane out Of her
hand, and being good sized girl Other
age, fought her with her own weapons:
dreading the effects Of her fathers re.
sentiment, she threw on her bonnet
anu ran distance Of seven miles 10
Cleveland. which she reached lust as
the steamboat was putting of. She
got on board without having a cent of
money; and when she reached Buffalo.
she told the captain that her parents
lived at Washington, and that She had
run away from an uncle who threat.
ened her life. A gentleman Ga friend
OF the captain'') going to Philadelphia.
undertook the care Of her and paid her
expenses. On reaching Philadelpbia.
he basely attempted TO seduee her. hui
was Indignantly repulsed. She then
went on TO Washington, u der the care
OF an old Quaker, who procured her an
excellent situation as A ,eanst,css
Here, with no other clue TO discoys,
the object If her affections than the
name Of Henry, she made dilircut
search Tor him, and ultimately rreoO.
nlzed him IN the well known proprieter
OF a museum. Having found him, She
her earthly ell to his keep.
ing, aud
" Never heav'd a SIGH for change"
Thus far, her story in its principal fea.
lures bore a striking resemblance To
that OF the mother Of ST. Thomas Beck. 4
eti'bot offers widely in iis unhappy So
quel. Her lover married another-her /
love turned 10 hatfed-she came to
New York became a prey TO the de .
'lgn'ng-toOk lodgings at 100 Duane
made her first bow before
the Magistrate ~ stated shove. IN.
der what circumstance her last may
be made, II IS painful to conjecture. /
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we've hour, and BY day light too The Gne !
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lpiia 81 nins IN the mornins) touches Al
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