Litchfield enquirer., 1834-07-17

"A Jus u 4 rue 1Utes--kU tlSeS at TINS
time in Perry street, Greenwich village,
hard working and Industrious tragfesman, who
is the father of four beautiful daughters. The
eldest married well. and lives at this time hap
py and respected with her husband the next
10 agate her, named Mary, was courted six
months back bya scoundrel Of the name Of
Donaldson, the son Of a dyer in Spring street,
Who represented himself to her as a single
man. After an acquaintance ofthree months,
she married him, and they lived for three
weeks under the fathers roof, in comparative
comfort. At the aspiration Of that time. she
recrived.a letter from a woman signing her
A-
ried to Mary, and that she was the mother OF
two children by him. Halt frantic with the
intelligence. she went "a, the woman and
found the contents Of the letter 10 he too true.
She returned home, and when Donaldson
came back, at night, she taxed him with his
villainy. He effected 10 be highly indignant
ut the statement, repealed It with prOmptness.
and offered 10 60 with her ID the morning to
prove his inn0cence: too eagerly disposed 10
believe what her heart fondly hoped, she re.
tired to rest With him; hut on waking In the
Inorning, found that he had decamped, and
taken with him all her valuable trinkets. Her
misery was now insuppOrtable, and some of
her friends imprudently chidiDg her for mar
rying precipitately. when they ought 10 have
poured the oil Of consolation into her bosom,
she left her home, because. as she stated. she
experienced only reproaches, where she look
I'd for consolation. She ut first wandered
she knew not whittier; hut ultimately formed
an attachment to n good hooking fellow nam.
ed Merritt, but whO we believe 10 be great
scounGrei; he was taken up Jew weeks since
on serious charge. and while under conffne-
ment, she regularly travelled a distance Of two
| miles 10 carry him his meals. Sometime at
forwards, her friends. learning that she was
located at a notorious house kept by Mrs.
! Woodbury., in Cross street, had her taken and
brought 10 the police Office. Here all the en-
treaties VI the ma gistrate, backed by her re-
latiOns, were unable 10 induce her to return
home, and she was confined in Bridew ell for
4 three days. She WIS then feelingly advised
by Mr.. I4Ownds to quit her connection with
Merritt and return home {; but she was firm Ia
I her original determination, and stated that 40
earthly torture should induce her again 10
4 put herself under the protection Ofthose who,
at time when she most needed consolation
and kind treatment, waDloniy wounded and
insulisd her feelings. Finding her impervia-
HE, Mr.. LOwnds was under the necessity oil
committing her to the house Of refuge. She
is only sixteen years Of age. tall, well proper
tened, with handsome features. and gentes
address, and might. under happier auspices
have been AN ornament 10 that s0ciety which
We are now afraid, she will ever look upOI
with the bitterest contempt and hatred.
New- York Transcript
White neutrality-suspicious. and obser
vatiOn have demonstrated that the shade a
3 mulberry trees is not injurious 10 the growtl
Of grass, grain. or any other vegetable. Thi
.. is an important discovery. and argues power
fully in favor Of the means of raising silk.
Iwould advise. with humble Difference. tina
. every farmer procure mulberry seed, from
2 nmrsery, transform on his fences into nlulbeT'
~ hedges. and plant standard mulberry trees
along ali those hedges, half rod distant from
csch other. "A farm Of hundred acres len
ced az above advised. wOuld 10 q few years
Weld from the fences a crop worth several
, hundred dollars These fences would be rs
cheap as any othera farmer could erect, would
{ require no repairs, no renewal. 30 that ell the
produce arising from the leaves sonbd be q
Z clear profit. One hundred pounds ofIeayss