Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1839-02-01
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an interesting yo1ng widow named Mary
Murray, gave a ball at house 10 Washipg-3
ton street, and while sho wasinthe net of
dancing apquadrlle, two watchihen bolteds
into iheroon,. seized bold of her. pulled
her away fro.a. sher partner aud dragged,
her, of in full dress 10 the wutc h-house.
Here shears left % muse on The hckelnessI
Of fortune and cruelty Of men, until The en-.
suing moining. when she was brought be-.
fore The magistrate and accused OF having
stolen 1886 from Mr. Garrett S. Smith of
Washington street, in whose house she had
recently boarded On hearing the accusn-
ton MARY adniued il TO be true. and on be-
ing questioned as to hat she had done with
the money, she told the following story
which also turned out to be trne. Having
possessed herself Of Mr. Carrots $50 she
determined to give a grand ball and supper,
as being one OF the best specuations a
young widow could engage in and there
fore hired a room in Darlington street. en-
gagged music, and issued her cards Of in
yitaiion for Thursday evening" Hnvingg
perfected so much Of the arrangement She
then purchased her ball dress in which
she now appeared atthe Police office. CON
sisling OF a boihbazine frock, danciugpumps
and silk stockings, real, gilt neckiace, and
a plume of magnificent ostrich feathers, the,
greater part of which had once adorned the
tail ofsome turkey cock Foreign manufac
turers are however so cheap in this city.
notwithstanding the Tariff, that after Mary
had thus magnifcently decorated her person.
she had still SIG remaining out Of 1885,
which she stole And an evening or two
before the one fixed for her ball, she deter
mined 10 have her fortune toldin order that
she might know who was likely 10 dance
with her, and whether the spec would tnrn
out good one. aud accordingly went 10 The
house Of colored sorceress named Jane
Brown, who lived in EIammersley siIret,
and requested be to tell her fortune The
sorceress conseni,dt TO DO So if Mary could
bear her part in the necessary nominations
On enquring what they were, Mrs Brown
asked Mary If she had any money, and how
much, and Mary told her she had Sl6.t
Mrs Brown then told her that she must take
the stocking of her left leg. and pot all the
money in i, and then tie the stocking with
a piece ofblack ribbon, and suspend it FROM
after this was done, Mary should sit up all
that the next morning she could tell by ex-1
be her future fate Mary accordingly took
oa,herstocking. pnt her money in it, and
tied il up to the top of the bed post, andA
then took her station al the FIRE place ,lwhcreg
she remained all night. Great as was her
anxiety to know her destiny, Mary could
not keep herself awake and towards morn
ing fell into a sound sleep from which she
did not awake until day light, when she i'm
la1 IN b..r
destiny. Mrs Brown obeyed, and she and
Mary went to the bed post and looked DIP,
and 10 and 10 and behold Mary's s,ockiug9
and money and piece of black ribbon had
all vanished, and were nowhere 10 be seem.
Mary asked Mrs Brown where was her
stocking and money, or what was the rpean-i
ing OF its having been taken away = Aud
Mrs Brown very gravely told Mary that IL
was a bad omen, for that whenever any one,
lost their money it meant bad fortune.
But as 10 what had become OF the stocb
ing, or lis contents, Mrs Brown conld not
tell, and Mary left her house fully convifi-s
ced that she had bad fortune But as the
manner in which she got the money herself
rendered it imprudent for her 10 make any
noise about it, she tacitly acquiesed in ihc9
loss, and was dancing the remembrance Of
it away, when she was arrested by the
Walchmen. ei8 s.i ~ an1 sifatq,
Mary's story. although strange onc,'
Was fully corroboraled by an incident which
had occurred at the Police Office the day
before and which fully accounted for the
disappearance of her money from the bed
post 1t appeared that while Mary wuso
asleep at the fire. and Mrs Brown half as. ,
eep in bed, cololed man ramed Smith,.
who lodged in the house, and who was
aware of Mrs Browns mode Of telling for-l
tunes, came into her room, and seeing the
stocking suspended from the bed post. be
cut il down and carried it off, and as he aft-l
erwards refused TO give any part of itttoo
Mrs Brown. she deposed at the l'olicsii
Office that he had robbed her of $40. and
had him arrested, and he confessed the4
theft and was committed to prison, And
when the magistrate now heard Mary's
story be issued warrant for Mrs Brown
and she and Mary and Smith are all in pris-
on together.-N " jour. Of Com
a Singular Casa poor weaver 10 this
town, of the name of Crime, was a short
time ago, affected with pain in his stomach,