The Columbia Democrat. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1837-1850, 1842-09-03
MilSOIN.hIh!AS ASJlNOUSo
THE DAGGER, AND THE GOBLET
OF WATER.

Have you heard of the affair that ha
|. just happened a, Cambridge!' asked Col.
Craudock of Lady Laura Hargreave. during
morning call upon the latter al her hotel
in The Rue 81. Honore.
Not word of it,
What not know the story of the dagger
and The goblet Of water? 1t is in all The
newspapers
we rarely see an English newspa ger;
but tell US all about it, Colonel said Lady
Laura.
'Dr. Everingham will laugh at me-
'l-Colonei-tor what reason? | shall
probably be more likely TO shudder at some
fresh example Of the direction SO prone to
be taken BY The minds of uur youth of the
pre- sent generation; pray proceed
Il will relate as closely as nv memory
serves me the extraordinary circumstances
dat have given rise to rigid magis,erlal
Investigation, the result of which the &C.
cused have thought proper 10 avoid bv
night. An inquest now pending seems
likely, by the evidence already adduced,
to terminate by finding a. young s,nden,
guilty of murder, effected by practising
wi'chcrait, suppose | must term il; hay-
ing Tor his accomplice certain Juggling
gpsey.girl.'
'llow revolving! exclaimed the doctor.
'Hush !! am dying 10 hear the story; and
Lady Laura raised her finger 10 forbid fur
'her interruption.
4 am dslan,ly related TO the family of
the young man who figures in This unhappy
business, returned The Colonel; but as The
real name has not yet transpired in the pub.
lie prints, feel sure that you will excuse
me dIvu ging it al present.
NO natter rejoined her ladyship.
You have all heard doubtless, of gipsey
glr' who Tor some Two or three years past
has been accustomed TO attend the difleren!
rate.courses, especially those of EPSON and
Ascot and attained wide notoriely by the
success OF her predictions; she goes by the
name of Nalhea.'
GOOD heavens, that's my gipsey! ex.
claimed Young lady present.
is she in Paris?' exclaimed the Colo.
ne
in Paris !--she told my fortune bu.
few days SINCE.
ms young student, then, who il seems
was IN residence al tie university, although
we vacation had already commenced, was
waking one evening in the environs OF
cambridge; he had proceeded alone and for
sp'he distance in musng mood, along the
hun'ng gdon-road, when having nearly
'eached Crox,on Heath, he struck into
secIuoed lane which he had never lraversed
oo'ore' and ere advancing more than few
hundred PAGES, was suddenly overaken by
aHeavy shower of rain. He hurriedy
sought shelter in small hovel built Of mud
anu 'halch, apparently constructed for tenn
!o'ary abode only, under huge oak tree,
'he'owermost branches of which formed
"e fa''ers ol the roof. The rude structure
was IN iaci part tf a gipsey's encampment,
sIu served as refuge TO several illl0okn
ielows oil that vdgabond race, as well as
~onan' n'whon they treated as their mistress
VI me miserable domcle. He. features
possessed that species of wild beauty and
~'e''geEce peculiar TO many of these wo-
"9u' ana as she osensbly sold beer and
"p,',s' 'he Young man. heated with walking
aa aiu urehched to the skin by lhe storm, call.
=, ,or glass Of the latter, seating himself
~ we same time on stool.
ihe mems conversation, which had
"eeh momenlarily interrupted by The arri
,i VI we stranger was again continued
e'ouu' uA mindful Of his presence; the sub
!eci, at which he fel! inclined al first to
"e' oy degrees excited his curiosity, and
'"s oi we details ultimately caused him