Litchfield enquirer., 1845-07-10

ls a enployed, and among the rest was John Pelsine' | who had ngraiiated himself so much m his lavor' by his industry, (aithfulness and sobriety, tnat ne tool, him into partnership about three years ago. and he had no cause to regret his kindness From that time Mr. Mowit and Mr. Pelsing were constant friends and companions, and boarded at me same house, until about twelve months ago, when one day they were summoned to coroners Jury aoout to be held over the dead body of man who nau been taken out of the river at the ioot oI Maoeh Lane. The deceased had the appearance oI oeing regular dock loater, and Ii was the oPihioi V; ." persons that he had fallen into the slip while LII state of intoxication; but the verdict was hierey ss found drowned" .. , The iury being dismissed, MT. Mowit turned ra4nd to look for his friend and fellow juror, put he was gone, and he thought he saw him running at full sneed up Maiden Lane. This struck nm as beinp rather singular aud also reminded hun of an- other curious fact-at least curious in connection with this sudden hight--namely, that when MT. Pelsng first glanced at the face of the corpse, he started and turned deadly pale. MT. M then pro- ceeded to his boarding house, and then to his store to look h;s h.. partner; but he had not been to ei- ther nor did he return and nothing could be heard from him. He gave up all further inquiries, thinking that there must be some mysterious con- nection between MT. Pelsing and the man that was found drowned; and that, in consequence thereoi' he had m1de way with himself
 So matters rested until certain day last shn- mer. when lady called on Mowt at his store ,and asked for Mr. Pelsing. She was told the partlcu lars of his story.
 C And has he not been here since }" she anxious ly inquired.
 <. Not since" was tte reply.
 ssI know he !" returned the lady.
 "He has not assure you-at least, not to my knowledge"
 But am positive!" =,
 What proof have you of it ," inquired Mir. Mowit. k.e.u am here, and MT Pelsng and are one and the same person."
 And strange as it may seem, such was the fact
 The question then was, whether Mir. Pelsng was gentleman? and it turned out that she was lady. And her name was Charlotte Conroy; and furthermore that she was the widow of the man fonnd drowned She then stated that her husband ,yas a shoemaker in Philadelphia; that she lad been two years married; that her husband, whose name was Conroy, took to drinking and treated her badly; having no children, she used to spend her leisure hours by sitting and stitching shoes for her husband intending as soon as she couia nhlsh d shoe. to leave the drunken man, and work her way through the world alone Having equipped her. self in mems clothing, she left her lord ana mas fey and arrived in New York. Of her success as iourneyman, foreman, and partner, we have seen above.
 Az aoon as the coroner's inquest was finished, she started for Philadelphia, where she learned that her husband, who had become wandering loafer had a week before set out for New 9orK, where instead of finding an injured wife, he found watery grave.
 The finale to this romantic affair was, that Mr. M. requested Mrs. C. to make his house her home :; and finding that he loved Mrs c. even better than Mir. Pelsing he proposed partnership Jor De, which treaty ratified by theIr becoming man and wife few days afterwards:
 This is perhaps the first instance on record .vhorcin wife performed the office of coroner's iuryman on the body of her own husband.
 T IY;do,, Bc,yitched-Leut. Wilkes describes an amusing scene which he witnessed at Astoria, Oregon. where, among crowd of Indians, were several s1uaws all dressed in Their best atlre The principal among them, was widow, whose time of mourning for the death of her husband, nao Just expired. Her object was, according to the custom of the Chinooks to notify her friends that she was ready to receive the addresses of any one who was in want of wife. - .
 The widow was of masculine make, and what we would call buXom dame. She was attended by seven others, of small stature in comparison, who were her maids, and evidently accompanied her to do honor to the occasion. Every half hour they would arrange themselves in row, and the widow at their head. affecting u rruuest uoWnGas' look would commence chaunt' informing the py islanders that her period of mourning was our, Una she had forgotten her deceased husband, gwen hei grief to the winds and was ready to espouse another This chaunt was accompanied by smal movement of the feet and body, which, with tht cultural song and consequent excitement of Suci an exhibition caused the fair ones to wax so warn that the precipitation rolled down their painted checks: this, with the crimson flush, all tended tc add brillancy to their dark eyes, as they were now and then cast around upon the multitude of lndi. ans who seemed all admiration
 Aaron Burr and J J .fstor. Many years slnce when Aaron Burr was about to leave for England he sold his mansion and about twenty acres of the pasture and woodland, to MT. Astor, tor $o0,oOo subject to redemption on his return, by paying the interest. Bur was Mir. Astor's lawyer Years elapsed and he catne back. In the meanwhile Il Md been graded, street. n a th Vu', y n'a"y improve anhaSSas in value Burr told Mr: As'or ne ame, p,o
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