Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1852-05-25
RIGHT TO THE BoDY OF a DECEASED
WIFE.

WIFE.
The Paris correspondent Of the. New York Ez-
press says:
4 curious case has been lately submit
ted to the Civil Tribunal of Seine. NJ. APP
pert tradesman, demanded that he should
| be declared entitled to possess the mortal re-
mains of his wife, who died in 1897, and was
buried in the Cemetery of Pierre Ia Chaiso.
! 1t was stated during the hearing, that
though he had married second time, he
had made point of annually visiting the
tomb of his deceased wife. and that on GO
| ing there on last AL Souls Day, he was sur
! prised to find the tomb demolished, and to
! learn that the coffin had been removed to
| the family vaulS of NJ. Legras, the deceas-
/ eds father 4 good deal of learned argu-
ment was entered into as to whether the re-
mains of deceased female were tie right
! full property of her husband or her father
the tribunal finally decided in favor of tho
husband 1t accordingly ordered that, as it
/ was desirable not to disturb the reposc of
the dead, NJ. Appert should be declared pro-
prietoT of the new tomb TO which the re-
mains of his wife had been removed. and
| that her father should be forbidden to have
any thing to do with it. 1t also candemned
the father, NJ. Legras, to the costs"
Emigration to Cat;foynis-The rush of
cmigrants to.California continues unabated,
and every avenue eff travel toward the Pacif-
/ ic continues crowded with those who are inn
patiently making their way thither Tho
steamship Northern Light, which sailed
/ from New YOrkfor Nicaragua on Wednes-
/ day, took ont the unsxamPled number of
nine hundred and fifty passengers, all
/ bound to California, and the Crescent City,
which sailed on the same day for Aspiuwall,
also took out three hundred and sixty pas
sengers, making a total in one day of thir-
teen hundred and ten passengers.
EE AT sumlerviIe, S. C., about ten days since,
the following painful event occurTed:-
| a gentleman was buaily engaged in plant
ing out the common ycllOtO .JaSUrin rine in.
his yard and, after trimming away a few Of
! the roots, threw them aside, where they were
picked up b. two of his little children, aged,
as nc are informed, about three and five
years. Tho children were playing with
them for some time, and no doubt .chewed
and swallowed portions of the root. After
short time, the youngest returned to its
mother, and, laying down near where she
was sitting, fell into a slumber, as she sup
posed. After while, she called to awake
| her child, but Intellectually. She stopped
down to raise it up, but it was dead. Tho
elder child was then taken i'll, and in the
course of few hours, was also in the land
Of spirits.
LEGAcIEs-The Baltimore Methodist
Protestant states that Miss Mary Saun, late
| of Carol County, Md, has made the Super.
annuated Fund Society Of the NJ. P. Church
her residuary legatee, after the payment Of
certain other legacies, and that the amount
which will accrue to the Society will not Ee
less than ten thousand dollars, and perhaps
considerably more.
SINGULAR OccURRENcE-A young wo-
man, who took passage in the cars from this
city, few days since, for Baltimore, under
circumstances that caused her movements to
be watched, was arrested, upon her arrival
at Baltimore, charged with having felonious-
" appropriated to her own use the money
of other persons, obtained in the course Of
her travels; and held to await further in
vestigation.- Washington Rer1u5iie-
~ woman was wedged tight In the
chimney of her house In Philadelphia the
! other day. Tho masens had to come and
cut her out She said she had fallen in
/ while hanging out clothes on the roof but
other folks said she had been trying to hide
from the police. She remained in her hOrri-
BILE position between seven and eight hours.
! D1srREss1xc "a little daughter Of Mr..
Alexander Taylor, of Orange county, about
u years Of age, whilst sporting with some
playmates IN hopper of wheat, In Cheyal-
lies mill, Richmond, was drawn down by
the suction of the falling grain, and in q
I. little while completely enveloped, causing
a her death By suffOcation, before sheeould be
gotten out.
rs a Maine editor says that pumpkin
somewhere in that State grew so large that
:. Height men could stand round It. This i
: / something like the man who saw flock oi
: lblaekbirds so low that he could shake I
stick at them.