Washington sentinel., 1853-12-18

A Female Husband.-A few days previous TO
the sailing of the last steamer, quiet looking
elderly woman solicited the assistance OF Mr..
Broderip, one of the London Police magistrates,
under the following circumstances She COM
planned that her daughter, girl of seventeen, had
gone through the ceremony OF marriage without
being blessed with husband. II was, OF course,
at the time Of the nuptals, supposed that she was
being united 10 one Of the other sex, and they
went TO York 10 spend the honeymoon; but her
daughter 10 her great surprise; discovered that
she had been married TO woman in male attire,
and the mother of three children. Mr.. Broderip,
after stating that there were other cases OF SINH
lar character on record, and learning that the mar
riage was solemnized al Highgate church, referred
the complainant 10 the magistrate Of that district.
Before leaving the court, however, the mother
made the following most extraordinary statement.
She said that the pseudo husband was first intro
dnced TO her in female attire, under the name of
Mrs. Panton but afier intimacy of some
months, suddenly appeared in the costume of a
gentleman, announcing himself as Mr.. Albert
Guelph, and declaring that he was issue of George
Nv. and Queen Caroline, but that, for certain rea
sons his existence hitherto had been kept pro-
found secret but that his love for her fair daughter
had wrung il from his heart, and induced him 10
appear in the becoming habiliments of his own
sex, in lieu of the feminine attire he had been
disguised in for years, by direction Of very be-
nign old lady, who met him periodically in Park
lane, and supplied him with cash ad libitum. As
he dressed very fashionably, and always had pen-
Nv of money, the mother believing the story, con-
sented 10 their nupials, particularly as the sol
dsant Mrs Panton and her daughter, had, upon
the occasion Of little visits slept together before
and so Miss Robbins changed her name for Mrs.
Guelph, on the 18th Of September, 1883 by license
at Highgate church; but, alas. soon discovered
that Mrs Panton was but woman after all
Naval Steamer.--An iron vessel, named the
Enterprise, p intended for the Deep Sea Fishing
Association of Scotland, has been launched on
the Clyde. She is about 100 feet in length, and
l6 feet beam, her measurement about lO0 tons,
and her engines are 100-horse power The pro-
pelling power, on a totally new principle, by
Messrs Ruthven, of Glasgow, the patentees, re-
quires neither paddles nor screw. One important
feature Of the invention is, that by simple move
ment the vessel can be either stopped, turned or
backed, almost nstantaneously, without requiring
the steam TO be let of, or the machinery stopped.
The principle Of propulsion is the injection of wa
ter through pipes, TO act upon the mass OF water
in which the vessel is moving. James Rumsey
employed this principles but Ruthvens improve
ment relates TO the exit tubes
MS- Four children Of Mr. Thomas Kennedy, in
Strong Maine, recently died within the space Of
one week, as follows: On the Goth November,
Thomas, aged years; on the 25th, Josephine,
aged years; on the Goth, Nancy, aged IL years,
and in five minutes afterwards, Jane, aged IA
years. The disease was G malignant throat dis
temper" Al the time of the death ofthe last two
children, who died almost at the same moment,
little infant daughter was added TO the family. The
little girl who died the day previous had not been
Inferred and the three deceased children, after
being placed in collins, were each in turn brought
to the bedside Of the sick mother, at her earnest
solicitation, for parting look after which they
were buried in one grave. These were all bright
and afIectionate children, and tenderly beloved.
What change in one short week.
All Old Man, named Apolimus Blosser, was ar
rested in ST. Louis, on Thursday last, on charge
of bgamy. Some forty years ago, Blosser mar
red in Baden, Germany, by which marriage he
became the father Of eight children. In 1874 he
removed TO Strasburg, abandoning his wife and
children, and again married. Subsequently he
emigrated 10 America, bringing the second wife
with him. The complainant in the case at whose
instance the suit was brought, is son by the first
marriage. The justice dismissed the case on the
ground, first. that no offence had been committed
against the laws of Missouri, in the contract Of
the second marriage, as it occurred without her
jurisdiction; and second that the misdemeanor
occurring nine years since, prosecution was barred
by the statute Of limitations.