The Westerly echo, & Pawcatuck advertiser. [volume] (Westerly, R.I.) 1854-1858, 1857-09-10
WESTERLY, r l., THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 10, 1857.

come to give us a good one in its place.
Then came the agony of confession
to the hitherto honest wife. She will
weep and wrihe to her dying day at the
re'ncmbrance of the look of surprise and
wounded trust which her beloved hus-
bands face wore as he heard it. She
went at once to the lady, and told her.
all. 1t was a brave deed, for she was "A
minister's wife, with a whole congrega
ton watching to detect slip from her
uprigbtness. The lady, she feared
would be sure 10 report her delinquen-
oy, but she had fallen into merciful
hands and her fault was kept secret -
They went together to the furnishing
store.
The store. keeper examined his till
and desk There was no such dollar to
be found and no one could tell to whom
it had been given. One of the shop
girls had probably passed it without sec
ing that it was not goo.
The lady left dollar to replace it,
should any one bring it back, and went
home disappointed Her husband was
magistrate, and she knew that he was
so strict in bring offenders to justice,
that she never mentioned to him this
counterloit for fear Of getting the mar
ket-woman into trouble for passing it.
That night her husband came home
from his Office looking exceedingly woa-
'lrv and i,
;, lis ~, pressed him to knew the rca-
/ son.
!, Oh, said he, the duties Of my flee
$ are sometimes SO painful ! | hare just
have Just had to send such a nice, lady
@ like woman to the lookup for the night
, because it wos too late to examine hel
9 at once. She seemed to be in great dis
: trcss about something but she can
y speak word of English, so ! couldn'
G make it out. ] think, though, her hus
r band is ,ick.
Why not let her 90, and take her NJ
G again 10 the morning
Well, she is accused of serious
charge counterfeiting- and her distress
q may be all sham, only a plan to get
f her husband off. | don't want him warn
= ed. | have set a watch about the house
q bat can do no more until morning. -
@ There are great numbers OF counterfeit
cold dollars in circulation, and this wo-
man, her ncighbors say, have tried to
pass three within a week. | have been
very anxious to discover the rogucs but
| don't believe this woman has anything
to do with it However, | had TO shut
her up, the ncighbors ere SO indignant
TO morrow, it will be looked into, and
the woman set see, | have no doubt.
}, Perhaps her poor sick husband may
Fl die of anxiety and alarm, meanwhile.
Well, put on your bonnet, wife Y ou
can speak German. | should feel cas-
ier, | confess if | knew more about this
matter, and we will 90 to her residence
The wife hastily made ready. They
had to 90 to dirty, narrow court, peo
pied by thc lowest Irish. When they
t arrived and inquired for the man, they
were shown into destitute room, with
!, out IRE OF llpHJ, w lcu tlcl dppio"'"
Cd the bed, man spoke as il just awak-
ing, and said in German -
Olga, have you come : | am so cold
aud | have been dying for drink OF
a water. ] could not have reached any
t medicine, Olga, and it is long past the
hour But poor wife, you have gone
0 through much, no doubt-aDd have they
paid yog'
o The magistrate sent the ofliciou'
y neighbors for fire and light, while hi
c wife gradually broke the news to the
husband, for he had not heard of hi
c wifc's arrest. The ncighbors were airaiC
to tell it to a man SO i'll He was lyinl
= wasted by a slow fever, almost to skcl
d cton. lie seemed horror-struck at th'
d ilca of his wife's disgrace, and turning
&c away from the lady, he wcpt bitterly
N From calculations and fragmcntary sen
le tcnccs, she gathered that he belonged t
noble family in some little Gcrma
Ir priucipality, and had been obliged, o
lc account of sympathy with Hungary, ,
a., ,,;tb L;s wic, 'rhrv had cxncndc