Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1857-03-06
From the Pittsburgh Post.
Love aud MOmey-A Queer AfTuIr.
Feb. 9th. 1857.

Last October, family consisting OF man and
woman and three children, moved from Lancaster to
Beaver. Nh. F. engaged in the business of butcher
He soon changed his business, and became dealer
IN caltle-buylDg stock IN Ohio and selling them in
Allegheny cattle market. few weeks ago a vouno
mhn came from Lancaster visit to these stranG-
els His visit was nOl agreeable to Mr. F AS to
his better half" 10 the great relief of the perplex
ed butcher his visitor finally left saying that he was
going back to Lancaster, and Mr. +. started on an
other trip 10 Ohio On the day he left his good
wife reported 10 her nearest neghbos that she had
received etter from her father, (who lives in York
county,) telling her that her mother was evidently
near her 4hst ANA that very few days would pro.
badly afford The only opportunity she should have of
seeing her mother alive. Her husband was absent,
aud what should she do She srongly desired TO see
her the once more, and she resolved to start on the
next morning. NeigAbors sympathlzed with her. and
remarked that she sustained herself well amid her rou
bes All hls time Henry The recent visitor was board
ing at Il hotel IN Brids ewaer, and had been making
queer developments 10 friends whose acquaintance he
had formed. lie assured them the Dutch butchet
aud the woman were not married, and that be was
only waiting to take advantage of his next trim to
OHIO 10 go OFF, with Eliza. The next morning
they started. We leave them on their winding vav.
while We look after MIR. F. On last Wednesday he
returned 10 find his house deserted-everythipgg gone,
and himself minus $780, which he had left in care
OF her " no had now torsaken him. He thea con
tesstd that he had never been married to her He
stated that he had vile living in York county, iu
the Immediate nelghDorhood OF EiIZa's father-that
he had not lived with her for several wears Eliza
lie sald, had been married and moved TO Lancaster
and, alter the death OF husband lived there until
they agreed to JON hands, their own hook and
move 10 the West. He ascertaned, at Rochester.
that their goods had been shipped to Chicago the day
before his return. He took the next train for Chica-
90 IN pursuit OF the tugiVes.
Is THERE A MAELsTRoM ?-This question is thus
answered by coemporary
Every school.boy OF the last century has been
'aaght 10 believe that there wonderful vortex on
the coast OF Norway, with an edd several miles in
diameter, and that snlps, and even huge whales,
were sometimes dragged within terrible liquid
coils' and forever IN oceans awful Depths cor.
respondent Of the Scientific American saws:
- have been informed by EuropeaH acouain.
tanCe that the maelstr0m has no existence nau-
tlcai and scientific commission went uul and sailed
all around and all over where the maeistrom was
said to be, bu; could not find i; ; the sea was as
smooth where the wh pool ought to be as any other
talt of the German ocean,
we presume the above is correc, The Ia ct
geograPhers ami gazetters barely allude to the
Som' cotton, In his large atlas, gives the site up
on his map but does not alludc to it in his descrip-
hon Of Norway. Harper's Gazetteer, in its article
on Norway, says that, among the numerous islands
the west coast there violent and irregular
rents which render the coast navigation dangerous.
Among these is the celebrated Nal Strom or Mes
kenaesStrom the danger from which has been great
y exaggerated since it can, at nearly all times. be
passed over even by boats. The romance of the
maelstrom has been pretty efeetually destroyed"