Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1858-06-03

Mr.. B., member of the church. She
bought her husband new neck-cloth, which
she hoped he would never know from the old
one.
That very day the lady called and asked
to see the Rev. Mr. She told the
story of the counterfeit dollar, and asked if
he had seen anything of it, saying she had
come to redeem it. The minister said that
it had luckily fallen into his own hands, and
ljoyfully did he hasten to his wifes ROOM
'sGod verify numbers the hairs, he said.
"He will not suffer one of his little spar
rows to fall to the ground. Give me the,
bad dollar, for lady has come to give us
good one in its place.
| Then came the agony of confession OF the
hitherto honest wife. She will weep and
writhe to her dying day at the remembrance
of that look of surprise and wounded trust
which her beloved husbands face wore as
he heard it, She went at once to the lady
and told her ALL 1t was brave deed, for.
she was minister's wife, with awhole con-
gregation watching to detect slip from up
rightness The lady, she feared, would re-
port her delinquency, but she had fallen IN
to merciful hands, and her fault was kept
secret. They went together. to the furnish
ing store
The storekeeper examined his till and
desk. There was no such dollar to be
found, and no one knew to whom it had
been given One of the shop girls had pro-
badly passed it without seeing that it was
not good The lady left dollar to replace
it should any one bring it back, and went
home disappointed. Her husband was a
magistrate, and she knew that he was so
strict in bringing offenders to justice, that.
she had never mentioned to him this coun-
terfeit, for fear of getting the market wo-
man in trouble for passing it, knowing it
to be such.
That night her husband came home from
his Office looking exceedingly weary and sad.
His wife wished to know the reason.
"Oh," said he, .'the duties of my Office
are sometimes so painful! have just had
to send such nice, lady-like woman to the
lookup for the night. because it was too late
to examine her at once. She seemed in
great distress about something. but she can't'
tspeak word Of English, SO couldn' make
it out think, though, that her husband is
sick.''
why not let her go, and take her up a.
gain in the morning"
s'Well, she is accused of a serious charge
-counterfeiting her distress may be
all sham, only plan to get her husband off
[ don't want him warned. l have set a
watch about the house, but can do no more
until morning There are great number
of counterfeit gold dollars in circulation,
and this woman. her neighbors say, has
tried to pass three within a week. [ have
been very anxious to discover the rogues,
and [ don't believe this woman has anything
to do with it. However, had to shut her
up, the neighbors are so indignant. To-
morrow it will be looked into, and the wo-
man set free, [ have no doubt
perhaps her poor sick husband may die
in anxiety and alarm meanwhile"
"Well, put on your bonnet, honest wife.
You can speak German. Ishould feel easi-
er, I confess, if [ knew more about the mat
ter, and I will go to her residence
The wife hastily made ready. They had
to 60 to a dirty narrow court, peopled by
the lowest class. When they arrived and
inquired for the man, they were shown in
to destitute room, without fire or light, at
the door of which they knocked, but receiv
ed no answer. When they approached the
bed, man spoke as if just awaking, and
said in German
"Olga, have you come? [ am so cold,
and have been dying for drink of water
[ could not reach my medicine, Olga, and
it is long past the hour. But poor wife,
you have gone through much no doubt
and have they paid you?''
The magistrate sent the officious neigh
bors for fire and light, while his wife gradu-
ally broke the news to the husband, for he
had not heard of his wife's arrest. The
neighbors were afraid to tell it to man so i'll.
He lying wasted by slow fever almost to
a skeleton. He seemed horror stricken at
the idea Of his wife's disgrace, and turning
away from the lady, he wept bitterly
From calculations and fragmentary SEN
tences, she gathered that he belonged to-
noble family in some little German princi-
pality, and had been obliged, on account of
sympathy with Hungary, to fly with his
wife. They had expended all their means
before they had been able to get any en-
lployment, and since the failure of her hus-
bands health, the poor wife had struggled
to support them both with her needle. He
turned to his visitors again to explain about
the counterfeits. He said the neighbors
and market people gave his wife bad money
repeatedly, thinking shrewdly that she, be-
ing foreigner, would not be likely to know
the true coin well. When she ignorantly
tried to buy things with this bad money, she
was harshly treated Therefore, when she
had another gold dollar given to her, he
supposed she had shown it to her neighbors
to ask if were good, and had not been able
to make herself understood by them. He