The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1859-06-29
A YOUNG LADY CHASED BY A NAKED
DRUNKARD.

The Rockford (ll } Nelcs of the Goth relates the
circumstances of one of the most singular mad
freaks of young lrishman named Ryan, who was
laboring under fit of delirum tremens at the time,
that we ever read of. 1t occurred the outskirts
of that town on Saturday morning last. The fel-
low had been on a ten days spree.
Miss LIE Roy, who keeps house on Main street,
near the hill, for her brother, Mr.. James lie Roy,
the attorney, seated in the kitchen on Saturday
morning, about halfpast nine o'clock, when she
heard the sound OF a person chopping wood in the
yard. On looking out of the window, she discov-
cred man, stripped entirely naked, walking to-
ward the door, with large axe in hand and acting
in wild and excited manner. Notwithstanding
her alarm at the unwonted sight, she retained pres
ence of mind enough to lock the front and back
doors, and to up stairs to her bedroom, where
she locked herself in. Presently she heard the
madman-for such she was now convinced he was
breaking in the back door, job he accomplished in
a short time. Once in the house, he went around in
an amless manner to upset everything he could lay
hands upon. He rummaged the drawers, over
turned the chairs, tore papers, set things out of
their places, but apparently without any intention
either to rob or destroy. He entered Mr.. LIE Roy
bed room and broke open a satchel containing some
law papers, which he tore; he pulled out the drawer
of the washstand, the contents of which he threw
about, and committed other similar follies.
All this time Miss LIE Roy sat in her bed room,
trembling with terror, and hoping against hope
that he would pass by her door without attempting
to enter, but it seems that the lunatic, with
ming not usual in such cases, was all the while
her
chamber door and demanded admittance. She not
answering, he again called upon her to open the
door, or, if not, he would break it down and kill
her when he got inside. The terrified woman kept
STILL and almost frantic with terror at the pros
pect before her. At length the madman grew i'm
patient, dashed into the chamber door, and sprang
into the room, axe in hand. Miss LIE Roy, scarcely
knowing what she was about, opened the window
and jumped to the ground below, distance of some
twenty feet, and ran for the fence, which is some
four feet high, and with agility that is truly sur
prsing, she is small, delicate woman, sprang
over it with bound, and ran across the field
toward the river calling for help. The madman had
cunning enough left not to follow Miss lie Roy out the
window, but ran down stairs, on which he dropped
his axe, but on arriving in the yard he procured a
club and gave chase to the flying woman. She
kept running, the naked madman at her heels,
until she got across another feace, when she fell on
a heap of sand, and her would-be murderer on top
of her-the blow he had intended for her falling on
the sand. He recovered himself Immediately, and
about aiming another blow at her head, when
several men who were in an adjoining field came
to her assistance, and seized the unatic before the
blow fell. 1t almost miracle that Miss
LIE Roy was not brutally murdered.
The following clever satire on "persona" items,
we clip from the Philadelphia EUening Journal.
PERSONAL.
A few days since His Honor the Mayor performed
the marriage ceremony. The happy couple i'm
medately started on wedding tour:
Fanny Fern recently met n p. Willis on Broad
way New York. They were, however, on opposite
sides of the street.
Private letters received in this city from Mr..
Smith, convey the gratifying intelligence that he
is getting better. His appetite is good, and he
reads the papers. He hopes to be able to return in
the Fall.
Among the passengers in the last train for Ger
mantown, on Saturday night, was Mr.. j. Brown,
who figured so conspicuously at the fire in the
morning.
Lola Montez's lectures on Love have been pub-
lished in one volume
Mr.. Barnum is said to have lately remarked to a
friend that in the whole course ofhs travels abroad
he saw nothing equal to the Woody Horse.
Perkins had peas for dinner yesterday. They
were procured at neighboring provision store
The girl brought them home in basket 1t had a
| lid.
| The 'Autocrat of the Breakfast Table, writes
with quill He does not like steel pens. His rea
name is Holmes.
The report that the Hon. VIM. B. Reed, late
Commissioner to China, brought home a real Celes
tal tail is discredted by his friends.
Postmaster Browne recently opened several let
| ters. They were directed to him.
There is a lady in Camden, named Johnson who
is the mother of five children, the eldest of whom
| thirteen years of age
Miss Lane took long ride the week before las
in a carriage. She occupied the back seat, anC
| was plainly although richly attired.
| 1t is currently reported that Mr.. Buchanan is 81
years of age. His fondness for Old Bourbon is salt
| by those who enjoy his confidence to be unabated
| Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe rises every morn
ing before breakfast. She is in excellent healt
and expects to complete her new novel in the cours
of the coming year.
The Rev Henry Ward Beecher delivered a les
ture on ''Cheerfulness' in the city of New York
last season. Mr.. Beecher is fond of Coffee II
q writes for the Ledger
Il well known reporter for one of the leading ps
pers in this city procures his clothing at the pail