Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1860-03-26
Carstang vs. Shaw.

Carstang vs. Shaw.
The famous breach of promise case for $780,
600 has been working along with slow monoto-
ny. st. Louis keeps her interest in 1t we'll up,
and the seventh day found the courtroom
densely crowded. The fair plaintiff was pres
ent, attired in deep black and veiled the de-
fendant was also on the spot, preserving, one
of the papers say, "a wonderful placidity of
countenance- One of the witnesses, domes-
tic named Rebecca Lohman, grew stubborn.
nd refused to testify until threatened with iail
Ihe case for the defendant was opened by
Mr.. Shepley. He held that the suit was
prompted wholly and only by avarce: "Mr.
Shaw IS an old man; it is idle for these parties
TO talk OF aff1iction trampled down. il is absurd
on Its face; the afirmance of affection is a de-
NAL OF 1t, and hence only one thing is left. a
desire to get so much money out of him. In
SIleny reclting the facts, Mr. Shepley gave Mr..
Shaw age at 90 years, and Mr.. s. bowed blush
lngly 10 signify mistake. He was only "a, and
the correction was promptly made In refer
ence to the acquaintanceship, the counsel said
We claim the plaintiff and defendant be-
came acquainted in a different way-that the
plaintiff sought defendant in his own house,
asking assistance, pleading an inexorabIe la nd.
lord and profering security for assistance,
knowing him to be a man of wealth We saw
that the first visit was design to entrap de-
tendant-that the defendant was sought for
that purpose, carried On for that purpose de-
signed as an intrigue and to lay the basis for
another kind of suit, for a suit for seduction is
more valuable than a suit for breach of prom.
lse. We charge that the whole purpose was
TO lnveigle him and to make him pay roundly
OF stand the scandal of a suit like this No
woman was better able to do this than plain
d. because she had experience in it. All the
1dctS shown are parts OF that same design in
tended to form part of the common object: to
end IN common way. 1t is a strong charge
We believe it will be proved, though these af-
fairs are not common. They are or have been
common elsewhere, common from whence the
plaintiff came"
The financial relations of the parties-bills
payable and receivable that they exchanged
were next taken up, and thus treated
'Recollect, according to the testimony, there
was no want Of money at any time; recollect
that the alleged promise was made in 1886
and, according to the plaintiff, in 1856, they
had talked of it openly and above board. and
made their plans; and yet this woman of
mtidenly modesty, this chaste woman, and
engaged woman, goes to a bachelor and gets
a loan Of money of him, and gives her note
TOR IT Not only she gets the money, but of
the person whom she was engaged to. who ad-
vlsed her to give up all the property to the
sister. This person who loved her, when she
asked for 500, says, "Give me your note -
I'M ms ma, man who was to make her happy all her
Ilfe, asks her to give him a note. Did YOU ever
hear OF such case-of an aggrieved woman
helnS asked by the man of her heart to give
him note Wouldn't any woman. whether
IN want ct money or not. spurn such a man
Wouldn't she say, What, when you are en-
gagged to marry me; when you have agreed to
rove, honor and protect me, and come to Won
{" ask beggarly one hundred dollars, you ask
me to write nOte?' Wouldn't any woman
have said so whose heart was pure?
As to the floral presents bestowed upon Eu-
rnemia by Henry, counsel urged that they
were sought by the young lady. He then en-
tered upon thequestion of plaintiff moral char
acter, whittier we shall not follow him. Suffice
1t to say that Mr.. Shepley spared no pains to
show ITS blackness, and his whole argument
was directed with very Western freedom
New York Personal Gossip-Social Life q,
Editors and Authors-Prosre,s of Spirit.
ualism
The New York correspondent of the Chicago
Press writes:
Receptions are the present order of the
day, or rather night, among our literary folks
Dana, of the Tribune, gives one every other
saturday evening, at which lots of the Histori-
cal Society and AstOr Library people get to.
gether Bayard Taylor and Richard Henry
Stoddard, who live in one house of winters
give weekly receptions on Saturday evenings
which are informal, not at all blue, but really
charming affairs. In the summer, hereafter
Bayard Taylor will stay with his family at tht
beautiful country seat he has prepared in thu
Pennsylvania village of his birth, where hi:
parents still reside. To complete the pay.
ments on this home-for-life, he has been labor
ing this winter to an extent which would break
down any other man-having lectured IL:
times In less than six months 1t is Taylor'
personnel more than anything else that he
has gained him such hosts Of friends He is s
genial, handsome, good hearted man. and car
rles sunshine with him wherever he goes. Hi,
light haired. blue-eyed German wife is no
n nrpn hnt
good, as the ladies say, that every one loves her
But am speaking of receptions. Perhaps
the nost noticeable affair of the kind this week
has been that given in honor of Mr. Rober
Dale owen, at the residence of MIR. Laing-
one OF our wealthy merchants: DO. a:
all know, is the son of the renowned socialis
philosopher, the late Robert Owen. and ba,
Just returned from Naples, where he was sem
as Charge d Afaires, in the time of President
Fierce He has distinguished himself by the
book, Footballs on the Boundary of Another
World, lately published, in which he explains
MS conversion to Spiritualism, and narrates
more wonderful ghost stories and inex plica BILE
fhenomcna than were compiled in even the
creduious Mrs; Groves ight Side Of Ma.
ture" Mr.. Owen is consequently. lust now
the prominent blue-light among the spiritual
pyrotechnists. and all the faithful aocked 10
see MIN; Prominent at the reception were
And. j. Davis, S. P Britain, Mrs. Hatch kc
Mr. Owen is nearly so years of age, slishtly
grey, has perceptible stoop, although thick
set, and not above the medium height: looks
In short, like plain Scotch farmer 1t is ex.
pected that he will prove a powerful addition
to the ranks of American spiritualists-nou
somewhat weakened by the desertion of thei,
poet, Rev. Mr. Harris, and others equally noted
We have got medium" here by the name
OF Foster on whose arm, in raised red letters
appears the name of any deceased friend the
9oIIar-payers would summon from the vaSty
deep; A short time ago this same man wa:
caught ringing bell with his toes and lifting
the table with his own material knees.
~ a scene AT THE HARVARD LAW School.
Yesterday morning, while prof Ioa, paupa,
was addressing the students of the Cambrido oe
Law school upon constitutional law, he adj.
Nerted, Tor the purpose of illustration, to the
mission Of Mr.. Hoar to South Carolina Here.
upon the Southern students present fslt -;n,