The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1869-01-16

Unfortunately, as told you. in this In
1 stance, you are quite wrong.
4 Well, perhaps | am, was my answer,
as / drew my chair little nearer to his
The ssrangest paft oftmy error was that
/ fancied you were one Of two men de-
4 Tended at Reading some four years ago,
for conspiring to cheat young under.
graduate out Of his money by playing with
loaded dice"
! He was far too much on his guard to
make any sign; he only said with smile
| You certainly paid me a great compli
ment." But / saw that he was drawing
away his right hand, which had hitherto
been resting on the table,
II Wasa remarkable case, Icoutinued
chiefly from the way in which the
roguery was detected. The hand Of the
man who was manipulating the loaded
dice was, as yours might be, on the table,
to all appearances in the most innocent
manner possible with that, as if to give
him ocular demonstration of the way in
which the cheat had been effected, 4 took
hold OF his hand, and held it on thetable
-twhen stranger who had been sitting
at the farther end Of the room came quick.
! ly TO the side of the rogue, and in an in-t
slant more had pinned his hand with a
carving fork to the mahogany" felt
that ]. had carried the play nlong enough,l
and quickly inserting my finger at the top
of his glove tore 1t down the back BE
! jumped to his feet and SO did l. "Youare
that man." said, "whose hand was so
pinned to the table and that scar IL the
evidence Isheuld call Il It were necessary
to prove it, Therefore sit down, and hear
what else | have to say" .E~
He glared viciously at me, lifted his fist
as If he would have struck me, and then
sank into his chair again.
"a man who could try 10 rob a poor
silly boy by such disgraoeful means l
continued, could hardly be expected to
have any pity on q helpless woman; but,
fortunately / have been witness of
| your endeaVors on more than one occasion,
| by threats and menaces to e1tort large
sum OF money from your hosts wife, and
that by representing TO her that her first
husband was alive, anda 0tago, In New
Zealand, when you knew as well as do
that he was dead, and has been SO this
two years" F1'SiA q aat4 ~, 9 af
81 he is not dead, = growled Murray.
!" He is dead" | replied, "and your own
| pocket book proves itn'a ao afl
As | said this / held up to him the wal-
let that had tumbled upon in the planta-
tion walk, in one OF the pockets Of which,
among numbered other exceedingly sus-
| picious looking documents, had found
a certificate Of the death of Arthur Ber-
nard. ra.. .r..s.5.. g.4s, s..
! But as / have been a very long time in
telling my story--barrister are proverb-
ialy long-Winded, you knoW--I must hur-
ry to a conclusion.
\ The morning following our interview
Murray, with many excuses and regrets,
found himself unaYoidably compelled to
return to town, AS he got into the pbe.
ton that was to take him TO othe station he
kindly whispered in my ear "Pll live ID
pay you out for this yetF promise that
Lsomehow OF other fancy he will fulfill
4 some day. Till then am content to for
get all about him AS for Mrs. Forester
the clouds upon her horizon have lifted
she has buried a sad and painful past, and
lives in a present loved as dearly and ten,
derly as ever by Charlie, who know
nothing and who never shall, unless she
as | have advised her, has the courage tC
tell him oil, even to the extent that h6i
future husband, Arthur Bernard, was thS
co-conspirator who stood at Murray's side
in the ielons' dock. I have every hop,
that she win do this, for the eonildeuc,
between husband and wife should be al
clear as the day at noon. 'iet' g a|-''2
BgeT,}g -------l- -a--- s.s4fsN
The Telegraph Incidents Of Its Earl
~ History. 9@'a9 A' e3l'
, PRoFEssoR MoRsE, inghis recent speecl
at the the Morse banquet, in New York
gave the following reminiscenses Of thl
early history Of his great invention, par
ticularly In Congress:
2 The session 0f1887 and 1888 passeC
! away with no other action on the subiec
J Of the telegraph than a unanimously "a
, vorable report from the House Cemmilte
, Of Commerce An interval of four year
i occurred before the attention Of Congress
} could be again reused to consider the mat
! ter, Senator Benton in the abridged dc
: bates gives In brief the kind Of reception
the bin for aid TO test Che telegraph me
with in the House from certain members
As the narrative is very short allow me {
quote it; bDtp
: 1.ss HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,,
February 21, 1S43.
9 ELHeTRo AND ANIMAL MAGNETISM
( On motion Of Mr., Kennedy, of Mary
s land, the committee took up the bill I
D authorize q series Of experiments TO
: made IN order to test the merits Of Morse
: electromagnetic telegraph. The bill al
9 Fpropriates $4,000 to be expended unde
1 The direction OF the Postmaster Genera
i Mr. Cave johnson wished to have
8 word TO say upon this bill As the pre-
: ent Congress had done much 10 enconrap
/ science, he did not wish to see the scienC
6 Of mesmerisnl neglected and overl0olet
Y He therefore proposed that one7half d
:. appropriation be given TO Mr.. Fisk,
,, gentleman at that time iecturing in Wasl
Z ington on mesmerism), to enable him
y carry on experiments as well as Professt
a Morse, ls5 NaesA ta
I Mr.. Houston thought that Milleris
q should also be included in the benefits
y the appropriation.
y Mr.. Stanley said he should have no d
y lection 10 the appropriation for mesmer
" experiments, provided the gentl fro
9. Tennessee Nj. Johnson) was the subjel
e "a laugh,
n Mr.. Cave johnson said be should hay
a. in0 objection, provided the gentleman fra
e North Carolina lkr. stanly) was the op
1T rator (Great laughter.)
s. Several gentlemen called for the readiE
q Of the amendment, and 1t was read BY Il
b Clerk As follows:
le Provided, That one.half of The said suI
ld shall be appropriated for trying mesner
Q, experiments under the direction Of u
3 Secretary Of The Treasury. nl sta
u Mr.. Mason (of Ohio rose to q questiC
~ Of order. He maintained that the amen
IT. mont was net bond 1ide, and that sut
X amendments were calculated to iniure d
character of the House. He appealed
is the Chair to rtle the amendment out
order. s3s
ID The Chairman said It was not for him
az Judge Of the motives Of members in offc
Of Ing amendments, and he could not theI
'e- fore, undertake to Opronouncelthe amen
ht ment not bona fd6 Objections might
sls raised to 1t on the ground that It was n
~ sufficiently analogous Ia character to d
m Bill under confederation; but iii theioni
n ion Of the Chair It would require a scie
80 tifc analysis to determine how far {
lot maqnetisrn Of nnegmeriBm was analO0h