The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1870-05-06
Changing the Babies.

CnaflSIHS lMG DdBAtSs
A startling instancesOf the freaks in
which Outrageous fortune sometimes
reVels, has recently taken place in the
family of a quondam magnate of Wall
street, new retired and living in quiet
elegance on the lower vicinity Of Cen
trai Park. The gentleman, whose name
g mOught be" ones, butisn't, returned
some years since, with his family, from
Europe, bringing q young French girl,
Susie, as nurse to the young babe. Af-
ter q few months she left the service Of
the family on some trivial pretext, and
another nurse being substituted Susette
was quite forgotten.
Mrs. Jones had moved in fashionable
circles, while rearing a family of three
z0ns and four daughters, the youngest
Of whom was the nurseling Of Susette.
The family had taken deep interest
in an hnmble widow woman support
ing q family Of five children. She had
for many years been entrusted with the
family washing, which was usually re-
turned by one of the girls of the faith
fllI Iaundress, and many little niceitieS
were sent home by this girl, whose
gentle demeanor had so won upon Mrs.
Jones, that she arranged for her partial
education, and already ~ as
q sort of p7E1slPe, for
aoor wild 4olIIseIy grateful, and
sould yet !" make a lady
eeks since the family receiv-
ed ter bearing the postmark of an
Obsc e town in the South of France.
It bntained voluminous disclosures,
bea Ing official seals, all in French A
ia " council was convened to deci-
the contents, and manly a jest was
1died In the merry circle about the
center-table, as each contributed their
! knowledge of written Fra1ch in q loose
ehilography, to get at the meaning OF
i so formidable missive.
i The youngest daughter, quite 4resh
her studies, seemed to make more
ress, and the mysterious dOcu-
9zts. first passing from hand to hand,
We're finally allowed to rest before her,
+ the rest ofsthe group laughingly criti-
cising her broken accents. as she read
slowly on. She hesitatee, was met by
another vOlley Of badinage, which was
strangely checked as the young girl
strained her eyes more closely to the
paper, pressed her jewelled hand tOt hel
I temples-turneda ashy pale-uttered one
! scream, and fell back into her fathers
arms in a sWOOn!
It was a fearful night with that
Z
over that senseless form. A physician
hastily called in, seeking for a cause oi
/ the strange attack, was shown the
( scattered missives left upon the parloI
floor. Being fluent scholar he could
read them readily, and there, in the
dead hours of night, the blow fell upon
the already afffighted household.
The substance of the deathbed state
ments of Susette, which the letter con-
tanned, duly authenticated, was, that
in taking her infant charge for an air.
ing, she called, as usual, at the poor
s home of the family laundress, whose
babe was the same age with that o.
Mr.. Jones. That the woman beggeC
i her to stay and mind the children
Ewhile she took home some work
While alone in the house with the III
fants. one of them pulled a hot irOl
Upon it, burning it badly. She appliet
such remedies rs she could seize .RpOn
lat in her fright f;lncied the -
lst be fatal. X waathe ipfas
large This shE
the moment,
fabl sAFesembia
cor Sith fear tlle
llSe .Al.llal a-
bab
and a V9ec nurse VI
very day; 50 Suset
bolicaI act, but still lle-
ment, sought the gei
away from her OWL le, at.
ter q lapse of years, peace, she
made full confess
The family seek 5ep the aftail
4 very quiet. A lad Whom the ply
sician was quite devoted mentioned the
facts ere secrecy had been enjOined.
The foster child of the poor widow
I wilIET reinstated in her full rights, anC
bei..sslllss. a lady of" sure enough; the
wide :entire family are amply pro
Yida +, and the poignant sorrow 0
! reared in luxury will be as
"a in a great degree by retaining
: 7illels position of daughter
p Truth, indeed, is OftentimCs strange
! than fiction Auburn DCtiLy Nctcs.