Connecticut western news., 1871-09-01
How a Man ElOped with His Own Wife.

Late in July last the good people in the town of Lyon, Oakland County, Mich, were much excited by an appli- cation for divorce on the part of the wife of Samuel B. Dolph, a Detroit drover, on the ground of adultery. The wife was the daughter of wealthy far mer of their county. Dolph, who had been enjoined from removing anything from farm that was the property of his wife, attempted to take possession of the place, ejected the family living upon it, and was arrested for riot. In the meantime the family he had ejected re- instated themselves, and when he re- turned he found them well guarded by armed men. Dolph was then arrested and gave bail. Subsequently Dolph and his father visited the farm and found people cutting the crops, and for interfering with them he and his father were arrested for assault and battery. Other suits were brought by the wife, and elder and younger Dolph, and by various parties, and legal gentlemen were retained on one side or the other to take part in the controversies. The suit at law embraced lniunctions, replev- ins, trespass, and pretty much every thing else known to the civil and crimi- nal calendar, and the litigations bi l fair to extend through several months, and perhaps years. Dolph is we'll known, and has many influential and wealthy friends, and the same may be said of his wife and these friends, it appears, were strenuous in their efforts to keep them separated. Mrs. Dolph remained secluded at the residence of some of her friends, and a policeman was employed to watch Do1ph, fears being entertained that he might attempt to abduct her. Thus matters passed along for several weeks, and few days since an arrange ment was effected by which Mrs. Dolph was Co pay her husband $3, ,000, and all the suits, except that for the divorce, were to be discontinued. The papers were drawn up and signed, and the parties separated, Mrs. Dolph avowing it as her determination never to live with him again. Dolph, however, in sisted that he loved his wife, and 8 friend volunteered to effect reconcilia- hon between them. It is not necessary to state in detail all that occurred, but, to make 8 long story short, we may simply announce that the plan worked like 8 charm. Mrs. Dolph consented to elope with her husband, and Dolph to elope with his wife. She returned to the place where she was stopping, pack ed her trunks, to be ready to move at given time, and Dolph prepared himself for journey too. The friend referred to took 8 carriage and obtained Mrs. Dolph, subsequently, drove after Dolph. The carriage was driven rapidly to Hamtramck, where 1t remained until evening, and from thence the reconciled couple took passage on train that car ried them many miles away. Telegrams have been sent in every direction, but no traces have been discovered of Mr. and Mrs. Dolph. They are out of reach of Detroit and Pontiac lawyers, who have pocketed fees to the amount of about $4,O0O, and they have sworn to forget and forgive, and hereafter live happily.
 Animal Teaching.
 We, have all witnessed in our time, says Loaad and Wode7', the astonishing performances of certain animals, birds, and fishes which were trained for the purpose of exhibition but the majority of these though they served to prove the possibility of higher training and a more useful one, yet in themselves they exhibited lamentable amount of waste labor and waste power.
 Long years before the American Rarey's name was heard as "horse- tamer," secret existed, as family heirloom, among 8 sect of the O'Sul- livans in the south of Ireland. This family was known as "The Whisper CTS" and they possessed the power of rendering as quiet as lamb the most stubborn and unmanageable horse that ever existed. Whether they did any thing more to the horse than breathe into his nostrils, we know not but by do1ng this and by kind soothing>and other ways known to themselves, they effected their purpose and retained their fame. Putting the question of drugs, or stlmulants, or 'other fascinating means aside, and coming to the point of pure and unadulterated domestication and teaching, perhaps there was no one person in modern times achieved so much success in animal teaching as s. Bissett. This man was an humble shoe maker. He was born in Scotland, in 1721, but he afterward removed to Lon- don, where he married 8 woman who brought him some property; then turn ed broker, he accumulated money until the year 1759, when his attention was turn ed to the training and teaching of ami, | malls, birds, and fishes. He was led to | this new study on reading an account of a remarkable horse show at fair at St. | Germains. Bissett bought 8 horse and dog, and succeeded beyond his expecta- tions in teaching them to perform vari ous feats. He next purchasde two mon keys, which he taught to dance and tumble on rope, and one would hold candle in one paw and turn the barrel organ with the other, while his compan- ion danced. He next taught three cats to do many wonderful things, to sit be- fore music books and to squall notes pitched to different keys. He advertis- ed a "Cats Opera in the Haymarket, and successfully carried out his pro- gramme, the cats accurately fulfilling all their parts. He pocketed some thousands by these performances. He next taught leveret, and then several species of birds, to spell the name of any person in company, and to distin- guish the hour of the day or night. Six turkey-cocks were next rendered amen able to a country dance, and, after six months teaching, he trained a turtle to fetch and carry like dog, and, having chalked the floor and blackened it's claws, he made it trace out the name of any given person in the company.
 MAGDALENA BAY.-The San Francisco | papers are severe on the Magdalena Bay scheme, and one of them, the Alta Cdli- fo'mian, chronicling the arrival at Cape de Lucas of the last of the colonists in a very dilapidated condition, says: "In the meantime the telegraph informs us that the company is seeking to entice the French Communists to that lively | country. The French Government was infinitely more merciful-only proposed to send thano to Neu CIalador,io ,,