The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1871-07-27
Married Without knowing It.

H'' AuVnoS OoVPVtt "u As"6'""t soy
published an account Of bis travels in Thi.
bet, which he visited disguised as China
man. Among bis stories is tho following;
He was just halting for breakfast after lea.
wing the Thebctan town Of Bathan. when
q group Of young girls, gaily dressed and
decked with garlauds Of flowers, came out
Of grove and surrounded him, some Of
them holding his mule, while Others assist
ed him to alight. He was then led Into a
grove, where be found q feast being prepa-
red, and after be had smoked his pipe, tho
girls came to him again, 'pulling along
in their midst pretty girl Of sixteen, at
tired in a silk dress, and adorned with gar.
lands Of flowers. had already noticed"
Mr.. Cooper continues, "this girl sitting
apart from the others during the meal, and
was very much astonished when sho was
reluctantly dragged up to me and made to
seat herself by my side; and my astonlsh-
ment was considerably heightened when
the rest Of the girls began to dance around
us in circle, singing and throwing their
garlands over myself and my companion"
The meaning Of this performance was,
however, soon made clear to Mr.. Cooper.
He had been married without knowing it.
At first be tried to escape tho liability en-
tailed upon him, but such an outcry was
made by all the people around that he was
forced to carry of bis bride. He managed
to get rid Of her before long BY transfer
ring her to one Of her relations, but even
that was not treated as q dissolution Of the
marriage. On his way back he was joined
one day by Thibetan damc about thirty
years old, who announced herself as bis
wife's mother and said she had come, with
the consent Of her husband, to supply her
daughters place. We can well imagine
Mr.. Cooper's surprise at meeting with this
novel proposal on tho part Of bis molher-
iu.law.
Eleven Most Foul and Unnatural Mur-
ders.
Mrs. Sherman, the alleged poisoner Of
husbands and children, is in close custody
at Derby, Connecticut, the scene of most
Of her nefarious exploits. The main facts
other later life have already been given.
But bel. whole career has been history Of
extraordinary criminality. The daughter
Of Trenton butcher, she married Edward
Shrurch when seventeen years old, and
became iu time the mother Of six children
Then began the series Of awful events for
which she is now held to account. First
her husband was taken sick and suddenly
died, and subsequently all the children al
SO died within two years, With no assigna-
bic cause. She soon moved to Counecti-
cut, aud married Mr.. Hurlburt, Of Hun
tington. q man Of considerable property;
but he, too, died suddenly, shortly after
making over all bis worldly possessions to
bis wife. Suspicious now began 10 DO ar.
oused, which were not allayed when it be-
camo known that the widow had married
her third husband, widower and four
children, two Of whom we're also suddenly
taken ill, and died The father followed
them in June last, and tue physicians now
thoroughly aroused made post mortem
examination and discovered the presence Of
arsenic in large quantities. Subsequent
examinations disclosed that the same
deadly drug had been the cause Of tho
deaths Of Mr.. Sberman's children and
Mr.. Hulburt, and the presumed murder
ess was accordingly arrested at New Bruns-
wick, New Jersey, whittier she bad betak.
en- herself. Her manner is cool and self
possessed, and her countenance betrays
frmncsS and cunning. Shc.aays little, but
expresses the belief in hor ultimate acquit.
tai. II can hardly be doubted, however,
that she has actually committed no less
than eleven most foul and unnatural mur-
ders.
At a large dinner, given short time
ago at New York, the names Of the guests,
designating their places at the table, were
painted on rubber balloons which aoated
over the table, being fastened to long
strings, one tothe stem Of each mans gOb-
let. The effect was very novel.