The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1872-07-11
Our New York Correspondence.
New YORK, July 6,


full. There is no adjective indeed, superalative-
ly descriptive enough to set forth the situation.
Ofsun strokes there have been 100 day. The
rays seem to come straight down like barbed
arrows. The air is hot and dry, and the mar
BILE walls between which we have to walk only
serve to collect and refract the intensified tenn
perature. The rage for business is gone, and,
men are content to sit in their shirt sleeves and
pant and fan. Lager beer, ginger pop and soda
water have become the beverages of the hour,
and you cannot find place in the city where
these refreshments are sid that is not thronged.
Cars and steamers are carrying everybody out
of town who can get away, and the Stay-at-
home clubs resort for a change to the parks
and excursions on ferry boats. The churches
consequently make poor Sunday show. The
fashionable preachers are engaged in fishing
for souls at the seaside, and their focks are
going to country churches in Paris made
clothes, as compromise with their consciences.
Life here is full of sad incidents. heard
one related the other day. A young girl re-
turning from Europe, two or three years ago,
met among her compagnons du voyage, hand
some fellow of thirty, was fascinated, and in
spite of the protestations of her family, married
him. She was worth eighty or hundred
thousand dollars in her own name, and por-
ton of the property consisted of bonds, jewell
ry and plate. In few months the husband
obtained possession of greater part of it. He
then compelled her to live in cheap boarding
houses, and to receive the attentions of men of
his own ilk, and subjected her to the most petty
cruelties. Eventually she became mother.
His prosecutions now commenced in earnest.
He seemed to hate her. He treated her like
brute, beat, and cursed her during illness, re-
fused the ordinary comforts of life, and finally
believing that he had secured the last dollar
she owned, abandoned her.
One day lady called to see thepoor woman,
and in the conversation that followed, it turned
out that the visitor had likewise been married,
robbed and abandoned in the same manner by
the same villain. The revelation so affected
the mind of the young mother that she became
almost maniac. Her family then for the first
time learned of the cruelty which she had en-
dured. They carried her to Europe again for a
change of scene and air, and she remained for
several months. She returned with her child
not long ago. When about to land from the
steamer, she was accosted by gentleman who
said he was friend of her brother, and had
been sent by him to escort her in his carriage
to his house. Taking the arm of the stranger
the lady accompanied him to the vehicle, but
there to her amazement and CONSERVATION sat
her husband. Faint with fear, she turned to
escape. The fend sprang from the carriage
and was about to lay his hand on her when
well directed blow knocked him down, and the
lady in a moment afterwards was folded in the
embrace of her brother.
1t appears that the villain had intercepted
dispatches and letters between his wife and her
family and arranged under her brothers name
to meet her on the arrival of the steamer, and
but for happy accident that carried her broth
er to the dock. she and her little one would
probably have been abducted by the infamous
husband.
The fellow was allowed to escape, because he
had committed no overt act, but measures were
taken at once to secure divorce and the poor
woman has finally been freed from his persecu-
tions. 1t has since transpired that the villain
has three or four wives, from all of whom he
obtained money, in the same manner and then
deserted them. He has been traced to Europe,
and it is believed will be caught and proved to
be one of the most adroit bigamists of the age.
The trial of Stokes now in progress adduccs
no new facts. No one believes, however, that
if found guilty, he will be hung. The general
supposition is that the jury will Disagree
They have been permitted to separate, and a
hundred or two thousand dollars may possibly
have some influence in determining the YER
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New York is destined to catch the drippings
of the Boston jubilee. We may not have the
colosseum or the chorus, but the crack bands
have been captured and will perform here be-
fore their departure for Europe. The Prussian
band plays at Jones' Wood in few days, and
the Grenadiers will follow. Strauss will proba-
bly, remain through the summer.
Policemen are killing dogs right and left. In
Hobol1en, last week, poor German having
drank too much lager, was taking nap on the
curb stone. An ordinary black and tan dog
slept or rather watched by his side. One of
the knights of the star and baton attempted to
arouse the man for the purpose of taking him
to the station house, when the little fellow
showed fight in his masters defence. The po-
liceman thereupon drew his revolver and shot
the animal several times. He did not die in
stantly, but with an expression almost human,
crept up to his now half awakened friend and
owner, laid his little head upon, and kissed the
drunken face, and with long, pitiful, almost
human look, breathed his last. The incident
was witnessed by dozen persons to whom that
dead dog has been made more precious than a
brigade of brutal policemen.
The Aldine makes its usual artistic appear
ance this month. No periodical in New York
;S Uotcbed hv the nnblic with more interest. or