Orangeburg news and times. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1875-1877, 1876-07-15

characters. Still more cause for tho
professors wonderment was the state
mont of the Jew himself in English
that he was not Abraham Charkoy
at MI, that those who pretended to be
his wife and children and his parents
we're total strangers to him, that lie
wes not native Of Orenburg, never
lived there, did not know how he got
there, that lie was not even q R;ussian,
but an Englishman named Abraham
Durham, born in tho town Of New
+ Wcstminster, i'll British Columbia,
where he resided as fur dealer, and
where lie had a wife and one child
living; that FROM some inexplicable
cause he found himself chaugediin
appearance, thath he is naturally small
i'll stature, stout i'll BODY, with iair
complcNion, and blonde lnir aud
whiskcs. The professor and his
associated doctors did not know what
to make Of him, since he appeared to
them q very intelligent nd educated
Englishman; while the woman, her
children, md the other witnesses
claimed him as tho illitcrnte Russo
jew, Abraham Chnrkoy. But while
the matter was being further invcsti-
gated, and the entire family kcptin
close confinement in St. Petersburg,
Abraham was missing one morning,
having escaped on board of an Eng
lish ship bound for Hull. The case
was quietly dropped after his fight,
but subsequent events were still more
wonderful. In 1875, Professor Orlow,
was sent to America by the Russian
Government, to make inquiries con-
corning the international Exhibition.
While in this city he found in a New
York paper, copied from the New
Westminster Press of British Colum-
bin, tie following startling account:
"In New Westminster an occur
renee recently look place, which caus-.
ed grcat sensation throughout, thu
55whoK tefTii0Fy- oi British 6 Cso5lImhiiai.'
On tlse s2d day Of September, 1874.
a fur-dcaler Of said city was in dying
condition, suffering from typhoid
fever, as,d no one, not even his physi-
clan, seemed to entertain any hope Ms
TO Inc possibility Of his recovery.
Nevertheless the patient rallied and
iully recovered, But wonderful to
relate, the patient, who was an intelli-
gent Englishman, had forgotten his
mother tongue and speaks a language
which is understood by no one around
him, but which at last is recognized
by an inhubitant of the city to be n
jargon Of bad Jewish G. German. The
patient before his sickness short,
stout fellow and q blonde, is now thin
and lean like q stick, refuses 20 rccog-
nizc his wife, and child, but insists
that he has IL wife md several child
rcn somewhere else; the man is bcliey.
ed to be insane. All ut once :r Euro
pcan traveller arrives, marked with
IL genuine Hebrew filce, and claims to
be the husband OF The wifa Of the fur.
dealer. lie speaks to the Woman in
the same language her husband was
wont to speak to her; lie gives her and
even his parents, who live in said
city, but who, Of course, do not recos.
nizc him rs their son, the most detail.
ed and minutcst description ol bygonc
events, and insists upon being the wo.
mans hus sbard and tic parents son
The poor woman is almost in peril Of
her reason, the effect Of the trying
ordeal. She incessantly asks: "Whc
is this fellow How does he come to
claim to be my husband ?" When
she hears him speak and does moi
look at his figure, she is ready to
think that he is her husband, but as
soon ms she looks at him, the spoil is
broken; for surely, this stranger with
the Jewish face can not be her hus
band, whom she just nursed in hi
sickness. But the man continues t.
press his claim, md tells her the mos
delicate and secret facts, evidentl,