, 1876-08-06

IL supposed is hiding somewhere in Canada: The
! girl soon recovered from the shock. aHd returned
to her lme, grateful tn the honest country land-
| lady that she mad been eavcd from worse fnte
The pafss are well k9oSn bt so5 the saHs :.
it is doubtful If the rascal Is prosecuted even II ne
returns to the city.
! HoTEL-KEEpEns' TRIALS.
| The old saying, "he can't keep hotel" has
| more real significance than most persons I'M
agine. The trials Of hotclkeepers at seaside
hotels this season are unusually great, owing to
tho hard times and the necessity Of strict eeono-
my. One Of the prominent Saratoga hotels has
changed stewards three times already, and good,
firstclass persons in this capacity are In demand
Last week ono OF the Long Branch stewards
took one drink too many, and all day Sunday
while it was raining in torrents, and everybody
! was coopcd up in the house, kept the walters.
kitchen-help, and proprietor in an uproar. The
! man became abusive, the cooks refused to work,
the walters were panieky, and when he drew q
pistol and threatened to shoot the proprietor the
| engineer and porter had to interfere and
disarm him. Another hotel-keeper presiding
| over o magnificent hotel on the Sound
found himself the other morning minus cooks,
chambermaitls and walters. The help had been
on spree the night before, and, it being pleasant
engaged tue owner OF soop to take them across
the Sound. Getting over was easy enough. When
thsy 9nasFtook to return the wind had lucd into
q dead CALM and they were powerleks to move. 1t
was clock in the morning before they returned,
and the indignation OF the landlord may be magin-
ed. Far from having easy time OF it, tile hotel
proprietors ont OF the city are 80 dependent upon
their help that it is source Of continual anxiety
with them lest their walters or cooks should fail
them. Most Of the hotels have standing arrange
ments with intelligence offices especially devoted
to hotel service to send them force Of walters ut
few hours' notice. Add TO this the dread Of bad
luck in drawing boarders anti poor season. the
summer bOUlfAEe lE to be Ditleu,
TOUGH STORY ABOUT VAMPIRES.
Every child who has been in the country any
where around this city hnowns the flying
"bats " which 1it among the trees about tWTi-
light, by appearance There Is q sort of nurses
tradition among children that these bats are
veritablc bloodsuckers, and if they once fastcn
themselves in the hair, they will suck the life
blood from a child. Probably the tradition is
used to get young children into bed by early
hours quite etfectuai}y, but recently these bats
have been seen in the city. This ia a very rare
currencc, but there is neighborhood in the vicn-
ity OF Twenty second street, between Ninth and
Tenth avenues, which has been for fortnight past
panic-stricken about vampires Now vampire is
simply an enormous bat, and though it is reputcd
to be sucker Of blood from human beings. no
cases have been reported in this city. Still
| respectable family tn the locality just
named was aroused one night last week
BY the presence Of some unknown object IN the
room. The gus was twice lighted and twice ex-
tinguished by the unknown object, which appeared
at first to be pigeon, but it finally flew ont OF the
window and was lost to view. A little girl COM
planned OF having been oltten by It On her toe An
S;t int asveao neu spJ., W. ~ n:a "
samc block had similar experience, save the al-
legged biting. The same night q nefghbor discov-
cred something unusual in the room, turned on the
hall gas and discovered what looked like rat with
stnnt sticIs When it nrovcd to he a Int meosnrinr
Is inches from tin to tin. The body waa Of the
size Of rat, its teeth we're numerous, and there
Were 1our ane!sors IL sac9 9 Jaw. various otner
ppn.sn1 ncan,. ;n the v;rntx havs ha., "n 1e11;S7
enormous stories of their experiences; and every
wh;ch they beIiere exist in 1hr ne;ohhorhond ~''
"1.,~ ,.s
sA1sf "lOo"Eh ot1"lI1ho ba a WOMAN
The Newark gossips are intensely amused by
a recent adventure ,yhich hefeu a nonn,ar socetv
n.~' o1Aen op1.'A 'oee'y
belle,-9llss L., o1 Broad street. Ii appears
that about SIX weeks apo, q widower named
Ionr;ne io;nad 3, snnd,y-echoo1 ,,e !, Teacher
'enA4us 3o4Ieu q nuuuaaeuoo1 ~ tsaene',
anu made himself particularly agreeable to
everybody. Among those whose acouaintance
~ ,,,ada n..s a1;ssf H. .oraht 49, .a-,~.n,,
-. c~sn. 49,. .nat. s-.
a -A- az ,;>,oa - - a 49,
pnseu 10 a.. e. ~ W. A.. 49, 49,. @"u "as
p.ses ".s, ,a .so+ s,e' ~. ahou,a sa-r'
m f,,a ,reat,e, acnuo;ntoncn and she declined IN
rive him an nnswrr IN thu snot. In thu meantime
she had interested some relatives in the Case and
through their help ascertafned some Of the mans
anticedents. The next time he called she resolved
to play joke on him, and get rid Of his
attentions ut the same time. She told
him When ne renewed Ms proposal Il
he would accompany her to cla1fVoyant's and
have his past and future told in her presence
il everything was favorable she would marry him.
He eagerly accepted the proposition and the next
day the couple psocecdeo 10 tue ctalrVoyanss'
The seeress had been posted US to tue mans pre-
vions life, and told him what she saw: - man
slck with fever lying on beo IN 2 room n Aew
M patea1S, at.enueu ~ mo' ntG MI VI VIII
woman are begears: they Wantler to dock in a
seaport in Australia. She sees there man en- 4
ship with another woman not his wife; she leaps
into the water in despair. The next scene is the
ship-the man and woman on deCk-a splash and
the woman is oyerboard-it is not proved he threw
her over" jenkins interrupted the secrets, and
asked what this had to do with his story; but
when she proposed to tell him, he dashed down
stairs, and has never been seen in Newark since.
This exaggerated story Of his life and Miss
L. preferred this method Of informing him that she
knew 1t a11. He was completely outwittcd-
LENGTHY LEGAL BATTLES.