The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1876-12-01
METROPOLITAN NEWS.
From Our Regular Correspondent.

fact that no such mishaps could posi-
bic befall US. In the face OF this, not
day goes by that some one is not
duped in the most barefaced manner,
ard frequently for large sums. One
day it is a woman protesting to own
immense property III some foreign
country, who borrows the names OF
eminent clergyInen, 10 Use in support
of her assertions, and the funds of the
party whom she designs to make usa
of, until she comes it u little too far,
and is found out; not, however, until
several people have been mulcted to
yariou. amounts, which combined,
reach the sum of several thousand dol
lars.
Next. an adventures appears Oh the
boards, who, for ten years, has lived
at fashionable boardinghouses through
cut the Union, and who, within the
past few weeks, has been giving Fifth
Avenue tie benefit of her presence, en-
gaging board at prices varying from
800 to $500 week, and slipping out
at tie end of that time, leaving the
police at fault and unable to lay their
hands on her.
The strangest of these cases, howev-
er. is that of Mary Stuart. whose history
Is Row being investigated. A few days
prior to the election, the daily papers
co: tanned briefnotice of a womanwho
had been assaulted and outraged by a
policeman, whom she had asked to
show her to a respectable lodging, she
having lost her way. The man was
discharged, although pointed out by
her, for lack of Identification. The
com nent on this by the people who
merely saw tie statement, was not
very favorable to the powers that be,
and it was hinted that had it not been
near election. officer Gleason would
have been summarily discharged and
brought to trial. 1t now appears that
this woman has made several such
charges, and a man is now serving out
sentence of twenty years in Sing
Sing, tl.e result of complaint entered
and prosecuted By her; with the posi-
bility that in this case, as in the last
ones, the statement was false. One
feels inclined to ask, lin the face OF
these various eases, which are only a
few among many, what our police are
worth, or whether we have any very
great reason to flap our wings and GRO "
over cur country neighbors
The Franklin. with Tweed, is in har.
Dor, but it is said by those who know,
that the old Boss" will show fight.
He disclaimes the right of the United
States government to turn him over to
the civil authorities, and says he can
make them legally send him back, as
Spain had no right TO give him up,
there being no Eytradltlon Treaty
with that country. The civil authori
ti-s l.suyli rii ff.l satisfied that In a
day or two at fart,iesf. Tweed will y,
ensconsed in his eis ht by twenty ROOM
in Ludlow Street Jail, and Sheriff
| Counor be released from the liabilities
he incurred, when he let him slip
through his fingers. Undoubtedly the
fact that possessions is nine points
of the law. will be exemplified in thi:
case.
In spite of the fact that Saturday
was raw and chilly, the Coaching Club
or a portion of them, drove out to the
Polo Club grounds to engage in tina
popular game. Some of the members
with few of the ladies, amused them
selves with lawn tennis, which is rapid
ly crowding croquet out of the field.
The Rev. DR.. Field, editor of the
New York Evangelist, inausurated the
free course of lectures in Cooper Insti
tute, Saturday evening, by giving hi.
impression of ''Going Around the
World" 1t was bright and Cheerful
lecture, and the lecturer looked ami
mated and happy. He is just in the
second week of his second honey
moon, having been married on the 9tf
inst, to Miss Frances E. Dwight, a
Stockbridge, Mass. Miss Dwight wa
a warm friend of the first Mrs. Field
and while on her deathbed, the latte
requested her friend and husband II
marry. The dying injunction, in thi
case, fortunately met with the approx
al of both parties, and they were abl'
to fulfil it without doing any viulenc'
to their own feelings. Unfortunatel.
this is not always the case. A certain
well know senator's wife died ant
made a similar request, the young
lady being her sister. The senator
would gladly have made his sister-in
law his wife. But she did not care fol
him Her sister had wrung the prom
ise from her, and, feeling bound by it
she let her chance of happiness slip by
by refusing the man she really wished
to marry. So the bes: years of life
slipped away until the widower became
tired of waiting, and finding Barkii
who was willing, made her his wife
This absolved the young lady in ques
ton, but not until the best of her liz
had been wasted, and too late for hel
to marry ''her own first love-"
Fanny Davenport played Rosalind
Saturday evening, to an enthusiast,
audience, but she wss Fanny Daven
port and not Shakespeare's Rosalind
The text was Shakespeare's, but i
needs expurgation.
The Essipoff Concerts have delight
ed everybody, and We are all anxious
like Oliver Twist. for ''more."
The college athletic games are draw
ing out many people to view the sport
ofthe boys, and muscular scholarship
IL now in the ascendant.
The Flsmingo suits, popular severa
years ago, are again coming in TO
! little girls. They are made of scarle
nerino, cashemere or flannel, and ar
: trimmed with black braid.