Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1878-08-10

DRIVEN MAD BY DIsAPPoINrNENr.-Miss
Jennie Minister, the young Jewess who was ad-
mitted 10 Bellevue Hospital on last wednes-
day as a lunatic, was yesterday tranSferr, TO
TIE 'unaiic asylum on BlsckweI's Island She
app? 1rs 10 be hopeles>ly insane, and Is contin-
nally raving about her Young lover The un,
fortunate young girl had been employed by a
tam'iy named MetZger in New Haven. Conn,
and Was brought from that city by a son OF
her employer, as she was in;ane. He accounS
Cd Tor her insanity by the shock she r ,eived
while bathing at Sayin Rock. She was nearly
drowned, and was saved with much az :ficulty.
and since that time she had been insane A
young man, who formerly resided i'm New Ha-
ven, called at the hospital yesterday TO see
Miss Minister He said that he formerly re
sided on the same block on which the dwelling
OF the MetEger family Is situated. Miss Minister
was treated by the MetZgers as a member OF
the family, and il was currently reported in
the neighborhood that she was engaged 10 be
married 10 a young son OF the Me,zgers. The
couple were devoted Ia each other, but the pa
rents of the young man objected, and the en-
eagement was broken. It's believed that this
unsettled the girls reason. and the story of the
drowning was TO hide the real facts i'm the case.
Nv. 4. Times 9Th.
SHOT FOR WRITING AN INSULTING LETTER
A steamer from the Upper ST. Johns river
brings news To jacksonville, Fla, of a murder
at iltusvllle, Nolusia county. on Friday last.
A young man named Sweeney had written a
le.ter TO sister OF one John X. Saunders,
which the latter considered insulting 20 the
Soung Iady, Meeting Sweeney on Friday,
fight, but before he had time TO offer any re
sistance Saunders shot him twice in the stom
ach, and death followed shortly after Sweeney
fired three shots at Saunders after he had been
wounded. Saunders gave himself up.
ANOTHER VERMONT SCANDAL-A special
dispatch TO the New York Times from Rut
land, VT, August s. says: Vermont has an
other scandal and IL comes very near the
locality recently stirred up by the Smith
Champlin poisoning case. The little town of
Addison, and the very Baptist church of which
Deacon Ezra 7. Smith, the alleged wife poi
Soner. was formerly a member and deacon, is
the scene OF the present disturbance. Mrs
Jason Brown, a teacher i'm the Sunday school.
made her husband jealous i'm some way, one
OF the objects of his suspicious being deacon
in the church, widower and a man Of the
highest respectability. The family unpleas-
antnesS increased 10 such an extent that hus-
band and wife occupied different portions of
the house, Brown taking the precaution, how
ever, to nail boards across the woman's win
d0ws. At one time. also, he is said to have
attac ked and choked her till she was black i'm
the face, and the town Is much disturbed at
this apparently unnecessary ill-usage. Brown
is close-fisted but thriving farmer, of about
90 years, and his wife-the second one he has
had-comes from a highly respectable aud
wealthy Bridgeport family nained Barber
Mrs. Brown has left her husband and gone TO
live at the residence of a brother of Deacon
Ezra = Smith.