The Newtown bee., 1880-02-18

instant they happened to be passing a i plnce where new house was being erect
 ed, and a huge pile of bricks lay ready 1 for the work. Mr Irving seized a brick, 1 and brought it down on the ethnza of his irate spouse, and the matter now oscil- 1 lates between a coroner's inquest and a
 c!nreh Investigation.
 i dreadful case of fratracide occurred
 in Brooklyn a week ago, which culmin-
 ated in the death of the victim on Tues
 day last. A couple of Irish laborers, named John and William Morrisey,
 brothers, aged between thirty and forty, got on drunken bout with a couple Of friends, till the younger one, William,
 seeing his brother John was vely much going ont for more liquor. John was de
 termined to go, high words ensued, then
 blows, and at last, John seized aud axe
 and clove his brothers skull in twain
 The result of this bloody brawl Is, one
 man killed, woman worse than widow
 ed, fCur children w"rso than orphaned,
 and man, even if he escapes the gal
 lows, haunted like the first murderer
 with brothers blood crying from the
 ground forever. Score one more for blue
 ribbons and Francis Murphy.
 Every once in while, some obscure and
 wrctched town in New England or the
 West, puts forth its puny claim for the
 champion mean man. The standard
 used to be taking the pennies from
 dead mans eyes, but we double discount
 that in Brooklyn, give them fifty points
 beside, and then beat them; so I am
 happy to state that, beyond all question,
 Brooklyn still holds the belt. This
 time it's Dutchman, but he has been naturalized, so we take the credit of it just the same as If he were a native born American. A young seamstrcss of
 Brooklyn, by years of industry and thrift had succeeded ill saving fortune amounting to two hundred dollars, which was tucked away safely in the savings bank, and was drawing the snug revenue of ten dollars a year. Mark you, when lady is known to he wealthy, all the fe- lows go for her, and I regret to add, this Brooklyn milliner was no exception tC the rule. Two weeks ago, in company with some friends, she attended ball at reutonic Hall, at n half dollar head ! and refreshments thrown in, now half 1 d dollar head for d firet-class ball and | provisions, could not be considered dear in any country, and it was there that Miss haGsc met her diStiny-he had u | nice white gotee, two hrsc melting blue | eyes, a green vest, and a pink nec-ktic, | and then how he waltzcd, and he waltzcd i with no other girl but Miss Kausc, he told her he was looking for d wife, and | Us soon as he found her, he would get . married; he treated her to sWcitzcr kasO ! unt lager, and wound up with Limburger i and spretzels; what girl could with | stand 1t, there arc very few, and Miss 1 kause was not one of these girls. As . set up cigar store, that is, after he had , saved two hundren dollars to do it, and | then as wealth rolled in upon him. he | would buy houses and lands, perhaps he | might have lager beer saloon of his ! own, and thon--and then his fiddle wife . should year gamels hair shawls, unt di- mint rings, unt zilk trcsses init all sorts . of poOdy dings. Miss Kause was delight ! od, love and lager bbeer, romance Linn burger what could the heart of woman wish for more, and she imparted to the store of guilders in the bank; as lie was quito ready to marry her, she drew 1t | out and gave 1t to her lover to buy tho | little cigar store, which was to be their future home. The rest of the story is soon told; that night the miserable wretch skedaddlcd off West with a pock- ct full of money and new suit Of clothes, to deceive some other un9uspcct- . ing frauline, or perhaps to enjoy his ct- gar store ill the arms Of another; but the Gods are just, and let us hope this Saga- bond will get his deserts. Let us hope that he will set fire to his shop to get the insurance, and that he will bn detected In the act, and sent to states prison for hundred and ninety-nine years; mean while Miss Kause mourns like Rachel, for her lost guilders, and refuses to be comforted because they are not"
 Tine week just past has been eventful if not startling. The storm of Sunday night has strewn the shore with wrecks, and almost left our favorite summer re- sort, Coney Island. ill ruins.
 An organized gang of forgers, of the most dangerous class, has been broken up, and general overhauling is taking place in all our elemosynary institutions. | There is no mistake iu supposing that | many of them will be better for a little 1 daylight On Randall's Island one luna tic pounds another to death, and the | Having alive of couple of idiot boys is not considered of enough moment to | call for medical comment. I don't know that pauper is of much use any way, but somehow I feel a sort of prejudice | against having them boiled or baked. | They served them up both ways at thls institution, but as yet I have seen no report of a committee as to whi ch way is considered the best. I think I | should prefer them baked.
 The weather is trying, the streets are -ernbie good language is seldom heard, and profanity Is largely on the. increase business is fair, stocks firm, and the la dies are now inquiring about the spring fashions.
 A reaction is taking place for the Rev. Mr. Crowley, of the Shepherds Fold, whose case has occupied 90 much of the public attention for the past two weeks Crowley is not q saint, far from it. he is nearer, perhaps, that other fellow who |