The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1888-07-28

this kind of treatment and It's efficacy DR..
Walbrdge appears to haye understood
perfectly. His face was not a pleasant
one to look as he lay on stretcher, giving
his testimony in court. DR.. Walbridge is.
not what one would call an Unlocking man,
his features are passingly regular, 1t is
face that might possibly deceive woman,
but which a man of any perception would
distrust. II is essentially wicked face,
every expression of which denotes a man
capable of any meanness or any crime; all
the lines in it are cold, cruel and harsh,
and the calm, cool manner in which he
testified on his own behalf in direct op-
position to the sworn testimony of his wife
and child, reveals character to be
wondered at, but which could not be
duplicated in the criminal records. He
seems to have delighted in calling his wife
fiend, wretch, devil, and like terms of en-
dearment, and on several occasions to have
knocked her down. He had a fayorite
housekeeper who appeared 10 have usurped
his wife's place, and on certain occasion
| when this delightful person spat upon her,
the Doctor gave his wife 20 understand that
the housekeeper was much better person
than she was, and IL one of them had to
90 it would not and should not be the
housekeeper. 1t was pitiful sight when
the little girl, their daughter, was put upon
the stand to corroborate her mothers evil
dence. Judge A. W. Tenney, who was
prosecuting the case, with a fatherly feel
| ing that did him honor, offered to let the
child be examined in private by his Honor,
the presiding judge-but this did not suit
DIR. Walbridge or the defendants lawyer !;
for with brutality in perfect keeping with
the mans whole life, he insisted that the
child should be examined in open court.
Never was there more dramatic scene
anywhere the father stretched out on his
reclining couch; the judge leaning eagerly
| forward to catch every word uttered by the
child, her voice clear as a silver bell as she
told the story OF her poor mothers wretched
| life. The child testified that in all her life
she had reyer heard her father speak one
kind word to her mother, and in the same
time she had never heard her mother speak
one unkind word to her father. What a
shocking revelation. There is no doubt of
the trial, and that wife will win her case.
They were all ill-assorted and should never
have come together. As it is, both their
lives are wrecked, ard so ends another
chapter of domestic misery
| There was stunning wedding in Louis
| vile, about year ago, between wealthy
| gentleman named Ovington, of the city of
Brooklyn, and one of Louisville's fairest
daughters, Miss George Maze, The ro-
nance of the affair being that the groom
was lively young fellow of sixty, and the
bride only sweet eighteen in point of fact,
several years younger than his youngest
daughter by his first marriage. But the
wedding was gay affair and brought out
some of the very best people in Louisville.
Noticeable amoung t h e distinguished
throng was handsome gentleman, fault
lessly arrayed, who acted as groomsman for
Mr.. Ovington. Half the girls got crazy
over the distinguished groomsman, who
turned out to be Colonel Nicholas Smith,
who married Ida, the eldest daughter of
Horace Grsely. The wedding was over and
| the groom had returned from his bridal
tour, when, to his amazement, he received
a note from Colonel Smith, requesting to
reimbursed for his outlay in attending Mr..
OYington's wedding at Louisville, and
among the items in the bill were suit OF
clothes, car fare-sleeper, supper, break
fast, hotel bill and incidental expenses
amounting altogether to $3.50. If Mr.. Ov-
ington had been struck by lightning OF
John L. Sullivan, or kicked by mule, he
could not haye been more surprised. Bat
he Immediately enclosed his check for 500,
with note, which placed large flea in
the gallant Colonels ear. But the Colonel
countered back on Mr.. Ovington, intimat-
ing that Ovington was merely crockery
merchant, and therefore being IN trade,
was not fit company for real blue-blooded
gentleman from Kentucky like himself, SC
he consigned him to the companionship OF
his washbowls and pitchers, and conse-
quently to everlasting obscuritY as far as
J Colonel Smith was concerned, and finally
he made him present of the $50 which he
did not get, but he was not so hurried away
by his anger that he sent back the check
for the 500. At the time it was intimated
that the gentleman from Kentucky was Q
professional dead-beat, and later develop
ments have emphasized that fact. He ar
away from the Astor House, owing bill
and took quarters with his children and {
nurse at the Hotel Hamilton. He ran III
bill of several hundred dollars there, anC
was just preparing to skip when the mir
: midous of the law pounced down on hin
and landed him in dungeon cell; for be i
known that you can beat the butcher, tn
baker and the candlesticks maker, including
the bootmaker and the tailor, but you mus
not attempt to defraud the innkeeper, TO
that is States Prison offence in New York
as Colonel Smith is likely to find to his sor
row. For gentleman all the way iron
Kentucky, sab, who, for number of year
i has been one of bowling swells of the met
rop0lis, this is sad winding-up. Poor Id
l Greely, her fathers fayorite-bright, prou,
1 and talented, died broken-hearted whel
she discovered the terrible mistake she ha
made, for she found the worthless scam
y out long before his shortcomings wer
known to the outside world. New York
full of just such fellows. They toll not
neither do they spin, yet Solomon in a.
j his glory was not arrayed like unto them
He may escape States Prison, but NeV
York will cheerfully give him his congo
and perhaps in the retirement of his col
Kentucky Home," if he has any, he ma
y moralize on the ups and downs of life 4
II New York.
i One of the principal and most prosperou