The Warrington Examiner. — 1869-06-26 (Warrington, Cheshire, England)

PROMISE CASE.  DAMAGES AWARDED, £20,000. The Chicago Republican reports a breach of promin case which occupied six days in trial. The plaintin was Miss Craig, and the defendant a Mr. Sprague" A long time was spent in reading the correspondence between the parties. That of the defendant was rich, rare, and racy. The following effusion from the defendant, in response to a bit of poetry Miss Craig had sent him, shows that the divine afflatus must haYe pervaded him also :  Love's Demand Keep thine Hart Pure Beneath than eyes that Look so Peel' and Love so well Though I stand close when thine angle fli,e6 my Life Lies under a Baleful spell iff all the Bliss of Baru: Below and all the Bliss of heaven Above could woo the from wrong and wo Be true to love Be true to love oh Give " Love no bitter word oh give to Love no selfish thought nor the hartless smile Like what is stired wen the world is answered naught for naught. oh Give to love no artful shock however innocent it sew"' Lett truth and Perfect truth the while Prove thee as noble 0.5 I deem though all thy Grace and Beauty fail oh could the,: ever fail for me an the very stars of heaven grow pale Laet,b me Lose never my faith in thee Loves Lass as Less than trut" I mind thy Sun may Light another sphere flitting in darkne's Lone and Blind, I shall feel safe thine honor clear.  E. C. Seßmair,  It is said that Sprague was a tolerably handsome fellow a few years ago, and when he won the heurl of Miss Amanda he dressed well, dyed his hair ae' whiskers, and wore a brilliant set of teeth. But whey he ceased to sue Amanda, and she commenced to seep him, he took himself to pieces. At the suggestion el his counsel, previous to his appearance as defenclue' he grubbed out his front hair, laid aside his teeth, Nvore shabby clothes, and encouraged a more generous colour in his nose. He sowed pimples, and devoted himself to the cultivation of " arisplace." He bestowed hi,s attention on side issues, encouraged blindness in hl5 eyes, and endeavoured to manufacture out of his former self an object which, in the eyes of a juror, could never have inspired a spark of passion in the bosom of e. schoolmistress. The little locket, however, which 3ho seems to have kept night and day next to her heart, was freely exhibited in the courtroom, and the contrast between the counterfeit presentment of the gallant of former days and the withered-looking individual wile had been present in the flesh, was as striking as that pointed out by Hamlet between Hamlet's father and Hamlet's father's brother. Perhaps this may help to explain the mystery of how he "wooed and won."  The jury rendered a verdict for the plaintiff, awarding her the sum of d 015.100,000. the amount claimed by her for damages. The counsel for Sprague will apply for a new trial.  Oil flowing wells seem to be at an end in America, and mineral oil now is only to be had by pumping. It is understood that Mr. Tite, M.P. far Bath, Will shortly receive the honour of knighthood.  Mr. George Peabody has arrived in New York ill good health.  Maxime Plotitsyne, chief of the Skoptsii Russian religious sect of which so much has bell heard of late, has been condemned with his fellov; culprits, by the court of Tamboff, to lose all his civil rights, and to be deported for life to the TranscaucasuB'  The Cork Poor-law Board has refused to adopt 15 motion of Mr. Sullivan, the late mayor, to petition the House of Lords in favour of the Irish Church Bill, the ground that the board was instituted for poor-la" Purposes and not for politics.  Miss Hobson the daughter of a farmer at gel!' nithorpe, North Yorkshire, is supposed to ba:o committed suicide by throwing herself in the rivce. Derwent, as her hat, prayer-book, and a note to her father were found by the river side. Some houses on the south side of Ludgate-10' London, are doomed to demolition, one of thel belonging to a tailor in a tolerably large waY business. The unhappy tradesman has posted in P shop window the following pathetic announcement:::; "Disestablished this week. Poor tailor. No regaP,.; for vested interests. No appeal to the House of Lords' 1