Year: 1869

school-house went from home for visit TO a
neighbor in the country, leaving her daughter,
sixteen years of age, with two or three smaller
children in possession of the house. That night
a burglarentered the house and rHmmaged about
generally. The young lady heard him, but lay
trembling and quiet. At last the scoundrel en-
tered her bedroom. She pretended to be asleep,
living with her face to the wall Mr. Burglar
went up to the bedside, bent over her, placed
his hand upon her cheek, deliberately turned
her face upwards, and took good look at it by
the aid of his dark lantern. The young girl
never moved o muscle, and the burglar let the
face carefully back to its resting-place on the
pillow, and left the room and the house. The
young lady caught glimpse of his face through
her eyelids as he looked at her. He wore mask,
and that was all she could tell about his appear
ance. Nothing was missed from the house the
next morning. The experience of the young
lady is one which few of her SEX or of the
sterner sex either, for that matter would like to
encounter. Davenport Gazette.


Kidnapping Children In Ireland.


The Cork Examiner of Sept. 9 says:-Those
strange stories of kidnapping hitherto confined
to the region of the nursery, but to which recent
occurrences have given graver import and
wider circulation, have received q striking and
well-authentcated corroboration in an event
that has Just happened in the district of Caher-
civeen. On Wednesday night farmer named
John Mccarthy, residing at place called Inn
Ferry, eight miles from Cahercveen, retired to
rest at his usual hour, his bed occupying one end
of the sleeping apartment and that of three OF
his children-aged respectively five, four, and
three years-being placed at the other, and inn
mediately beneath a little window opening on
pivots. At an advanced hour of the night
Mccarthy was aroused from sleep by the scream
ing of the child of four, and, inquiring what
was the matter was told by the little fellow
that man was trying to take him away The
father having removed the child to his own
bed tried to persuade him that he had
only dreamed, when the eldest boy, from the op-
posite bed said, ''Oh, no, father, somebody was
trying to take Shawneen away" Almost imme-
diatey after the father was again on his feet,
this time in real terror, in response to pierre
ing shrek from the eldest boy, whom, on look
ing towards the chlldren's bed, he plainly saw
lifted up bodily to the level of the bottom of the
window by hand thrust in from without. To
rush towards the window was the work of an
instant, when the child was at once dropped
between the bed and the wall, and Mccarthy,
looking through the window, perceived three
men beating hasty retreat. His first impulse
was to give them chase, but he was restrained
by his wife, who pointed out to him the folly of
such a proceeding on the part of a SINGLE half
dressed, and unarmed man. Shortly after,
accompanied by some of his neighbors, whom
he reused up, he made thorough search of the
neighborhood, but with no result beyond the
discovery of some shoe-prnts leading from the
house along the sandy beach in the vicinity.
The marks were of shoes different from those
worn by the peasantry, being of lighter kind,
and without nails.