Year: 1870




COwhdes and Physic.


The Nashville Banner of the 14th instant
breaks out all over in head lines with the fol-
lowing:-


DIR. 1ightfall called at the Banner Office yes
terday and stated to one of the editors that
about o'clock last Wednesday he was engaged
with patient in his office at the City HOTEL
Murfreesboro when word was brought him that
q lady was waiting outside who was exceedingly
anxious to see him. He intimated that the call
could not be attended to just then, but that he
would be out as soon as he had gotten through
with the matter then in hand. He had hardly
finished speaking before woman whom he at
once recognized as Mrs. Emma Hines Foster
rushed into the Office and cried, You are the
scouDdrel who has separated me from my hus-
band" and commenced lashing him with cow
hide. The Doctor did not know how to act
under the embarrassing circumstances. He could
not strike woman even in self-detense, and yet
the vigorous assault made upon him was more
than no could bear, SO he fastened from the
Office along the hall into the dining-room, where
the boarders were then taking supper. He was
followed by Mrs. Foster who appealed to and
secured the sympathies OF those present by
stating that the Doctor was vile wretch who
had come between her and her husband. She
seized him by the hair and made another assault
upon him-he, at the time, striving only to
protect himself, and making no effort to injure
her. Finally a constable came in and arrested
Mrs. Foster. While the case was being
investigated before Squire Clark, and the
doctor was off his guard, Mrs. Foster suddenly
turned upon him and struck him under the left
eye with-as was subsequently stated to the
doctor--brass knuckles The blow caused q
severe swelling, and resulted in an aggravated
case of what is known as q "black eye." DIR.
Lighthill complains that his assailant was fined
only three dollars, and that the feeling in the
crowd appeared to be entirely in her favor,
while he had committed no offense whatever,
either against her or anybody else, and
was acting only on the defensive = ne tnrt6er te
Mrs. Foster claimed as her husband, and whom
she captured and carried away from Murfrees-
boro, is a worthless, unprinciped fellow.
from his service; that he refused to
have anything to do with Foster after
he had made the notorious marriage here about
this time last year, but that he came across
Foster in New Orleans last September, utterly
destitHte, and was persuaded to re-engage him;
that Foster was TO remain in New Orleans while
the doctor paid visit to Louisville, but that
Foster instead of so doing so, came back to
Nashville and went to keeping bar for his wife
at the Hallway House; that he again met Foster
about February in New York without cent
and hardly a rag to his back; that Foster told
m that he and his Nashville woman had agreed
III on divorce; that he would be reformed
man for the future, and that he had already re-
turned to Louise, the mother of the two chill
dren, who was living in Brooklyn; that
he therefore took Foster for a last trial
but found out after they had reached
ponding with both women; that wher
they recently got to Atlanta, Foster was arrested
for an advertising debt to the Constitution news
paper, and would have been sent to Jail il tht
doctor had not secured his release; that Foste
is q consummate scoundrel, has been systemati
cally decelving his benefactor all the time, ha
stuck to Mrs. Foster only to get a support iron
her, while his affections are really with Louise
and actually connved with the former to max
the assault of Friday evening upon the man VIII
had employed, fed, and clothed him, and ha
shown him every possible kindness. The docto
does not so much wonder at Mrs. Fosters bell
gerent demonstrations as that she could hav
been SO long and SO completely fooled by such
graceless vialin.