Year: 1872

pOSIt4'cly awful. mere IS no az
jective indeed, superlatively de.
scripti7e enough to set forth the
situation. Of sun strokes there
have 100 day. The rays seem
to come straight down like barbed
arrows. The air is hot and dry,
and the marble walls between
which we have to walk only serve
to collect and refract the intensi-
fed temperature. The rage for
business is gone, and men are con-
tent to sit in their shirt sleeves
and pant and fan. Lager bier,
ginger pop and soda water have
become the beverages Of the hour,
and you cannot find a place in the
city where these refreshments are
sold that is not thronged. Cars
and steamers are carrying every
body out Of town who can get
away, and the Stay-at-home clubs
resort for a change to the parks
and excursions on ferry boats.
The churches consequently make
poor Sunday show. The fash
ionable preachers are engaged in
fishing for souls at the seaside,
and their focks are going to coun-
try churches in Paris made clothes,
as a compromise with their con-
sciences.


Life here is full of sad incidents.
I heard one related the other day.
A young girl returning from Eu-
rope, two or three years ago, met
among her compagnons du voyage,
a handsome fellow of thirty, was
fascinated, and in spite of the pre-
testations of her family, married
him. She was worth eighty or a
hundred thousand dollars in her
own name, and a portion of the
property consisted Of bonds, jew
elrT and plate. In a few months
the husband obtained possession
of a greater part Of it. He then
compelled her to live in cheap
boarding houses, and to receive
the attentions of men Of his own
ilk, and subjected her to the most
petty cruelties. Eventually she
became a mother. His persecu-
tions now commenced in earnest.
He seemed to hate her. He treat.
ed her like brute, beat and cursed
her during illness, refused the or.
dinary comforts of life, and finally
believing that he had secured the
last dollar she owned, abandoned
her.


One day a lady called to see the
poor woman, and in the converse.
tion that followed, it turned out
that the visitor had likewise been
married, robbed and abandoned in
the same manner by the same vii
lain. The revelation so affect
| ed the mind of the young
mother that she became almost 8
maniac. Her family then for the
first t. le learned Of the cruelty
which she had endured. The
carried her to Europe again for {
change of scene and air, and she
remained for several months. She
returned with her child not long
ago. When about to land from
the steamer, she was accosted by
a gentleman who said he was {
friend of her brother, and hac
been sent by him to escort her II
his carriage to his house. Taking
the arm Of the stranger the lady
accompanied him to the vehicle
but there to her amazement anc
CONSERVATION sat her husband
She OWNED his purpose in an in
stant. It was to steal the little
! girl. Faint with fear, she turned
10 escape. The fend sprang from
the carriage and was about to lay
his hand on her when a well-di
rected blow knocked him down
and the lady IN a moment after
wards was folded in the embrace
of her brother.


1t appears that the villain hac
intercepted dispatches and letter.
between his wife and her family
and arranged under her brother
name to meet her on the arriva
of the steamer, and but for a happy
accident that carried her brothe.
to the dock, she and her little on
would probably have been ab
Quoted by the Infamous husband


The fellow was allowed to es
cape, because he had committed
! no overt act, but measures wer'
taken at once to secure a divorce
and the poor woman has finally
been freed from his prosecutions
It has since transpired that tn
villain has three or four wives
from all Of whom he obtaine'
money, in the same manner, AM
then decerted them. He has beel
traced to Europe, and it is believe'
will be caught and proved to b
one of the most adroit hiramist