Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 3, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 September 1859 — Not a SicKles. [ARTICLE]

Not a SicKles.

Dr. -a relative of Chief Justita *Taney, recently eloped with tlia wife df a Baptist deacon, from the village where they both resided, in Knox county, Ohio. They ware respectable people and worthy mem-, bers of society —‘both held high pbsitiohs in the same church. She left three little children, one a sweet babe of ten months old; he left four or five. The day before they eloped he took his wife, a gentle, blue ejyed, b'eautiful woman, and her b. be, on a visit to WifflW’B, ahd told 11M riot to CbtH’d back tilt 'the iiexl eVeHihjg; that hb Would take good care of the other children in her absence. When she came home he had been gone over fourteen hours, and the lonely little ones were all crying. When the dreadful intelligence came, she fell to the floor ■nd lay moaning and weeping in intensest agony, refusing to be comforted. It was the next night before a word of consolation which she would listen fell into her ear and heart. The bereft husband (compare him with the loving roue, Sickles) who idolized his wife,) pursued and overtook them in Monroe, Richland county, 0., where he found the erring w : fe prostrated with illness. T<e mercy of the humble Christian predominated in his heart. Without a word of cruel upbraiding, he staid arid nursed her back to life, then be talked with the Doctor and her, and reasoned with them, and promised to forgive all. and smooth the matter over, and hide the facts f-om the world. But with a sorrow too ■ deep for utterance did he learn that her heart was no longer his, that she loved another better than her own sweet babe and her kind husband. He took her hand in his and forgave her all—certified in writing that he gave hetj up on condition that she would ■marry the object of her choice as soon as possible, and he would never molest them. lie gave her $l6O and good advice, and wished the blessings of God to rest upon her, and then, bowing under his burden of grief, he returned to his poor motherless children, and desolate hearth.— Cleveland Herald. A Singular Sort of Appetite.—The Superintendent of the West Philadelphia Railroad exhibited to us the other day a horse whose hoofs the rats had gnawed until their teeth reached the quick. When lying down the rats had also gnawed the warts upon the inside of the horse’s legs. The rats are io savage in those parts that every morning some of the horses are taken out with feet bleeding from wounds inflicted by the ■nocturnal prowlers.— Phil. North American. (KrA correspondent of the New York •Express, who recently paid a visit to the Bank of England, says: “There was one iitem which I learned from the bank, decidedly g atifyif.g to my national pride. Not a single piece of American paper which laid over d"ring the lue panic now' remains unpaid. Tijis, says Mr. Elsey, the Governor, cannot brlsaid of any other nation on the earth.” i ’