Rensselaer Union, Volume 7, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 February 1875 — A Lost Child. [ARTICLE]

A Lost Child.

A ball was given at Camptonville, Yuba County, Cal., on New Year’s Eve, which was attended by a certain lady who resides some distance from that place. She had a baby that could not be left at home. Arriving at Camptonville early in the evening with her baby, she put up at the Globe Hotel, kept by one Jones. She told Jones she was desirous of attending the ball if she could find some would take care of her baby. Jones, being an accommodating fellow, proposed that he would “father” lhe “young ’tin” ad interim. The lady accepted the offer with joy, and, putting the babe to sleep, laid it down gently on Jones’ bed, and then went to the ball. Up to midnight Jones made frequent visits to the room to attend to the wants of his precious charge. From that hour the babe, so far as Jones or its mother was concerned, was left alone, for Jones fell a victim to sleep. It happened, however, that a fetagedriver was asleep in a room nearly opposite to the one occupied by the babe. About one o’clock a. in., says' the North San Juan Times, lhe babe began to cry fearfully, and to appease it the stagedriver took it to his own bed and kept it quiet the remainder of the night. He was up and off by day-break, before the mother had returned from the ball, and before anyone was stirring in the house, leaving the babe fast asleep in his .own bed. An hour later the ball broke up, and the mother returned to the hotel. She went straight to Jones’ room to see her babe. Lo and behold! it wasn't there, neither was Jones. Soon the whole house was in an uproar and search was made for the missing babe; but all in vain. In the meantime the whole town was startled by the information that a child had been stolen and carried away. Finally it was remembered that the stage-driver had slept in the house that night and that possibly he might knowjsomething about the missing child He waslelegraphed to on the subject at. Downieville and in the course of a fewminutes a reply was received from him, which read as follows: “Frank Ramppin —You will find the child in my bed at the hotel." On the reception of this telegram the mother rushed up frantically to the stage-driver’s room and found her precious babe lying in his bed, fast asleep.

Acting under the advice of a spiritual medium Eugenia H. Turner, of A irginia City, Nev'., recently attempted to obtain a divorce from her husband, George. E. rurner, for no other reason than that the spirit deaired it. The case was promptly thrown out of court Reticence may not be considered sound sense bat it is good sense. .