THE FLIRTATIONS OF A MARRIED MAN AND ITS CONSEQUENCES.

Evening Post, Volume IV, Issue 132, 17 July 1868, Page 3

THE FLIRTATIONS OF A MARRIED MAN AND ITS CONSEQUENCES.

At the Sheffield Police Court, lately, a somewjiat .^'interesting" , case came before the magistrates. Charles Cornelius Barton, the manoger of a printing office in , that town, summoned, a man iiamed"Matthew Walker, coachman to, Mr. HenryVickers, Holnawood" ; Lodge, for having committed what he called a \" eow.ardly, unprovoked, and diabolical assault" on him. The assault consisted in his being struck across the head by the defendant with a walking stick. The assault wag not denied, but a plea of provocation was set tip, and the plea was 'this : — The complainant, though a married man, had been paying his "addresses" to the- defendant's daughter ; the fact, however, of his being married , had; been carefully concealed, , and he liad ¦ visited her parents' house in the /capacity' of a suitor. When it was kiiow'n"thia!b' he was married he was forbidden the house, and was requested not to see the daughter" again. On the night before the assault was coinmitited I 'life >had been in company with the daughter at a t circus, and thisso enraged the' father that he waited for his, coming homejon Sunday night, and then gave htm a tap on. the head which had the effect of almost covering him ' ¦witli'^bloocV and " Spoiling • hisi -Sunday suit of black." The complainant denied that he was keeping company with the young -woman,; she being under the belief that he was single. He said she knew he was married, aiid he denied that the attentions he had paid her could He "construed into the ' intentions ° of a lov,ei% The. following fetter which* * he' had' written ~to the young woman was '< read, i An, -order that the magistrates might judge as to what was the ''nal;ui'e'-'of the' complainant's attentions. The letter ended iv .these words, " Accept my warmest love and a few thousand of kisses, and believe me tS ' r*emain,-— Yours very affectionately, Charles." — He stated, in answer, to, the bench, that he was living with his wife, and that they lived very happily together. One of the magistrates told him that was not likely after she became aware of his flirtations, and that he must have an abundance of love if he could live with his wife and yet spare " a few thousand kisses" for a young woman. The defendant, in reply to this, said the magistrates knew what the world was. He had lived in the great fhetropolis; and had ' Seen a great deal. One ; of the magistrates suggested that he had seen too much. Thesfdmmbns ''was. 'suspended,, on- the defendant promising not' to repeat the the assault. — English paper.

A Droll Affair- at Church.— ln a elmrcli in the diocese of Llanclaff, a few Sundays ago, after the clergyman had given* out the liynin, there was some delay- and in the church; finally some one walked iip to the minister andiuforrned'hini that they could not sing that day.- It appeared that they had a' turn-about' organ, possessing two ! barrels — one was 1 used at church .on Sundays for psalms, and the other on' weekdays for dancing. It had been forgotten to change barrels, and the one for 'quadrilles had been brought in by mistake ;¦ hence the confusion. — Jfacßiccd Standard, An Excuse. — A widow out Wesfc married a man to whom she refused her daughter, because, she said, her first husband was an ugly " critter/ and she had learned how to manage such cattle.