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Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2123, 23 October 1875, Page 2

Miss Katie Graves, the daughter of Colonel Graves, staff-officer of pensioners at Cork, has had the good fortune to meet with a sympathetic jury. She sued a young -gentleman, named Jonas Oliver Morris, for breach of promise of marriage, estimating her damages at the modest- figure of £10,000. Mr Morris, who has only just attainedl^majority, in is possession j»£«sakiin?o"mV} of £3,000 a year, wis&stiir better prospers, on the death of his grandfather. After a short acquaintance with Miss Katie, he proposed to her and was accepted, though for three years she had been engaged to the son of Sir John Arnott, the wellknown brewer of Cork. After visiting his step-father, Colonel Grant, iv Scotland, Mr Morris wrote to his jinancee breaking oil'the match, whence this action. 'I he. letters read in Court we^e widely different in their nature, thase--of the gentleman breathing warm affection, whilst the lady's are described as having been "chiefly of a matter-of-fact character, speaking much of horses and of sporting." For being served by Mr Morris in the same way that she served Mr Arnott, Miss Graves was awarded.£dOOO damages by the jury. Mb Mac-beady, in the lately published reminiscences, says :—" Lord Gwydir recommended mc a defence against cold, to which, through my long life, I have been constantly indebted, and by which, under east winds or in cold weather, I never fail, even bow, to protect myself. This is simply two or three sheets of paper across the chest, buttoned under the waistcoast, forming a cuirass impenetrable by Boreas Eurus,*or any of the malignant gales that drive cough, and too often consumption, into the lungs of the unwary. This simple breastplate will, on pc coldest day, without extra upper clotmog, diffuse under exercise warmth^ through, . the wholeframe, and hag proved tenje cue of the most valuable receipts.".-.