AMERICAN JOURNALISM.

Dunstan Times, Issue 1185, 14 November 1884, Page 3

AMERICAN JOURNALISM.

/After all, we osnnokconc norths papers 01. America in the graphic pictnras they givsoMife. In that free and ample country character expanda without restraint, and its qualities and humour* attain a fulnessof development they never seem io reachdiewhere. And the papers .share in these ad vantages, and hence .degiVe their extreme readability. Here, for instance, is a report in a New York paper of police court case between two ladies, in wbicb Mra Mayo, the proprietrees of a hotel,' was brought up by lira Ediths L. Oia Debar, one of her gOest*. aa a lunatic. Mrs Mayo “was dressed in a neat, closely-fitting suit of b'ne cloth, and wore a black silk skirt, heavily trimmed with velvet and jet, and a silk jersey.” She tras V a large woman, weighing over 2001b.” The complainant’* grounds for imputing lunacy to the defendant «ere that she had tried’to.. “grab ber, by the throat,” and “depleted the boose of its. inmates by her dictions,” ■ -The defend-, ant being asked what she had to say, replied that ahe l>ad taken Mrs Die Debar in her house ont bf charity. She proceeded : “ She came to roe and said that sbe.conld not live yith-herhushand, and I tbised with her. She had no shoes wh -n she came to me. Why, Judge, if her limbs were exposed now my stocking* woo'd be found on them.” Something that transpired in evidence induced the Jndgeto a-k Mrs Debar if she wars spiritualist.. She replied.;. “ 1 have invested spiritual phenomena and I believe in spiritual msnifeetalioas and demonstrations.” The Judge rejoined that that wontd do. He was hot prepared to receive the evidence of spiritualists in his Court, and dismissed the case.' The reporter, however, was detei mined not to dispose of the matter so lightly, and subsequently visited Mrs Dia'D bar in . her apartments, where a number of oil-paintings (one of the Crucifixion) were displayed on easels, and the table was littered with manuscripts*nd legal documents. As Mrs Dis Debar seated herself at the.table the chair gave way beneath her weight, and she almost Tell to'the flxir. “Spiritual manifestations, 1 sup pose,” she said, smiling at the reporter. She. exhibited to the reporter a transcript from the records of the Board of Health of her marriage, in which her mother was recorded as-Lola Montez, and her f ther as King Lndwig 1,, of Bavaria. The next paragraph is beaded, “ A Dog Separates Man and Wife” ; but we must stop.— A ustralatian. ■