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Manawatu Times, Volume II, Issue 78, 18 July 1877, Page 3

An. affecting story comes from Oakland. A wealtliyimiddle-aged-Englißhv man had become somewtat jealous his pretty wife." A young New Yorker, with.; engaging manners and a cutaway coat, wasathe object of his disquietude. The disturbed Benedick concluded to try^^ threadbare trick of going up .to Sacramento ior a. week. Thfe second ■day, howeVer, he returned and let himself^ quietly into the house. In the library/were' several, coats of mail brought over from. England, and m. bn6 of these he hid. -;Then t he awaited^ devolpemerits. To his great : astonishment, 9 o'cloelj : passed: without anyone calling or his wife cpmiiTg. down stairsj." At about 1 a.ni. he f ellaste^p fatigue, ( and begansnoring. ' The butler thoughthe- heard burglars^aboirt, (sorhe: came downstairs m his nightgown with a double barrelled, gun under Jiis arm: The jealbus gentleman had just began to «iream that he was i an i iron-clad> when a handful of quail-shot tool? him m the

breast-plate, and, amid his terrific shrieks, the butler promptly put the other load into the pier glass, under the impression that another burglar was drawing a bead on him. After the whole neighborhood had been aroused, the mistake was discovered. Amid the snickers of the entire assembly the chagrined man crawled upstairs to his bedroom. A small note was sticking m the pincushion. His wife had eloped the morning before .—" San Francisco Mail."