BREACH OF PROMISE. A Lively Suit Begun in Now York.

Te Aroha News, Volume V, Issue 243, 25 February 1888, Page 3

BREACH OF PROMISE. A Lively Suit Begun in Now York.

New York, January S.-— A breacb.-of-promise suit brought by Miss Clara Campbell, of Trenton, 0., for §100,000 damages against Charles Arbuckle, a wealthy coffee merchant of this city, has been filed in the Supreme Court room. This morning the number who applied for admission was sj> great as to make necessary a detail of policemen in the corridors. The prominence of the parties , as well as the spicydevelopments of the trial caused widespread interest. The plaintiff is the daughter of John Campbell, until his failure in 1885 one of the largest iron manufacturers of Southern Ohio. The defendant formerly lived at Pittsburg. Miss Campbell spent several years in Italy studying for the operatic stage, and returned to this country in 1879 and madeArbuckle's acquaintance. She claims he courted her and she accepted, bub thafc when her father failed. Arbuckle's affection .cooled and he finally refused to keep the engagement. • , , Arbuckle, on tho other hand, declares the plaintiff proposed to him and -he neither said yes nor no. He declared the plaintiff was not the sort ofwoman he would'care to marry j that she travelled about too much alone and was too independent. He, however, disclaimed any intention of reflecting' upon her character. Much amusement was occasioned by tho reading of a number of letters which passed between the two during tho alleged engagement. In them the gray-haired defendant was addressed as "Baby Bunting/ 1 and the robust thirty-eight-year-old' spinster subscribed herself " Bunny." Others were signed "H's and X's," and itill others " X.M.0." which Miss Campbell explained meant "Hugs and Kisses " and " Kiss Me Quick." Her letters urged speedy marriage, and his were principally evasions'. • Miss Campbell when examined said Mr Arbuckle proposed in this way : "I want a home. I have no home. Will you help me make a home ?" She said she consented by saying: "I will accept that home." She gave him to> understand that her father was in prosperous circumstances, " and he was, too," she added. Mr Arbuckle objected to her bathing alone while she was in Boston, she said* but she continued to bathe. He made the. request with a laugh and a kiss. She said he also objected to her travelling alone. She said she did not go to a strange town when she wenfe to Northampton, and to a Btrai>ge,boftrding-houBe to study literature with, a strange; Tr She hfcd given up the idea of taking to the operatic 'stage because her voice was, too.heavj.

" I don't see why women should nofc make as good swimmers' as men," said & wife to her husband. "But, you §cc» ay swimmer has to keep his mouth shut," said her spouse. ' Among the Zulus young people fight and get married. Hero they get married and fight.