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Westport Times, Volume IV, Issue 696, 11 August 1870, Page 3

Lady Jane Frankltn. A San Francisco correspondent, April 16, says: —"By the last Panama boat there arrived a lady whose life is the centre of a century's tragedy —a lady whose constancy and devotion will be the theme of future homes, and far eclipse the fame of fabled Penelope. A cruel rumor, started some months ago by a city paper, that a waif had drifted ashore near San Diego containing some memento of the Arctic heroes, reached her at Eio Janeiro, and so she hastened to San Francisco; distance, fatigue, age, all forgotten in the wild hope that the sea may have revealed one of its sorrowful secrets. Poor lady, eighty years old, twenty years still clinging with a heartsick longing to the idea that earth or ocean will yet tell the mysteries of the past." An Illinois reporter, in describing a gale of wind, says : —" A white dog, while attempting to weather the gale, was caught with his mouth open, and turned completely inside out." A man and his wife, residing in Keokuk county, lowa, were returning, one day last week, from the funeral of the last of their three children, who had died of scarlet fever, a thunderstorm came up, and just as they were entering the gate of their desolated house the lightning struck their carriage. The man was instantly killed and his wife is now a raving maniac. A sensible physician says that be cause a man is given to liquor, it is no reason why liquor should be given to the man. A servant in Michigan, who stole 50d01., was not held for trial because she was " subject to fits when under excitement." Fits of abstraction ?