A GERMAN ABDUCTION CASE.

Waikato Times, Volume III, Issue 123, 18 February 1873, Page 2

A GERMAN ABDUCTION CASE.

An extraordinary abdnefcion case is reported from Fiankfort, an 1 has caused great excitement in that city. The facts are these, a3 given, m the Got man papers: — *'A young lady, Frauleiii Ziegler, sister of the secretary to the British Consul hore, lives vith her mother near the Peter's Tlior. The fomily is one of hi-jh lespectabihty, and onus a stationer's shop in the Stein Weg, next door to the Union Hotels They are Roman Catholics, and the daughter is in fie habit of going daily to- early mass. The way to the Catholic Cburah from the Potei !3! 3 Thor is by theAnlage, that chain of gardens which, as our readers are aware, surrounds Frankfort ; and Fraulein Zippier has been accustomed, it appears, for some months past to take this way. On the morniug in question she left her mother's house, dressed in black, her veil down, and ncr prayer bookjin her ban I, and was proceeding along the Anl age when a young flower girl ran up to her, and asked her if she had, perchance, a little change in her pocket. Supposing that the girl wanted her to buy ono of her nosegays, Fraulein Ziegler said she would rather not just then .is she was going to church. " No, no," said the flower girl, "It is cliango I want, for thera is a lady in that carnage yonder who will buy all my floweis, but I can't gr c her change for her money." Franlein Ziegler Was standing on the outer pathway of the Anlage, which run parallel with the main toad, ftom which the Anlage is separated a low railing. On the opposite side of tbe road aie the houses and villas overlooking the Aulage and the city. Frau em Ziegler saw in fact th.it a private carriage was standing in the road ; she remarked that it was an elegant one, and that a servant in livery wa» standing by the door, winch he held open. Not liking to give the flower girl the money yebun willing to disobligeshe stepped across the pathway and into the road to where the carnage stood. In it sat a lady,, or what seemed to be a lady, veiled ; she handed a floim to Fraulein Ziegler with her excuses for tioubhug, her, and the latter was in the act of returning her tbe change in small money, when she felt herself lifted into the carriage by two iion hands, and at the same time pushed from belaud by the seivaut, a scream, nnd a bouquet of flowers held under her nose, these are the last facts of which Fraulein Zieglor is conscious. Tho flowers must ha>o been saturated with chloroform, for the btiito of complete unconsciousness that ensued on their being held to hop face. This occurred at 9 o'clock in the morning ; and here ends the first act in the drama The sun is high in the heavens ; it must be afternoon when a market cart niado a sudden halt on the high road leading to Xaulienn Two men conduct tho cart. Ono of these tells the other to wait till he returns with somebody else. In the cart is what would seem to be a heap of straw, but under the straw is Frijjflem Ziegler, who has come to herself, and as consciousness dawn* upon her she hears in a kind of dreamlike w ay the w ords passed between the two men. She awakes fully to the recollection of what lias happened ; has, however, presence of mind not to scream. She finds that she is bound fast, but by one arm , only, to the side of the cart. She unties the cord with the other hand, and suddenly rising from the cart, she springs with ono bound over its side, and is in tho high road Tho driver who has seated himself at the side of the road is attracted by the noise and jumps up ; Fraulein Ziegler, however, does Tiot wait for him to come up to her, and though almost fainting from exhaustion and fright, she makes a desperate effort, gathering up her dress, and runs for her lilo across tho fields towards what she takes to be a viltago in tho distance. The driver pursues her, and would probably have caught her if it had not been for his Lois-es, which, hearing running, set oft" as fast they could go, and Fraulcm Ziegler wasthus saved from her pursuer, who turned back to catch his horses, stopping, however, to throw a couple of stones at her with the words — "We will have » jou yet, and then jou shall not escape." As much (lend an a person can be whose pulses still beat, Fraulcm Ziegler reached tho village, which proved to be Nauncun, nnd from there she was conveyed back to Frankfort under safe escort. Up to tho present time tho police have obtained no clue to any of the actors, neither to the flower girl, nor the sen ant in livcrj , nor the lndy in tho carriage., nor even the cart, m The e*eiit has caused quite a panic among the careful mothers residing in th^ vicinity of tho spot wheie tho occurrence happened. Two of these have already aont their daughters, away from Frankfort.

"We avo not responsible for the perfect accuracy of^H following statement, made by the London eorretpondeLi^H the Dttndee Advert Uir -.—". — " Since the new classification of tcV graph clerks was ihsucd, Mr Sclnulamore's young men niM women at the central telegraph oflioe have been seized witl? u perfect passion lor marriage. With tl.c nicieusc of raj which they have lecoited, and the amount of buck pa} to which many of them ha^e been declared entitltd, not n fort of both PCicslmvc fallen into little foi tuned ; and in spite of dear eonl, dear beef, and a general iim; iv om thing on which even newly married cotiplfs arc populaily supposed to exist, bat c rebohi'd to makp matL-ljcs ut it. Ihe iuo\cineiit is so ejtcDbiTC, aud thifatcr.s to cVprnc Telecrnph-itmt of so many excellent girl clctls, tl.at i) o ropular '..cud ci tho uej'aitr^e^t is st-ncualy alari_ou ay i*. "

A Cuttious Case of MLSMERiyM.— A very strange yet »utLentic»ted case is reported in the Indian Medical Oatelte, of December last, by the Civil Surgeon of lloshungftbad. A \ oung woman, named Xunnee, age<l tw ontyfour, was nianicd teu > ears ago; she, however, did not go to her husbuid's house for two years afterwards. After staying with him fur eight days, aho suddenly became insensible, and remained ?o foi two or threo days. she was taken back to her mother, and soon gut well. Then follows a very remaikable history Dunng the next _four or hve years she never enteted her husband's house '•without falling iuaensible, and i em lining so. lie was very kind and attentive to her ; sho liked him, but whenever he came into her piesence she at once sank into tint state. This went on till she became emaciated and exhausted, and at last her parents applied to Court for a sepaiate maintenance for her While sho was in Court the husband enteied, and she instantly became insensible, and was earned to luspitil, where the case was "carefully attended to by Dr. (Jullen. While in this state ' her pulse was even, breathing soft, her body pliant and relaxed ; she could eit nothing: Experiments weie carehilly mado to sec if there was no trick about it. While sic was in bed, her husband was muffled up, and made to walk througli the ward She baid she felt he was near her, and she wai bv no mean? well, but had not seen him anywhere about Next da> this experiment was repeated, and sho actually becamo insensible as before. When the husband left the place she recovered. The experiment as to the influence of the husband's preseueo was tried in all sorts of frayr Ho was made to pass behind her, nnd to be near her in a separate ward, but thi3 hid no effect ; but whenever he ■was brought to look on her face tl o igh muffled up, or disguised, as a policeman, as a sepoy, and so forth, sho was a1;a 1 ; once influenced. The experiments continued for about a month and the conclusion was that the husband uneonscouisly metmenrcd her. The Court came to the conclusion that it was impossible sho could livo with him, and a separate allowance was ordered. The husband was asked to try if he could not remove the effect, seeing that he had the power to ciuise it, but he was quite frightened at the idea ef having the pyower' and could notL oJlro o it in ai y way.— lndia Public Opinion.

TnE Passiox of Talk. — Every now and then a man who m.\} bo dull enough prevailingly has a passion of talk como over lii'ii whuh mikes him eloquent ami silences the rest I hnu> a irreat le-pcet for these divine paroxysms, thee halflnsniivl moments of influx, when they seized ono whom we had nof c Minted among the luminaries of our Bocial spliore. But the man win cwi give us fresh experience on anything that cm ni'i ret it overrules everybody else. A great peril escaped makes a great story teller of ft common person enough 1 remember w lien a certain vessel was wrcked long ago, that one of t ho survivors told the story as well as Defoe could have told it Never a word from him before, never one from him since But when it comes to talking one's common thoughts ; those Hint come and go us the breath does ; tliOso that tread the mental areas and corridors with steady, even footfall, an interminable procession of every hue and garb — theie arc few, indeed, that can dare to iif\, the curtain which hangs before the window m a bivn-it and throw open the v indow and let us look and listen. We who are loyal enoughjto our sovereigns are scarce. I never saw the absolute homage of listeners but once, that I remember, to man's common tnlk, and that was to the conversation of ai old man, illustrious by his lav ago and the exalted honours he had won, ■whose experience had lessons for the wisest, and whose eloquence had made the boldest tremble. — Oliver Wendell Holmes. The Melbourne auctioneer who is reported to have ma'ried a lady of indifferent repute to a clcrgv man's son, license or no license, was clearly the right man for the job. He had, at any rate, we presume, an auctioneer's license to sell, and if the lady wasn't sold it is more than probable that the gentleman w as. Who, indeed, so fit for such a business transaction as a mercenary marriage of any kind as a Knight of the Ilammcr, accustomed to di-pT*e of goods of all sorts, damaged or otherwise, to the highest bidder! A change in the marriage law permitting auctioneers to add to their other " lines" the latest thing in heiresses, of a fine consignment of beauty, slightly damaged, with or without pa.nt, would give :i decided fillip* to the- marringo market, just now, we believe, somewhat dull There would be sure to bo plenty of competition, at least for the first lot, nnd then the (ercinoiiy might be so simple "llio third and the hut time, gentlemen! Going, going rhw!" and it would be all over, without any Mekly sentiment, or blasphemous invoking of blessings over a barren unton of pockets. Young ladies who " give the hand whero the heart can never be" for cash on deliver} , or so much a jenr, might very well bi 1 disposed of in this way, and find it to their profit; while ladies who had already discounted their ehnrms might at least hope to negotiate them over again, if not past maturity. A maruage law of this kind, with a liberal Divorce Act, would seem to he all that is necessary to make agood many people happy, or otherwise. The following is related as true— ln a Victorian diggings township, where paper money wa* plentiful, a party of diggers had gone into a public-house to divide their week's earni"g». Among thorn was a yjung man of good family and manly bearing. The barmaid of the house was a handsorno good girl, who could not be tempted from the paths of virtue. While our diggers were talking nnd smoking at the bar counter, she particularly noticed the young man in question who proceeded to roll up a bit of paper and put it to a candle to take a light for lm pipe The joung lady at once seized his hand, when ho 6aid " What are you doing ?" To winch she replied "What are you doing ; <*cc what you were going to burn." He looked and found it was a£s note. The joiing lady further said, " You want to be looked after; ■\ on want someone to take caro of you and your money." With that be looked straight into her eyes, was struck, and HUid presently, " Will you look after my money ; look here I am a young "man decently connected, and I have no vicious wnvs, and if you arc willing I will marry you." She said "I w ill give you an answer directh ," and went on serving some customers who were waiting. After doing so she camoj to our hero, and said "I will," and they were accordingly joined mwedlcci tho following day. They have now been married a number of years, have a fine family, and are living comfortably m Victoria Tho first quiet watchfulness exhibited at tho bar of the diggings public-house having been maintained by our heroine all through her married life. The old adage of " marry in haste and ro| ent at leisure " has not been justified in this case, ior their life has been a very happy one so far. I suppose my moral sense must be bh nted by the debasing contact of commercial pursuits — for I have ever deplored tho misfortunes of the ex-Emperor of France That he acted violently, and perhaps cruelly, on the occasion of the coup d'etat may be admitted. But how enn his critics appreciate the necessity which may have impelled him to the courso he took ? How nearly a certain class of Frenchmen can combine the mischievou«nesss of the monkey w ith the ferociousness of the tiger was illustrated under the Commune. Tho Emperor successfully ruled these with a «tiong hand. For the ret he wai ever a faithful ally of England, he developed by his policy tho production, the commerce, nnd the material prosperity of France. As for his capital, he might repeat the ancient boast of him who said ho f( und Rome brick and left it marble. As an example of indo ratable self-reliance and unrelenting determination to achieve an apparently desperate aim, the earlier history of Louis Napoleon is without parallel in history To whom is due the national prospent v which has enabled the President of the Republic so readily to meet tlie exnctions of Prussia? Was that prosperity the woi kof Louis Napoleon or of Adolf Thiera ? Half a century hence the caieerof him upon whom the fate of Europe appeared to hang for so long — whoso lightest word could change the relation? of nations and shako society to its centre— will, I think, be regarded more tenderly than it is by contemporary historians. Wo were taught to think very hardly of Oliver Cromwell oucp. Even he hasn't been a hero for more than fivc-and-twenty years. — JEgles. The Mechanics' Magazine givesv es a hint to the control department of Great Britain in a report of a practical experiment made in Holland to test the value of the tinned Australian meat as rations for soldiers campaigning. A battalion of infantry from the garrison of Doesborgh, 400 strong, was •ent out to camp on Spanker Heath. One ca«e of preserved meat (about 61b) was the ration for 18 men, prepared as follows : — Rice and vegetables wero cooked and then tho meat vras added, and the cooking continued for a few minutos more. On opening tho cases the meat was found to be of good quality ; the soup was pronounced excellent, as well as the meat— preferable, indeed, to the ordinary soup supplied to military messes. The construction and est iblishment of the camp kitchens, provisions of wood and water, and the preparation and distribution of soup, wero effected within two hours. Tho soldiers m tho barracks received tho samo rations and were alike satisfied therewith. This is nn improvement upon tho dubious pork." This fact indicates that there is a market of almost unlimited oxtent opened m Europe for Australian preserved meats. But where is the supply to come from? Statistics show that there is certainly not more than four head of caitlc for every man, woman, and child in the colony. It is preposterous, therefore, to think of supplying tho markets in Europe with meat unites we bie'd cattle much more extensively than we havchitheito done in New South Wnles A gentlomnn who has recently arrived in Clermont hns stated to the Telegram as the result of his experience, that powdered ehircoal is a sure and cer-tain remedy for poisoning by strychnine He «ays that he has cured mnnv do.'s in this way, even when almost on the point of f'cath, and he has never known it to fail. His recipe io a% follows . — Mix a quantity of finely powdered cbarco il w ith water, and pour about half a pint down the dog's throat Nothing can be more simple, and if the antidote proves on further trial to be as perfect as represented, many a tthcplierd will in future bo able to «aye a valuable dog. We have known strong bait and water effect cures, but as charcoal can be obtained almost everywhere, it is in ever} rospect more convenient. It i* said tli at experiments tned in C'ermont have failed, but otberi nro projected. When Indian com U converted into whiskey, it become.", doubtless, th.o " <J"^y mane" ye hear of.

Wo frequently eeo lr. igncultural journals long disseitat'vis on tho subject of deep and shallow plougmng, and in some cises the attoir.pt in uiado to show that tho gencial deterioration so common to most of the i>oild of long cultivated parts of the country is o« mg to a penitent course of of shallow ploughing. It is a mistake to imagine that this alone has produced tho unwelcome lesult, rendering large districts of country unfit for the culture of wheat, which fifty yenrs ago gavo an average of from fifteen to twenty bushels to tho aero. If shallow ploughing has had the effect to lessen tho annual yield from fields devoted to constant j tillage, without tho return of somo fei tiller — which we j will not dispute — it might be inferred that we believed had the field been deeply ploughed thero would have been no deterioration. "We believe no such thing ; be> auso cxpenenco hns shown lhat though deep ploughing serves almost invariably to increase tho product, it is equally at the expense of tho soil ; tho only difference is, the one, by shallow ploughing and half a crop, has exhausted the fcoil to her depth that another field h b\ a system of deeper tillage, 8) that without some lvnova'u q process or the application of fertiliser*, or something besides simply deep ploughing, thongh large crops may be produced for tho tune being, it is only at the expense of the deeper exhaustion of tho soil. It is idle, then, to harp upon the favourite theory of many that shallow ploughing alono has caused the sterility too often met with m tho oldor sections of tho Union. It is an injudicious cultivation quite apart from oither shallow or deep ploughing that produces barrenness. No soil, however deeply ploughed, con for over maintain ita pristine fertility, tinder constant cropping, without a return m some measure of tho elements that the crop produced extracts therefrom. Upon qhis important point in good husbandry too little attention is pvid. Shallow ploughing and conssant cropping without manuring have very aptly ceen termed tho " skinhing" process ; but deup ploughing like circumstances takes not only "skin " but the very tallow fiom the soil.— literal Prsss. The Echo says : "The Temps makes a curious onslaught, somewhat in the style of Dr Liv mgstone addressing James Gordon Bennett, o"n the propensity of Englishwomen for glaring colours. The 'hushes' havo pained the sensitive French critic by t'ns bad habit, as the black women annoyed the Doctor by their filed teeth He thinks these brilliant displays in dress must re-'ilt from a wish to mnko f eir a:> pearanoe evident to the b.g, dull Englishmen, an 1 to t^iow them that thero is something rao:e interest mj in lue than the counting-house, the factory, or sport. It is nut , says t his cynical observer, in the mattorof colours onH that t joy shoi k a Parisian eye so deeply; it is the same thing as regards forms; crinolines are invented, they encase themselves in caces fit only for wild beasts; if paniers aio ww . th", put on baskets ; if the ulam skirts of the First Empire aio r< vi . c J they w ill wear swaddling clothes. When tho bonnet w&s worn on the forehead they stuck it, no one knows how, ju»t ov er their eyebrows; when it is placed at the back of the head they throw it back upon tho neck. As for their hair, the edifices they raise— are simply audacious. .All this, act o -ding to the Tomps, arises from an energetic dot ci initiation to remind the f Air- haired and obdurato Britons of the fact of their existence." I do not remember obsorving any public statement that ]•; lwin Landscer, the successful painter of animal subjects, was suffering from aberration of intellect. I believe that such is tho case, that ho has no longer the disposition of his own concerns, and that lie moves about m charge of a kecocr. A sad ending of a brilliant artistic eareor! Rccallmg'to my informant's memory the singularity of a like affliction having befjllen Eo»a Bonheur, whose easel was so productive of a similar class of subjects. I wa3 assured that the report of madness in her case was incoircet. — Mgles. Happiness can only be secured by that constant tenderness and care of the parties for each other which are based upon warm and demonstrative lov c. The heart demands that tho man shall not sit reticent, self-absorbed, and silent in the midst of his iamily. The woman who forgets to note and provide for the peculiarities of her husband's tastes and wishes renders her homo undesirable for him. In a word, ever-present and over-demonstrative gentlemen must reign, or else the hcirt starves Love is the best, the dearest, the purest thing on carth — that which gives the most happinc3s and which inspires the noblest deeds ; but that love is worthiest which is wisest and mo;t uiwlfiVi, and which skives the lover a moral «laiulii.l up to winch to live and be worthy of Yet this is not the Im> which writers for the most part idealise They nevtr r.wk the affections before the nations and morality i« by no menus so groat a tlumj m their hiivU as self indulgence and the exercise of an unbridled w ill ,To*h Billings says • "When we cun ti think that there nint on the face of the earth oven nne bat too imic'i. an 1 fc'iat there haint been, since the da:7e of A lam, a single surplus musketeer's egg laid by acksident, we kan form sum kind of an idee how little wo know, and what a poor job we should make ov it runnm tho machinery of krashun Man is a phool enny how, and the best ov the joke is he don't scorn tow know it. Bats have a destiny to fill, and I will bet four dollars they fill it better thnn we do ours." At a late funeral the undertaker arranged for the husbnnd and mother-in-law to ride in the same carriage. " Must 1," s.ud the broken-hearted man, " must I ride with thnt awful woman?" " I thmk you will have to," answered the undertaker. "Well, if I must, I must," said the -triekcn man ; " but to ride with her destroys all my pleasure on this occasion." A facetious traveller described the difference of society in the metropolis, when compared to theprcv ncial t >wi s, in the f>llowmg language: — "In the country, if you have a leg of mutton for dinner, everybody wishes to know if yon have caper sauce with it ; whereas, in London, you may havo an elephant for lunch, and no one cares a pin about it " A reporter upon a Western paper, speaking of a fnir creature, remarked that " the profusion and colour of her hair would lead one to look upon it as thongh it was spun by nimble fingers of the easy hours as they glided through the bright June days, whose sunny rays of light were caught in the meshes, and were content to go no further." The girl had red hair; that was all. " Fred," said a father to his eon, "I hear that you and your wife quarrel and wrangle every day. Let me warn you ncra.nst snch a fatal practice." "Whoever told jou that, f itber, was totally mistaken ; my wife and I haven't spoken t ) O".e another for a month. A Clergyman created quite a merriment the other day on one of our stoamboats, going over to lay out a new cainpmecting rosort, by the inquiry : " What positive proof is there that King David and his son Solomon wero tailors?" No one in tho crowd could answer, and the humourous divine quote! the familiar passage: " And Salomon mended the breaches, which David his father had made." A certain farmer's wife had an only daughter, whom she brought up very tenderly, not requiring her to do any workWhen spoken to by a neighbour in regard to this she replied, t hat she was bringing up her daughter to be a minister's wife " There, aunt Mary ! What do you think of thnf ? I drew the horse, and Ethel drew the jockey." Aunt Mary : "H'm! but what would mama <snv to your drawing jockeva o-i n Sunday?" George: " Ah! but lo >k hero! we've dr iWi him riding to church, yon know ' " —Punch. A lad y with a very inharmonious voice insisted upon vr\%in" at a recent party. " What does she call tln.t ?" inquired a cucst. " Tio Tempest, I think," answered another. " Don't bo alarmed," said a sea captain present, "It's no tempest It's merely a squall and will soon blow over !" " Laugh, and grow fat " rests upon a sound pljjsKil^lc v! basis A pleasant flow of the social spirit is a gu\it pr.> moter of digestion. The habits of other animals who r. at when they have eaten, are an indication of what is wise for the lordß of creation. Old Mr A., at about 80 years of age, was so bold as to marry a young wife, and in due course of time was presented with a son. On the day of christening the nuise handed young master about, with the usual exclamation that he was the very imago of his papa. ' ' Very like, indeed, " said a lady, "no hair, no teeth." " The rich," said a Jew, "eat venison because it is deer. I eat mutton because it is sheep." An experienced boy says ho regards hunger and tho chastening rod as about the same thing. They both make a boy I holler. A humorist who had a hard time of it, says, " When a man begins to go down hill he finds everything greased for tho occasion,"

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