A Wicked Imposition

At 18 years of age this lady married awealthy old fellow of (50, Vitli oneioot in the grave. Could any prospect have se.emetl more delightful ? One t'oot in the grave, recollect ! Ali, but mark my ] story's sequel. At 18, say they, she was a lüvely oreature, but when I made her acquftintance she was paute and worn ; ! while he - be ought to have been 1 oshamed of himself, but was not - was a ] hale young tliiiig of 88, and evidently : good for another half-dozen years to come. Yon see he had married, is I : twice bei'ore remarked, with one foot in the grave ; but no earthly consideration woúld induce him to pop in the other - the abandoned oll rufflan ! Think how 1 that woman was dof rauded ! San FranI oieeo Chronicle. The .Tustioe of the Peaoe of the town of Carmel, Putuam county, N. Y., h;is ■ decided that Miiry Knox was married on j the evening of Nov. 8 lust, and that the ; 'i man wlm married her was John A. MerI ritt. Young Merritt is now in jail, and I is still protesting that lie never married Miss Knox. His counsel admita that it has been amply proveit ia.d some man married ]liss Knox that night, but boIemnly denies that tïiat man was his cliënt, John A. Merritt. The Oom-t required that Merritt should sign a bond ' in tlifi sum of $200 to oondtiot himself in 1 nu orderly nimmer loward tluv plaintiff for a yenr to come. The pinintiff, howevt'v, pefiisefl to sijrn t.l 1 1 ■ bond oí to ño ani u-I that would jnply in the moHi indireot way that he roooraized hi oblig&i turnt to tne wosatsa m ncv iiuw'-iimi, agej mn rernftnded to [ail.