Conkling-sprague

Thfi Boston Evening Post says the Conkling-Sprague scandal. Wtltcfi holds the lirst placo in society gossip, both in this state and inXcw York, has received a fresb ímpetus f rom the fací thatGoy. Sprague is reported to have been driveri to desperation by the intrigues and persecution of liis enemies, and he now threatens to lel] the whole atory of his wife's alleged infldelity and Coriklings wiles and teraptations. His friends both here and in N'ow ïork say thftt he has positivo proof of criminalityextending over many years at Washington and extending to the recent oresidential canvass, when Eloscoe and Kate traveleil to Buffalo together and were in companyat the Palace Hotel. ThatConklingbroke up the Sprague household and conjpromised his wife nobody doubts, but that it will hurt !iim in tbe estimation of the republican party and its leaders is uní. soeertain. He brok e nip the Howe family in New 3Tork city and the Hayden household in Albany.butit has made no difference. Justuow the New York public feel much more interested in learning about the Sprague Doublé. Two families are agonizing over it. Senator 'Sprague f eels thedisgraco of liis wife very keenlv. Mrg. Conkllng and her daughter are so overwhelmed by it that tliey very rarely go into society, and live asseeludedas possible. Mrs. Conkling is a pi-oud and solf-contained woinaií. lint tell-tale linea on her face, which wore not there three years ago, betray tho fact that she is beart-broken. - Rev. John Moreland, a congrega ti mal rldrtíyniiinof Norwioli, Comí., lef t lióme to make a pastoral cali and has not since boon soen orheard f rom. Every village and swamp in the connty has been unsuscessfully searched. As a dlspatch says, the earth seems to have oponed and swallowed him up.