The North Carolina Standard

VILLANY CHASTISED.—On Saturday evening the upper part of the Bowery witnessed the merited punishment of a Dentist, whose office is in the Bowery, not a thousand miles from Spring street. The Dentist obtained an introduction, about four months ago, into the family of a respectable young lady of great personal beauty, and commenced paying his addresses to her gained her affections and arranged for the marriage to come off this week. On Saturday, however, the brother of the young woman obtained such information as enabled him to have an interview with a wife of the Dentist, who had been abandoned by her villainous husband, and was supporting herself and her two young children by tailoring, at which employment the youth found her busily engaged. Her husband, the Dentist, did nothing for her support-she had separated from him for some time and was in very straitened circumstances. But, worse and worse! the young man there learned that Mr. Dentist had another wife! also unprovided for.

No sooner did the heroic youth learn the facts, than he purchased a large cowhide, repaired to the office of the Dentist, at 8 o'clock on Saturday evening, caught him there, gave him about 80 lashes on the head, face and body, dragged him into the street, and chased him up the Bowery, thrashing him as he ran, to the gratification of a crowd of people who understood the affair.

N. Y. Sun.