The State Journal

PAROXYSMAL SENSATIONS.--FOUR Litchfield, Ill., families have become inextricably and immorally mixed. No less than two runaway husbands and as many runaway wives from that virtuous town are reported to be in the city enjoying the fair.

This startling information was first made known at police headquarters last night by Wm. Oseland, a respectable Litchfield citizen, who has come over here in search of his wife, whom he accuses of having run away with a man named David Traylor. Oseland says he traced the fugitives to the Denver House, but they only stopped there a short time. He is sure they are still in the city, and applied last night to Capt. Huebler to help in the search.

Traylor and Mrs. Oseland left Litchfield on last Saturday. One aggravating feature of the escapade is that Mrs. Oseland brought with her two boys, one four years old and the other a baby of fourteen months. And another aggravating feature is that Traylor left a wife and family in Litchfield.

Oseland brought a friend with him from Litchfield, and heedless of the fair's attractions, is scouring the city to-day in search of the guilty couple. "His wife," he says, is a woman of slight figure, has dark brown hair, and is twenty-three years of age. The older boy wore a pair of velveteen pants and was barefooted when his mother left home.

As for Traylor, Oseland can not describe him, as he was not acquainted with him. The pursuer says, however, that his wife's paramour is an old man and has sons grown up and older than she is.

It is supposed that Oseland and Mrs. Traylor are accompanied by another runaway couple from Litchfield. This other half of the precious quartette is composed of William Wardrobe and Mrs. Mary Fennell. Mrs. Fennell is the wife of Moses Fennell, of Litchfield She has with her a boy three years old. To make the story complete and the truth whole, it must be added that Wardrobe is a married man, and leaves in Litchfield a wife and four children.

Litchfield has an epidemic of the "paroxysmal."--Dispatch.