The Nevada Democrat

A Sad Story.—The National Democrat notices the case of an interesting woman named Laura Cripp, who was before the Police Court of Marysville on Saturday for some trifling offense:

She told at the Station House, with many tears, her history in this country. Her tale is an interesting one. She says she was living a few years ago in one of the Atlantic States very happily, when she was sent for to this country by her father, who was then residing here. Shortly after her arrival, with her father's consent, she was married to a man who, she afterwards learned, already had a wife and several children. She left him in disgust, although in a delicate condition, and soon found herself destitute. A German keeper of a saloon took her to his house, and treated her kindly. After the birth of her child, she had no other place to go, and lived with him as his mistress. Lately, she says, he has been abusing her, forcing her to sing in a lager beer cellar for his living and hers, he doing nothing, and threatening her all the time. We know not what truth may be in her accusation against him, but, if he has treated her as she represents, he is "a wretch whom it were bare flattery to call a coward." She wept very bitterly while rehearsing her misfortunes. If she has truly represented herself, she is "more sinned against than sinning."