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Show A BRUTAL ASSAULT There is a pretty well substantiated substantiat-ed rumor going the rounds of town, and creating a breeze ol" indignation that should be taken before fie proper authorities and there investigated, but a mistaken sense of mudesty or ignor ance of duly seems to prevent the mope mo-pe r persona from bringing the matter to official notice. The story as to'd runs thus. A certain nun who has been notorious among his neighbors for abusing his family put the nnishirnc touches nn his reputation on Tuesday last, bv throwing h s wife's mother out doors, shaking, beating and othr-rwise mal-treating her. because she ventured to remonstrate with him on some Conduct Con-duct that had been very unbecoming on his part The a!used la iy is ab mt Seventy-seven years old, and a great sufferer from h id disease, h tvmg been a coi firmed invalid lor years, Her body bears livid marks uf the treatment she received Irom tlie hands of her afieuiotiales i.i, an J it looks, at present, as though he was gunn toie allowed to go sco t tree Pu'ilic opiiimi n does not weigh much on the mind ol a nun so lost to manly sentiments as to sir ke a wsman, espec ailv one so hriitisn as to maltreat a helpless old and crippled woman We believe from the sentimems thathave been pxpiessed that the people of Ephraim at laige would be glad (usee hitumade an rxamplt ol, withal least a good round fine. "A coat of rar and feathers," "riding on a rail," "driven out of the ne ghbot-hood," ghbot-hood," "burning 111 effigy," and kindred punishments, have been iiulicteJ on such beiues. We do not advocate such violenc |