In the neighboring suburb of Staten Island resides the Eev. T. B, Bott, a Baptist minister not unknown to fame. He will be remem*. fcered as having created a profound sensation a few. jfears ago by eloping, from Philadelphia with the- organist of his cliuroh, leaving be hind him a wife and two little children. I don't, know exaotly how it was that this olerical beast was allowed to keep on preach ing, hot he did, and. up to last week was the pastor oi the Central Congregational •Church in Tottenville. Early last week frightful screams issuing from the Bott man sion alarmed 1 the inhabitants of that peace fnl village, and the people rushing out dis oovered Bo^t. giving Mrs Bott what Paddy gave the drum. .- Mrs Bott was found with one eye in half mourning and two of her left molars and one bicuspid badly loosened, and Bott, getting ready to give her dose number two; the village postmaster rushed up to eipoßtnlate,**.wljen the minister gave him to understand tbat he wpnld chastise his wife if he liked, and intimated that he wouldn't mind having a go at the postmaster, provided he Would waive the Marquis of Qrieensbury's rules and take it rough and tumble. Mrs Bott eventually sdught refuge in a drug store, and fif. Bott, catching sight of the editor of the local -paper who had published an account of his escapade from Philadelphia, chased him into the post-office. Yesterday he was tamed out of the ohuroh by the trustees. Exit, Bott !

••If it had been told as a story of the wild West, or as having ocourred among the barbar ous savages of Africa, you would not believe it. Just think of iti. Jn the suburbs of Brooklyn, the City of Churches, a brute by the name of Bohan gouged out both of his wife's eyes j , nor did'he commit the brutal act all at one time. He destroyed the first eye two years ago and escaped punishment, as his wife, though thus horribly disfigured, with a perversity peouliar to women who are abused, refused to prosecute him. From that time till last* week he has taunted her with her •disfigurement, iand time and* time again told her that he would blind her other eye. 