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Ne7o mode Of courting.-At the Lehigh
county, (Pa.) sessions OH the 1st inst. Dan
iel Klein, was indicted for an assault and bat
terry upon Miss Maria Rau. The prisoner
appeared to be Swiss or Frenchman, aged
about 40, and was six feet in height. When
asked by the court what he had to say in
extenuation of his conduct, he in broken
English, told long and rather curious tale.
He stated that he had not come into this
wooden country for land or money, but to
get himselfa wife. He had resolved when
IL years of age, that no minister should ever
marry him, but that the ceremony should be
performed in open court before all the peo-
ple. He had been all over Europe, and the
United States, and never before he saw Miss
Rau, met with a lady that in every point of
view, he liked so we'll as he did her and he
was resolved to marry her. He was at
work in distillery for Mr. Keysey, and had
lust been showing a Dutchman how to make
Yeast, when on going home, ne entered the
house Just at the moment when Miss Maria
was STOPPING down with her back towards
him when ne stepped un and struck her