The Richmond Indiana palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1854-1855, 1855-10-11
THE OUADRITPLE WIDOW

The Paris correspondent Of the Boston At
las. tells the following singular story:
To instance the truth of my remarks on the
spirit of gossip which pervades tho Grand
Opera. | may repeat several stories which are
current there, and which show the extent OF
the information possessed by these arch scan
dal monsers. Don't fall in love with that
pretty New Yorker said one. pointing to a
beautiful young lady still in her teens.
'for she is here on stolen money. An old
fellow was in love with her; he was rich, she
made the condition precedent Of marriage that
three hundred thousand dollars should be
convened to her. As soon as is was done. she
with her mother the person by her side.
took the steamship for Europe. That's the
money which enables them TO make figure
here
'See there" whispered another, looking at
the box between the Countess Lehon's and NJ
DeRothschllds. indicating beautiful blonde.
apparently under twenty one. thatsth Coun-
tess Won G -, the quacrupled widow. -
"Quadruplsd widow! That girl Of nine,eenl"
She is older than she appears-she is nearly
thirty. You see she Is pretty-thev say she
possesses various talents. aud is sprightly, and
she is immensely wealthy. for her psternal
fortune was large. and it has been increased
BY three of the wealthiest marriages in Ger
many. She is the heroine Of strange histo
y. The rising Of the curtain in
terrupted the story until Ne act of the opera
ended. The next between ACT allow him To
resume the recital.
The Germans. you know. have always been
the superstitious people par excellence. Every
castle there has its ghosts. every nook its le-
gend. and every river its nymph or fairy
Fortune telers drive even better trade than
in Paris, where their hands are oftener cross
ed with aristocratic gold than plebian silver.
The quadrupled widow consulted them on the
eve OF her appearance in society, with the
girish curiosity Of ascertaining her future h,s-
band. Was he to be young or old. blonde or
brunette kind or cruel9 Sybis are proverbi-
ally wsyward. and the sootshaysr replied with
Platonian lsconism, You die young. but af-
ter your fifth marriage" If Germans are
very supersutious, they do not push their ere
dulity so far As TO rely on these mercenary or
acles as on Holy Writ; and the giddy girl
laughed at the long line of husbands, decreed
her by fate. and read her sentence to an early
graseb by scriptural ru.e Of Interpretation, which
treat three score years aud ten as the brief pc
riod comprebended between the morning and
the evening. Many woman attains four
score before she has the pleasure of burying
one husband. In the due course Of ,ime--I
have said she was rlCh--s suitable offer was
made aud accepted. In six months after mar
risSe rapid diabeus laid the young husband
III The grave. She was very much distressed
aud went into very deep mourning. but time
which accompishe. all things brought second
mourning at the end of twelve months-sav
a'iire in year aud = half--and second hus-
band a! the end OF two years. He did not
say long. The carriage axle broke an hour
alter their marriage. and As they were on their
orliAl tour. He WAS thrown out-his head
tell ou a >tone-he was killed
As ti'is husband lad never appeared to his
VIE except IN the delightful character of a
lover and a groom. he was bitterly regretted
although in time she found considerable 80.
laee III tie large and judiciou>y invested for
tune he had brought her. Her correspond.
euee w;,h her banker. and a tour TO the fash.
ionsoe Spas. completely etfaeed all traces os
sorrow from her mind, aud ia eighteen months
she was again decked in bridal attire. and
thrice Wore the orange wreath.
The new husband was selected fer his per
sonal advantages. Her original fortune had
faofe than tripled by her former marriages, and
MAS aew sufficiently ample to allow her to di.
'eFs her eyes, occasionally. from the main
caaace She WAS very happy. Her husband
was all she could desire; DAYS few away most
rapidly and she was as insensible to the pro-
sfsss OF time, as q rich man without the gout
= year and day after their marriage. her
husband tell from his horse and was killed
she swooned away sni refused to be com
ior'eo on hearing the sad intelligence, it was
specially because then for the .irst time the
ta'einslions of the sybI Numbered in sinister
zones IN her memory. She tremb bed a. being
separated from The grave bus bv two hus
bands The fatal sooshs ying now spread in
sosisss, and though Short twelve month dis.