Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1856-07-29
Love! DesertiOn! Despair!

About SIX uontns ago u well urosScu u ia gen
ilcmany individual arrived in this city upon the
Cleveland train and registered his mama at one
of our principal hotels as r. w. Pennington. AZ
ter remaining. day two he settled his Ill, land
reIparaing That business would probably com
mand his attention in neghhorng tow for
short period, he left without taking his baggage,
which consisted of trunk and portmanttau.
The next day. however he drove up to TIM, private
entrance Of the hotel. accompanied by lady whom
he represented his wife; and who such
registered. The female. who in tho first
tpuder bloom of womanbood, was bpt seldom seen
during their shy mt the hotel by tho Sc whose
avoeations enabled them to onjoy this pri vileee
who pronounced her to he of surprising beauty.
Time passed and month had been added to
the vortex of the past, when one of tho'e sinister
billet doRr, in the shape of'-not bill of fare
but bill for fare, WAS presented to Mr.. Fleming
ton On his promise to settle the matte in day
or two, another week passed and his quid pro quo
for boarding. lodging and et ceteras was not forth
coming. The landlord b, CANT imrortuntte and
the guest finally told him that he would go 10
Milwaukee. whore he had funds, and retur with
the means 10 liquidate the debt. He took his por
mauteau. and after biGdlng his beautiful compa.
MON an atltctionate. though apparently short a
dicu, he DEPARTED.
The seouelis soon told: he never retu ned and
the victim of treachery soon found that she was
deserted by him for whom she had sacrificed the
most precious attributes Of woman---he" honor
and fame. Coneealment no longer possible
and the humiliating admission confess
ed that after short acquaintance in Cleveland
with her seducer she had forsaken IL G protect
ing roof of eontiding father, for Who undpr
promise of marriage, had first destroy ed her in
noceucc, and then left her to the cold Of AN
Implying world. No persuasion. hOweg AZ could
induce her to return to, or even avow, thu name
of her father. She gGt have suffered fl ON want
of food, had not some compassionate ind viGua!s,
who, discovering that she was well instructed in
the art of dress-makng procured her employ
! ment.
! Day after day sped past without casting light
! on the whereabouts Of her seducer un,a iengt b
! the fruit O. the fatal error became apparent. She
was about to become mother, which, blessed
aud holy event of womans existence was TO her
! fraught with terror and dismay. No anxious
husband would hang with tender solicitude DER
her COUGH, or hail with pa'ernal kiss the advent
of the new born pledge of love. She was alone
- aone--and madness took possession of her
| soul
On Sunday night, the inmates Of house ON
State slret-where Fanny Bennett-fcr such
| was the name she had assumed-boarded, were
alarmed by the smell OF fire, and on Fastening 10
the third floor, they found that itproceeded from
! her room. Bursting open the door, Il anst4
smoke observed to fill the interior ari sing
from e quantity of wearing apparel which
slowly Wondering. having been ignited from IL
charcoal furnace. the embers of which were glow
ing and emitting their deadly vapoy
Stretched upon The bed lay the forsaken girl
lnsenSiblr, and in short time longer her bsoaen
heart would have ceased to throb with shame and
anguish; but such death not her destiny.
for the method through which she essayed
to destroy her life of misery was, by the tni"ly
Intervention of the kind hearted people with
whom She boarded, frustrated Medical aid was
immediately procured and e"e long she sro-
nounced out of danger, since which she has ex-
hlbited a less despairing turn of mind. Poor
girl she has most bitterly ntoned for her one
solitary transgresson. What shall we say of
himth treble IN 'rderer! the slayer of innocencei
the murderer OF his conEding victim and his
own of,prng Where is re,ributive justice,
that such villain remains unpublished! Chica-
so Commercial Buiittn.