Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1857-05-28


The following quartette of items concern
ing the conjugal morality of the Queen
City of the West, we clip from the Gin
cinnati Gazette of Saturday:
L. Elopement of a City Father.-A
great excitement was caused among the
good Democrats who are candidates for
the offices in the gift of the City Council
on Saturday, by the news of the sudden
departure for Europe the night previous
naughty rumor says in company with a
pretty widow of a Democratic member Of
the Fourthteenth Ward. The Democrats
having a bare majority of one, this step
puts it out of their power to control the APP
p~ointments. The indignant office-seekers
who had the promise of his vote have been
sending telegraphic dispatches to have the
fellow and his paramour arrested but as
there is no charge against him except that
of travelling with a widow, this will hardly
be done. He wa the proprietor ola drink
ing saloon, and has left q wife and four
children. The widow, who resided in
Newport is the daughter of IA well known
steamboat Captain. and leaves two chill
dren. She has once before created a SEN
sation in this community. The parties are
allied, the mans wife being a niece of the
widows late husband. What he could ex;
pect TO gain or hide by such a foolish
step We cannot imagine; but this romance
of elopement is said to a f~avorite trick
with the sex.
II. an UntaiMtm WJe.-A real es-
tate agent in the neighborhood of Sixth
street Market has been receiving at his Of
flee the wife of a city official-an appoin-
tee of Council. The object of her visits
was discovered by the females of the board
ing-house in the same building. The
husband is much older than his wife, who
is a pretty and fascinating woman, and pre-
ferred balls and theaters and visits to for
hidden places to remaining in a home Of
ten made wretched by the curses and abuse
of a drunken man. She had two young
children. He has determined to send her
home to her friends in Kentucky.
III. Unhappy Marriage.-On Satur-
day afternoon q young married wonan at
tempted to drown herself in the canal, be-
tween Elm and Plum streets, but was res
cued by the canal police. She was taken
to the Ninth-street Station-House. Though
but tweenty-three years old, she had been
married six years, but her husband (who
was long a book-keeper in a Fifth-street
stove store) had taken to drink and the
company of infamous women; and
broken-hearted, his poor wife could not
support life longer. She was however, ia
ken home by her brother, who is able and
willing to provide for her.
". Il Female Don Juan.-Ohe day
last week, a steamboat Captain, residing
in Newport, arrived home from a trip to
learn that his wife had, during his absence,
deserted his home. A letter and two da-
guerreotypes of the frail n were left for
him. In the letter she babe him n kind
farewell, and requested him 10 give m of
the daguerreotypes to his brother and the
other to his cousin, both ofwhom she loved
better than him, but she had gone away
with another whom she loved best of the
three. She had chosen a partner, and
recommended him to initiate her example,
and wished him happiness with the woman
of his choice. No clew has been obtained
of her whereabouts, MOI is it known who is
is the paramour with whom she has so
mysteriously fled.