Arkansas intelligencer., 1857-06-12
Elopemsn. Of aCity Councillor with a WI.

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Anfdeiify ofa Wife Of a City Official
Attempted Suicide Of Deserted WSfe-
Mysterious Elopement in Nescport-A great
excitement was caused among the good dem
ocrats who are candidates for the offices in the
gift Of the city council, on Saturday, by the
snddela departure for Europe the night pre-
vious (naughty rumor says in company with
pretty widow ofa democratic member from
the l4th Ward. The democrats having a
bare majority Of one, this step puts it out of
their power to control the appointments
The indignant Office seekers who had the
promise Of bis vote have been sending tele
graphic dispatches to have the fellow and his
paramour arrested; ont as there is no charge
against him except that Of travelling with a
widow, this will hardly be done. He was
the proprietor ofa drinking saloon, and has left
wife and four children. The widow, who
resided in Neport, is the daughter of we'll
known steamboat captain, and leaves two
children. 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 elope-
ment is said to be favorite trick with the
sex.
an Unfaithful W1e.-A real estate agent
in the neig ghborhood of Sixth Street Market,
has been receiving at his office the visits of a
wife of city oficial-an appointee of coun-
Gil. The object of her visits was discovered
by the females Of the boarding house in the
same building. The husband is much older
than his wife, who is a pretty and fascinating
woman, and preferred balls and theatres and
visits to forbidden places to remaining in
home often made wretched by the curses and
abuses of drunken men. She had two young
children. He has determined to send her
home to her friends in Kentucky.
Unhappy Marriage.-On Saturday after
noon young married woman attempted to
drown herself in the canal between Elm and
and Plum streets, but was rescued by the ca
nal police. She was taken to the nineteenth
station house. Though but twenty three
years old, she had been married six years, but
her husband who was long book keeper in
a Fifth-street stove storey had taken to drink
and the company of infamous women; and
broken hearted, his wife could not support
life longer.
She was, however, taken home by a broth
er, who is able and willing to provide for her.
Il Female Don Juan.-One day last week,
steamboat captain, residing in Newport, ar
rived home from trip to learn that his wife
had, during his absence, deserted his home
A letter and two daguereotypes of the frail
one were left for him. In the letter she bade
him kind farewell, and requested him to
give one of the daguerreotypes to his brother
and the other TO his cousin, both Of whom 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,
nor is it known who is the paramour with
whom she has 50 mysteriously fled.