Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1860-07-04

Attempted Suicide Of Young and Beau-
tiful GIrl-ead Result Of n Hasty Matri-
n,ouiaI Union = Seduction, Elopement,
4 Marfiage, Desertion and Poisoning Of an
Heiress.
A young and exceedingly interesting girl,
named Mary Jane Johnston arrived in this
city a few days ago, in company with a
young man named Wate, and was taken TO
one of those miserable boarding g-houses on
Fifth-street, between Butler and Ludlow,
called the Union House, where her companion
deserted her. rH I <rIft
Her refined and modest appearance, com
bned with her well-bred and elegant man
ners, attracted the attention and commanded
the respect even Of the class by whom she
was surrounded; and her story, when IL be-
came known, excited their sympathies and
ELECTED the compassion Of all who heard IL.
Yesterday morning she determined TO de-
stroy herself and resorted 10 laudanum. Be
fore the narcotic had completed its work,
however her condition became known; DR..
Goddard was called to her assistance, and by
the use of proper remedies saved her for the
present, at least, to a life she must forever
despse, and afterward removed her TO the
Commercial, Hospital, where she is now lying,
only partially recovered from the effects Of
the poison.
|. From what we have been able to learn in
regard TO this exceedingly sad affair, 1t ap-
pears that she is the daughter of very wealthy
parents, and possesses in her own right for
tune Of $4,000. She is about seventeen years
of age, and was at school in Clarksville, Ten
nessee, where she met Wate, the destroyer Of
her reputation and peace and became deeply
enamored Of him.
Like the fair Ophelia, she sucked the
music of his honey VOWS" and when he pro
posed marriage she gave her life into the
keeping Of him who had taught her love
and with sighs and praises won her heart
| and hand. An elopement was projected anC
consummated. The pair came to this city
| the refined and elegant girl was taken to thu
| wretched clearinghouse we have named
compelled to associate with persons she coulC
not regard as equals was deserted by thu
man she had learned to trust 30 well, anC
her proud heart, bursting with the indignit,
that had been heaped upon il, began TO withe
e'er IL had begun TO bloom.
| Shewas penniless and friendless; had beeI
i reared in luxury but was now in want; haI
| trusted, and had been betrayed; had been
| wife, and become what the world, in its bit
terness and hate, denominates an outcast
had loved and learned the fatal truth tina
her loves young dream could not be realized
had gazed on Paradise, and from the loft
hight been cast into the deep perdition
unending woe by the very hand her lips ha'
kissed.
What wonder that death seemed preferabl
to life, or that she, urged to desperation b
the scorpion-lash of despised love, and a
overwhelming shame at having thus bee
duped, sought to find, in what she deemed
Lethean draught that sympathy which lii
could never give.
The case needs no comment. No word
can tell her wretchedness; no sympatheti
kisses dry her tears; no soothing balm hei
up her wounded heart. She has, woman
like, forgiven the author of her grief, an
now is brooding on the memory of his vow
but woe to him when Conscience, rouse
from its lethargic state begins to lash h
guilty soul, for not the doomed will pity the
his miserable fate.