Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1860-06-04
ELOPEMENrS-
FRENCH GIRL AMONG THE INDIANS

In the early part of last winter, says the
Palmer (Mass) Journal, party Of wandering
Indians pitched their tent near the village Of
Enfield, and for several weeks made and ped
died baskets. Among them was a French
girl young and bewitching, as all pretty
French girls are apt to be. She made the ac-
quaintance Of one Otis s. Ward, a compare
lively young man, who could boast of large
pair Of WhiskerS, an affectionate wife and two
children. He kept the boarding house for the
Minot Manufacturing Company, and was con-
sidered q very respectable man. When the
Indians struck their tent and left town the
French girl went into the family of Ward and
assisted them through the winter On the LIST
OF April she left town, Ward taking her to the
cars In Palmer. A correspondence soon com
menced between Ward and the girl, the fire.
quency of which excited the suspicious of the
postmaster. On the Sd inst Ward suddenly
left town, and on the same day a letter came
for him from Cliftendale, in the town of Sau-
gus The letter remained in the Office day
or two, when the postmaster received a line
from the French girl recalling the letter she
had sent to Ward, stating that she had made
great mistake, as she had learned that Ward
had left town. The letter was taken to Ward $
wife, who was overwhelmed with grief at read
ing 1t. 1t revealed the whole mystery of her
husbands absence, and opened the food gates
of village gossip. The following is a copy of
the letter, verbatim:
CLIFroSDALE, May L.
My dear and beloved husband, if i nav be
permitted to call you 50, received your loDged
for letter, and would rather have il than A Eve
dollar bill. how have longed for the time to
come when can sit in your lap and hug and
kiss you a. much as please and bury my face
IN your whlskers. i have been in Boston and
find that the steamboat leaves Fosters wharf
for Bangor on tuesday and Fridays at O'Clock.
! will meet you at Worcester depot on the 4th.
De sure to come. your affectionste wife.
ANNIE HATTIE
P. S.-be sure and cut off part of your
whiskers.
1t Is supposed that Ward and the girl have
gone to Canada. He left debts behind him
10 the amount Of three or four hundred dollars.
which Is poor consolation to the injured wife
and children.
MAGISTRATE ELOPES WITH HIS HIRED GIRL,
DESERVING WIFE AND FOUR CHILDREN.
tFrom the Cleveland Plaindeaer, Nav IS
j. X. Burd, a magistrate in Nevarre. Stark
county, eloPed early yesterday morning with
Miss Eliza Brewster, a girl who has been en-
piOyed IN his family as domestic for the past
year The Squire is about forty years old has
been twice elected magistrate in Nevarre, and
has heretofore borne an unblemished character.
lie was man Of considerable influence in Ne
varre. We are informed that he took with him
some $500 in money, belonging 10 parties who
hau cnplOyeu nls OLuc1dl services, Tor " hlch
his bondsmen will have to suffer He deserts
wife and four children. The girl is about %
years old, and quite pretty. 1t Is supposed that
her winning ways infatuated the magistrate
He will no doubt be caught, and we hope his
fate will be warning to all magistrates in this
city and elsewhere who contemplate running
away with their female domestics, as such con-
duct, If persisted in to any extent, will clearly
bring the law into contempt
THE ELOPENEST FROM LISBON Nh
We copied, says the Portland Mel Argus of
the 18th inst; an account of the elopement of
Silas Rowland, Esq, of Lisbon, N H., with the
wife of Mr.. Isaac Rowland, of the same town
A dispatch was sent from the Chief of Police of
Boston to our City Marshal, requesting the
arrest Of the parties if they came this way. On
Saturday Deputy Marshal Quimby arrested the
man and woman as they were leaving the DO at
from Boston, and conveyed them to the police
office, and two dispatches were sent to the
Chief of Police Of Boston informing him of the
fact. On Sunday they were lodged at the Elm
House, and on Monday, nothing having been
heard from the Boston police, they were dis
charged. The woman said she would return
home and try 10 hush up the matter She tool
the morning train for Manchester. N H.. on
Monday, and the man took the noCu train for
Northumberland, n. H., the same day. The
parties seemed to take their arrest yery oooIIv
and acknowledged themselves to be the persons
mentioned in the papers. Mr.. Howland said
he was Republican, and had represented his
town two years in the Legislature of New
Hampshire, and only two weeks before elopino
was foreman Of jury. He had a large amounf
of money with him.