The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1866-03-12

"HELL HATH No FURY LIKE. a Wo-
NAN ScoRSED."-An acquaintance OF
ours has recently placed us in posses
sion OF some iucts, both strange and in
structiyc, which, while they sound very
like romance, furnish an apt illustra-
tIon OF our quotation. we shall give
the main particulars TO which we refer
10 our readers, emitting, for ostensible
reasons, the names OF the parties and
the particular locality. For tho pur-
nose of our narrative il Will do to say
that the parties were respectably-ifnot
highly, connecied-and that the resi-
dcnces OF tho participants arc not far
from our city.
About ten years ago young man oil
finished education and polished man.
ncrs wooCd and won the hand ana
heart of IL daughter of IL neighbor. Pos
scsscd of the girls affections. and un-
der the promise of marriage, the young
man worked the ruin of the girl, after
which he informed her, in the most
hrnTIless manner, TINT, his object haT-
iuy Deen gained, lie would now leave
his victim TO the scorn of the world and
seek his fortune in the farwest. Know
ing that the action would betray
her the ruinTd girl decided not TO in
woke the aid of her friends, aud so her
l,atrayCr waS allowed TO leave The
ncirIiborhOod. Defcrring n confess
Hion of her shame from day to
tls,v, aud finally concluding that she
could not fISe her friends with such
disgrace, the girl determined, niicr the
,iobtrturc oil her lover some three
,u5nths. 10 follow him, IL need be, to
the end of tho earth, swearing to force
him to make that rcparation yet posi-
bile. Suddenly leaving the nciShbor-
hood OF her home, where her Shame
WAS vet secret, she was given up as u
mysterious disappearance, perhaps
siOn. Ind, after mourning for hera prop
cr period, size WINS, save by II few en-
dcnr,,d fricnus, held only IN memory
ms connected with Il mystery. Once
AWAY from lier home, and having elu-
,IrJ sIlspIciuu or search, the girl pro-
crcded 10 California, then the great
resort of fortune seekers. In one OF
the cities OF that State she found her
lIctrnyed. Her prayers, her entrcaties.
her threats, We're .'laughed to scorn.
Provided with friends, money, and
means of disguise, the man len. For
months the poor lone woman was VA,
thrown ON tho charities Of u cold world.
By the aid of her needle she was cnh-
l,icd. with thellssistnncc ofSind friends,
10 mnintuin herself. Sickness ensueut
almost causing death. Another little
mouth wnA to provide for, with which
charge the poor woman found an, extra
difficulty In obtaining livelihood
and securing funds to travel on
However she managed, by hard
labor aud strict economy, to gath
or together enough money TO prose-
cute the search for her unhulhiul
lover. lie was followed--lrom city to
citv--from town to town-from village
Lii. frD1V Nnfnn In Ininn-VnL
slow was she in her movements that
she was daya-nnd often weelts aud
monlhs-behind him, and thus he TIL
ways escaped her. He did not seem
particularly to he trying to escape her,
but. huSing. in the hrst instance, been
disturbed in his business arrangements,
lit. seemed only 10 be rowing. This in
elIectual chase was kept up for about
nine years. during which time the be-
trayer and his victim travelled we may
say, all over the West, and several times
over California. The pursued WAS
seemingly unconscious OF tho persist
Ont search made for him, believing that
nit0r the first bAilled attempt tho girl
would return to her home. He, how
ever. feared return to his original
California home, lest the officers OF the
law or ut least the girls friends might
III watching for him. The brave NO
lnan-who, whatever may have beer
nor faults, was certainly plucky ant
determIncd-kept up her search. \
f,w months ago, at about the end o
the period OF time we have men
toned. the man, then no longer
young, either in years or eSPe
Iiencs. received IL letter from his
old home, with which he had but re
Gently opened up correspondence, an
nouneing that the "girl of his love
had disappeared years before, and had
never been heard frOm-the suppost'
ton being, rs we have stated, that she
was dead. Thinking that the disap-
pearance was subsequent to the Cali
fprnin visit OF his victim, and she hay
ing asserted that that visit was n secret
from her friends, and believing that his
secret was safe with the dead, the
principal or this great crime returned
10 his old home, where he was kindly
received. judge of his surprise. and OF
that of tic whole community, when he
Syns followed in short time by
The supposed dead girl, who WINS
nceompanied by u bTight-haired
,.irl OF some nine years OF age.
Eonfronted with the charge OF his
wrong and deception, and the strong
arm OF the law having been invoked,
the betraVer was compelled TO make
restitution as much as possible by
mnrrying the girl whom he had so ter.
ribly Sronged, and who had followed
him half across n continent. The par
ties are now living as man and wife at
the scene of their former loves, and the
affair has proven more than n nine
days wonder TO the peighborhood.