Daily Davenport Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1864-1874, 1867-03-27
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From the wasbisgton lets!ligescer.
Some years ago the fashionable world Of
Gotham vas startled from its psopretics at
the announcement, in gossiping circles. and
shorty afterwards in the Sensational papers.
that Minnie Boxer, the youthful daughter oi
MIR. Boxer, n millionaire, had. IN an evi
hour, become enamorcd Of her ia'net
coachman. and consented to secrse msr
risgc. The iooish attachment became !
known 10 the father when too late to RENEE
DIV. aud he sub, equently disownsd the fool |
,,n and crring child. Having carried sa. !
with her fathers consent, AL her jeselry and !
personai effects, she was enabled 10 Get her
husband up in business--in res aurant, We
oslisss. Love in aeotssge vent on smooth
u unH Ne. Boxer died, and il was found
that b I'D not SssRivsn his dangh Inter, and,
a consequence, hsd not Wil.en une cent Of
his i0msese possessions 10 his esuehtsr.--
NJ. Osaa, the ''coosAan husband." I'D
chaogs come Ger the spirit IL his dssa0o.-
10 the marriage b evidently had ~ eye 70
TIE main ehAnce-the money >bsgs Of the
fathes. Law and these failing in their frui-
tio0, HE love for 'Minnie' wancd. chilled,
ell coldnsss begas oeslsct; neglect brought
forth weeping appeals from the youthful!
victim; weeping sppeas from the victim Of
. romantic anachment begas abuse from the
husband and thus in the struggle and tur>
MOL Of life. Dean and his wife we're lost to
public view. and The story which had excit-
ed oil Gotham became . part Of the dim
past. A subsequent act in the domestic
tragedy has Just transpired in this goodly
city, which Ne will briefly relate:
A gentleman OF our city. who spends
considerable time in alleviating the suffer
ing and want in the lower strata Of human
society, was, some weeks ago, called upon
10 help a woman in the lowest depths Of
privat,on, and in personal interview With
her, although the being before him WAS dress
ed in the scanty, ragged and coarse garbs
Of sqvalid poverty, AMI although hes breath
"a With the iumes Of villsinous liquor,
vet there was that in her manners. her
language. and Der tone which surely indi>
! cat d that she had moved in higher circles
and that she had been familiar with vistu>
; GUS life.
An sxamination revealed the sad fac, hat
the degraded and poverty stricken being b
fore him was the once celebrated A,nais
boxer that, abused, beaten and starved BY
( her husband, she wss finally compelled q
leave him, and, alas for human nature "a
drown her grief and SORROW in liquor. Thu
: sympathiss Of the gsatlsma' were accused,
. and hs made Temporary psovisions fss her
and Afterwards induced . seligious society
TO take her 10 charge and give her . home
Here she Semained. apparently ceotsatst
and grateful, for obvious reasons assu0ir(
another maos-Ssvah Milton. About I
Z month ago she told the maeron that . fsual'
, friend bad shawl belsnging to her. ana
che Vas going to recover il, and under thi
y plea went out fsoo the home. She W.
known to have dry cents with her, givei
= her BY . female friend. TO make some pug
chase for hes.
!. Since then she has not been seen By an!
y ono interested il her, but definite rumor
= havs reached them that she he's purchases
% liquor ct several lov ''drinkesiee."