The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1867-04-20


ted New York Police Report under the
head of st. Louis correspondence:
A discarded daughter! This sentence
sounds harsh and heavy upon the ear,
and when it is known that she is child
of wealth and good position, it appears
that something terrible must have caus-
ed such 4 decree to fall from the lips OF
father, much more a mother! But
such is the case, unfortunately-a closed
door against q daughter, and right in
the midst of aristOcracy.
EndeavOrs have been made for some
little time in obtaining the real facts OF
the case, which go to show how stern
and determined some people can be in
case of necessity, or even at juno
ture of time when open stubbornness is
strongly evinced by an iron heart rs it
were. A gentleman residing in this
CITY, not many miles from what may be
termed "upper tendOm," has a daugh-
ter somewhere in the neighborhood of
seventeen summers, tall, majestic and
finely formed-more pulpy and voiup-
tuous than is generally accorded to one
of her years. Her mother died in 1861.
The father is rich, nobbish, retired, and
very reserved ia his ways. She has q
step-mother who has been confined to an
invalid bed for over three years past,
but she has always seemed to be friend
lv to her "step-child,' as she has so
frequently called her. The daughter
possesses much beauty, is the owner of
two il-looking blue eyes, and is remark
ably forward" in all manner of ways.
Dnring the past year she has been not
only extravagant, but very imprudent,
immoderate in her vehemence, wayward
in actions, and wicked in design. "a
devil in petticOats" is no harsh name
for her, taking into consideration the
incidents of some of her startling ep-
isodes; for certainly she has been big
bill of expense" to some one! First OF
all, she purchased span of horses and
ordered the bill to be presented to the
father. 1t was. paid. She then reined
her steeds furiously about town, having
sometimes a boy or girl with her.
Hearing that o prominent man had
made public remark that mo woman
could ever drive" him and she knowing
him. drove up in front of his place OF
business, called out for him, and when
he made his appearance, she in
vited him to take ride behind her
high-spirited steeds, which favor
was accepted. II drive. my own
team,n said she, as he was about to ham
die the reins, and in a jiffy off she went,
driving furiously through the public
thoroughfares, turning corners rapidly
short" while he attempted to tell her
that she was too "fast" altogether, but
what cared she! When he was fairly
landed in front of his place of business,
she spoke up in the presence Of a dozen
or more Observation-Disclosures you
make another assertion that no woman
can drive you, bar me out" and bow
ing, off she drove. Next she got to
drinking huge horns of old brandy at
home and abroad, and using profane
language on the public streets when
ever anything crossed her path, think
ing it would be overlooked because
she was rich mnn's only daugh.
ter. From this she got to carous-
ing in divers ways, turning male COM
pany ont of the house soon after they
had called, asserting that for one she
didn't want any ganders about. Talk
to her! why, her fathers reprimands
were Missed, scorned and laughed at, as
so much nonsense; but. he told her last
for all that her actions were intolerable,
her profligacy terrible, and stop she
must-which threat she passionately
hurled back in language unbeconiing q
lunatic, much more woman of her cul-
ture originally. When both father and
step-mother agreed that she would be
the ruination Of them both, she, in the
absence of the former from the city, call
ed around her in the family mansion,
certain characters none too good in NOR
ais, some half-dozen of both sexes-and
thus in closed rooms, under the very
roof where an invalid relative could
hardly move, unless assisted, Baccha'
nalian and Venus scene occurred, which
was kept up throughout the entire night
of a most licentiOus and degrading ma
ture. On the return of the father, and
after learning the particulars, she was
discarded at once, drove away, aud is
now making sinful living, pretending
not to care fer man or the devil.