Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1867-04-25
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4Oa We find. the following. in the IHustrctted
Neso York Police Reports under the head OF
'SG. Ioufs correspondence q -",s--ddNl
=; "a discarded daughter! This sentence
sounds harsh and heavy upon the ear, and
when its is known that she is child of
wealth and good sition, it appears that
something terrible must have caused such
q decree to fall from the lips of father,
much more another l06 But such is the case,
unfoEtunately-a closed door against
daughter, and right in the midst Of aristoc-
racy. .osie = is lid r. e2lee-----e3pa
.Endeavors have been made for some
little time in obtaining the real facts of the
case, which gestoa show how stern and de-
tertnihed some people can be in case of
necessity, or even at q juncture of time
when open stHbbornnessis strongly evinced
by an iron heart as it were. rs A gentleman
Eesidin g IN this city, not many miles from
the stronghold of what may be called upt
pefstendom,s has daughter somewherein
the heighbofhoo of seventeen summers,
tall, majestic and finely formed---more
padpy andVolup6uous than is generally ac-
corded to one of her years. Her mother
died in 1861. The father Is rich, nobbish, res
tired, and very reserved in his ways.-She has
astep-mother who has been confined to an
invalid bed for over two years past, but she
has always seemed to be friendly to her
sstep-ehilds las she has so frequently called
her. The daughter possesses much beauty,
is the owner of two evil-looking, blue eyes,
aud is remarkably forward, in all manner
O6ways. Z Duringthe pastye ear she has been
not only extravagant,. hutYery imprndent
immoderateo in her sFehemence, Wayw ardin
actions, and wicked inbaesign. "A devil In
petticOats, is no harsh name for her, taking
into consideration the incidents of some Of
her startling episodes for certainly she has
been big billr0f sexpensesa to some onei
First OF ali. she purchased span of horses
and ordered the bill to be presented to the
father. 1tWas paid. She then refined her
steeds furiOusly about town, having some
times boy or girl-with her. Hearing
that prominent man had made pub
licFemaFk that mo woman could ever drive
Fin and she knowing him, drove ,up in
front Of his place of business, called out for
hilA aud whelrhe made his appearance, she
invfled him to take ride behind her high
spirited steed, which favor was accepted.
L drive my own team, said she, as he was
about to handle the reins, and in iiffy off
she went, driving. furionsly through the
public thoroughfares, turning corners
rapidly short while he endeavored to
tell her that she. was too fast altogether,
but what cared ,shei When he was fairly
landed in front of his place of business, she
spoke up in the presence of a dozen or
more gentlemen: Whenever you make
another assertion that no woman can
drive on, bar me out, and bowling, off she
drove: Next she got TO drinking huge
hoEnsof old brandy at home and abroad,
and using profane language on, the public
streets, whichever & any thing crossed her
path, thinking it would be overlooked be-
cause she was a rich mans only daughter
From. this she got to careusing in divers
why's, turning male company out of the
house soon after they had called, asserting
that she didn't want. any ganders about.
Talk to hert why, her fathers
reprimands were hissed, scorned and
laughed at as so much nonsense; but
he told her last for all that her actions
were iut0lerable, her profigaey teEible,
and stop she muSt-Which threat she pas
sionately hurled back in language unbe-
coming a lunatie,mu more a woman of
her culture originally, and both father and
step-mother agreed that she would be the
ruination of them both. She, in the alb
seHe6 Of The former from the city, called
around her in the family mansion certain
characters none too good. in morals, some
half dozen Of both sexes-ahd thus in
closed reOms, under the very root WheFean
invalidbrelatiye could hardly move, unless
assisted. scene occurred which was kept
up the entire night of a most icentious
aud deg racing nature. On the return of
the father, and after learning sthe particu-i
lars, she was discarded at once, drove away,
and is now making a sinful jliving-pre-
tending not to care for man or the deVil.o