The Shasta courier., 1868-05-23
COURIER,
History of a Handsome Woman.


On certain day, in the early part Of
1860, marriage was solemnized in the city
of Brotherly Love, between a certain Henry
}. Pelton and lovely young lady of seven.
teen. The blushing bride had dark eyes.
raven hair and splendidly Developed form.
The performance of the nuptial rites duly
transferred Miss Mary Jane Tanelun into
Mrs. Ii. j. Pelton; and the progress of the
seasons brought charming little baby girl
to adorn the domestic hearth, and the wife
became mother. Mutual rejoicings crowned
the advent of the first born! The baby was
the sweetest, pinkest, best little baby thai
ever was born-and while the maternal her
published the fact on the house tops, it, Of
course, was essential that the little darling
should be provided with nurse Yes
baby should have nurse |" Not a great
clumsy, awkward, hard handed tormentor OF
intantlle existence but neat, clean. re
spectacle. young, and somewhat pretty girl
For, according to the doctrine of some phil
osophers, it is requisite to attend to "the
eternal fitness of things"-and the baby
being perfect gem, the nurse should, al
least be good looking. Mrs. Pelton thought
the nurse procured was just the sort of girl
they wanted and apparently baby's papa
entertained similar, if not stronger convic.
tions--for we shortly after discover that
faithess man cultivating relations with the
pretty nurse, entirely incompatible with his
duty to his lovely young WIFE So the
" green-eyed monster, Jealousy, shattered to
fragments the domestic peace that had hither-
to characterized the household. Mary Jane
was indignant, furious, raging, and refused
to accept apologies. For, as that quaint old
observer of human nature, Ausonius, has
remarked:
9 The wild boars pursued of dogs, the
tyger robbed of her young ones, or the viper,
whose tayle is trod upon, are not more cruell
and fierce than woman offended bnt moth.
ing sooner casteth her into fury than
jealousy" So Mary Jane and the baby
precpitated themselves to New York, and
seeking the timely and able assistance of Mr..
Counselor Howas, of Nassau street, she
sought and speedily obtained divorce from
the faithless Pelton. This was in March,
1862. The widow was then nineteen, and,
added to bewitchng beauty, possessed all the
magazine of dangerous artillery that whlom
discounted and vanquished the immortal
Weller, senior. She was soon courted by
numerous and eligible masculines. Her choice
was soon made, and her thoughts by day and
her dreams by night became centered in a
certain Daniel G Reav, and the eventful knot
was tied by no less celebrated a parsonage
than the great modern dramatic pulpit per
folmer of Plymouth Church, Brooklyn
Daniel proved to be hard case. He spent
his nights in debaucbery and his mornings in
repentance. His career may be summed up
in two words: Rum and dyspepsia. Mrs.
Reav, nee Pelton, was not lady calculated
to tolerate such bibulous procivities and
accordingly, after Daniel had spent brief
but riotous episode of four months as her
husband, Mr.. Howes was again applied to. a
divorce in the Supreme Court was again
granted, and Daniel was cut adrift. So in
January. 1868, Mary Jane was again an
unattached but extremely pretty woman of
twenty. But charms like hers could not be
permitted to "waste their sweetness on the
desert air" of single blessedness. She was
courted and admired by hosts of enthusiastic
bachelordom.
Finally, she was again and for the third
time won-Samuel j. Pirke being the favored
object of her affections. Another marriage
ceremoney-thist time in New York city the
hot. sunny month of July, 1868, being the
season, and the Rev. DR.. Hill the officiating
clergyman. Here, at last, surely the still
young but thrice married wife would find n
haven of peace. Here, at last, surely Fortune
would decree that the aureate hues of the
future would atone for the sorrowe check
cred pages of the past But no. Twelve
months of domestic tranquility had scarcely
passed over the current of her life. when the
faithless and too impressible Pirke became
ena-nored of miliner in the Eighth avenue.
and he forthwith effected heartlessIy base
and surreptitious elopement.
Again the chain anchor of Mary Jane Sims
its hold; again she employs Mr.. Howes
again she procures divorce; again she is
fully and fairly in the matrimonial market
again she is the cynosure of all eyes whose
possessors intend to change their state; and
again she is courted, won and married
Peace at last; for on this occasion she has
been led to the altar by a wealthy and
honorable gentleman, John G. Russo, ESQ.
Their elegant mansion, No. = Fourteenth
street, has been the abode of domestic love
and felicity since the hearts and hands Of
the loving husband and beautiful wife were
Joined, and We close this notice of her strange
and eventful history by expressing the hope
that no cloud may overshadow the skies Of
her future.