Democratic enquirer. [volume] (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1867-1873, 1869-05-19
A MUSICAL SENSATION.


Runaway school Girls and Pursuing
PArents--Love ana hInsic-;A Soprano
In Tears, and y Disappointed Pnbiic.
The loungefs about the Willimantic
depot, onSaturday morning, were. delighted
| by d sensation. Gorgeous n fAded green
velvet kepis were the Hibernian Minstrels,
who had delighted the villagers the pre-
yious night, and were waiting for the train
tor New Britain, where they were announc-
ed to appear Saturday evening. Radiant
in this band of singers were o couple OF
girls one o dashing brunette, and the
other blonde with golden hair, who
figured on the boards as alto and soprano,
and on the programmes and show bills az
"the favorite Desmond Sisters. Lightly
they tripped about the platform, occa-
sionally warbling note or two just by
way of giving little vent to their happi-
ness, provoking admiring comments from
the men and envious oblique glances from
the women.
Punctually on time the whistle of the
Providence train was heard; there was q
rush for the sitting-room for sundry
little packages and extra Wrappers and
then q rush out again as the cars stopped
at the depot One of the first passengers
to disembark from the train was man
about medium height, of light complexion,
and features that strikingly reselnbled those
of the fair-haired soprano of the Hiberni-
ans. He glanced rapidly and inquiringly
about the crowd on the platform, until he
saw "the Desmond Sisters" He started
for the blonde, took her by the hand and
started for the depot, when both threw
themselves upon bench, fell into each
Others arms and burst into tears The
brunette.followed them in and seated her
self upon the same bench, with troubled
expression upon her countenance. And
then all the loutss to whom the arrival and
departure of trains at the village depot is
the chief event in their daily lives, rein.
forced by curiousp passengers and vociferous
bootblaeks and newsboys, rushed in aftel
them, formed ring five or six feet deeI
around the sorrowful trio, and, Influenced
by no feeling of delicacy, gazedupon them
as though they had never seen grief before,
The tableau was broken up by the de.
pot bell that signalized the departure OF
the train, followed by the call aboard" o.
| the conductor.
They took the cars and went on togeth.
er. All those thirty miles and upwards
they were in close converse, which was
varied by an interview with the manager o.
the troupe, and when the train reached
Hartford they disembarked and took the
cars for Boston, looking anything but the
angelic creatures they appeared in Will.
mantle. The Hibernian, troupe Travelled
ON bereit of its brightest ornaments and
most cheerful attractions.
The rest of the story is soon told. The
two girls were from Illinois. Indulgent
parents had sent them to Boston to finish
their musical education. They became
tired of the restrictions of boarding-school
life at the hub, and sighed for something
like the freedom of their native prairies.
An advertisement in paper for an alto and
soprano for o concert troupe offered an
opportunity for change Tney ap-
piled for the position, and were ac-
cepted. While travelling in Maine tlfe
soprano saw an uncle in the audience, and
came near fainting on the stage. She,
however, finished her piece, and pleading
indsposition, left the hall and the city be-
fore the astonished relative could have an
interview with her. He, however, apprised
her father, who, after following the troupe
from Boston, overlook it at Willimantic.
AS 'love is the soul of true Irishman," p"
it will not excite surprise that the brunette
found nm admirer and lover in one of the
performers of the troupe, who will follow
the object of his alteration, and thereby
infict further loss on the luckless manager.
For obvious reasons we suppress the real
names -- N0lTDiCb Conn, BlUIdin,