The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1869-07-29
a EOye Dreana-.-A Chicago Divorce
Court Sees the End of n SWISS Love
Match.

Court Sees the End OF n Swiss Love
Match.
In the year 1859 there lived in fair
and smiling Swiss valley an interesting
family of wealth and culture named Junod.
4 few miles from the city OF Neuichatei,
where the romantic River Seyon MAKES
it's cynbouchure with the beautiful lake,
stood q chateau embowered IN trees, anu
possessing all the attractions that art ana
nature could contribute to make an en-
chanting home.
Monsieur Junod found his sole pride and
happiness in lovely daughter, who had
inst upshot into superb womanhood that
made her the most admired belle OF That
norton of the canton. The father, man
of stern. solitary nature, the descendant OF
q long line of seigneural proprietors, who
had exercised the rights Of lordship over
all the beautiful vineyards that bloomed
beneath them, though somewhat fallen from
the state of his forefathcrs, still nourished
the feelings of ancestral pride which had
been ALWAYS characteristic of his race.
Thus reared in all the tendercst influences
of nature and affection, with every grace OF
culture and accomplishment that lavish
wealth could lend, what wonder that troops
of suitors frequented the chateau! Many
fitted by family and wealth to aspire to her
hand yainly offered the tribute Of affection.
The lady's heart was untouched and the
fathers love and pride in the only scion OF
his house dictated to his ambition choice
far above any that had yet sued at the feet
of his daughter.
But the heart that failed to yield to adj
dresses from an equal rank and station
wasted itself, as it not rarely docs, on what
was beneath it.
In some of the merry markings, peculiar
to the winc-bcaring districts, in which, by
the time honorcd requirements Of tradition,
all rank meet together in a common jubilee,
Madcmoiselle Lucie met with young man
named Gustavc Flotrou, of person handsome
and attractive, and by trade matchmaker.
The abnegation OF everything like social
distinction enabled Flotrou to approach the
lady with a familiarity TO which he would
otherwise never have presumed. The Vaga-
rics of Cupid illustrated themselves in the
mutual impressions they made on each
other in Il very remarkable degree. The
lady forgot her rank, her pride, the expcc-
tatious which her boating father had formed
for her future, and fell blindly in love with
the humble matchmaker. He, tattercd by
the preference, dazzlcd by her beauty, and,
not improbably, still more strongl y at
tracted by her fortune, ardcntly reclpro-
Gated.
The first meeting was followed by many
others, of course clandcstinc in their ma
ture. The day OF awakening came at last,
aud the fathers wrath and agony of spirit,
wounded both in its pride and its love, can
be better imagined than expressed. The
daughter was forbidden, under the severest'
threats, again to see the audaci0us aspirant
who had thus smittcn the family peace.
The conflict between love and duty ended
as such warfares commonly rcsult-Cupid
carried the day. The lady's determination
was, perhaps, stimulated by another condi
ton Of the imbroglio which has not yet
been mentioned. She was possessed of
fortune Of SO, 900 in her own right, which
made her comparatively independent of
those clements of choice Which would per-
hais otherwise have influenced her dcci-
sion.
10 condcnsc long story, she one night
made moonlight fitting with her devoted
swain, and ere twelve hours had elapsed
the twain became one. TO avoid the I'M
pleasant circumstances of living in cOun-
try where all the facts were known, and
where she might at any time meet her Of
Tended father, the couple determined to
come to the land of freedom, where money
is the principal condition of esteem and re-
epcct. Nine years have claps"3, and
what change has come over the spirit Of
her dream The man for whom she gave
up all, left doting father, and The
splendid prospects to which she might
reasonably look forward, instead of being
the devoted, aicctionatc husband which
her young love, IN its ardent imagina-
tons, expected TO find, proved, &C
corling to her allegations, to he 4
brute and II sot. His lavish expenditure
and reckless pursuit of all kinds Of plea
sure gradually dissipatcd the noble fortune
she had brought him. Valuable silver
plate which she had also possessed was con-
vcycd by him to the silycrsmith's and con-
verified into funds whercwith to pamper his
inordinatc appetite. The wife's wardrobe
and private jewels even were not sacred to
him, but were appropriated with brutal dis
regard Of the feelings of her who had sa-
criiccd everything to his pleadings, and
who should have been as the apple Of his
eye. One stroke of ill-trcatment followed
another in quick succession, until Mrs. Flo
trou, outraged beyond endurance and fear
full of personal violence to herself and her
child, a lovely little girl of eight years, was
forced TO have recourse to the final remedy.
And thus on yesterday morning, only day
or two after the anniversary of her mar
riage nine years ago, a petition for divorce
was fled in this city.
The magnificent brunette beauty that
still distinguished her person, despite the
harassng toll and anxiety of her latter life
(for she has been obliged to support her.
self and her chilO, gives some conception
of the surprising loneliness which must
have marked her in her happier life Of
youth.-Chjcago Times, 24H.
A lady in Evansville was playing with
her child 4 few days ago and ran into Il