Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1870-04-22
From the N. Y. World, Sunday.
Woman Drnmatized-The Revelations OF
n Clergyman.

.,o,,,,r DramatIzed-The Revelations of
Clergyman.
As the authority for the following story
e a CLERGYMAN of this city, no less noted
for his elouuence as a theological moraI1st
than for his manifold literary attalnments,
Il NAV be accepted as something wholly
without alloy of either exaggerated TACT or
sensational fiction.
Some years ago a mi mister of the Gospel,
Who sometimes undertook the arduous
dnties of a volunteer city missionary, dis
covered in the family of poor labOrer in
one Of the most miserable tenement houses
of New York two youthful sisters, whose
arpearance and natural abilities were ap-
parentIy much above their squalid lot in
life by his agency they were placed in
school, their homo rendered more COM
Portable, and their desire for future OF
better surroundings made practicable to
them. All went we'll until the period of
schooling was over, when the elder and
more interesting Of the two in an hour of
blind, eirlish folly, became the wife Of
vOung man greatly her inferior in lntell-
renee and general worth. To her the
story now belongs, and the romance of
l4er life began with the mad act by which
ahc threw away every opportunity to ripen
uar existence into better reality. Loves
first litful fever being over, she became
=
brief, inharm OniOus experience of matri
mOny withdrew from he matched hus-
band and disappeared from the city. Her
family and their good friend, the clergy
man, were IN great distress thereat, fearing
that the unhappy yOung vile had been
driven - some desperate resource; but at
tho end Of some weeks there came to the
minister letter from the missing one. After
cJntidiug to him the story Of herlntolerable-
matrimonial sorrows, and declaring that she
mad rcn0uucod her unfit husband forever,
The writer confessed that she had become
IN actress III u theatre of Memphis, Ten
.5-c, under an assumed name. la this
.cT capacity she gaining much sue
cess, and begged her old friend to keep
her secret and act as her agent in a
friendly watch over the husband she could
no longer live with. she promised 10 send
money, from time to time, which the
clergy I1au was to apply, as from himself,
So such aid is the husband might abs0-
Iu,ely loggire but begged that no effort
sL1ui, De made to persuade her back to
tile life never to be hers again. Convinced
that nj such persuasion must be useless,
ill., recipient OF the extraordinary letter
..uI. yielded TO the inevitable, and wrote |
10 tic actress that lie would act as she de-
sraI. Consequently, while the detached
vile led slsa life % 4 player IN Tennessee,
saa was atiH able TO keep an eye, through
her friend upon her husband in New
York, uul SO that he did not fall into
object Want.
One day, q few weeks ago letter from
tie clergyman told her that the man whom
she had yo"cQ to love, honor, and obey, |
was living sick OF relapsing fever in a
VIE tcEeQ gaIret, to which ne had retreat
IL On the day after the arrival OF this
-.ays she abruptly closed her engagement |
- the Southern Theatre, aud disappeared |
from Memphis Two days thereafter a
.I1", bouiglant old lady appeared in the |
= " York tenement house in which lay
Sic fever patient, distributing tracts and |
uqUjriEg for sick persons to visit. The !
se0p.e Of the lover floor told her about !
Tie dying man III the garnet, and, with !
basket on her arm, she went to see him. -
There L0 WIS, tossing and delirious in q
tuuiug fever, with naught to smooth his .
utLWay to the grave or cool its scOrching |
ar She filled his room with comforts |
employed physician and u nurse, and
l4a1te daily visits to the place thereaf-
tar. 10 one knew who she was
nor where she came from ; but !
t1o rough men of the rookery
raised their shabby hats to her and the (
attcruly women blessed her when she .
pissed. Nothing could save the sick man,
ne grew worse, and in his delirium often |
called Tor his wife. just before death the !
OH lady disappeared from the bedside, /
and ia her place sat young lady richly |
dressed. The sufferer was too far gone to
recognize her, but it was his wife; in the |
disguise Of tho old woman she had relieved |
his last wants, and in the end she gave him
"a christian burial. The last act of her mar
Eicu he being finished, the dramatized wo-
man revealed herself TO her sister and their |
friend the clergyman, but only to say good
bye before returning to the South. Her
last words, as she started for Memphis,
were: d" / hope | shall not die in a theatre
as poor President Lincoln did" It was
resentment. On tbe very night of her
as an actress she fell violent |
" i'll IN the theatre, and before morning
dawncd had gone to join her husband in
another world.