The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1870-08-13

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The 81. Louis Deaaocras Of the 9Th pub
,iahes this remarkable story 50 Y
. EYerywhere around rs SIT the sister
Fates weaving the myriad webs OF mortal
sIesfiaiy. rcr does one human being escape
their tolls. On every; hand moves tragedy.
romance, or comedy, wearing the mask OF
eyery-day life. sskarely the mask is lnted,
and tnriiiing truth, stranger than hctaon,
allows 1fs d glimpse Of its marvellous fea-
f,,res, Such q mask was lifted in the pre-
ssnce cf our reporter yesterday, furnishing
hin, Gan Ger true tale, "a shallow story Oh
deep 1osS that combines the elements OF
rnnas..e and tEs&edy, not without spice
y aud still lives in this region,
fbonSfl = g. sSesent temporarily absent
1t aswasss divinity in dimity,
WHOSE cslIine IN IS ply with deft fin-
gers that nasiing, fairy shaft, the needle.
Not 60 put Zoo fine point upon Inc needie,
she was q seannstresS. But as she basted
and stitched and sewed, she basted and
stitched and sewed the hearts OIL iona
aslorers rany, and with no feeling ,ot the
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dnabed. She sewed hearts herself With
more delight than she took in sewing but
tons to dresses, and with as little compass
sion for the hearts as for the buttons. And
when sbe tired Of the heart she would Just
slip It off and let it fall, and leave it in the
dirt, ana careiessly step on it, as she would
do to a very cheap button. Tens OF thou
sands OF pretty girls do the same every
day, and exactly the same number OF bad
boys are no bit better.
"But our heroine CHANGED to be In New
York city last September, as the companion
OF st. Louis lady visiting there, and put
up at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Now, it is
not every heart eonquering st. Louis seam
stress, Of experienced eighteen, who has an
opportunity to do havoc with her charms
at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. So she cam
paigned more than ever, and soon transfxed
the smitten soul Of o parsonage no less than
the assistant steward of the great metropoli-
tan hotel. The impaled steward struggled
in vain with his growing affections; they
gave him no peace and he courted the St.
Louis maiden.
I'm sootf, she was both fair and good,
and meant not the harm she did to the fool
ish hearts of men. She encouraged his at
tentions, and though he was nearly twice
her age, Cor he had i'm him the fires of thirty
four summers, yet: the twain seemed mu-
tuaisy fain and fond. When parting came.
he obtained her permission to correspond
with her by letter, and for months after her
return to st. Louis his ardent epistolary
OF the happily fire-proof st. Louis post
Office. She would reply kindly and assent
ingly to them-play she meant it, and
intended no tragedy. But he took it in
deadest earnest, while she, last January,
met her magnet at last and actually fell in
lOYe-Or seemed to--with St. Louis dry
goods clerk on Nam street,
"Yet, perhaps this was but coquetry,
too. In such cases VINO can telly at any
rate II love, and the marriage s,adags
mSoSnly such are not rich rich: lerS, and com.
somewhat improper to continue fGns felt it
a nTn correspondence, and the sigbinS stew r1
on anu L Lound his letters unanswered. NV NV
s sn history and biography show ,oo,' GW,
snakspeare and Fowler out of tbe 1,, leaslng
ss s.1.e !ozs VIII know the rea-
son why.
$50 our steward set out upon pilgrim
age to st. Louis, and missed no train nor
lost q moment on reaching here, but
marched straight to the door of his fair,
Knocked and crayed admittance. 1t SO fell
out that the Main-street dry goods clerk
was just at that very time with her, discuss
ing Of their mutually agreed upon marriage.
Awkward, wasn't it2 Looking through the
blinds she saw her steward, and was as
Epnded., She had scarcely time to beg her
kx. beloved to retire, for Heavens sake
&sB 4dRS.s sto another room, when the New
Yorker was ushered in.
Young st. Louis did not retire in good
order, and elderzNeW York, having come
predisposed to ssmell mice ssmelled a
prod;gious rat. The lady's discomposure did
made them utterly unsmoothable. There
was q full understanding that had the por-
tents Of grave misunderstanding. Youth |
full st. Louis in the next room heard-saw |
too-all that. passed. He sustained the |
honor OF his stadt and Indignantly left the |
field. There was afterwards an interview, |
liz which she wayered In her preference. |
ernest, and had money and property, and |
>vould marry her at once. She now knew 1
~caiy what to do, so she was left to the /
!. aeror from the Fifth Avenue Hotel, |
je sudden advent and terrible determi- |
and dimes had shaken her devotion to /
ayowed (I) true love. :. = p. e
The new match was formally arranged. |
de had business at Rock Island, and on his |
thence they would become one.
Some seventeen hundred dollars he put in 1
bank, left the check for 1t with her, and set |
out for Rock Island. 1t was on Wednesday |
Of last week that he engaged passage on the
steamer Sallio. Hardly had he got on |
board when, rs the boat was swinging of,
. sweying spar struck him on the head,
R fffghtfully, and Knocking hirli
senseless. This accident to Mir. Maurice
Conion,rsa stranger from New York, was
duly reported in the Democrat next day.si
BE Mas taken 10 the Sisters Hospital, and
early the, following morning his betrothed
heard OF the disaster, and went thither to
zee hiras BE, had regained consciousness,
At his wish the priest was called, and the
was solemnized. we should have
that both: were Catholics, and
hat In deciding for Condor she had fol-
owed hars coniessor' advice.
the next Sunday the newly made hus-
band diet, and on Monday last he was bu-.
name and effects, and no doubt laments him
If the strange, sad story, which we may
have treated with too much levity in Its be-
cunning, siRceit ends SO tragicaliy. Against
hat she trff1ed unWittingN with hsssa s3fs
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