Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1870-08-25
A STRANGE STORY.
Filtration In New York and So. Louis
A Tragfcal Conclusion.

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Filtration In New York and ST. Louis
"A TraRtcaI Conclusion.
The st. Louis Democrat of the 9th pub
fishes this remarkable story:
"Everywhere around us sit the sister
Fates weaving the myriad webs of mortal
destiny, nor does one human being escape
their tolls On every hand moves tragedy,
romance or comedy, wearing the mask OF
everyday life Rarely the mask is lifted,
and thrilling truth, stranger than fiction,
allows us glimpse of its marvellous fea-
lures. Such a mask was Lifted in the pres
ence of our reporter yesterday, furnishing
him al DER true tale, "a shallow story of
deep love- that combines the elements of
romance and tragedy, not without a spice
of comedy.
There lived and still lives in this region,
though she is at present temporarily alb
sent at a watering place, divinity In DIM
ity, whose calling 1T was to ply with deft
fingers that flashing fairy shaft, the nse-
die Not to put too fine point upon the
needle, she was a seamstress. But as she
basted and stitched and sewed, she basted
and stitched and sewed the hearts OF fcnd
adorers many, and with no feeling of the
cruel business. In other phrase, she CO.
ouetted. 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 she tired of the heart, she would
lust slip it off and let it fall and leave it in
the dirt and carelessly step on it, as she
would do a very cheap button. Tens OF
thousands of pretty girls do the same every
day, and exactly the same number OF bad
bows are no bit better.
But our heroine chanced to be in New
York city last September, as the compan-
ION OF q st. Louis lady visiting there. and
put up at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Now it
is not every heart-conquering st. Louis
seamstress, of experienced eighteen, who
has an opportunity to do havoc with her
charms at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. SO she
campaigned more than ever, and soon
transfixed the smitten soul OF a parsonage
no less than the assistant steward OF the
great metropolitan 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 sooth, she was both fair and good,
and meant not the harm she did to the
foolish hearts of men. She encouraged his
attentions. and though he was nearly twice
ty-four years, yet the twain seemed mutu-
ally 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 epistola-
ry missives passed through the stone pas
sages of the happily fire-proof st. Louis
post office. She would reply kindly and
assent;ngly to them-playfully she meant
it, and intended no tragedy. But he took
il In deadest earnest, while she, last Janu-
airy, met her magnet at last, and actually
fell in love-or seemed to-with q ST. Louis
dry goods clerk on Main street.
sYet perhaps this was but coqustry, too.
In such cases, who can tell? At any rate
she plighted love, and the marriage was
agreed upon, to take place six months later.
For he was salaried clerk, and commonly
suck are not rich. Then she felt 1t some
what improper to continue the New York
correspondence, and the signing steward
found his letters unanswered. Now all
| history and biography show, leaving
Shakespeare and Fowler out OF the ques.
lion, that true love will not submit TO have
its letters unanswered. IL will know the
reason why.
80 our steward set out upon pilgrim
| age to st. Louis, and missed no train, mol
| lost moment on reaching here, but i'm
mediately marched straight to the door Of
his fair, knocked and craved admittance.
1t SO fell out that the Main street dry goods
clerk was just at that very time with her,
discussing of their mutually agreed upoI
| marriage. Awkward, wasn't it Looking
through the blinds she saw be steward
and was astounded She had scarcely time
to beg her young beloved 10 retire. fol
heavens sake to retire-into another room
when the New Yorker VAS Ushered in.
s.Young st. Louis did not retire In gooC
order, and elder New York, having come
predisposed to smell MICE smelled 1
prodigious rat. The lady's discomposur
did not enable her to smooth things, bu
rather made them utterly unavoidable
There was full understanding that ha'
the portents of grave misunderstanding
Youthful st. Louis in the next room hear
saw too-all that passed. He sustaine'
the honor of his stadt and Indignantly LEI
the field. There was afterwaId an inter
view, in which she wavered IN her prefer
ence. The man from Manhattan was i
fierce earnest, and had money and prop
erty, and would marry her at once. Sh
now scarcely knew what TO do, SO she wa
left to the conaueror from the Fifth Avenu
determination and dimes had shaken he
devotion to her avowed % true love.
The new match was formally arranged
He had business at Rock Island. and o
his returning thence they would becom
one Some seventeen hundred dollars b
put in bank, left the check for 1t with be
: and set out for Rock Island. 1t was o
; Wednesday of last week that he engage
passage on the steamer SalIie. Hardly ha
he got on board when, as the boat wa
: swinging of, q swaying spar struck HIM o
the head, gashing it frightfully, and knocl
) ing him senseless. This accident TO NJ
Maurice Condor, stranger from Ne
T York, was duly reported In the Democri
7 next day. He was taken to th
Sisters Hospital, and early the followin
morning his betrothed heard of the disai
7 ter and went thither to see him. He ha
l regained consciousness, but his conditio
: was deemed very critical At his wish tn
I priest was called, and the marriage We
: solemnized. We should have mentione
that both were Catholics, and that in d.
Gliding for Condor she had followed b
confessors advice.
The next Sunday the newly-made hu
band died, and on Monday last he WI
/. buried in the Calvary Cemetery. She hi
{ his name and effects, and no doubt lamen
, him sincerely. This is substantially Il
whole Of the strange, sad story, which v
, may have treated with too much 1evity
its beginning, since it ends so tra gicall,
. Against the lady's repute there is Q breai
save that she trihed unwittingy wit
D hearts. The deceased, we learn, has
mother and four sisters living at Quebe
Canada. q.
3 CLAIRvoYANcE. Among the many wo
ders claimed by clairvoyance or somnamb
8 lism is the faculty OF sight without the N
of the organs Of vision. A contributor
!. the Journal of Psychological Medicine ID
Schwabe), in treating of Modern Supeist
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