The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1870-08-26
A STRANGE STORY.
Filtration in New York and st. Louis
"A TraRfcaI Conclusion

4 STRANGE STORY.
| Filtration in New York and st. Louis
"A TragicaI 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 q glimpse of its marvellous fea-
lures. Such mask was lifted in the pres
ence of our reporter yesterday, furnishing
him an DER true tale,' "a shallow story OF
deep love- that combines the elements OF
romance and tragedy, not without spice
of comedy.
There lived and still lives in this region,
though she is at present temporarily alb
sent at watering place, divinity In dim
! ity, whose calling it 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
adorsrs many, and with no feeling OF the
cruel business. In other phrase, she CO.
quetted. 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
Just slip it off and let it fall and leave it in
the dirt and carelessly step on it, as she
would do very cheap button. Tens OF
thousands of pretty girls do the same every
e
boys are no bit better.
But our heroine CHANGED TO be in New
York city last September, as the compan-
ion OF a 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 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 ne
courted the st. Louis maiden.
''In 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
her age, for he had In him the fires of thir-
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 fre-proof st. Louis
post Office. She would reply kindly and
assentingly to them-playfully she meant
it, and intended no tragedy. But he took
it in deadest earnest, while she, last Janu-
ary, met her magnet at last, and actually
fell in love-or seemed to-with St. Louis
dry goods clerk on Main street.
''Yet perhaps this was but coquetry, 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 |
such are not rlch. Then she felt it some |
what improper to continue the New York |
correspondence, and the signing steward |
found his letters unanswered. Now all |
history and biography show, leaving
and Fowler out of the ques-
ton, that true love will not submit to have /
its letters unanswered. 1t will know the l
reason why.
$50 our steward set out upon a pilgrim
age to ST. Louis, and missed no train, nor
lost moment on reaching here, but i'm
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,
of their mu; ui.lly agreed upon
Awkward, wasn't 1t ? Looking
through the blinds she saw he steward,
and was astounded. She had scarceIy time
Ill /
heavens sake to retire-into another room
when the New Yorker vas ashered in.
"Young st. Louis did not retire In good
order, and elder New York, having come
to smell mice, smelled a
prodigious rat. The lady's discomposure
did not enable her to smooth things, but
rather made them utterly unSmoothable.
There was a full understanding that had
the portents of a grave misunderstanding.
Youthful 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 afterwald an inter-
view, in which she wavered In her prefer.
snce. The man from Manhattan was in
ierce earnest, and had money and prop
srty, and would marry her at once. She
now scarcely knew what to do, so she was
eft to the cOnQueror from the Fifth Avenue
Hotel, whose sudden advent and terrible
and dimes had shaken her
devotion to her avowed % true love.
''The new match was formally arranged.
de had business at Rock Island, and on
lls returning thence they would become
me. Some seventeen hundred dollars he
Iut in bank, left the check for 1t with her I
md set out for Rock Island. 1t was on
Wednesday of last week that he engaged !
passage on the steamer Saline. Hardly had {
lie got on board when, as the boat was {
winging of, a swaying spar struck HIM on {
he head, gashing it frightfully, and knock {
ng him senseless. This accident to Mr. !
.laurice Condor, stranger from New
FORK, was duly reported in the Democrat
lext day. He was taken to the
sisters Hospital, and early the following
corning his betrothed heard of the disas- &
er, and went thither to see him. He had 8
egained consciousness, but his condition T
7as deemed very critical At his wish the 5
riest was called, and the marriage was t
olemnized. We should have mentioned
hat both were Catholics, and that in de- {
iding for Condor she had followed her i
advice.
The next Sunday the newly-nlade hus- {
and died, and on Monday last he was a
uried in the Calvary Cemetery. She has |
is name and effects, and no doubt kments t
i'm sincerely. This is substantially the 1
hole of the strange, sad story, which we a
lay have treated with too much leylty in I
s beginning, since it ends SO +. gically.
geinst the lady's repute there is Io breath i
ave that she trifed unwittingly with
carts. The deceased, we learn, has a i
lother and four sisters living at Quebec, c
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