Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1871-01-26
A Quiet Fifth Avenue Story.
From he New YORK World.

lZeU with due fashionable pomp this
week. between one of the most elegant
bellies uf Fifth Avenue, and an English
gentleman lately very popular in New
York society, the following little ro-
nance receives credenco il current SO
cial gossip;
Several years ago, q son OF the family
to whom the bl1de belongs had brought
his own prospects and the anxiety of
his parents and friends 10 such crisis
by the elimination of fast career,
that expatriation seemed 20 offer the
only remaining chance for his rescue
from complete ruin. Although too weak
to resist the evil influence by which his
stay in his own city aud country was
made assurance of his ultimate
disgrace and destruction, the,
young man had enough good
sense 10 approve aud adopt the
plan urged 10, has thorough withdrawal
from such Influences, and agreed 20 be
come hls fathers business agent to
Australia, there to establish branch
OF the patornal house of trade, Firmly
resolved to make his future years in
that far country ample atonemopt for
his misspent days here, he set sail for
his distant destination by way OF Cali
fornia, leaving behind HIM many true
and hopeful hearts, but mono SO thor
ouGhly confident Of his entire reform
alton as that of his only sister Ia her
he had found an unchangiug patience
with hls faults, and faith in his better
qualities, serving 10 hold hun back
from the worst even in his weakest mo
ments OF sell-indulgent folly. and 10
her he looked in his heart white going
forth into exile for that folly us 10 the
one friend supremacy trustful o1 the
genuineness OF his new resoiu-
tons Reaching the city of Mel
bourne in safety, and there asso-
ciatinq himself IN commercial pultner-
ship with young English gentleman
Of high position and connections, he
entered vigorously upon the new path
he had marked ont for himself, aud
soon mastered prosperity and popu-
lar estimation, commensurate with his
most sanguine hopes. All of his letters
homeward were frmght with n manly
spirit Of PREPARATION for tie past, ana
rehabilltatlug determination for the tu-
tire; but, IN writing to his sister, graf
itude took the lead Of all his emotion,
save the chiiklike, reverental love IN
which his whCie chastened nature bowed
to kiss her ,eet. Two years Of worthy
endeavor brought him further practical
reward; but now his health, already
shattered by past unwisc inlulgences.
began failing, and, before lac could
realize that the climate Of his exile WAS
helping the destroyer, he was PROSTATE
upon his death bed Unable then
/ to pen those messages TO his
/ sister which had become necessary to
| his new existence, he contided 10 his
partner and friend all that his sister
| had been TO h!in. and entrusted to his
sympathetic hand the hrotherly office
/ Through the last days of the sickness
the young Enslishman made the de-
puted labor oi love his most earnest
mission and when death finally closed
the eyes of the exile. wrote the last
message, and enclosed the memorial
| lock OF hair to her whose love for, and
trust in, the redeemed brother had
never faltered. When. about year
ago, the English gentleman visited
| New York, on "a circuitous way home to
| England, his visit to the family OF his
late partner WAS as that OF dean
friend to dear friends, and what he
! had been 10 the son and brother
was his all-suthcient introduction to a
parental and sisterly esteem, needing
no aid from has own fine character TO
make ii certain and permanent l. rly
in the new year, now SO close mt hand,
he viii resume the journey to his own
| English home, taking with him as II
bride one in whom lives the likeness of
the purified and regenerated older part
ner of his, whose last breath was
blessing ON her name. In all the cur-
rent records of fashionable weddiogs
on the avenue, it is seldom that such a
graceful preinde as TINS can be given I;
and if the New York correspondent Of
the Boston Times has erred against
private privilege in being the first to
make it free TO public print, upon his
head also be the consequences Of this
repetition. % nest ore ic 1rcHGier
pas Gui coate.
THE Winona Republican says that
the wife of Frederick Hermann, brick
layer and Whitewater, died in that
city under circumstances which have
created considerable excitement among
the neighbors and friends of the de
ceased, who were fully aware Of the
fact that her husband had been in the
habit of boating and whipping her in
the most cruel manner. At one time
he was confined III jail Tor abusing his
wife, but with true womanly devotion
she overlooked all has brutality and Sc
cured his release. Even this kindness,
however, did dot soften him, and he
soon resumed his cruel aud inbuman
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