The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1871-08-16
4 RicEs widow end Her Daughter.
swmas Befell I'm the BByswhen They
went GSpsyfug.

TwGNor three years ago rich widow, the
mother of beautiful Young daughter, i'm
GAINESVILLE, Ohio, foolishly visited an en-
dan,nrnent of gipsies on the outskirts of the
towt, Ia have her Is fortune told" and was
thereby persuaded into the acquaintance
Of q prominent member of the band,
whom She was subsequently, infatuated with
enough to marry. The first design OF this
homogeneous union was That the gypsy
bridegroom should withdraw from bis PEG.
ple and become respectable member OF
Society: but events soon dictated instead
that The wife should become o gipsys as q
measure of opposition to her renegade hus-
band. Before such marriage had been
Thought of poor young man OF GAINESVILLE
was sutton for the heart and hand of the
widows daughter, despite the determined
opnosition of the mother and after the
latteI's own misguided matrimonial adverl-
ture. the new husband and step-father
coming into the family strongly favored the
impecunious youths pretensiops, and
coolly promised him the hand of the
heiress. His motive in this matter
was a desire to be rid of a step
daughter whom he suspected Of a
Likelihood to influence her mother
against giving him a too full control
of the estate of her husband; and so per-
emptorily did he make known his wishes
/ in the case that the result was an irrecon-
cilable breach between his wife and hlm-
self. The elder lady not only denounced
him for his premature dictation, but actu-
ally fled from him. with he daughter, to
the protection Of the gipsies In the wood,
who for sufficient compensation. were ready
enough to sympathize with her. against
their late comrade. Mother and daughter
became veritable gipsieS themselves; the
!, o;,oeo n 10 ,to5 fbo eos.
tune of their new friends and when the
band started in their two great wagons for
new camp the fair refugees Went With
them. A few days ago the Bohemian wan
derers appeared in Bloomington and
camped in q wood southwark Of the town,
whittier came very soon the GAINESVILLE
lover and the discarded Gypsy husband:
The meeting of the pursuers and pursued
in the shadows of the forest, with sWarthy
faces and odd costumes in the chorus, was
highly dramatic. The lover, anxious to
concilate, proposed to bind himself, by
writing, to refrain from pursuit ofhis sweet
heart until he should have earned compe-
tence for himself, If the mother, on her
side, would agree to accept him then as
a son-in. law. No terms, however, would
the resolute matron make him or his sup
porter: and when he aud the condemned
gypsy husband drew knives, by way of fore
ing the heiress from her new guardians, the
mother presented revolver with as deter
| mined significance of mien She might
have fired, too, had not her daughter
| thrown herself between the hostile wea-
pons, and besought her lover. for the sake
| of the love which she knew he bore for her,
to withdraw. Finally, both the young man
and the gypsy partisan left the cncampment;
and as, the following morning. the band
and their two strange guests disappeared
from Bloomington, the end of the story is
vet 10 be told. g--'-