Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1871-08-25
A Rich Widow and her DAuRhter-What
BerslI Her In tho Days when They Went


A Rich Widow and her DAughter-What
Bersn Her In tho Days when They Went
GIpsyIng.
Two or three years ago rich widow. the
mother of beautiful young daughter, in
Evansville, Ohio. foolishly visited an en-
campment of gipsies on the outskirts Of
the town, TO have her fortune told"
and was thereby persuaded into the
acquaintance of prominent member of
the band, whom she was subsequently in
fatuated with enough to marry. The first
design OF this homogeneous union was that
the gypsy bridegroom should withdraw
from his people and become respectable
member of society but events soon dicta-
ted instead that the wife should become
gypsy, as a measure OF opposition to her
renegade husband. Before such marriage
had been thought of poor young man IN
GAINESVILLE was sutton for the heart aud
hand of the widows daughter, despite the
determined opposition of the mother and
after the latter's own misguided matrimo-
NAL adventure, the new husband and step
father coming into the family strongly fa-
vored the impecunious youth pretensions.
of the heiress. His motive in this
matter was a desire to be rid OF q step
daughter whom he suspected of a
likelihood to her mother against giving
him too full control of the estate of her
husband; and so peremptorily did he make
known his wishes in the case the result
was an irreconcilable breech between his
wife and himself. The elder lady not only
denounced him for his premature dicta-
ton, but actually fed from him, with his
daughter, to the protection Of the gipsies,
in the wood, who, for sufficient compensa-
ton, were ready enough to sympathize
IA 4, h.. 1nta do
Mother and daughter became veritable
| gipsies themselves the young heires5
adopted the picturesque costume OF their
new friends; and when the band started
in their two great wagons for new camp
the fair refugees went with them. few
days ago the Bohemian wanderers appear
ed in Bloomington and camped In WOOD
southwark of the town, whittier came very
soon to 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 70
conciliate, proposed to bind himself, by
writing, to refrain from the pursuit OF bis
sweetheart until he should have earned a
com petence for himself, if the mother, on
her side, would agree to accept him then
as a gon-in-law. No terms, however,
would the resolute matron make him OF
his supporter and when he and the con-
demned gypsy husband drew knives by
way of forcing the heiress from her new
guardians, the mother presented q revol:
YER with as determined Significance Oh
mien /! She.might have fired, too. had noI
her daughter thrown herself between the
hostile weapons, 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 encampment; and as, the follow
inc morning. the band and their two
strange guests disappeared from Blooming
ton, the end of the story is yet to be told