The Bloomfield times. [volume] (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1867-187?, 1872-08-13
A True Love Story.


A. eastward bound, there came into the
City of Council Bluffs, Iowa, fortnight
ago, fine-looking woman, slightly past
the first bloom of life but still not very
matronly in manner-who upon registering
at the Pacific House, complained that she
felt unwell and desired that a doctor should
be called. She was an English lady, she
told the hotel clerk, she was on her way
homeward to England from trip by sea to
San Francisco, and, finding herslf attacked
by alarming indisposition in The cars, had
decided to pause on her journey until as
sisted by medical skill. It not being sup
posably the custom of English ladies of
rank to travel across continents without
masculine escort, the clerk was skeptica
as to the exact veracity of this explanation
and troubled not himself to consider wheth-
, era medical practitioner of the highest pro-
fessional grade should be summoned in
such a case. Amongst the guests of the
house at the time was certain travelling
doctor. of some reputation for Wonderful
cures, !" and him the young gentleman rec
ommending with of-band fuency as the
physician to be called with the least trouble
to himself. Accordingly when the lady
had been conducted to the room, the afore-
I said itinerant was notified to pay his re-
/ spects, and skilful enough to discover that
his patients ailment existed more in i'm
aginary than reality. This he frankly told
, her, in effect, and prescribed some trifiing
nervine; but the lady who gave her name
as Mrs. Fitch, persisted in thinking herself
an invalid, and demanded course of
/ treatment. She was, she said, a spiritual
ist ard clairvoyant, and knew her own
condition better than any doctor could tell
her, and she must take such and such
drugs for the restoration of her health
Believing that he had hypochondriac to
deal with, the man of nostroms madc no
strenuous protest against the involved pros
pective profit to himself of such case, but
being rather busy at the time with the
general callers drawn to his room by his
advertisements, deputed his secretary
. a young Englishman named Stanton, to
render the professional services desired by
Mrs. Fitch. The latter at her second inter
view with the young deputy, astonished
him greatly by asking if be believed in
+ "Spiritualism." His polite evasion of
direct answer subjected him to still greater
surprise at third interview when, upon
confessing that he was an Englishman, the
eccentric lady secretly told him that he was
the person selected 10y the spirits for her
husband He thought her mad, and would
have retreated without further conversa-
ton, but his patient begged him to stay
and hear her story. Her father, she de-
clared, is an English bishop, and her family
one of the most respectable and wealthy in
! England. Although but thirty-fve years
old she had welded and buried three hus-
bands already, losing the last one in Cal
ifornia; and on her way from San Francisco
was spiritually impressed" with the con-
, viction that she should very soon meet
fellow country man destined TO be her
fourth helpmate. At first sight of Mr..
Stanton she had known him to be the
person appointed for her by fate and now
offered him her hand and fortune as COM
manded by the spirits. Overwhelmed by
the oddity of the affair, the charlatan's
secretary managed to express his sense of
the honor designed for him by immaterial
parties in another world, yet requested
time for consideration for his answer
This was granted, and Mrs. Fitch made non
other effort to influence his Judgment than
by display of what he deemed sat isfac-
tory proofs of her fortune and respectable
ity of family. He poor in strange coun-
try, and in an unproInising employment,
while the widow, with all her eccentIicity
and spiritual delu sions, was both rich and
homely. In short, if the Omaha Bee is to
be credited, Mr.. Stanton finally concluded
to accept the destiny thus curiously thrust
upon him, was married TO The lady in
parlor of hotel few days ago and is now
on his way to Europe with his bride.
The Beggars' Bridge.
The Grand Duke of Florence it is said,
once proclaimed that every beggar who
xyo,,ld amman In, Tho GRAND ,,lo1a ak N oo.