Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1872-08-09
THE GAZETTE.
FRIDAY EVENING, AUGUST 9.

ASENsATIoN.- seems that respectable and
we'll to- do Young grocer OF Philadelphia, named
Thunderstorm, became enamored OF a young
lady belonging to wealthy and aristocratic fam
ilv named Levy. Mamie" as she was called
returned the affection of Tumblestone. They
both attended the same church, and were, we
believe, members of the same Sabbath school;
but the bigh-toned mother of Mamie,
widow lady, finding that her daughter was
deeply In love with Mr.. Tumblestone, sought
at once to break off the match. She hustled
her daughter off to Georgia, where she was
brought into contact with a naughty young
Southerner, who, the mother thought was just
fitted to be her son-inlaw. But Mamie longed
for her groceryman, to whom her troth hao
been pEghted. She endured the young
Georgian; she didn love him. The mamma
managed to throw the young people together
on every possible occasion, aud employed all a
mothers wiles to fan the fame OF love IN her
daughters breast. 1t was no use, and one
morning the matchmakers awoke to hnd the
Young lady missing. She had fed, no one
knew whittier. Search was made without
avail till at last it was learned that Miss Levy
had reached the Quaker City 1t seems that
she had returned to her lover S arms, told him
inst how things stood, and the two had
ouietlv gone over to Camden and been made
one flesh and separated, returning to their
Individual homes This was on the lst OF
July, and scarcely had they got back to Phila-
delphia when the mother arrived. But it was
too late. Her child was married and the son
of Georgia was discomfted What next? A
trip to Saratoga was proposed, and the young
Georgian secretly telegraphed to come on.
Arriving here, they put up at one OF the prln-
cipal hotels, and 10 due time the southern lover
came and registered at the same hotel. Mamie,
he knew, had been formerly married to Tum-
game. He didn't, however He only made
new combinations He was bound to beat the
PHILADELPHIA grocer anyway. The way he
sought to do it was this: He told the mother
that ipasmuch as Mamie" and Tumblestone
had not dwelt together at all as husband and
wife it was nothing but paper marriage, and
Dot binding The weak and wicked mother
tell into the trap, and Mamie was badgered,
and caioled, and deceived, till at last she yield
ed Rev. j. NJ. King was sent for, aud
Mamie and her Georgia lover were formally
married, and thus made parties, the one to a
felony and the other to the crime Of bigamy.-
Of course the autecedents in the case were
kept concealed from the officiating clergyman.
About this time Tumblestone, suSpecting some
thing wrong, came on from Philadelphia, and
was confronted with the facts stated above
His legal wife had committed bigamy by mar
rying his Georgia rival. \ legal EXAMINATION
followed before one OF our justices and the fact
was elected that both the mother aud the
Georgia man knew Of Miss Levys marriage to
Thunderstorm This was enough to make the
act criminal. All the parties left town at once,
and legal proceedings have been commenced in
the case. The name of the Georgia gentleman
who feloniously married the wife of William
Fl. Tumblestone is John Z. Hullipgsworh.-
He belongs in Macon, Ga.-The Saratogian.