The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1873-07-04
A IoaH9 BiDdnliSt.
THE MATRIMONIAL ADVENTURES OF
YOUTH OF 19-HE MARRIEs TWO GIRLS
AND is DIsOwSED BY HIS FATHER
STRANGE STORY, BUT TRUE.

Within the limits of the Twenty-third
Ward there resides wealthy and aristo-
cratic family, the direct descendants OF
very old and very thoroughbred branch
of English nobility.
As the legitimate fruits of an extensive
manufacturing business, the father, who
is also an exhausted Dip in municipal
politics, has accumulated an immense for
tune, which enables him to live in style and
sPlendOr. AS the great Longfellow has
sung "Into each life some rain must fall, -
SO into families, whether they be powerful
and rich or obscure and poor, the angel of
fate plans trouble and tribulation. Very
frequently the children by their bead
strong and perverse conduct bring shame
and disgrace upon the family, and such is
the case of the story of which we write.
A son, jovial, handsome boy who al
ways wanted his town way" and would
have it, by his misunderstanding procliyi-
ties kept the old man in a perpetual state
of 'ahot water The lad was aheart-crusher
among the girls. At last, becoming an in
tolerable nuisance at home, he was packed
off to celebrated military academy not
many miles from the city, to be educated
and to be out of the way. After being alb
sent about three years, a few months ago
the boy returned, full fiedged and educated,
to his home. He was then nineteen years
of age, with dashing devil-may- care air
about him, which captivated the ''dear
girls" more than ever. lie soon made the
acquaintance of a buxOm, good-natured
and pretty little factory-girl, who worked
in his fathers mill. The acquaintance
rapidly ripened into love upon her part,
and the beardless youth became tainted
with the same sensational feeling also. He
did not dare to conduct the intimacy open
ly, for fear of incurIing the displeasure of
his family, and SO the courtship was car
ried on in secret. A proposal of marriage
was accepted, and clandestine wedlock
arranged.
The same was consunmated. The young
people-the foolish lass of eighteen Sum
mers, and the foolhardy lad of nineteen
| Winters-kept the secret fBithfully. BY
some persuasion the young husband be-
came possessed of his wife's marriage lines
| and destroyed them. He soon grew weary
of his outhful bride and being too cow
! ardly to acknowledge her to the world as
[ such, he began to neglect her. He went
with another girl. The damsel lived in
/ Bridesburg, whittier the thrice foOl-harCly
swain hied himself too frequently. The CIR
was the daughter of people in humble life,
and when they were apprised of the pros
pectlvc nuptials between the son of the
rich mill owner and their "Mollie," were
/ glad of heart and buoyant in spirit. The
wedding day came, and was celebrated
with great ecldt. The festivities terminal
ed with what in the South would be dubbed
'hoe-down."
/ This marriage had been conducted with
more publicity than the former, and soon
reached the ears of the stern parent of the
/ twice married youth. The case was inves-
/ tigatcd. When the father was acquainted
/ with the fact that his son was a bigamist,
! his rage knew no bonnds, and he deter
mined, III order to maintain the dignity
and pride of the family, to disinherit the
wilful malefactor. The girls, the victims
of the wiles and wOoings of the young Lo-
! thario, carried their cases before magis-
trate, but the proceedings were dropped,
most likely by the old man shelling out
some of his lucre. The STRIPPING was turn
ed from his fathers home with the brand
of the family's displeaSure upon hiLI, and
he no longer is to be seen in the rural dis
tricts of the Twenty third ward. Whittier
he has gone no one knows.-PhiEa. Sunday
Mercury.