The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1873-07-15
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poverty, sq,alor aud dirt. the poor wretch
breatbed her ast Then, 70 the astonish.
mcnt OF tho, surrounding neighborhood,
there came Il magnificent rosewood casket
costing three huudu.i dollars, lots Of
flowers, and all the pomp aud circumstance
that walk beside death up the aisle Of
Grace Church when one Of our great good,
and wealthy 60 home.
In 1852 this woman was beauty and
an honored young wife her husband an
industrious man, at that time turning his
attention to the manufacture Of American
carpets. In boarding house that then
existed in Broadway, where shipping Of.
fees and insurance buildings now are to
be found, the young couple lived, and q
daughter was born to them and shortly
after dissentons arose between the pair.
The husband cast the wife off, and essay
ed twice to procure divorce from her,
and twice was beaten. The woman was
Young mex perionced, and goaded to mad.
ness Nv the cold, unfeeling treatment Of
,,o Incensed man. She eked out re.
putable support by needlework for year
o. so, but her child was delicate and
change of climate and expensive medical
advice alone conld insure little Lizzie's
life Taking advantage of this the hus.
band negotiated for the custody of the
child, and under the pre.ence of obtaining
full control of the infant, induced the
mother to sign paper she supposed to be
REIMBURSEMENT of her maternal rights,
but which years after she knew to be
false statement, in the shape OF a con-
fession." Her child was taken from her,
and her husband, who was even then
amassing the colossal fortune which has
since made his name famous, put $4,000
iu the hands Of that defaulting postmas-
ter, Fowler, who years ago kited away
with good deal more. This money was
to be paid in installments to the discard
ed wife, and about $1,000 of it she got.
The other four accompanied the flight of
Fowler. Her applications for relief were
treated with contempt, and the unfortu-
nate creature, possessing no ability to
earn livelihood except by manual labor,
and too much false pride for honest work,
drifted away as beauty, ignorance of the
world, and incapacaity always drifts,
through some seductive passage of" pro-
lection out upon the great sea of vice
ebbing and flowing in all large cities, and
step by step-always downward-went
the unfortunate, disowned creature now
in Washington, now in Chicago, again in
New York-lower and lower-till the
year 1873
Away up in the aristocratic part Of
Fifth avenue Fifth avenue has its debas.
ed and degraded blocks) there liv.
ed, and lives very stylish young matron
whose husband is millionaire, and whose
father is ten times that and more. The
wealthy old father lives with the petted
delicate, richly endowed daughter, his one
sole heiress, every luxury that art and
money can devise surrounding them and
in the same city, within distant the no.
Bile lady's horses could travel 10 twenty
minutes, lay one morning three weeks ago
the once young wife Of the old mans bo-
som, the once fond mother Of the aristo.
cratic Fifth avenue matron. dying wretch.
eddy and alone in miserable block Of
buildings, whose means of entrance is
from the rear and by stairways on the
outside. Here an outcast, fearful to look
upon, maddened by the awful fate that
has pursued her, with beautiful, honor
able daughter in the same city, with a
husband rolling in wealth, she finally laid
down and died.
The rich manufacturer has alwaps kept
the poor, wasting dying creature in sight
and the instant the life, that has been 0
nightmare to him for years, passed from
the exhausted, worn body Of the once
beautiful woman. his agent came forward
betrayed all the expenses of her funeral
paid her few paltry debts, and no doub
Mr,--slept sounder that night than b
has in many years. The incidents of THU
woman's life have been varied, romantic
and interesting, and at an another time
/, some of them will prove very readable.
THE ETHAN ALLEN MoNUMENr.-Th,
monument to Ethan Allen in Green noun
tain Cemetery in Burlington was erected
by the State of Vermont, by authorit,
Of an act of Legislature passed in 1855
which appropriated $4,000 for that pur
pose 1t is of Barre granite. The bas
of the pedestal is eight feet square on tn
ground, consists of two steps Of granite
on which, set in block of granite 81,
feet square, are four panels of white mar
} BILE bearing the following inscriptions
ON THE WEST FRONT.
Vermont to ETHAN ALLEN. Bor
in Litch6eld Conn.,, 10th of January
! 1877 O.S. Died in Burlington, vt
{ 18th of February, 1889, and buried nea
the site of this Monument.
, ON THE NORTH SIDE.
WELDING the pen as well as the sword
be was the sagacious and intrepid Defen
J der of the New Hampshire Grants, an
E Master Spirit in the arduous struggl
which resulted in the Sovereignty and In
dependence of this State.
ON THE SOUTH.
The Leader of the Green Mountai
Boys in the Surprise and Capture of T
Z conderoga, which he demanded in tn
q name Of the Great Jehovah and the Cor
$ tinental Congress.
= ON THE EAST.
Taken prisoner in daring attack o
! Montreal, and transported to England
be disarmed the purpose of his enemy b
q the respect which he inspired for the r.
: bellion and the rebel.
Above this PEDESTAL rises Tuscan sha
: of granite four aud half feet in diam
ter and forty.two feet high. Upon i
capital, on base bearing the word T
conderoga," stands heroic statute {