The Grange advance., 1874-12-01
PE,|:!S Of EDUCATING ABROAD.

PE2!l-S Of EDUCATING ABROAD.
;Corres poAaence u he Springfield Rep,l5li-
can.
HEIDELBERG, Oct. 81 take up my
pen to inform you, and th-oagh yeu the
American public generally, OF most
gross outrage which has been commit
ted here against al American woman
who has been for three years a eside,2t
in this city. Some four years ago, the
I husband of this woman came to Europe,
arriving at Paris just as the Franco
Prussialls.War broke cut: to purchase
machinery for boring artesian wells IN
Peru, 8 country in which he had been
living for several years pre-.
vious. He brought, also, his
family with him. consisting Of his wife
and five children, tho eldest now about
20 Years old and the. youngest nine.
The wife decided to remain here in this
city fer the purpose Of educating the
children, and accordingly rented apart
! ments and becaIne a householder. Her.
husband returned to Peru and began
prosecution of his enterprise. He had
made progress TO certain extent, ex-
! pending large SUM Of money TWhen'
some financial difficulties ensued in
Peru. thus delaying his payments from
the government, and which resulted in
his disseminating his work entirely, and
leaving him large creditor Of tho
State. He had from time to
time made seasonabie and gener-
Gus rcmittances ito his wife, which
she had to all appearances expended in
a judicious manner, contracting no
| debts Of any account. II November
last. she received remittance from
him, since which time she has received
nothing, also no letters. AS month af-
ter month, passed. away, landp no news
whatever came t IL hand, she wrote to
the American minister to learn what had
| become Of her husband. In due time
for return from suchia distance, she
5received letter written by her husband
himself, who went on to say that he
| been up in the mountains upon business
matters. whence he had written to her
by every mail, and enclosed to her a
letter from friend in Lima, who stated
that he had forwarded her a letter by
every mail, which letter he had receiv-
ed from her husband for this purpose.
He, further said that he could send her
no money, that affairs, in Peru were
very bad, and, as soon as he could ar
ange his business, and could obtain
money he would remit her. ...,..s.... 4.
| I write these particulars, not because
they necessarily have any connection
with the outrage from which she is now
suffering, butas an explanation of her
financial affairs, by which she became
lexposed to the treatment she has re-
,ceiyed. During the past six months she
has not been able to pay her current
expenses, but as she had always paid
her bills before, and was living from
month to month and week to week, as I
may say, in expectation of money, she
had always stated when a bill was pre-
sented that upon receipt Of money she
would payit ,yNleantime she'had con-
tracted all her expenses, going so far as
fto do her own work, even to the family
Washing. Good friends have aided
her from time to time, with various
small sums of money. one loaning
,Eher enough to- discharge her bill for
house rent, enabling her to move, last
I April, into other apartments. She has
| lived also upon the barest necessities Of
! life, < eeping her children neat and tidy.
Three days ago. as | was sitting down
tony tea, her little girl came into my