Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1874-07-14
EVENING STAR.
A MOunsafm AdyensureSs.

The young female Oft coupled ms.rtmonlsliy
and otherwise with the frazier sex Of man, en-
acted her first nuptisls on the top OF the Ale
Rneny mountains at the Glsdes Hotel. refer
70 thst Miss Ely who entrspped the Russian
Grand Duke to give for her society his mothers
diamonds and rubies- She married o certain
Mr.. Blackford, OF Parkersburg, W. va, at the
Glades Hotel, Oakland, in the year 1852, ha wing
deceived her mother and played the adventsr-
10 visit schoolmate, bringing her mother with
her. Biaekford and several others we're infatu-
s sted with her pereu.sive eyes and deeoying
volatile witchfre in the swamp; and her nature,
exhaustive and intense Of the moment In which
she drank the loiterer's whole soul through her
Her mother and she we're both INDECENT, and
did not well agree. She was q creature for diA-
Leaving Psrkersburg, she projected the sur
render Of her name and custody In Q way 10 in
dictate her innate insincerity. She rode ct her
R Rsasfosd SIDE DC, % Oakland bidding sdieu to
behind. At Oakland, affecting 70 be engaged
In another part Of the train, she stepped upon
the platform, and let the poor old lady 20 on
until, missing her daughter, she made a Ioud
cutlery and upbraided the train people, and WAS
put of at Altamont. twelve miles eastward.
Thence. returning TO Oakland, she LAID her com
plant before Gen. Sullivan, q military OFFICER.
and he teiegrsphed TO Grafton TO arrest Black
tord ana sll bis party. quarterm Aster named
timidated any civil officer from making such
an unauthorized arrest. Blackford slipped on
TO Oakland that night, where the old lady, Mrs
Ely, was In dreadful state OF mental distress
half expecting that her daughter meant to
marry somebody, and yet wheedled by the de-
ceitful girl TO state of personal self accuse
ton that hers was the offense.
The hopeful miss had meantime artfully en-
listed the sympathies of Miss DALEY, now the
wife OF Brigade. General Crook, daughter of
the proprietor of the house, who was led 70 be-
heye that case of genuine love and engage
ment was about TO be thwarted by cruel parents.
A responsible merchant in the town, Mr. Dsn
Oftut, was also seduced 70 give his assistance.
FeigDirg TO he sick, Miss Ely alleged that she
wished TO retire TO her bed, and the dame went
10 the parlor, 10 find in the morning that her
daughter had been married I'm the bedroom, and
had Immediately closed the door of her apart
nent, and harbored the man found willing TO
take her under such circumstances She did not
even possess change or garments or linen, aud
surrendered herself in her travelling Clothes
borrowing some needful garments from the
ladies at the hotel.
Next day the mother raved and wept. The
pride was cool as matrOn OF many years
standing, and declined TO return to Phflaiel-
phia, beiEg now Mrs. Blackboard, of Parkers-
burg, connected with q good family of West
virginia, though the groom, her husband, was
rather given TO high living. The Elys were
poor, however, and the mother was finally
smoOthed over, and withdrew her husband to
the banks of the Ohio.
The union was Improbable and unhappy.
The vile coquetted; the husband drank and
protested. Their qusrrels became the subject
OF general remark, and one day Blackford was
found dead in his bed
AS Mrs. Lizzie Blsckford, the young widow
returned TO Philadelphia a, and forthwith began
long career of blackmaling men and gaining
the social confidence of women. She passed on
from precaTiOus iil TO bold adventure, until the
ocean closed the old account behind her, and
she began a new one in Europe, which did not
stop short of the palace of the Gear and the pre-
cieus caskets OF a Grand Duchess of the House
OF Romanof.-"Gdth" iR Chicago Tribune.