Wilmington journal., 1875-08-20
A AnxEACHo PROMISE SUIT.
A IsunsaHIic Story of F'NVO COnti-
nents-s60, 90 Wanted


Miss Anna Notice, of Princeton, N.
| j., has Instituted sflt against Albert
d. Brown, of the same town, for
breach of promise of marriage, placing
her damages at $50, 1000. Brown is
about thirty five years of age, and re-
sides with his mother in the old Fields
mansion. in Princeton, and he is re-
puted to be worth $500,O00. He is a
rather prohigate young man, is a chem
ist. botanist, and florist, and once held
a post of honor in Princeton College.
He was once married, and his wife is
alive hut he has net lived with her
for two years and half past. a suit
for divorce between them is pending
Miss Notice Is u sprightly, preposses-
sing. handsome young lady of twenty
three summers, we'll educated, highly
accom- piiahei, and - known in Prince
tom ..1 the Pretty Gardner's Dangti-
ter. Her father is dead; he was
gardiner. Sh' is envied as much on
accnunt.of ner beauty by he ladies OF
Pritrc-t' ton as she is admired for the
same reason by the Princeton College
students and Ushers. The narrative
OF her courtship .rads like romance.
She had made an affidavit, covering
about twenty-tiv pages of legal cap
paper. In 1t are several extracts from
letters received by her from Mr.. Brown,
OF which the following are specimens:
Ii L forsakt, or hatr;.y you, so may
H forsake and Hbardon me- when all
earthly hope is PASSED. Ii I draw back
one day and say [ do not love you.
may lie say to me, depart, you have
no place with me-; you forsook her
who dared all for you, and now in
your distress will forsake you.' I
do not ask you to accept poverty with
me, nor disgrace either. I can and
viii give you wealth and position if you
will only wait. / do hot offer you dis
| honorable love, but proffer you as
honorable Il love as it is possible for a
human being to do: that come good
or i'll, there is one who will never for
sake yo"; that will tand by your side,
| content To meet any fate if you Will
only share if with him. Ii deceiv-
iug yoG L should ruin all my earthly
| bopes of ID future life, for I DO not be
iieVe the could be any forgiveness TO:
/ It deed utterly base, aud without an
! XcuEe."
Confdlng III these promises she
! sslS Iiiductd t. go to Dr.zsi 30 ge: mar
! red, Both uf them went there. AT
| Ger Htupp,Lg Il short time IN Rio
Jaueiro, he Informed her that the EN-
per"r had forbidden the priests to
marry any proseiytes unless good evi-
deHc" wae given shat divorca had been
legally ohta1ned. They thus d. parted
for Euglaua, ana arrived in Liverpool
III Dec. mbcr, 1873. He again re-
Dewed h'@ promise, aud told her to go
IT, New York and stop at the Astor
| House, and he WouiG soon follow her.
He did not allow her TO takesher war.
drobe-he said he would bring it
The voyage was tempestuous,
and after much suffering she landed
il. New York, put up at the Astor
House. aud stopped there one week.
He failing to appear, she started for
Princeton, when she found that her
father was dead. The day she left
Liverpool, Brown left for St. Thomas,
West Indies, and did not return to
Princeton till May, 1874 She has not
not seen Brown since slre left Liverpool.
Before they went to Brazil her father
was III the employment of Mrs. Brown
as gardener. During her absence he
died, and her mother was turned out
by Mrs. Brown. Alice found her moth
er IN pcnury on her return home.
She suffered SO much by the voyage
from Liverpool that she was taken
eIck, and is Low n confirmed invalid,
! beng almost unable to work. She al
| ways possessed vigorous constitu-
ton before she left home Brown
has acted very callously towards her
since he came from St. Thomas, never
in4uring about her or expr ssng the
least soiicitude for her welfare.