Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1875-08-19
A BREACH o. PROMISE SUIT.

Miss Anna Noice, of Princeton, N
j., has instituted suit against Albert d.
Brown, of the same town, for breach of
promise Of marriage, placing her dama~
ges at $50, goo. Brown isabout thirty
five years of age, and resides with his
mother at the old Fields mansion, and
is reputed to be worth 100000. He is
a rather prohigate young man, is a
chemist, botanist. and florist, and once
held a post of honor in the Princeton
College. He was once married, and his
wife is alive, but he has not lived with
her for two years and a half past. A
suit for divorce between them is pend
ing. Miss Noice is a sprightly, prepos.
sessing, handsome young lady of TWEEN
ty five summers, we'll educa!ed, highly
accomplished, and is known in Prince
ton as the s'Pretty Gardeners Daugh~
ter" Her father is dead; he was a gar
dener. She is envied as much on ac
count of her beauty by the ladies OF
Princeton as she.is admired for the same
reason by the Princeton college students
and others The narrative of her court
ship reads like a romance She has
made an affidavit, covering overing over
twenty five pages of legal cap paper.
In it are, several extracts from letters re
ceived by her from Mr.. Brown,ot which
the following are specimens:
eff forsake or betray you, SO may
He-forsake and abandon me when all
earthly hope is passed. If draw back
one day and'say lido not love you, may
He say to me, depart, you have no
place with me; yoi, forsook her dared all
tor you, and now in your distress will l
forsake you l do not ask you to &C
cept poverty with; nor disgrace, either.
can and will give you wealth and po-
sition if you will only wait. l do not
offer you dishonorable love, but prof.
fer you as honorable love as it is pos
sible for human being to do; that,
come good or i'll, there is one who will
never .forsake you; that will stand by
your side, content to meet any fate, ii
you will only share it with him. In de.
ceiving you should ruin all earthly
hopes of future life, for l do not be-
lieye there could be any forgiveness tt1
deed SO utterly base, and without. an
excuse <SH126@2E ~rs:,a
Confding in those promises she. was
induced to go to Brazil and get married
Both of them went there. After stop
ping short time at Rio Janerio, he in.
formed her that the Emperor had. for
hidden the priests to marry any prose
lytes unless good evidence was giver
J that divorces had been legally obtained
They thus departed for England, anc
arrived in Liverpool in December, 1873
He again renewed his promise and told
her to goto New York and stop at The
Astor House, and he would soon fol-
| lowhe He did not allow her to take
her wardrobe he said he would bring
it.
Tho voyage was tempestuous, md at
ter much suffering she landed in New
York, put up at the Astor House, ant
stopped there one week. He falling Il
appear, she started for Princeton, whel
she found that her father was dead
The day she left Liverpool, Brown lief
for St. Thomas, West Indies, and die
not return to Princeton till May, 1874
She has not seen Brown since she lief
Liverpool. Before they went to Brazi
her father was in the employment o
Mrs. Brown as gardener. During hel
absence he died, and her mother wa
turned out by Mrs. Brown. Miss Alic'
found her mother in perjury on her re
turn home. She suffered SO much b,
the voyage from Liverpool that she wa
taken sick, and is now a confirmed in
valid, being almost unable to walk. Sh'
always possessed vigorous constitution
before she left home Brown has acte(
very callously toward her since he came
from St. Thomas, never inquiring abou
her or expressing any solicitude for he1
| welfare.