Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1876-08-18
rae DYNAMITE FIEND.

and one might suppose from his after
course that he had been started In life
with the parental injunction, "Getmo
my sonl Get money; honestly X ttec
cam but getmoneyp' BY unknown ways
he succeeded ip getting enough to,giyo
hlm the appearance Of great wealth. He
spent freely; was of eminently pheasant
manners ardsocialnstircts; loved society
and made himself most delightful mem
Der Of it; was matrimonial catch, aud
might have married. money, but he SOW
one who put out Of his mind all thought
of making II by marriage-rif, indeed, one
who could pet rich by so many other de.
vices had, ever thought. of this one.
The lady who sealed his late was much
younger than himself-a French girl in
New York, without a permanent home or
friends on whom she could rely for sup
port. She was beautiful-surpassing so
accomplished, graceful and elegant
had been born and brought up In Paris,
where her mother still resides; spoke sew.
eral languages with fiuency, and was fit
ted with everything but money for adorn.
ing the circles of upper-tendom. Our
Scotchman became deeply enamored of
the beautiful, friendless girl proposed,
was accepted, and they were married.
His wife's tastes were expensive. She
believed him to be a person of almost un-
limited resources and spent freely for the
adornment of the lovely person he loved
so much to see beautifully adorned. lie
proved to be an almost adoring husband,
gentle, affectionate, devoted, attentive
often performing with his own hands for
his wife and children services usually rem
dered by servants, and for the performance
of which he had plenty of paid atten.
dsnts. For instance, he thought no one
could prepare his wife's coffee and carry
it to her bedside in the morning so well
as he, or wrap her shawl around her so
carefully when she sat up to drink it. If
baby cried, nurse and mamma gave place
to the superior tenderness with which he
soothed its sorrows. Norother man could
be quite so consderate and gentle to the
lady friends of his wife, and the light of
the home seemed to have gone out when
he was absent Their style of living was
superb and his outlay lavish His re-
sources were supposed to be very great,
and when he began 10 complain Of his
wife's bills she thought him stingy and
spoke of it to her intimate lady friends,
who spoke of it again to their husbands,
and it was quite good joke to think of
the canny Scotchman being alarmed by
the milliner's bills of his beautiful young
wife.
ears dBO Culuc u
Europe, and here he passed as Southern
American; and, as matter of course,
they were all the possessors of untold
wealth. The war might have deprived
them of their slaves, but the aroma of
of huge estates and great expectations, as
well as of past magnifcence, attached to
them.
Our Scotchman and his bewitching
French wife lived here in Leipsic for quite
length of time, and did us the honor of
representing themselves as Americans.
They lived in fine style and had many
warm friends. The lady's almost perfect
knowledge of several languages fitted her
for society. They had plenty of money
and had very nice time. A gentleman
made a short journey in his company,
slept in the room with him, and concluded
that, Notwithstanding his great good d-humor
and pleasant manners, something must lie
heavily -nn- -his-Icnnsfja japn9v- -AeyviJap neqe4
groans and executions, uttered in the un-
consciousness of sleep; but he did not
often sleep in room with strangers, and
it afterward became question whether he
ever awakened the suspicious of his wife
by the horrors which attended his sleep.
Those who knew them most intimately
think she never knew his secret; but she
did know that, with all his lavish expendi-
lures of money, he did object to her
milliners' bills
His objections being overruled he put
them into the form of commands and pro-
hibitions, but these proved as unayailing
as remonstrances in u milder form, and
while they were here in this quaint old
city he made a determined stand about
one dealer in particular. No more credit
was to be given to his name there-no
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larger bill than usual came, there was a
fierce alteration but the lady's tears and
loveliness, her pretty airs, pouting def
ance, martyrdom and misery dsarmed
him, and he retired to his own room and
bed to mediate on ways and means.
These came up before him in CHASTITY pro-
cession. The ways he had followed; the
) means he had taken to clothe those deli
cate limbs in the next room in purple and
fine linen; the price he had paid for the
jewels which spaTkled on those dainty
fingers; the soul he had exchanged for
baubles; the misery, the anguish, that he
had sent into other homes that his might
be nest of luxury for birds in gay plum
age; the contiding friend Of his youth
doomed TO a sudden and terrible death
that this woman might dawdle away her
life in ease and Incidence and disregard
lessly lavishing the money won by such
terrible expedients. These thoughts mad
dened him, until, springing up with foam
on his lips and furious revenge in his eyes,
he rushed into her room, dragged her
from her luxurious bed, dashed her to the
floor, and with repeated and furious
blows sought to make an end of her. Her
cries brought all in the house into the hall !;
but no one dared TO enter the room except
an old nurse who had been with them a
long time, who rushed in to her mistress
rescue.
The sight of her diverted the maniac's
attention from his PROSTATE wife, so that
he left off beating her, and daEted after
the nurse. The wife made good use of
the diversion TO get TO an open window
and throw herself out, although the room
was on the second floor. Some vines and
trellis caught her, and she held on,
shivering lest he should murder the chill
dren. The nurse got out OF lis way; and,
after searching for them both for some
time and making everyone tremble with
his horrible oaths and imprecations, he
went back to bed. The nurse came and
helped her mistress back into the room.
She was terribly bruised and blackened,
kept her bed and refused to see him for
days; would have left him, but she had no
home TO which she could CO. The end was
full Of humiliation for the cowardice of his
conduct; full of contrition and eager to
appease her anger. She was victorious
and dictated terms of reconciliation
They left Leipsic; went, / think, 10
Dresden, and lived on in the old way.
He was from home good deal on bust
ness; and one day she received telegram
from Bremen, asking her to come TO him
She passed through Leipsic, and called on
her friends as she went; could not think
why her husband had sent so peremptori.
ly for her, but went on by the first train.
Arrived at the end of her journey, an
officer, who seemed TO have been expect
ing her, accOsted her, inquiring If she was
Mrs. -. She was the person; and ne
put her and her children into carriage,
and took them TO hotel, where they
seemed 70 have been expected; but her
husband did not appear, and there was a
strange confusion about everything. Peo.
pie looked terrified, and hurried about.
The officer behaved like a man conduct.