The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1876-01-14

came the wife of the man by whose
name she is still best known.
OF course the friends Of both parties
were surprised at this denouement, and
gave their own reasons for "A proceeding
SO unlooked-for. Mr.. Blackford was
credited with having conspmme.ed the
marriage in a fit of desperation and
anger, while suffering the pangs Of
wounded pride. and possibly the deep
er anguish of disappointed love.
Miss Ely's motive in accepting the al
lance has been yariously guessed at,
but AT her time Of life, and with her dis
position, il was probably not deep one
There can be little doubt, however, that
she believed in the man she married,
and her disappointment and humilia-
ton in finding such reasons assigned for
Blackford's choice of herar thought TO
have deeply embittered her life. thence-
forward The style of life he pursued,
too, did every thing 10 confirm her in
the belief of their truth. His dissipation
became more marked, and though he
attended to business, the picture he pre-
sented night after night, BY the time he
was ready TO 20 home, was certainly
dispiriting and Notifying to her, cal
culated in every way 70 crush her alice
tons and make her hopeless in her
home, and almost sufficient 10 give
color to the dark suspicious that found
uttcrance in whispers after Blackford's
death.
The course Of her married life, how
ever, is not important to the story. She
has one child, a daughter, living, it is
supposed, in a convent. Mr.. Blackford
died suddenly in the spring Of 1867. He
retired in his usual state of maudlin IN
ebriety, one night, and was never seen
alive more. Mrs Blackford came down
to breakfast the next morning, and, after
concluding her repast, sent her nurse
girl TO call her husband. The nurse
returned with the information that he
was dead. Rumor, of course, was busy
as 10 the cause and manner of his death.
Many believed that, driven 20 despera-
ton by his habits and his lack of AZ
lection for herself, his wife had poisoned
him, justifying the suspicion by the
proyooaliOn. The matter was never in
yestigatcd. but there probably was no
solid foundation for the story, and, Ike
that of many others, both in Parkers-
burg and elsewhere, il is likely Beale
Blackford's fate had long lain in wait
for him in his cups. Ills life was in
surcd for $4,000, and after collecting
this Mrs. BlacAford shook the dust Of
Parkersburg from her dainty feet, and
returned to Philadelphia. Known there
rs the daughter Of Rev DR. Ely, she had
the entrec Of the very best society there,
and freely mingled therein. She seem
ed 10 seek to keep herself before the
people, and "away from hersclf;n was
seen constantly in public, and was found
at every possible tirst-class entertain
ment. In truth, she was. for one Of her
years, woman of remarkable presence
and manner, and, Hooking. back ut Cher
career, may say talent I'm Philadcl-
phia she became intimate with man
named Porter or Proctor, the associa-
ton continuing some time, and finally
terminated at cost To him Of about
$4,000.
Immediately afterward she appeared
in New York, where for time she
figured, and, il was announced. had mar
ried one Or. Phoenix. She is supposed
to have levied heavily on his exchequer.
As Mrs DR.. Phunix "arOsc from the
ashes of this connection, she crossed
the Atlantic in 1869, and made her APP
pearancc in Paris. Here. rs in Phila-
dclphia and New York, she entered the
best society. Here she met her Russian
lover, the Grand Duke, and the balance
is already history
OF course it were vain to expect that
even the hem of the mantle OF public
charity should be allowed TO cast its
protecting shadow over Mrs. Blackford.
but those who knew her disposition as
a girl, who remember her surroundings
and associations, not forgetting her
youth, when the tide of her fortune
seemed at its food, nor the bitter blast
ing of her brightest hopcs-those who
know, as | do, the temptations that be-
set her, and the moral atmosphere she
breathed in Parkersburg, will never be-
lieve her born an adventures, and
shall never look upon her face but will
come TO me instantly these lines of Miss
I.andon:
"Alas, how bitter are the wrongs love
Life has no other sorrow 50 acute;
For love IL made ~ every fine emotion,
OF generous impulses and noble thoughts;
II looketh to the stars and dreams OF heaven :;
II nestles mid the flowers and sweetens earth.
Love Is aspiring, yet Is humble too;
IL doth eNalt another DER Itself
With sweet hcart-homage, which delights 70
raise
That which il worshps, vet ia fain 10 win
The idol to its lone and lOwly home
OF deep affection. It's an utter wreck
When such hopes perish. From that moment
life
Has IN lis depths well Of bitterness,
For which there is no healing"
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olniinn IN the healing art and proved the fallacy
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siructed the progress ~ medical Science. The
false suppn~ition that " Consumption "a irrurahle"
deferred phl sciau- from attempting 70 hnd RENE
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