Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1876-07-08
A PIucky Virginia Girl Looking Out
for Her Own Fortune.

When the steamship Clty OF CneSteT aIIlVeu
at this city from Liverpool, some time since, 1t
had on board, among the cabin passengers. a
coed 10 king woman Of about thirty bVe or iorty
years, aud al Cd }aGy who locked lu:ly eighty,
and who bore on her face w Quilted Signs OF
t.,u lie rot dissipation most uhusual 10 "o'
men her apparent position 10 HE. Attach
mo 10 these Two women is a somewhat remark
able story.
Mauy wears ago there lived 10 a large towo
in Virginia a man OF Considerable means aoo OF
good socia: and business repuse- Stzc; ty pane
aud 40 lr0umaslcr by trade. h. bad married
cry il lie d handsome girl OF Irish descent,
ty uhum he mad tour Children. Lii was report.
ed hat the mao did oot live happily VIII Ms
wife. aud alter the Dirth OF tn tUurt'i c:'l!d,
,lr. Stacy, unable lonaer to be@: With the ha-
pltual aad iucorr'gIbie lntemperance VI MS
vie. Instituted a SUIT Tor divorce, ADD, mean
while, separa. ed from her, lax e the children
1910 his care. Pending the sutton ulVoEce'
Mr., Stacy went 10 ENGLAND to stay with rela-
lives rcsid ny there, aod shortly after Mr.. Stacy,
reaGing in an Euglisn paper OF her death, stop
ned the proceedings for divorce, and a few
| mouths alter married q young lady living 10
Richmond. Mr. Stacy had three children By
lis second wife, with whom he led a happy and
conteutcd life, aud he much WIS grleVcd when
after a arse of ten year, she died IN childbirth,
leaving hun for the second tune a @idoWer.
| This grief, however, Was, apparently, DOT To-
con.oi .blc. for after a sort space OF mournlcR
be- m,v.d TO n IS 7 TX aud married a thlfd
tine 3; this liz. marriage he had tou! child
rem, three boys aad a girt. After a short resi-.
=, dspc. h.re Mr. Stacy returned 10 Virginia.
liz 1873 Fanny Stacy, the eldest child by the
frs: m~rrlaye, and ty all reports a Y. rq =s'l-
mable young prison, went to England 30 a
y;,, tor 1hc beneit of her health. While stay
ing al I'orouay she met 80 cid lady who hal
IOWA lef father and m,'hcr ia America III
the early days Of their warti d life, aud from
this person she learned, to her utter surprise
and iIsuay, that her mother, Mrs. Stacy No.
!. vas not dead, but VS. living in London 10
v,ry strait circumstances, to which she had
! been reduced by her habit Of excessive drink.
liz. Mss Say took no particular steps to
verify This reper., bu, on Der retuto 10 Amar-
ic. told ntr .a,ner what she had heard. lie
cid r.nrleGau VS. nc:eduious aud particularly
ausry thar ope su nd ave dared to mention
tie n.lue of hi, di,graced wife to lis daugh
ter. He refused 10 take any measure 10 hno
! out lie truth, and n III that line displayed
gre II COlI cess tbHHfG5 AMY, Il : tiiLS tluN
was the only surviving child of the fist mar,
riage.
IL he early part Of 1874 Mr.. Stacy, who
had beer ia I'D health a long time, died.
Wrea his will was opened ii was discovered
rha, By a codlril added the year before be had
revoked all requests 10 F4nuy Stacy, and isf;
IT, Will of bis ~furtuEc, pmouu.l' { TO oV
$1,000 100. 10 the children by the sscoud al
IL ri malriages ami 10 his surviving widow.
I BY advice of q lawyer, a friend OF the family,
Fsunv determined 10 contest the Will. lo d.
this successfully it was necessary to hnd the
frs; wife IF Mr.. Stacy, prove the first marriage,
the cops ulcut ~ilegai!<y oil the other Two mar
riapes aud the ilicga!ity or all their Issue. Miss
S;.cy, therefore, started 10 Aprii last 10 com-
pau, with an old friend, 70 England, IN search
of der III ,tbeT. For tuoot:s she searched end
advertised aud sought lu vslr; 20 slga OF her
mother was to BE- found nor auy news OF her
% b. iearred. 4 few mouths ago, though, she
engaged the services ot srme experienced Fog
isl; detectives, aud by their aid succeeded. She
found her mother 10 a hut 10 the very lowest
part o. Lpudou, Inhabited uy the poorest Class,
Is II Irish IatorcrS, livloe a di:graceIul life OF
, cortis u.i iolnxlcation. Tie mother recognized
, her dauzhtcr By Der st;ikiog resemblance to
her father, and after much persuasion and
earnnst .nlrcaty. consented to 60 to America
ard relutm her lie, hep her daughter TO get
wha, was due her and 10 get her CWn share.
The oh Iady wa tak.n from her squaii1 abode.
washed and dccently clad, taken TO Liverpool
and pnt ab,ar, the Ci'y Of Chester, bound for
Nv Y9lk. o. the voyage she Was seriously
III, owlrg to her sudden AMI total deprivation
of all in,oxicatipg drinks, which Fauny Stacy
had absolutely sud 6cm!y refused to allow her.
H9werer, she rallied ard got through all right,
landed safely 10 Nv York aud started with
her p;ucky daughter to Virginia, where the suit
is DOW pending to set aside the will of the i,te
Mr. Stacy, iron master Of Virginia.-N. Y.
World.
Picture Of Washington at Yorkto wn.