, 1877-03-17
MARITAL INFELICITY.
A MILLIONAIRE'S DAUGHTER
LEFT BY HER HUSBAND.
NOW Mr.. FRY GOT INTO A STEW.


here by last mail maintain charitable
silence over q recent domestic scandal
in that city. the chief actors in which
are a daughter of Nicholas Luning. the
millionaire director of the Bank of
California, and her husband Edwin M.
Fry. The latter is fine looking man
about 40 years of age, for many years a
resident of Sacl amento. Up to 1866 he
was book-keeper in the old and we'll
known firm of Lindley. Hull & Lobman;
but on the retirement of Mr.. Hull he
was taken into the firm. But Sacramen-
to was not big enough for him and in
1872. he went to Sam Francisco where
through the influence of his cousin.
Mrs. W. e Ralston, he soon attained
good position in society. His fne per-.
sonal appearance, coupled with mod
est demeanor. was calculated to make
most favorable impression on any lady.
MATRIMONIAL DIPLOMACY.
About this time, the diamond swindls
of Harpending. Rubery and Arnold.
was consummated and among those
who got bitten. into the big thousands,
was Ned Fry. Nicholas LuDing swore
it was all Ralston's work and charged
the latter with making the Bank q den
of thieves; nor did he hesitate to charge
him with deliberately plucking his wifes
relative. Luning is q very cold, selfish
sort of man but strange to say. he took
to Fry, whom we find short time
afterwards in partnership as a stock
broker with DR.. w. q. Parker who
came ont as surgeon of Stevenson's reg
iment in 1886. A few months later, San
Francisco was all agog over the forth
coming marriage between the young
gentleman aforesaid and the millions
aires daughter. This marriage is believ
ed to have been
SOME OF RALsrON's STRATEGY,
Though the crafty banker kept out of
sight in the matter. But many thought
it was one of his schemes to bring about
cessation of hostilities between the
Ralston and Luning factions. Ralston
was then in the very zenith of his soon
ended power. The bank which tottered
on the 22d of May. did not fall till the
18th of August and up to May no man
questioned Ralston's solvency or under
lated his power Lnning and Mills fla
vored low rates of interest and perfect
securities. while Ralston wanted heavy
interest and would lend the banks fund
on anything. Is his tragicsl death any
wonder TO those who knew him well. as
we did ? But reUenons nos n.Outons
The wedding came off in grandest style
and the sensational papers had six or
seven columns of how he looked and
how she looked-and all that sor. of
amiable nonsense. For a while, things
WENT ON sw1MMINGLY.
The young couple boarded at the
Grand Hotel. but subsequently removed
to the Palace when that monument of
poor Ralston's foil ywas completed. But
| the life of stock broker is not well cal
culated to improve It's votaries. It is too
big a strain upon the nerves and brain
without sufficient bodily exercise to re-
cuperate the system. Besides, business
begins too late in the day and ends too
early. Hence the brokers. even the best
of them. look for pleasures that the bet-
| ter class of merchants ignore. Horse
races find them not mere spectators, but
enthusiastic buyers at the pool box; I;
cock fights, boxing matches and AL
such amusements calculated to f, ed the
worst passions in the human breast.
| find constant votaries among the bulls
and Bears of the stock Market.
OF THEIR PRIVATE LIFE
But little is known. save that they we're
seldom together. except at meal times
when scarcely word would be spoken
for weeks at q time. If their glances
met each other by accident, one eye or
the other was surely averted. Of course
in crowded diuing-room like that of
the Palace, such things could not well
| escape obseTvaIion and people will talk
Curiosity is the tabled Argus of the
ancients and has hundred eyes and
ears. A young man in moderate circum-
stances. marrles the daughter of mlIli-
onai-e whose means are so well inves-
ted that his seven millions would realize
more under the hammer than most of
other mems twelve millions in that city
npd why should there be coldn-ss be-
tween them? Curiosity not only asks the
question but she also finds the solution.
There was in another quarter a power
full attraction in the pereon of
LEADING ACTRESS
At one of the city theaters. whose rise
in her profession has been an enigma to
every unprejudiced critic Beauty she
never had. voice she has but little and
passionate fervor is absent from her
utterances. Old play-go ers wers aston
ished to see her assigned leading parts
in the same piece with one who has
been etyled tie American Talma. Her
salary never exceeded $l20 rer week;
yet it is less than . year since two trunks
Of dresses from Worth's at Paris came
to her; and the duty on that outfit was
only 81, 800 in gold for eight dresses.
Men began to invoke the aid of ariih-
metic and could not work it out by
Cookers rule of three. How a woman
getting $120 per week could pay her
board. washing lodging and then afford
to buy SO zoo worth of dresses and pay
81, 500 duty on them was - vl
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