Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-02-04
OLD SIMON'S FIANCEE.
THE ruG.lcloUs WIDOW o11vER.
A Complicated Case of Husband---Marrled
toTwo divers, Both Nissing---Interesting
Instances of Bad Memory---Her Love for
the Pennsylvania Statesman---Erotic Let
WASHINGTON Post,

no-less celebrated Simon Cameron. A rathe
round figure, suggestive in spots of the cot
ton claim, through which she attracted Mr.
Camerons attention; a round face, who's,
varied tints showed her the mistress of th,
art Of concealing art; a wart on her cheel
that would have driven even Oakley Hall tt
frenzy, and plain, snugly fitting black silk
Such the tpu'. Her eyes were gray, bright
and sharp: her action quick, nervous anc
emotional: her hair done up high. and bel
foot fiat, though small. In height she would
measure, perhaps, five feet one inch, while in
rotundity she might pull the scales at 14O.
I'm order to begin delicately, Mrs. Oliver
and gradually work up to the more sensa-
tional features of your misfortunes, permit
me to ask your age.
Pm thirty eight years old,'' said she, flop
ping from one chair to the other close by.
Let me see, don't want any mistake.
think / was born in 1882
''Please locate the spot of your nativity
Il was born in Florida, on the 22d day of
December, 1888. Anyway l am 38 years
DID,
Sand the name of your parents?'
That don't know. Mr.. Cameron says
/ have heard that my fathers name was
Charles Stewart but am not certain
us there anything mysterious, anything
delicate about your parentage?''
well, yes sir, there is
''Of course. madam. must respect your
feelings, and will not touch upon SO delicate
a subject further than to ask if your father
and mother were married."
II would rather not go into that question:
she said, her eyes beginning to snap danger
ously. II prefer not to speak upon that sub
ject.''
''Of course madame, will respect your
preferences, but will you permit me to in
quire what your mothers name WASP
II don't know what my mothers name
was, said she. Il may have heard it, but
won't tell it if I have
'Perfectly proper, madame. l merely
pressed the inquiry, for it is sort of an anon
ally in nature when the child can recognize
the father without identifying the mother.
Have you any objection to speaking of 80
much of your early life as came under your
personal observation?"
well, I was adopted by several families"
simultaneously, madame, or seriatim?'
II don't wish to speak of that much, sir;
| prefer to wait until the trial comes off.
when my whole life will be known
Eat which time, madame, the paper may
be crowded, and the public deprived, through
want of valuable space, occupied by New
York markets and Chicago bank failures, of
your valuable contribution to the personal
reminicenses of the period. Be kind enough
to avail yourself of the present lack of pres
sure, and tell the names of the families who
adopted YOU
Il was adopted by Mrs. Alice Oliver. of
Louisville"
':First. last, or all the time?'
Il won't tell you of any more.
"At what age were you when adopted by
Mrs. Alice Oliyer:''
II can't say. I have the date in the back
of a Bible
''At what age were you married.?
Il was married first when I was a little
over fourteen years old I had a child when
I was fifteen, but it died Before it was year
old"
did you have further issue by that mar
riage, Mrs. Oliver?'
Yes, a daughter who is now about TWEEN
ty.''
''Please pardon me, madame, for an ap-
parent infringement upon the sanctity of
your girlhood's grief, but permit me to in
quire at what age you had arrived when your
first husband was planted?''
''He didn't die. We were separated by the
courts
"a divorce, presume, madam?
mo; it was contract OF separation III
which we agreed to part
'When was that, madame!
lit was when my daughter was about four
years Old
(Which would make it sixteen years ago,
or in 1862. What was the husbands name?"
ssHis name was Oliver
''And his primal patronymic was p
II don't care to mention his first name.'
Certainly, madame, respect your deli
cacy. Was he relative of the Mrs. Oliver
who adopted your
He was; but don't know whether he was
q son or a nephew. q
:'How long since you forgot what his rela-
tionship was to that Lady,"
II don't remember"
Certainly not, madame. What was the
name of your second husband?"
"Oliver."
First name, for instance
81 shall not tell"
WAS be a relative Of the other lamented?"
He was; but won't tell what the rela-
tionship was.''
':When did you marry him."
''Just as soon as separated from the first.
My first husbands were very close together.
for want you to understand that I have
never been alone in the world until now.''
II hope do not tear open a wound.
madame, in asking when this last MI. Oliver
was turfed over?''
''He didn't die, either. He left me in the
first part of the war to go to Richmond. and
haven't seen him since.''
s:Were there any more Messrs. Oliver, mad
anne, whose first names you are not prepared
to disclose?''.
No sir: have only had two husbands
Having left the dead past to hunt mp and
bury each other, let us come down and
puncture the vail that hides the glittering
future. You have ayerred in your suit that
Simon Cameron promised to marry you, and
that he discounted in measure his pros
poets of connub,al happiness. Upon what
do you rely to demonstrate the affirmative Of
that proposition.
sio11.''
The columns of q paper, great in enter
prise, but limited in dimensions, do not per-
nit a descriptive revelation involved in pro-
curing the letters, of which the subjoined are
full and accurate copies. The public don't
care a continental for the exertions of the
reporter as compared with the epistolary
efforts of MI. Cameron, which fact is merely
shining illustration of the unimportance OF
the historian, when contrasted with the
events he chronicles.
Mr.. Cameron has claimed that the widow
is but an illustration of Coleridge's propo-
sition:
'To be wroth with one we love.
Doth work like madness in the brain''
nnd thew StOutly aSseyerate that she is crazy