The daily gazette., 1881-01-24

"LoRD RosooE's SEoRBrAkr--AN-
OTHER OF SENATOR CoEKLINa's Es-
cAPADEs."-The New York Star pub
fishes the letter Of correspondent from
Chicago, dated Jan. 10, with the above
caption in large letters, to which is
added, "How he broke up Port Byron
Home, leaving Ruin and Misery as
Legacy-He Deserts q Lady in the
Streets Of New York, when her Carriage
is Attacked BY Highwaymen-Some
rell-Tale Letters Locked up in Safe"
The eolrespondence states that the
lady referred to was the wife Of a manu-
faeturer of woolen goods, His wife was
young and very beautiful. The letter
intimates that tie wife had met the
Senator soma years before. 1t proceeds
to relate that on certain day she en-
tered the presence Of her husband, and
n cold and measured tones, without the
least show Of feeling or regret, said:
81 leave you. For six years have
been your wife in name alonu. 70 me
1t has been living death. have asked
you time and again TO take me TO Wash
Ington, where might move in the So
eiety loved TO be among. You refused,
Now l have made my own ARRANGEMENTS.
henceiorth l will neither see, recognize
nor oWn you;" and ere the utterly dumb
founded husband could collect himself
-Atilplpnf N aft har -
Of the carriage wheels as they rolled
quickly over the gravel placed it out OF
ms power 10 either follow or STOP his
wife hal he even wished to do SO.
Three days after ward. the guile folk
of Port Byron learned lha- the wealthy
manufacturers wife had left him, and |
shortly thereafter came the runIor that
she had gone TO Washington. II was true.
The Buffalo train, which passes Pon
Byron about 8 o'clock in the evening
C conveyed the lady TO Syracuse. There SIZE
was met by New York's great Senator.
and the two journeyed together 10 al.
oanJ. For months her husband was no,
TO be seen, and his brothers, his partners
IN the business, when asked about him
only shook tueir heads. By degrees.
though, II began to be learned that the
woolen manufacturers wife and her hus-
BAUD had been anything but man and
WI Q in name; that their marriage had
never been consummated, and that from
the hour in which they bad been wed
there bad been raised up an impenetra.
be barrier between them that had sepa.
rsted them as widely as 1t they had been
aeElded by the interposition Of TWO con-
tinents.
Three months after the departure OF
bis vile, Mf.-wAs again seen in Por.
Byron. But his once noble form wa,
bowed as with the weight Of years, his
face pallld aud scanned with the lines Of
premature age, and his thick erst- curl.
lug Jei-black locks were gray as those OF
a man long past middle life, and vet he
was barely 30. All this change had
come about Ia the three month. durln..
which he remained secluded from Tho
world. Long before this, however. ii
had become matter Of town gossip thai
ais wife had become private secretary to
Senator Conkllng and was TO be seer,
constantly with him. Then, too, il be
gan to be recollested that the LADY had
oeen IN the habit frequently OF visiting
syracuse at such times as Senator
Conkhng was known TO be either there
or At Utlca, and through the brothers of
Ar.--whose indignation al his wIteis
treatment of him knew no bounds, II
soon transplred that her husband. a,
themselves, had not been altogether una
ware Of their clandestine mestings, and
that he had forbidden them, but all 10
40 purpose. II also transplred that this
was the principal reason why Mr.-had
refused 10 take up his residence IN
Washington.