Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1882-05-18
DISMAL BRIDAL TOUR.
The Unhappy Experience OF a Young
American Girl Welded to n Drunk
en- Brute.
Carols English Letters to N. Y. Sun.

en- Brute.
Carols English Letters to n Y. Sun
And speaking of America and Amer
leans, had we been here on Dover Pier
last evening when the boat came in
from Calais, the great double-h ulled
affair, which does not prevent seasick-
ness, as it was expected to do, which
has, in fact, a far more disagreeable
motion than the ordinary steamers,
and which, according to the predictions
of old, and 1t may be preiudiced sail
ors, is destined one day to fall apart of
its own weight; had we been on the
pier upon the arrival of that awkward
lookin, craft we might have witnessed
one of the closing scenes in a tragedy
of real life-one Of those innum cradle
domestic dramas which are much more
narrowing than any told in books, and
which, as it is related here from per.
sonal observation and knowledge, is alb
solutely true in every particular.
About two months before this, the
last scene, a great ocean steamer was
about TO sail from New York to Liver
( pool The dock was crowded with
people-the friends of the passengers
There was band of music and sing
ing society, and waving of bunting
and loud cheers and noise and confu-
sion even more than usual. But at
last the steamer swung out into the
stream, and then some of the inquisi-
tive people-the busybodies who al
ways seem to thrive on ship-board-
discovered after dilgent inquiry that
the band of music and the singing So
ciety had come to aid in bidding bon,
uoyage to a young couple who had been
married the day before, and who were
on their wedding tour. He was a stout,
thick .necked, over-dressed young fell
low, born in a western city of German
parents If man can be handsome
ana very pid-looking at the same
time he was handsome. His wife, the
daughter of 4 very rich lager beer
brewer in a city which need not be
named, was also of American birth,
and on her mothers side of American
parentage. She was modest, quiet,
refined and well-informed girl; won
derfully good performe r on the piano.
She was young, too, and had evidently
seen little of the world. How two peo-
pie so different in every way came to
be mated did not transpire, but it was
evident that she was very much at
tached to her husband and entirely de-
pendent upon him, for, as was whis-
pered, he had received no money with
her. In this he was disappointed. He
repaid her devotion with the coolest
and most brutal Indifference. The ship
had not crossed the bar at Sandy Hook
when he had drank himself very
drunk. By nightfall he was stupid
soaked" is the technical and forcible
expression. He remained so until
Liverpool was reached. During all the
trip across he paid absolutely no atten-
ton to his young wife. He never took
her to meals, was never seen with her.
She was left as completely to her own
resources rs if she had been alone. In
Liverpool on tho ships arrival they
were lost sight of for time, but that
evening late one of the passengers re-
ceived note from the young wife
which said:
81 see that you are III the same no.
tel with me, and in my great alarm |
beg to trouble you. / have not seen
my husband since this afternoon, ard
being entirely strange and alone in Liv-
erpool without one friend or acquaint-
ance except those who crossed in the
steamer with us, | am very anxious.
Can you advise me what to do or how
to find my husband? ?"
In response to this note the gentle
man addressed, who had some knowl-
edge of Liverpool and of human ma
ture, enlisted the tirsl officer of the
steamer-a noble fellow, since dead,
washed from the bridge in strong
gale" the official order put it-and to-
gether they searched for the missing
| husband. At , o'clock in the morning
in one of the vilest sinks Of vice in all
the town, he was found drunk and
herding with creatures to base TO be
| called human. The sailor, full of in
dignation, was for punching the beg
gar's head" but was persuaded to for
bear, AMI the truant, stupid with drink,
was taken to his half-crazeu wife.
From Liverpool they went to London
and then to the Continent. She was
continually treated with the same in
dignity. Crossing the channel to
France he left her all night to lie IN
the deck, too sick to move or call for
| help.-sick, cold, wet and miserable.
In Paris he commenced to beat her;
he there left her for days together.
Providentially, she met some friends
there, and they, supported by cable
messages from her family, prevailed
on her to accompany them back to
America. Last night a broken woman,
broken down aud prematurely old, she
landed in Dover pier-the silent wit
ness of many tragedy. She is young,
and young people forget easily, they
say. Let it be hoped that there is
much happiness yet in store for her.
Toe LITTLE COOP BUTTER.--The con
sumption of butter in the United States