The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1882-05-04
DISMAL BRIDAL TOUR.

lean Cir Welded to Drunken Brute.
Carols English Letters to N. Y. Sun.
And speaking of America and Ameri-
cans, had we been here on Dover Pier las,
evening when the boat came in from Calais,
the great double hulled affair. which doee
moi prevent sea- sickness, as it was expect
ed to do, which has. in fact, a far mole dis
agreeable motion than the ordinary steam
ers, and which, according to the predictions
of old, and it may by prediudiced sailors,
is destined one day to fall apart of its OWL
weight; had we been on the pier upon the
arrival Of that looking craft We
might have witnessed one of the closing
scenes in a tragedy of real life-one o!
those innumerable domestic dramas which
are much more narrowing than any told in
books, and which. as it is related here from
personal observation and knowledge, is alb
soiutely true in every particular.
About two months before this, the last
scene, great ocean steamer was about to
sail from New York to Liverpool. Tue
dock crowded with people--the friends
of the passengers. There was band OF
music and singing society, and waving
Of bunting and loud cheers and noise and
confusion even more than usual. But al
last the steamer swung out into the stream,
and then sou'e of the inquisitlve people
the busybodles who always seem to thrive
IN ship board-discovered after dlligent IN
qliry that the band of music and the sing
ing society had come to aid in bidding bon
yoyoge to young couple who had teen
married the day before, and who were Oh
their wedding tour. He was stout, thick
necked; over dressed young fellow, born il
u western city of German parents. If u
man can be handsome and very stupi:,
looking at the s. m. time be was handsome
His wife, the daughter of very rich lager
beer brewer in city which need rot be
named. was also of American birth, and OF.
her mothers side of American parentage.
She was a modest, quiet, refined and
performer on the piano. She
was young, too, and had evidently seen lit
tie of the world. How two people so diff.
ferent in every way came to be mated did
not transpire, but it was evid mt that she
was very much attached to her husband ana
entirely dependent upon him, for, as was
whispered, he had received no money with
her. In this he was disappointed. He re-
paid her devotion with the coolest and most
brutal Indifference. The ship had not
crossed the bar at Sandy Hook when he
lad drank himself very drunk. By night
fall he was stupid-"so soaked" is the techni.
cal and forcible expression. He remained
so until Liverpool was reached. During al
the trip across he paid absolutely no atten.
lion to his young wife. He never took her
to meals, was never seen with her. Sn.
was left as completely to her own resources
4s l.. she had been alone. la Liverpool O.,
the ships arrival they we're lost 81 hit Of foi
time, but that evening late one of III" pas.
sengers received note from the young
wife which saia
"Isee that you are in the same hotel with
me, and in my great alarm beg to trouble
you. 1 have not seen my husband since this
afternoon, and being entirely strange and
alone in Liverpool without one friend or
| acquaintance except those who crossed in
'ae steamer with US, l am very anxious.
Can you advise me what to do or how to
| tiad my husband?"
In response to this note the gentleman
addressed, who had some knowledge of
Liver o)land of human nature, emil ,ted the
sympathy of the hrst officer OF the steamer
"a noble fellow, since dead, "washed from
the bridge in stron. gale" the IF -ial rec.
| ord put it-and together they searched for
the missing husband. At2 O'Clock
in the morning in one of the vilest sinks o!
vice in all the town, he was found drunk
and herding with creatures too base to be
CdAlou uUulhus u0 HajlOE, Aul1 u Auh1 Y1h-
ton, was for launching The begsar's
head" but was persuaded to TO- b ar
and the truant, stupid with drink,
Was taken to his half crazed wife. From
Liverpool they Wen: to London and then
to the Continent. She WAS contiuuall!
'rsated with the same indignity. Crossing
the channel to France he left her all night
to lie on the deck, too sick to move or to
| call for help-sick. cold, wet and misera-
ple. In Paris he commenced to beat her ;
there left her for days together. Providen.
iaily, she met some friends there, an"
they, supported by cable messages from
her family, prevailed upon Ter to accom-
pany them back to America. Last night a
broken woman, broken down and prema
turely old, she landed in Dover Pier the
silent witness 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.