The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1882-09-26
A Persistent Widow Who
Visited Her Lover This
Morning.
The Ceremony Has Already
Been Postponed Three
Times by him
And She is Getting Tired of It
Hence the Difficulty
To day.

| There was a sensation at Hughesville
I ;his morning. and of course woman was
one of the parties interested. She is a
widow, too; and AS she resides in Sedalia,
'the affair is ot considerable local interest
! For three years past Barney HENSON,
who labors for man named Bulger, at
| Hushesville, has been very devoted in his
! attentions TO the lady in question, whose
! name, Tor the present, ut least. is withheld
( on account of the
EMBARRASSING POSITION
/ in which her actions OF to-day have placed
her. HENSON is young man OF prepo,-
sessing appearance and good address, and
Ills no wonder he soon won the love Of his
charmer lie, too, formerly lived Lere, and
his acquaintance throughout the city is
! quite laAge.
/ Alter the lapse oi over year spent in
counting, HENSON made bold to propose,
ana when an affirmative answer was given,
his happiness knew NO bounds, and plans
were made fOr the fulur,. AT last he
begged her To name the day when they
would ne welded, and she was onl, too glad
tn place her hand on the cal. ndar and des-
ignate the time when they would be joined
I'm The
GOLDEN BONDS OF MATRIMONY.
For the next few weeks the lovers spent
ihgir time In company In a charming man
neT, AID many were the eDvious Chances
given the widow by her less fortunate lady
acquaintance.
But the wedding day drew on space, and
while the wo.li-te BRIDE was making prep
arstions ior the marriage ceremony to be
pcrformes,, her lover seemed To be growing
colder IN his affections. Such was i'm re-
alIuy the case, hut he kept it to himself,
and his atfisnced, probably blinded by love,
1Id lot perceive the change.
At last, hoa ever HENSON saw a way out
OF his diler..,a. IL. would
IsyETiEC .RFHoNY POSTPONED.
He cou,d "a without exciting the Wild
ow's Suspicious, and could still revel in the
luxury of her smiles without gaining her
enmity. Happy thought. No sooner did
he reach this conclusion than he set To
work to car Y 10 ont, and the poor delu,ied
woman W. IN I'd To believe, Oh some pre-
text, that IL w.',..d be TO the advantage of
both to have iAe marriage deferred Il few
months.
OF course she could do nothing but
calmly accept the situation, and for Sec
ond time the
WEDDING DAY WAS SET
What transpired in the interval, the writer
knows not, but on the day appointed for
HENSON to promise to "love, cherish, pro-
tect," ETC., he failed to come to time, and
for a second time the marriage was post
poned.
What the widow thought of this action
on the part of her lover, history sayeth
not She must have loved him, though, for
a third time did she name the day when
they would be joined in wedlock, and last
Thursday the words were to have been
spoken which would
MAKE THEM ONE FOR LIFE.
But the event did not transpire, for Hen
ison, for the third time, failed to live up
to his part Of the contract, and the widow
could not go it alone. At first she vas
only chagrined at the actions of the man
of her choice, but when she thought over
the past she became angry and vowed she'd
have revenge, and to-day she had it.
She had not heard from HENSON since
his failure to appear on last Thursday, so
this morning took the Lexington branch
train for Hughesville, where she had al
interview with
THE GAY DECEIvER.
1t must have proved unsatisfactory to her,
Tor before leaving she vented her wrath
upon him in a manner that aroused the
natives, and caused them To believe that
there is no vengeance like unto that
wreaked by woman scorned
She had her say, however, and returned
home at 1890 o'clock. since which time
she has held forth at her home on 81.
Louis street, and VOWS that she will COM
mil suicide unless HENSON consents to
marry her The neighbors who know all
the facts feel not a little alarm for her
safety. but the BAZOO is of the opinion
that she will not attempt 10 shuttle of via
the morphine route.