Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-05-05
Marrying Titles.
SprinofeId Repasblican


1t was not long since that a French
Count in Paris, who had married a
wealthy and accomplished American
lady, was detected secretly pawning her
diamonds and Jewels to raise money to
gamble with while she lay on her death
bed. He had spent immense sums of
her money in betting and gambling and
in living a life of protf1gacy, and had
treated her so cruelty during their short
married life that she died broken-heart-
ed. An accident recently happened in
the kingdom of Wurtemburg which
caused quite ripple in the upper class
of society there at the time. A German
baron, who had started with his wife to
visit her home in America, had got so
far as the railway station when he was
arrested by his creditors, who supposed
he was fleeing the country never to re-
turn, for heavy debts which had been
incurred through gambling and disso
lutte life. He had no means with him to
pay the demands. neither had his wife,
and as their trunks had been sent on in
advance, and the arrangements all made
for the journey, he tola his wife to keep
on and he would meet her in Liverpool
before the sailing of their steamer after
having made some arrangements with his
creditors. The wife went on to Liver
pool and the baron stayed behind, but it
was four or five days before he was able
to satisfy his creditors, either by promises
or the interposition of some kind friend
so as to be able to depart. While thus
detained the pocket money his wife had
given him to pay his expenses to Liver
pool had disappeared, but another COM
passionate friend was induced to loan
him five hundred dollars, by giving Sc
curity on his wlfe's furniture and silver
plate so that he was enabled to start on
his journey. Passing through London
he fell among gamblers at one of the
clubs who could handle cards better than
he could, and his five hundred dollars
quickly DISAPPEARED, with the exception
of a small amount just sufficient to take
him to Liverpool, where he at length ar
rived to find that his wife had left in
steamer three days previous, and him
self without dollar in his pocket Re-
presenting to one of the steamer agents
who he was, and showing papers that
identified him as being a veritable baron.
he was permitted to take passage on the
next steamer, with the understanding
that his passage would be paid at the
other end of the route, where his wife or
wife's relations would come to his aid
and which it is to be presumed they did.
An American lady who married title in
Saxony, after enduring several years of
cruel treatment, neglect and misery, re-
Gently took sudden flight to her friends
across the Atlantic, fOrsaking the bed and
board of her titled husband, never to re-
turn to it.
Such instances as these of unhappy
marriages contracted by American girls
abroad are constantly taking place, and
record of their histories and the wretch
ed lives which many of them have led
would fill volumes. Marriages with
foreigners which have proved happy
and unallOyed with more or less misery
are exceptional and far between. To
those ambitious mothers who would sell
their daughters for title, and to those
daughters who would run the risk of
sacrificing future happiness by uniting
themselves to worthless scions of nobil-
ity, | would give Punch's advice to the
unmarried-"Don't."