National Republican., 1883-12-21
sine WAS coLon nLINp.
A White Woman 1Iarrics Colorod Man
and Now Seeks Divorce.

and Now Seeks Divorce.
romantic story is current in Baltimore OF Mrs.
Emma !. Fearing being married to a colored man
named Robert Fearing on the eighth of May, 1879
by a congregationalist minister in Castine, Me-,
mud that since her marriage she has discovered
that her husband Is a man of African blood.
Through her attorneys she made application ior
divorce In the circuit court Of baltimore CITY. she
says that she was born in Dorchester, NJ b., anu
Is 2s years old She lett her native home when
70 years old and went TO live with married SIS
ter in Castine, Me-, and there she met her nus;
band who was then engaged as steward on boarn
agovernment vessel stationed at that port
She had seen but few colored people at her
home, and she did not know that there was such
a being as a muatlo. II did not love but liked
him for the attentions he paid me" she said At
the end Of the first year Of our married life baby
was born, which only lived ten months discoV-
cred one morning before the childs death letter
which my husband received from his brother
Charles in Washington, and had dropped on tne
tnlype Of his nephew which had been sent to
him. After little trouble the picture was handed
me and saw at glance that y was that OF 2
was mortified beyond expression that was
welded TO negro. l did not know what 70 90,
but concluded TO keep the matter secret from my
family. was compelled TO remain with him from
absolute want of the means to leave him, but In
S we d % and went S 10 Middieport Where we stayed
for some time, after which we went TO Washington.
The second day after arriving there we went TO
his brolher's house. His brother and wife were
brigh: mulattos. They pitied me very much, aud
snid II was a crime that should have been de-
ceived. My husband was out of work, SO we
stayed there for six months, during which Time !
kept asking Robert TO raise me money to send
me back .,t to my sister in io Maine o6,ored as y
people. At last he raised the amount for me, and
when got back TO sisters told her all. She ad-
vlsed me TO go to my uncle's, on Prince Edwards s
island, and tell him. The latter advised me to
come TO Baltimore and enter suit for divorce, and
he has furnished me with the necessary means to
do so.
In answer TO questions, she said that her hus-
band was employed ON board United States yes.
sol at Mobile, Ala, and she had not seen nor heard
from him for year. He has written her mum.
Der OF letters to return TO him, but this she could
not do
started out To find the Washington brother, which
he soon did, In the person of Mr.. Warren g. Fear
ing, employed III the registers Office of the treas
at his pleasant home on Meridian e' hi I' not lar
from the theological seminary. He told the re-
porter that he had heard of the application for
divorce, and said II am about to inform my
brother concerning IL, as know that he does not
know anything about It,"
"ls 1t true that your brother married white
woman under the circumstances as related 2"
asked the reporter.
81 will have to tell all know about the matter
was the answer MY brother Robert is a very
br1Rnt colored man, us you see from this photo
graph He is SO bright that he would pass
for white man at all times. His wife was an
Irish girl though she claimed to be born in Eng
land, and when he married her she was very poor.
She had been told by her sister and her brother in
law IN Maine that Robert was of African blood,
and she said she loved him and would marry him
despite such circumstance. Her child was born
in Washington She lived with us for nearly eight
months and seemed contented and went out TO visit
some of our relatives dining with them, and on
one occasion slept at the house of of them over
over nght.My brother when he first met her was on
board the revenueeutter Mccullough as captains
steward. He Is at present on a merchant vessel
the s. n. Dantzler AT Moss Point Miss, or rather
he Will be there by Christmas. Here are two
letters dated Dec 6, and Oct 25 1888, which have
received from him. You can read them and will
there find that he says she writes TO him for 500
II was photograph of my Oldest boy and not q
untype, as she states, which sent Robert
shall write my brother and tell him to allow the
divorce, as am very sorry that he should have
married such woman and think II best that
divorce should be had. He would be better of. ;
KEEPING a diary is not what II is cracked up II
be. Thirty days OF accuracy is about the limit o
the endurance; but DIR. Bulls Cough syrup has
never yet disappointed any one who has used 1t
secure u bottle tor that awful cold.