Omaha daily bee., 1883-02-16
YOUNG WIEI'S SECRET.
A Matchmaking Grandmother De-
StrOya the Happiness and
Home Of Her NaiCe,
a Baltimore Husband Learns
That His Wife is Tainted
With Negro Blood.

Win Negro Blood.
One of the most sensational and In
teresting divorce suits ever enacted OF
the legal stage In this country will a
an early day engage the astute ant
shining Blackstone talent Of Balti
more. The romantic details of this
peculiar life drama will certainly caus,
the gossips not only of this particular
locality, but of the entire United
States, to wsg their respective tongue,
with great velocity and to roll theil
individual eyes with earnest amaze.
ment. The story reads like q 70.
nance, but every word Ia as true q,
gold. Five years ago among the
"young bloods" of Baltimore there
was numbered q young gentleman,
who by q happy combination of art
and nature was entitled to q high seat
In the arena of life. He was youthful
twenty three years Of sge-hand.
some In face and stately aud dignifed
in form. He was the happy pos.
SCISSOR of 800 600 safely Invested In
registered United States bonds, be.
queathed him by an aged grandmother.
The young man had q very aristo.
cratic and wealthy mother, and she
was extremely particular in reference
to her sons choice of a domestic part
ner in life. On q bright, frosty morn
ing In the month of January, 1881,
the young man entered a fashionable
kid glove establishment on Lexington
street, this city, for the purpose of
purchasing a number even lsdy's kid
glove, which was the size that snugly
enoased his small and finely formed
hand, there. To compress an indi.
vidual world into a few words, he met
his destiny. The young saleslady who
waited on him was q beautiful bru-
nette, with q most engaging mlen. 1t
was the old and yet ever new story.
When he announced to his mother
that he was going to marry this young
lady, there was a total humiliation of
the domestic peace In that Madison
avenue mansion.
AS may be imagined, the marriage
caused a serious disruption of family
tiee, but as the young lady behaved
80 we'll under the circumstances, she
was 80 pretty and so b%ewitching and
30 kind In manner to her mother In
law, that the old lady finally relented.
Two years later the young couple
were happily keeping house In a lux.
urious manner, and the joyous pros.
pectlve father was we'll known as a
shrewd and energetic broker. At
this period of the young husbands
existence he discovered that his wife
was uAing large amounts of money In
a very mysterious manner. He began
to expostulate with her. "Dear," he
kindly said, 81 am wealthy, I know,
but I can not stand these mysteriou us
and heavy drafts. What do you do
or want with all this money |" She
returned confused and evasive re-
piles, and the young husband was
much perplexed by his wlfe's peculiar
behavior.
About this time the proprietors and
patrons of the ''buoket shops" and
low gambling resorts of this city were
greatly amazed by the behavior and
display of wealth which an aged color.
ed woman delighted them with. She
was a very light mulatto-about the
exact shade as far as complexion went
of an ordinary cream puff with>s
couple of tablespoonsfuls of ginger In
Its culinery make up. She was a most
inordinate gambler, seemed to be com
pletely carried away by the passion Of
chance, and while a constant and
heavy loser, was never short for over 6
couple of hours at a time. She &C.
tually appeared to own a gold nine
Where she got her money no one
knew, and she never told but she had
II, and that was all that was necessary
for the particular business she was
then engaged In.
One day the young broker found
himself the proud father of o red.
headed, dimpled boy. He then die
not find 80 much fault with his wifi,
for what he considered extravagant
and useless expenditure Of money
and supreme content and unalloyeG
happiness held high carnival within
his castle walls. One morning when
this cooling babe, now aged nearly two
years, sat on his maternal grand
mothers knee a colored servant
brought her a letter fresh from the
hand of the wierd man In modest gray
She opened 1t with h smile of peace,
read 1t with a gasp of horror, and then
with one wild shrek of woe she anc
the infant simultaneously fell to thu
floor. The letter, written In almost
an illegible hand and filled with ar
abundant amount OF phonetic spell.
ing, contained the following startling
words:
"Your sons wife Is a nigger. HI
married a niger. / am her grand,
mother, and / am what you call q mu,
latto. You would think she Is white
like you white folks, but she amt. II
you don't believe me come and SET
me. 1 send my address,"
A name, number and the name of 8
street was at the bottom of this dyna.
mite hand grenade. OF course, when
the old lady recovered from her swoon
she refused to believe that the note
contained the truth. However, when
the husband heard of it's contents he
Immediately began a strict i~nvestiga
ton, and when the facts In the case
became 30 convincing that the wife
could deny no longer, his young anG
charming brunette treasure, with tear
of anguish In her beautiful dark eyes
confessed in her husbands arms thai
colored blood did run ia her veins.
1t seems that the oldmulstto woman
gambler was his wife's grandmother
His wife's grandfather was a whit,
man, and her parents we're white, hel
mother having been more successful
| at deception In this line with her Inns.