Mexico weekly ledger., 1884-01-17

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Is She Crazy!
The mystery surrounding the mar
riage Of Mrs. Fannie Taft, formerly
of this city, to DR.. Matthes of Han
nibal, has not been as yet understood.
Her friends here, some of when
were very often impressed with her
favOrite remark, II am a perfect
lady," with the accent on the per-
fect) are 10th to believe she could
do anything not the proper caper for
a perfect lady" Her husband, !
who knew nothing of the escapade
till informed by a drummer on the
streets of Quincy, Illinois, says he is
satisfied she is ~''crazy." He can't
imagine any other reason for her &C
tions. A few months before he gave
her 500, and she went to Memphis
to visit relatives. They wrote to
each other very often, and Hank sent
her money every week. About two
weeks before he met his friend in
Quincy his wife's letters stopped and
he thought she was on the road home.
The next thing he knew was what this
friend told him. The mildest CON-.
struction Hank could put on his wife's
actions was-''she must be out of
her mind
The LAGRANGE Democrat says: ga gen.
tleman from Canton met Mr.. Taft IN
Quincy a day or two after the marriage
en- route to Hannibal to spend the holi-
days with his wife. The gentleman sup
posing that Mr.. Taft was posted as to the
proceedings, inquired what had led to
the family difficulty. Mr.. Taft declared
that everything was lovely, and that the
goose was, ut last accounts, hanging alti-
tudilum within the charmed circle of
home. The gentleman broke the news to
him just as he thought it could be stood,
and the abruptly unmarried man slowly
converted himself into a whole font of
exclamation points and spoke warmly of
Miss Helen Blazes and several other of
his female acquaintance. The late Mrs.
Taft had obtained a divorce and married
another man before he had even a hint of
the domestic infelicity. Rapid age, this,
and no mistake. At the present rate of
progress a man will, in the near future,
have to put his wife on the witness stand
when he returns in the evening and COM
pei her to state whether or not she hasn't
during the day obtained a divorce and
married a handsomer man. ''Change
partners, and all run away"
The Hannibal Journal adds: "Mrs.
Matthes, recently Taft, is a remarkably
handsome and charming woman. Her
mother and sisters live in Canton, and
there, seven Or eight years ago, she was
united in marriage with H. r. Taft, who
is now and has been for some years past
a popular commercial traveller in the en-
ploy of the clothing house of Kohn Bros,
Cincinnati, Ohio.
As Miss Fannie Vaughan, Mrs. Taft
was a belle of the first magnitude in Lewis
county, and when her husband brought
her to Hannibal, and took rooms at the
Park Hotel, in July, 1878, she at once
took rank as Il society queen. She was a
frank-spoken, pleasant-mannered lady,
and was liked by all who met her. She
| had a numhar af old frionIo onI cohooJ
mates here, and was highly regarded by
all of them. She and her husband al
ways lived pleasantly together, although
there are rumors that last summer there
were serious differences between them.
EARLY last summer DR.. Morris Bern
hardt, "the great ~optician," cam to Han
nibal aud located at the Park Hotel
With him came as his assistant his broth
in-law, DR.. Lewis H. Matthes. Matthes
is a very handsome man, about % years
of age, magniticently proportioned, and
withal ''a jolly good fellow" He was
undoubtedly a ''rapid" man, which was
but natural, as he came from the 'srapid'
city of Chicago, and the boys do say thai
he could smile more sweetly, and ante
up more recklessly behind a pair Of
deuces or a "bob-tail' flush than any.
body else. However, he always played
fair and was never known to hold more
than four aces at once. Really, Matthe:
was popular with all who knew him, apt
while he was something of a sport
which it only seemed natural that h
l should be, we nave seldom met a pleas
| anter gentleman.
Altar leaving Hannibal, Drs. Bern
hardt and Matthes pitched their tents il
St. Joe, and they are either there or il
that vicinity now.
On the 2Ist of September Mrs. Tai
r left Hannibal ostensibly for Memphis
Tenn. Her husband accompanied her t.
I the train, and there were no outwar'
indications of any rupture between them
Subsequently Taft said that his wife wa
N In Memphis. For some weeks, however
she has been at Canton with her mothoF
Wherever she has been, she has not bee
n idle, for in just three months after sh
left here, as Mrs. H. R. Taft, she becam
Mrs. Louis Matthes, having in the mean
time, in some way, procured a divorce
q She certainly did not get the divorce i
. this state. and it was probably railroade
G through on the Chicago plan.
1t only remains to add that no breat
of public scandal has ever touched th
o fair lame of Mrs. Taft, and her friend
e who have known her from childhood ar
q at a loss to explain her sudden divore
and new marriage.
al Call and See Him.
l., Mr.. J.. w. Plunkett (known to b