The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1884-05-23
Stray Brick.

Dispatch: Gen. Grant looms up
as the greatest soldier and the poor
est fnancier Of the nineteenth CEN
tury. His immediate presidential
successor could give him points in
the greatssrt Of saving
!. The Hope Pioneer says: ut is
not A. startling surprise to learn
that Miss Ella Wheeler has at last
married a man." We agree with
you in that respect, Mr.. Pioneer.
Now if Miss Ella had married a wo-
man it might have been worth re-
marking. Clipper.
Roller skates are dangerous things
among young folks. Read this
from Rockford, Illinois: "Miss Mag
gie,daughter of j. A. Cotton, agent Of
the Milwaukee road, left home Sat-
urday on the Chicago and Iowa
train for the purpose OF. meeting
and marrying H. 8. Hume, pro-
fessional roller skater. formerly Of
Rockford, now of Maquoketa, Iowa.
F Friends learned of her, intentions
and informed her father, who fol-
lowed on the next train. Some
Rockford parties notified the couple
by telegraph, and. as the father has
not returned. it is thought he has
failed to, find them. The young
lady is a popular member of society
Her faSher has threatened TO shoot
Hume if he ever came near his
daughter, and when he left in pur-
suit he made similar threats.
Red Wing Advance: The marri-
age Of Miss Ella Wheeler, the Wis
consin poetess, has given the wit
lings something to write about, and
we may expect to see a good deal of
coarse humor printed about an
event which seems to us should be
treated with that delicacy with
which respectable persons are in the
habit of discussing affairs to which
lady is party. The fact that
Miss Wheeler is the author of con-
siderable lurid poetry affords no ex-
cuse for the Indecent ridicule to
which she has been subjected, and
which has broken out afresh since
the announcement of her marriage
with Mr.. Wilcox, a very estimable
young gentleman from New Eng
land. 1t is quite likely that some
who have basely misconstructed the
sentiment of Miss Wheeler's verse
imagine that she is devoid of that
refinement, purity and delicacy of
feeling which constitute the highest
beauty Of intellectual womanhood;
these persons are grievously at fault.
None but a woman of the severest
purity and delicacy of feeling could
write such poems as Miss Wheeler
has given us; none else would dare
do so. We regret the rude jests
which are emitted at this gentle
lady's expense, but we feel that she
is too far above them to be pestered
by their stings, or to suffer their
evil doers to interrupt the flow of
her vivid but graceful muse.
Milwaukee Special: This morn
ing young woman not more than
senenteen or eighteen years old, at
tired in a Mother Hubbard black
silk dress, appeared in the court
house and inquired for the mayor.
She was proposing in appearance,
and was apparentlyin great trouble.
A police officer escorted her into the
mayors office, and she related to
him i story of sorrow and shame.
She stated that she arrived in the
city from Brooklyn, N. Y, where
her parents, who. according to her,
are wealthy and respectable people,
reside. About seven months ago
she was betrayed by a young man,
whose name she would not disclose !;
and, anxious to hide her shame, she
fled from her home and finally
reached this city, being anxious to
get as far away from her parents
as possible. She expected to be ill
in IL short time, and desired to oh.
tain admission into the county hos
pital. She absolutely refused to
give her name. An arrangement
was made to have her taken into the
hospital, but she suddenly changed
her mind and wanted to know if
she could not not enter some private
institute where care would be taken
of her during her sickness. The
officers believed her story, and are
temporarily caring for her. The
young woman is of gentle birth, and
there is every Indication that she
has been reared in luxury.
A correspondent of Darlington,
Foster county, writing = to - the
Jamestown Alert, says: Another
angel has fallen from grace. Ru-
NOR has it that one of our apparent.
ly most happily married women has
left with "handsomer man." The
story goes that she married her
present husband against her will
her heart being in the keeping Of
another. That ever since, the other
has followed her from place to place
and finally persuaded her to elope.
Your correspondent saw her board
the train the other morning as free
from anxiety as any other one we
ever saw. What curse to society
such mortais are! Where was her
hearth Where was her feelings,
where the vengence of an avenging
Justice that she could in broad day.
light leave home, husband and pret=
stling babe to go with IA libidinous
nome destroyer to gratify15the salem.
tieus apropensity of her frail and
wicked nature. 4 For months they
have met and cooed and cried to-
gether at various places and now
they have taken the fatal stem. Tha