The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1885-01-06
And Proves that Taking a Cas-
tie Does not Always Sc
cure a Happy Home.
A Mournfnl Tale Of Married
Misery as Detailed by
the Parties.
A st. Louis-Sedalia Romance with
Very Sad and Serious
Ending.

press of this city, wherein two well-kpown
Sedslians were the contracting parties.
The bride, Miss Julia Castle, was al the
time under the instructions of Prof. Pop
pen, a well-known music maestro, of L.
Louis, and had already won deserved hon.
ors as a vocalist.
During her vacation in this city she had
formed the acquaintance of one E. A..
Holmes, a clerk in the bridge department
of the K. & t. railway.
Holmes was a member of the Christian
church, was possessed of fair education,
handsome, and had q plausible manner
which had won him a certain social recog-
milton and also number of friends. He
was also a singer OF considerable meri',
and very few musical entertainments Were
complete without the addition of his
voice.
Mr.. Holmes vas a frequent caller on
Miss Julia at the residence of her brother
in-law Mr.. E. E. Mcclellan on Broadway,
but no one suspected that there was any
thing more between them than mere friend
ship.
When the time Of the
YOUNG LADY's VACATION
had expired she concluded not to return
to St. Louis to study but 60 to Cincinnati
where she would enter the college of music
Mr.. Holmes proposed to accompany her as
far as St Louis ON her route and as she in
tended stopping there for brief visit with
friends he also would visit his cousin one
Mr.. Brown residing there.
The plan Rss agreed to, but after
reaching st. Louis, q marriage was
patched up between the parties and
arrangements were made for the ceremony
to be performed at the residence of Holms'
cousin.
The cousin, however, did not think the
bride was doing the best thing for herself
that could be done and he endesvored to
dissuade her from
SUCH HAsTY STEP,
finally succeeding.
In the meantime the Incense had teeu
published in the ST. Louis papers and OF
course was seen by parties here and rumor
put on her boots and carried the news.
Holmes returned The same evening and
upon being questioned he told the facts in
the case aud also said that the marriage
ceremony had only been deferred until
Miss Julia should finish her musical
studies at Cincinnati and that she had
gone on there for that purpose. He then
went to her sister and Represented that
Miss Julia was very unhappy at the sum
mary ending of their beautiful love idyl
and begged her to consent to a msrrisge.
Mrs. Mcclellan then wrote to her sister and
| told her that while she much preferred
that she should 60 on with her studies as
had been originally intended, il nothing
else would content her, she wouldssgive her
consent to the marriage.
Unfortuna ely this letter never reached
its destination and in the meantime the
lover got in his work with such excellent
effec, that Miss julia was persuaded to re-
turn to 81. Louis and be married.
Mrs. Mcclellan ascertainipg This fact, i'm
mediately went to st. Louis, and, after
questioning her sister closely as to her feel
ceremony 60 on, and il took place accoI d.
ing TO the originsl arrangement at the resi-
dence of Mr.. Brown.
The st. Louis Globe-Democrat gave a
very garbled version of the affair and
stated that Miss Julia had been forced into
the marriage by her sister, but that this
merely the vagary OF an over Jealous and
somewhat jealous reporter, the above
etatement Will prove,
AFTER THE MARRIAGE
the newly welded Mr.. and Mrs. Holmes re.
turned to this city. For a time all went
well, and once more an arrangement was
made to send the young bride back TO Cir
cinnati TO take up her studies in music,
Mrs. Mcclellan agreeing to share the ex-
pensss with Mr.. Holmes and ne to remain
here.
This was done and everything was pro-
crossing finely until the groom began to
write to his bride to leave the college and
return to st. Louis, where he would secure
a position and they would
GO To LIGHT HOUSEKEEPING.
This Mrs. Holmes would not consent to and
one fine morning the places that had known
Mr.. Holmes in Ssdalis knew him no longer
and il was sscertainsd that he had followed
his bride TO Cincinnati.
Then people began to compare notes in
this city, and the comparison wss bad
one for Mr.. Holmes, for the fact vas assur-
ed that he owed nearly everybody. Board
bills, borrowed. money, jevelry and what
not, all had their record and there was a
vague idea that the "singing bird" was q
fraud from away back. His brother-in-
law, who had loaned him $500 was one
of his victims, as also was his father-in-
law, Mr.. Castle, who resides on a farm near
Georgetown, and who, in q moment of con-
fdeuce, had gone on his note for the sum
of $500, which Holmes had drawn from
the bank and taken with him.
After reaching Cincinnati, Mrs. Holmes
was persuaded 10 reside with her husband
and a room was rented, 9 piano purchased,
ETC., and the couple were installed
Holmes claimed that he was receiving q
SALARY OF SIPS PER MONTH,
and for few weeks Mrs. Holmes kept on