Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1886-02-12

NEW YORK HOTEL

W." INN A4OAGht
New York CITY, q. s..
"MY DEAR FRIEND: We have Just ar
rived after a stormy passage, and | write
to advise yo1 Of this, accorIing to promise,
but l can do little more al present than give
you this information. Kate did no5 suffer
from mol de mer; it turned out thai | was
the worse sailor Of the two. If we should
only find that all is we'll we shall have a
very happy time. Inead not tell you that
Kate is the dearest, sweetest girl in TIE
world. You know that; WYedalo knows
it; everybody knows it. The sea air and
the change have done her good. Sometimes
during the voyage she seemed to for ret all
her gloomy ~forebo1ings She made friends
with O most agreeable American family
living in the Fifth avenue-tather, moth5r,
two daughters AMI a son, very mica young
people all Of them, father and mother as
young as the rest, and they have invited
Us to dinner. The weather is exceedingly
hot, AMI New York is almost like a contin
entail city. l think we shall like the Amer,
leans, which will be quito in keeping with
my business experience of them gained in
Manchester, though l know you are pre-
JUDGED on account of the slave business;
but every nation has its peculiar institu-
tons, and after all we English endowed
the states with this one, to which you and
all Of Vi now so much object. 1t is like
me, you will say, to leavs what may seem
the bal news OF my letter to the lasG Joe
is not here, and now l am sorry Kate did
not let me write a mail ahead of US to say
We were coming. He left q week ago, for
the west they think, or for one Of the sum
mer resorts, the hotel people don't know
which. They believe he went west, as he
made some inquiries as to the route to
Chicago, and talke1 Of going back to Eng
land by way Of San Francisco AMI Japan.
which means a tremendous journey, and a
dangerous one, across the plains. Kate
bears up well under this news, which, unless
it is explained tomorrow by the lawyers in
re the Norbury property business, is rather
extraordinary. l wish we had written to
him; but sufficient for thu day. The best
news is that we have arrived safe and well
Kate far better chan when we sailed;
that this hotel seems very comfortable, the
people civil; and let us hopa that Kate's
strange AMI curious fancies will be dissi.
pated tomorrow II there is time to put a
postscript to this letter before the mail
goes in the Torning l shall add it with the
latest news Of Joa that can be got. With
our united loves, / am your true and affec-
Tomato DICK
'P. s.. just time to say have seen tho
lawyers; they had written to Kate a week
ago, AMI Iinclose a copy Of their letter"
BROADWAY, New York.
DEAR MADAME: Your brother, Mr..
Joseph Norbury, requests us to inform you
| nf hic uafn arrival pn1 nf tho rrNOI 100000,
there are Of his succession to a share of the
Norbury property in this state. When
alighting from a carriage at the hotel he
met with a slight accident, which %incapaci-
tates him from writing at the momant-a
sprain Of the thumb, a slight matter, hut
rather painful. On this account he asks Us
to be his correspondents to you. He wishes
us to add that it is his desire that you should
no longer consider him in regard to your
marriage. On reflection he feels that he
has been selfish in this matter, AMI he no De,
on his return to find a brother as
well as a dear sister at Wyedale. You
may expect a letter from him by the
next mail, and in the meantime should he
leave New York, as he expects to do in two
days, any letters addressed to him to our
care will be mailed to him. He will post
US up in his address from time to time.
We are to say that with the exception of
the slight sprain before mentioned he is
quite well, and you will please give his kind
remembrance to DR.. Ware and LAWYER
Wood, and to inform DR.. Ware that his
opinion was quite correct: it was change
that he needed. Also give his love to Aunt
Dorothy and to Dick, and accept the same
with his sincere affection and solicitude for
yourself. We remain, yours,
SHALL, BOND & FIsKE."
Later there comes among other CORE
spondence, which need not be mentioned
the following history of the adventure Of
Kate and her husband in a letter to Law
yer Wood, the contents of which are to be
discreetly communicated to Mrs. Dorothy
Norbury. 1t seems to the historian that
this remarkable letter brings to a sufB-
GENTLY complete climax the story of John
Needham aud his most unfortunate double.
From Richard WoodviUe to Horace VII.
kiMs Wood, Esq, WyeddIe, England.
QUEEN S HOTEL, TORONTO, Canada.
"MY DEAR Mr.. WooD: You will be good
enough to break this news to Aunt Dorothy.
Ny dear wife, who has behaved with sin
gular heroism, is quite calm under the blow
which Fate has dealt us. 1 knew il from
the first she says, and while / shall never
be a happy woman again I shall boar my
sorrow with Christian resignation, and do