Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1888-11-08
A COUNT BECOMES A WIFE
BEArE
After Marrying Miss Knox OF Pitts
burg. he Abuses Her In Paris For not
Giving Him More Money

The extreme folly exercised bv many
American girls and American mothers in
favor of the marriage alliance of the
former with titled foreigners Is having
Illustrations. The instances are so nu-
merous and the bad consequences OF them
are ~ general, The marvel is there should
not be some abatement of what is so dis
tasteful to all sensible people Very re-
Gently ease has occurred which is "A
characteristic showing OF the nuisance.
Aspccial fromParis totho NY Herald SAYS
that another unhappy union between
European title and American dollars is
the latest sensation in that city. 1t is all
about the sudden termination Of the
honeymoon of Count and Countess hi
Montcalicri, nee Miss Virginia Knox of
Ptttsburg. There marriage was celebrated
about Il fortnight ago in rittsburg with
great cclat. The bridal couple arrived in
Paris last Sunday and engaged suite of
rooms at the Hotel Bellevue, preparatory
to continuing their journey to the castle
which the Count said his mother possessed
on the Adriattc. 1t WAS apparent that
the bride was not happy. and early on
Monday morning the guests were aroused
by shricks from the Countess chamber,
followed by cries for help. Some guests
dressed hastily, aud ran into the CORR
doris The manager of the hotel burst open
the door aud found the Countess strug-
Cling with her brutal husband, her hair
disheveled, her night dress torn and her
body bruised. The Count released his
victim, who rushed to the manager, cry
Ing beseechingly: "Saye me from him.
Turn him out of the hotel; he has got no
money, he cant pay you" The Count
protested against the interference. and at
tempted to pull his wife back, whereupon
she gave him singing blow in the face
with her clenehed fist. lie tried to return
the blow hut was prevented by the mana
ger and the male guests. The unfortu-
nate bride told the manager she had been
thoroughly deceived In her husband. She
believed him to be a man of means, but
learned, too late, that he was not only
penniless, but an inhuman brute. At first
she supplied him literally with MOI ev.
but nothing seemed TO satisfy HIM When
she refused to give him more he COM
menced beating her. The manager told
the couple he could not allow guests to
be disturbed, and that they must leave
the hotel immediately. The unfortunate
wife, who deeply felt the disgrace, burst
into tears and pleaded to be allowed TO
remain. but the manager was memorable,
and they had to so. The instances of
this kind count their hundreds, and the
wreck of hopes and of all which makes
married life sacred and desirable has been
the result of large proportion
Of these unfortunate unions of American
ladies with foreigners with pretentious
claims to noble blood and aristocratic
families. The melancholy history of them
would I'LL volumes Yet there are still
American women silly enough, and there
are some fathers like them. who think it
a boon to their daughters to be success
fully sought by those who put on assum-
ing airs because they can affix the
term of count or marquis to their
name, They are generally without money
or script In their purses, are too proud to
work, and think themselves in their seedy
stress Justified In seeking to replenish their
bank account by an American marriage.
Notwithstanding the scandal and the
nearly uniform misery to the victimized