Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1888-12-14
A STRANGE FATALITY.
ENGAGED TO FOUR MEN, EACH
ONE OF WHOM DIED.
From the St Louis Globe Democrat.

ONE OF WHOM DIED
From the st Louis Globe Democrat.
A few gossips of the southern
end of st Lou Mo-, are just now
discussing the strange romance OF
"A young woman who has tor some
thing over a year been resident
among them. The story was told
by a clergyman Of the Episcopal
church, who has been a sufferer
from the lady's strange fate. The
lady in question IS but visitor to
America, VIII ence she came to try
and shake off a spell of which she
firmly believes she is the victim.
A few years previous to her leaving
"Historic Caledonia" she returned
from the patrimonial estates OF the
family, nine and one half miles
from the Holyrood palace. in Edln-
bnrgh, to Aberdeen. BY the death
of her father, since her arrival ID
this country, she has become heir
ess to a large estate. She is refined
graceful and handsome, but the
fatality attaching to her makes her
life an unhappy one.
When but seventeen-years old
she became strongly attached to a
nephew OF the bishop of Carlisle.
One day, while riding across the
heath in his company, she had a
presenhment that he would pro-
pose that night and that she &C
cepted. She saw hin, in a mo-
mentary vision, lying, pale and
cold, by the roadside. Bewildered
she invOluntarily stopped her horse,
and in another moment fell in a
swoon. He bore her to cottager's
near by and on her recovery the
bashful young mans love had been
so intensified by anxiety that, In
a moment of mutual tenderness,
they were betrOthed. After es-
corting her home he had to pass
the same spot to return to his DOM
icile. The next morning they found
bin dead near where she had fallen.
His horse had evidently thrown
him and he had been killed by the
consequent injury to his head.
The lady recovered and eighteen
months afterward she was be-
trothed to an English naval officer,
who was suddenly ordered to the
West Indies to join II. NJ. S. school
ship Eurydice. The next spring,
on the return of the ship home,
she was wrecked and all on board
bat two we're lost. The young lover
was not one of the saved.
Time healed the lady's twice
wounded heart, and her affections
were won by an English army off
Ger, who was drowned shortly after
the betrOthal. The night he was
drowned she was attending ball,
and, according TO her statement,
was seized with a sudden attack
of dizziness and tainted. On re-
covering, she said she had seen, in
a vision, t h e ballroom suddenly
transformed into a submarine cav
ern, containing nothing but the
corpse of her accepted lieutenant.
She could never be induced TO
dance again.
1t took good deal Of persuasion
to Induce her to become a fancee
again. But the persistence of an
American sea captain conquered
her reluctance and she accepted
him. He returned to Philadelphia
with his ship for the purpose of
putting his affairs IN shape for the
wedding. While his ship was at
anchor off the Delaware breakwater
he was also drowned. The bride
cleo: came to the Quaker City af-
terward, and, having relatives in
Cafofdelet resolved to make a
long visit to them. ~
The clergyman who furnished the
facts above related met and loved
the lady, and she apparently re-
ciprocated, but when he proposed
she replied by telling him her story,
and all his eloquence failed to
change her resolution never to mar
~. His attention to her had been
a matter of society gossip, so that
there was something OF sensation
when there appeared in the society
columns of the Globe Democrat an
item stating that she had gone to
visit friends in the interior of the
state, and would soon return to
her home ia Scotland to reside per-