Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-09-13
New Series, Vol. 20, No. 81.
THE TRAGEDY OF REAL LIFE.

LIE AhAUED1 OF' REAL LIFE.
Ohio State Journal
Dld eyerany remaneer conceive of a
sadder, wilder, more tragical tale of
human calamity and woe than this?
Last June prominent young lady of
Norwich, Conn, named GeOrg went to
Germany to be married into a wealthy
and ariStOcratic German family. Miss
Georg herself was Il talented, handsome
and accomplished girl, well fitted to
isaorn as wife the home of any man. All
the arrangements had been made for her
marriage, which Was to take place day
or Two after her arrival But on the day
set the young German gentleman to
whom she was betrOthed was seized with
a sudden and dangerous illness, and the
wedding had to be postponed For more
than week the young man lay in hour
ly expectation of death, but Miss Georg,
with that devotion which only love in
spires, nurSed him back to life and hone
again.
Wen his health seemed pretty well
restored, second day was fixed upon
Tor the wedding ceremony, and numer
Gus invitations sent forth. But on the
very day thus set apart, and just before
the commencement of the marriage
services, fire broke out in the sumptU-
mansion which the bridegroom had built
for the reception of his bride and totally
destroyed the house. Again the wedding
was almost perforce postponed.
The young man was then called away
from home on business, arranging be-
forehand that the wedding should take
place the day of his return, which he
would designate by mail as soon as his
business was transacted. This he did.
and another house having while he was
gone been furnished for the receptiOn of
the pair, he started on his return. The
numerous guests invited for the third
time assembled at the church, but Oh
that very morning Miss Georg herself,
whose imagination had been affected by
the two previous failures, and who was
raeked with fear lest something should
intervene again, sucumbed to excitement
and anxiety and was carried to her bed
stricken with mortal illness Just after
she had been arrayed for the altar.
The horror of the situation rapidly
eliminated. The young man pushing
gally home to fulfill his vows was sud-
denly and violently thrown from his
horse when within sight of the house
which sheltered his alfianced and instant
ly killed. The minister, who was to
have then performed the marriage
ceremony announced, to the horrified
congregation assembled to witness the
Al
groom and the fatal illness of the bride.
-Four days later Miss Georg herself ex-
pired, and the two whom fate forbade to
mingle their destinies in life were united,
let us hope, beyond the grave.
Should novelist weave the above in
cidents into romance his story would
probably be laughed at for its wild and
clumsy improbability. Every step in
the tale would seem to be not natural
;curre1ce, but sheer invention of the
wIiter, and he would be charged with
having forced his situations at all points.
Y ct the whole thing happened, just as
related above, within the last three
Miss Georg was one of the best
known and most admired young ladies
in Cincinnati, and + '1dreds of her
friends and acquaintances are even now
,Orrying for her death.
As truth may be stranger than fiction
80 its naked horror may, as in this case,
DC more horrible than any artificial trag-
9dy. The elements of tragedy are in
fact all around us, and in many a quiet
village, country neighborhOod or home
n busy city, there are going on things
Wild and wonderful rs any of which the
ever dreamed. But it is not
Ill sorrow, and light and life and joy
make up the story more often than dark
less, suffering and death.