Omaha daily bee., 1888-05-20
A Cruel Man.
Boston Herald.

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A Cruel Man.
Boston Herald.
He passed his arm around her waist, he
pressed her lily hand,
Her heart stood still, she felt that he a kiss
was bent on stealing,
She tightly shut her eyes and strove her
feelings to command,
While surged the blood unto her cheeks,
her modest fears revealing;
Her waist he squeezed-she hoped,s she feared,
she trembled and she gasped-
She never had been kissed before, and
'twas a serious matter;
AT length he said, GOOD night, my love-"
and dropped the hand he clasped,
And left the maiden fair unkissed and mad
as any halter.
a Romancer's Romance.
Wives and Daughters: There was n
romantic marriage in st. Louis the
other day, the bride being Miss Nc
Lean, a rather clever New England
woman, and the groom T. l.. Green, u
miner from the Chihuahua country of
Mexico. The engagement was of long
standing, and Miss Mclean had jour
neyed all the way from Europe to meet
and wed the man of her choice. She
made the long trip unattended, and
would probably have gone around by
way of China could she have reached
st. Louis in no other direction. The
heroine of this wedding is not unknown
to the literary world. She taught
school up and down the Massachusetts
coast for Il number of years, writing
sketches and serials for the magazines
between times.
Finally, some five or six years ago, the
plucky little schoolmarm determined to
write n novel that would be n bit of a
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brand of the school then in vogue. Ac-
cordingly she wrote Cape Cod Folks"
The book sold like wild fire for a couple
of months and promised to be the SEN
sation of the year.. Its characters we're
portrayed so true to life as to be recog-
nizable, and in many instances the
names Of persons were used without re-
sorting to aliases. The work was satiri-
cal, caustic and all fire, and every old
busy body and gossip of the
Cape, irrespective of sex, Or stand
ing, came in for a hauling over
the Goals. Then came an avalanche of
libel suits, brought by Cape Cod folks
against the publisher of the volume.
The publisher investigated, found it
useless to attempt to fight the suits and
compromised by destroying the unsold
copies of the work, paying some of the
slandered ones sums of money and going
into bankruptcy. Miss Mclean went
abroa and only returned to be married
as above narrated. She will accompany
her husband to his Mexican mine and
probably give up story writing.
An Elopement's Sad End.
A Port Jarvis dispatch to the Phila-
delphia Press says. The elopement
and marriage OF Richard Thomas, son
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perintendent of the Erie railway, and
Florence Conover, daughter of a florist
of Belleville, N. j., neither of the run
always having as yet reached the age of
seventeen years, was an occurrence of
sensational interest about a twelve
month ago, which now unfolds q sad
and warning sequel.
At the time of the elopement young
Thomas, who was a wild and headstrong
youth and had given his father much
trouble, was employed in the Erie rail
way office at Jersey City and was board
ing with the Conover family at Belle
vile. One Sunday night the boy and
girl started out together, ostensibly to
so they crossed the river to New York,
where they hunted up n minister, who
married them. The next day the
young couple returned to Belle
vile and were forgiven and taken
in by the parents of the bride.
But Mr.. Thomas, it is said, sternly ig-
nored his sons indiscreet marriage.
Soon after and about the time that Mr..
Thomas resigned his place as general
superintendent of the Erie road, the
young nan lost his situation in the Jer-
sey City Office and vent with his young
wife to Susquehanna, Pa, where he
found temporary employment in the
Erie shops there. Mr.. Benjamin
of the Chicago & Atlantic road, with
headquarters ut Chicago, and last week
his family left this town, where they
had resided for many years, to join him
at Chicago.
A few days ago the sons wife passed
through here on her way from Susque-
hanna to the home of her parents in
Belleville. She was in delicate health
and in deep mental sorrow and distress.
She said that she had been cruelty de-
serted by her young husband and she
feared that he had been persuaded to
rejoin his father in Chicago and per-
haps would institute proceeding in the
courts there for an annullment of their
marriage.
Tilted at Sixty.
Albion, N. Y, special to the New
York World: The people of this place
and of Medina are greatly interested in
the suit of aged Mrs. Moses Ross against
Washington Ferguson, the seventy
seven-year-old bridegroom, for breach
of promise, which was reported in the
World recently. Both parties are well
known in this and neighboring towns,
and the surprise over the old farmers
recent marriage has been intensified by
the fact that old Mrs. Ross had eX
pected to be the bride herself. How
Mr.. Ferguson succeeded in winning
these two aged hearts is a mystery, for
he is by no prepossessing in per-
sonal appearance. He is rather a large
man, with a face encircled with IA fringe
of white whiskers and is bald headed,
He is very much bent over and hobbies
about with difficulty on two canes. He
is believed to be worth about $3.50 600,
and since his wife died a few months
ago he has been followed about by sew
eral designing women.
Mrs. Ross, who is bringing suit for
$50, 900 to repair her broken heart, is a
widow and a stanch pillar of the Meth
odist church. She is exactly sixty years
old and looks her age. She lost her
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