New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1889-01-09
Why She Refused The Minister.

Why She Refused The Minister.
a few gossips of the southern end
of St. Louis, Mo-, are just now discus
sing the strange romance ola young
woman who has for something over
a year been resident among them.
The story was told by a clergyman
ofthe Episcopal Church, who has been
q sufferer from the lady's strange
fate. The lady in question is but a
visitor to America, whence she came
to try and shake off the 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 Edin-
burgh, to Aberdeen. By the death OF
her father, since her arrival in this
country, she has become heiress 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 Carlyle.
One day, while riding across the
heath in his company. she had a pre-
sentiment that he would propose
that night and that she accepted.
She saw him, in a lnomentary vision,
lying, pale and cold, by theroadside.
| BeWlldered, she inyoluntarily stop
| ped her horse and in another mo-
ment fell in a sWoon He bore her
to a cottager's near by and on her
| recovery the bashful young mans
love had been SO intensified by anx-
iety that, in a moment of mutual
tenderness, they were betrothed.
After escorting her home he had to
pass the same spot to return to his
domicile. The next morning they
found him 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 betrothed
to an English naval officer. who was
suddenly ordered to the West Indies
to join 81. NJ. S. schoolship Eurydice.
The next spring, on the return Of the
ship home, she was wrecked and all
on board but two were lost. The
young lover was not one of the
| saved.
Time healed the lady's twice
wounded heart, and her affections
We're won by an English army officer,
who was drowned shortly after the
betrothal. The night he was drowned
she was attending ball, and ac-
carding to her statement was seized
with a sudden attack of dizziness and
| tainted. On recovering, she said she
had seen, in a vision the ball room
suddenly transformed into a sub
marine cavern, containing nothing
but the corpse of her accepted lieu
tenant. She could never be induced
to dance again.
1t took a great 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 elect came to
the Quaker City afterwards, and,
having relatives in Carondelet, re-
solved to make a long visit to them.
The clergyman who furnished the
facts above related met and loved
thelady, and she apparently recipro-
Gated, but when he proposed she re
piled by telling him her story. and
all his eloquence failed to change her
resolution never to marry. His at
tention to her had been a matter of
society gossip, SO that there was
something of a 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 in Scotland
to reside permanently. st. Louis
Globe-Democrat.
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