The Central Nevadan. [volume] (Battle Mountain, Nev.) 1885-1907, 1890-05-22

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Gambling is in the air. Horse racing
and poker are their fashionable relaxa-
tions, and when nothing else offers,
they will match dollars by the hour if
stocks are dull. In these matters,
Douglas Green was not far different
from his fellows.
Another danger to which the Wall
Street broker is exposed, is the wiles
of artful and designing women From
all parts of the world they drift to
Wall Street, and the broker is legiti-
mate game. They want points on the
rise and fall of stocks, and. sharp as
the brokers are on stocks. they fail an
easy prey to these adventuresses. In
this way fell poor Nat Hatch, who was
killed last year, while in company of
the adventures, Mrs. Scoville, who |
see was arrested this week, for grand
larceny. Mrs. MeCrea saw Douglas
Green, and fell desperately in love
with him, and Douglas Green re-
turned the compliment by falling des
perately in love with Mrs. McCrea,
Green's friends say he was crazy; yet
up to the day of his escapade, when
he left his own little wife, and sped off
to Old Point Comfort to marry Mrs.
McCrea, he was considered quite sane
enough to go on Change, and buy and
sell stocks to the amount of hundreds
of thousands of dollars, but now that
he has committed an act which places
him in danger of States Prison, his
friends hope, iii Case Of his apprehen-
sion, to place him in a Lunatic Asy-
lum, instead. 1t is a strange affair,
look at it AS we will, that man of
fine business qualifications, of ample
fortune, with good and handsome
wits, aud sweet little children, should
deliberately march out of his own
house, all the arrangements having
been made beforehand, and marry u
woman who was sure to drag him
down TO ruin, aud make him crim-
inal for the rest of his lie.
The strangest part of the whole
story is that Mr.. Green was quite re-
ligious-that he was regular attend
ant at the Presbyterian church, and
never sat to his meals without SAYING
grace before meat, and went down ON
his knees every night aud said his
prayers before he went to bed. His
poor little wife is broken hearted; his
partners and his relations feel dis
graced. Everybody who knew him is
asking: "What was he thinking OFF,
How could he do itl" / give it up.
It's something that no fellow can find
out. I'll have to leave the guess to
him who told Nellie Bly's time round
the world within half second.
The benefit to Mrs. James G.
Blaine, Jr., rendered by the citizens
of New York last week, brought out
some of the best society people in the
city, and the financial result was some
thing over three thousand dollars.
For several months past the poor
woman has been lying here racked by
acute rheumatism, utterly unable to
help herself, deserted by her husband
and his family, and absolutely de-
pendent for food and shelter for her.
self and infant ON the charity of
friends, who have kindly come for
ward to assist her. Mrs. James G.
Blaine. Jr., is loved and respected by
everybody who knows her, and it is
a matter of profound regret among her
friends that her young life should
have been blasted by her unfortunate
marriage with such worthless hus-
band. Many times she has been re-
quested by her friends to enter suit
but this she positively refused.