The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-03-08

bcr of the British legation, who, while
high in her favor, sought and obtained
permission to give theater party in her
honor. The morning Of the evening on
which it was to have been given, the at
tache, full of blissfnl dreams, drove to the
florists, secured box of choicest long
stemmed roses and then ON more useful
matters intent. extended his shopping to
include the purchase of some desirable
silk underwear. With the two boxes in the
carriage he drove rapidly home and after
destroying qnire, more or less, OF note
paper, ended by inditing only the briefest
note and giving it to his servant babe him
to at once convey it with the flowers to his
lady love. The servant took the box but
he got the wrong one, and when the young
lady read the note asking her ITO wear the
contents tonight" she was very much sur
prised and decidedly bored. The young
man was even more bored than she was,
and his capital stock in the bank OF love
shrunk to nothingness.
THE cARRoLL-BAxcRoFT MARRrAGE.
Four or five years since, when it was an
nounced after the death Of Mrs. Bancroft,
wife of the venerable historian, that q
granddaughter, of whose existence no one
had previously heard an intimation, was
to come and preside over his house on
H street, society was on tiptoe with ex-
however, for the young granddaughter
arrived, and from that time until her SEN
sational marriage two years since with Mr..
Charles Carroll, of Howard county, Mary
land-one of the CAROLS of Carrollton-
the young lady managed to keep society
in continuous whirl of surprises
concerning her actions and intentions.
Not month before the marriage with
young Carroll took place, the rumor gained
currency that dinner given by the his
torian to a coterie of intimate friends had
been for the purpose Of announcing the
engagement of his granddaughter to the
Viscomte de Chaunac, who owned and re-
sided in the magnificent Chateau de
Cibeaumont par Doyne (Dordoynel in
France. 1t was further whispered that
the two costly diamond rings worn by her
were the gift of her titled fiancee, who, de-
string her to exercise her own fancy in the
matter, had enclosed check for large
amount to be spent in this manner. 1t
was most interesting story altogether,
and society looked on with plying
solicitude when it was told that the young
girl was soon to be sacrificed to q mercen-
airy marriage, and that her engagement
with the viscomtc was an dfairc de c0nrc,s-
fence arranged by an ambitious sister liy-
ing abroad. The formal announcement of
this engagement was subsequently made
at Newport. and it was November Is,
that Miss Bancroft electrified us by walk
ing quietly ont Of her grandfather's house
one morning and being married to Mr..
Carroll in the parlor of st. Matthews rec
tory. The service was performed by Rev.
erend Father Chappelle, the necessary con-
sent of Cardinal Gibbons having been Sc
cured by the young people going in person
to Baltimore.
MARRIED on HIS DEATHBED.
Mrs. Nina Wright de Podistad, who
spent several seasons in Washington, has
already had crowded into her life expert
ences so romantic and thrilling that were
they made the theme of romance the
public would at once condemn it as alto
to Washington as the divorced wife of .
fugitive from justice, a forger whose
whereabouts are TO this day enshrOuded in
deepest mystery, she at once attracted
marked attention. The prestige of her
worth, beauty and standing as the
heiress of a prominent New Orleans
family soon won for her host Of
admirers was Mr.. De Podistad an attache
Of the Spanish legation, who though
unable to obtain the consent of his minis
ter or family to his projected marriage, on
account of the divorce. finally decided to
brave everything and marry the woman
| what was to have been their wedding day,
| the husband-elect was violently ill, and
| growing rapidly worse. sent for physi-
| clan, who even at that early stage pro-
fessed himself dubious of the result Mrs.
Wright was at once notified, and during
the few days which her lover fingered
never left his bedside. The young
| fellow was urgent in his de-
sire that the ceremony should
be performed, and after a
| delay of some hours spent in endeavoring
| to gain the consent of his priest to off,
| ciate, the services of a Methodist minister
were finally secured. Shortly after the
solemn service was concluded the newly
| made wife was left a widow, with the har-
rowing duty of arranging for the burial of
| the man whom the minister and members
| of his own legation refused to acknowledge
| as her legal husband. The reason for this
| opposition on the part of the Spanish
minister, who has recently been recalled,
appears to have been two-fold,
| to view the body shortly after
the attaches death, there ensued scene
| which beggars description. Across the
corpse of the young Spaniard. the minis
| ter hurled defiance at his widow. protest
| ing yehemently that this calamity had
| come upon her because in the insolence of
| her beauty she hal dared to spurn his oft
| repeatead avowals of love. Mrs. De Podi-
stad with the little son by her first un-
happy marriage is living in seclusion with
her mother on the coast of France.
| A SIX MONTHS TRIAL coURTsHIr.
| Perhaps the most novel romance on
record for any Washington girl is the
provisional engagement said to have been
entered into several years since by Miss
Patten, eldest daughter of the late Mrs.
Patten, of California, to Senior Rafael
Cana, whose brother at that time was
minister from Chile to this country. The
foreigner, though the senior by many
| years of Miss Patten, yet hoped to some
what equalize all such difficulties by the
wealth of which he expected to be
master upon the sale to an American
| syndicate of his silver mines in Chile.
| Senior Cana did not speak one word
of English, while his lady love was as
| gloriously ignorant of Spanish, but they
met upon the common ground of French
and each sought in this way to finally
overcome the obstacles to perfect under
standing in their respective native Ian
| guages. The plan decided upon in the
matter of the engagement was that it
should be held by both in the most liberal
sense as provisional. That is, for a period
| of six months they would be outwardly all
| devotion to each other, and though all
/ pubic announcement was to be avoided,
they were virtually to consider them.
| selves engaged for the space of time
agreed upon. Senior Cana was to be the
attendant of Miss Patten on all occasions.
should provide her with flowers and bon
bons nd tsbitum, should secure choice seats
| ut theater and opera. should carry her
bouquet and fan at parties and quietly OBJ
| literatc himself during the round of
| dances IN anpear avair aS Suralx, ~ 60