Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-03-08


on more useful matters intent, extended his
shopping to include the purchase of pair
of silk hose.
With the two boxes in the carriage he
drove rapidly home, and after destroying a
quire, more or less, of note paper. ended by
inditing only the briefest note, and giving
it to his servant, bade 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 surprised 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-Bancroft Marriage.
Four or five years since when it was an
nounced after the death. of Mrs. Bancroft,
wife of the venerable historian, that a
granddaughter, of whose existence no one
had previously even heard an intimation,
was to come and preside over his house on
H street, society was on tiptoe with excite.
ment. 1t did not nave long to wait, how
ever for the young granddaughter arrived,
and from that time until her sensational
marriage two years since with Mr.. Charles
Carroll, OF Howard county, Md.-one of the
CAROLS Of Carrollton-the young lady
managed to keep society in continuous
and intentions.
Not a month before the marriage with
young Carroll took place the rumor gained
currency that dinner given by the his
torian to coterie OF intimate friends had
been for the purpose of announcing the en-
gagement of his granddaughter to the Wis
comte de Chaunac, who owned and resided
in the magnificent chateau de Cibeaumont
par Doyne (Dordoyne) in France. 1t was
further whispered that the two costly dia-
mond rings worn by her were the gift of her
her own fancy in the matter, had enclosed
check for large amount to be spent'in this
manner.
Married to Suit Herself.
1t was most interesting story altogether,
and society looked on with pitying solicitude
when it was told that the young girl was
soon to be sacrificed to a mercenary marriage
and that her engagement with the Viscomte
was an affaire de CONVEYANCE arranged by
an ambitious sister living abroad. The
formal announcement of this engagement
was subsequently made at Newport, and 1t
was November 16, shortly after her return
from this place that Miss Bancroft electrified
US by walking out of her grandfather's house
one morning and being married to Mr.. Car
roll in the parlor of St Matthews rectory.
The service was performed by Rev. Father
Chappelle, the necessary consent OF Cardinal
Gibbons having been secured by the young
people going in person to Baltimore.
Mrs. Nina Wright de Podistad, vino spent
several seasons in Washington. has already
had crowded into her life experiences so
romantic and thrilling that were they made
the themes of romance. the public would
at once condemn it as altogether improbable
and overdrawn.
The Wife of a Fugitive.
Coming 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 a host of friends. Among the most
ardent of her admirers was Mr.. de Podistad,
an attache of the Spanish legation, who.
though unable to obtain the consent of his
Minister or family to his projected marriage,
on account Of the divorce, finally decided to
brave everything and marry the woman he
so madly loved.
On the morning of what was to have been
their wedding day, the husband-elect was
violently i'll, and growing rapidly worse,
sent for physician, who. even at that early
stage, professed himself dubious of the re-
during the few days which her lover fingered
never left his bedside. The young fellow
was urgent in his desire that the ceremony
should be performed, and after a delay of
some hours spent in endeayoring to gain the
consent of his priest to officiate, the services
of a Methodist minister were finally Sc
cured.
Scene in the Death Chamber.
Shortly after the solemn service was con-
cluded, the newiy-made wife was left
widow with the narrowing duty of arrang-
ing for the burial of the man whom the
Minister and members of his own legation
refused to acknowledge as her legal hus-
band. The reason for this opposition on the
part of the Spanish Minister, who has re-
Gently been recalled, appears to have been
twofold, for when he went to the house to
view the body shortly after the attaches
death, there ensued a scene which beggars
description.
Across the corpse of the young Spaniard
the Minister hurled defiance at the widow,
protesting vehemently that this calamity had
come upon her because in the insolence of
her beauty she had dared to spurn his oft re-
peated avowals of love. Mrs. de Podistad,
with the little son by her first unhappy mar
riage, is living in seclusion with her mother
on the coast of France.
"A SIX MONTHS lfIal COurtSh1p.
Perhaps the most novel romance is that of
Miss Patten, eldest daughter of the late
Mrs Patten, of California, and Senor Rafael
Cana, wealthy man, whose brother at that
time was Minister from Chile to this coun-
try. Senor Cana did not speak one word of
English, while his lady-love was as glor-
iously ignorant of Spanish, but they met
upon the common ground OF French.
Tney agreed that for six months thew
would be outwardly all devotion to each
other, and though all public announcement
was to be avoided, they were virtually to
consider themselves engaged. Senor Cana
was to be the attendant of Miss Patten on all
occasions, should provide her with flowers
and bonbons ad libitum, should secure
choice seats at theater and opera, should
carry her bouquet and fan at parties, and
quietly obliterate himself during the round
OF dances, to appear again as surely at sup
per time. In return the young lady was to
hold herself in readiness upon all occasions
to forego such social pleasures as conficted
seriously with the sedate disposition OF her
elderly lover. She was moreover to meet
and walk with him every fine day, and
when inclement weather precluded the en-
ioyment of pedestrian exercise was to enter
tain him after the most approved fashion in
her own home. At the end of six months
each was to be strictly honest with the other
and state what progress this intimate degree
of friendship had made on the royal road to
love, and whether, ali things considered, a
continuance was to be desired. Strange as
it NAV seem, the two held to their VOWS of
absolute candor, but the end was that they
mutually preferred friendship to marriage.
Miss GRUNDY, JR.