Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1900-11-22
UNHAPPY UNIONS
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OF HEIRESSES.
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A Startling Record Of Girls Whose
Lives Have Been Wrecked By
Marrying Old world Titles.

Marriages between American wom-
en- and foreigners Of rank have turned
out u~nhappily to an extent that is ap-
palling. An investigation shows that
at least three-quarters of them have
been disastrous.
The stories of drunkenness and cru
city and ~unspeakable depravity that
have been told in connection with
these marriages are enough to make
the ordinary American man sick at
heart. The women Of his race have
been publicly shamed, starved and
beaten by husbands who are account
ed of gentle blood in European coun-
tries. In order to find all this misery
the women lave left a country where
the very ground they walk on is Wor-
shipped and where their sex is infin-
itely more honored than in any other
part of the world.
An event of the nomen is the trou-
BILE which has befallen the Countess
Castellane, formerly Miss Anna Gould
of New York, through the wreckless
extravaganza Of her husband the
Count. Within five years this young
man has succeeded in spending some
thing like five million dollars and NJ
one knows to what extent his expen-
ditures would have been carried had
not the relatives Of he Countess in
terfered.
DISASTROUS UNIONS.
A summary will show how the great
majority Of American-European mar
riages have turned out d1sastrously.
There is no more d-isgraceful case
Of the ill-treating of an American
wife by a foreign husband than that
of the late Duke of Manchester. When
he was Lord Vaudeville, and heir to
the dukedom, he married Miss Con-
suello Yznaga, a remarkably beauti-
full New York girl. After a few years
of married life Vaudeville developed
such vile habits that he would not
have been a fit associate for ~jailbirds.
The Dowager Duchess is still known
as one of the most beautiful women in
London. The present Duchess OF
Marlborough, formerly Miss Consuelo
Vanderbilt, was named after her.
The Countess Pappenheim was for
merly Miss Wheeler, OF Philadelphia,
and was a very beautiful girl. She
was warned both privately and even
in print against comforting her hand
and her fortune upon Count Pappen-
helm, whose antecedents were Of the
most description. In spite
of this she persisted in marrying him.
and after a short spell of welded life
was forced by his behavior to leave
him and to return to her mother, with
whom she has since ived. The Count
having married mainly for money,
and finding himself cut off from any
further participation in his wife's for
tune, sued for divorce on the ground
of desertion.
Madame de Stuers, a daughter OF
John Cary, and a niece of William AS
tor, found life u~nbearable with her
Dutch husband. She deserted him,
proceeded to Dakota, where she OBJ
tanned a divorce, and is now married
to MI. Elliott Z~borowski, of New York.
Before marrying Count Erdoedy, of
Hungary, Miss Julia Scott, of New
York, was married to Major john
son, of the English army, to whom
she bore three children. Some years
| ago, however, Mrs. Johnson proceed
ed to South Dakota, where she OBJ
husband, and she has since married
Count George Erdoedy.
ANOTHER UNHAPPY MATCH.
e there is the case of the Mar
| quise de T~alleyrand Perigord, former
fy Miss Bessie Curtis, of Boston. Her
titled husband, a descendant of the
great Tal1eyrand, was disappointed il
the size of her fortune. and after lead.
ing her a life of great w~retchedness,
finally deserted her. He subsequent
ly secured a dissolution of the mar
| riage in order to permit him to wed
the wealthy Mrs. Frederick Stevens,
of New FORK. Miss Bessie Curtis re-
tains her title Of Marquise de Tal1ey-
rand Perigord, while her successor,
the ex-Mrs. Stevens, is now known as
| Duchesse de Dino.
The daughter of the late Commodore
William Henry McVicker was first
married to Major Charles Grantley
Norton. Then she became the wife
of his nephew, the present Lord
Grantley. She eloped with the latter.
was divorced and the decree was i'm