BESSIE TURNER.

Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2573, 6 April 1877, Page 3

BESSIE TURNER.

New YobK, January ll.~Calling at the dra-natic agency of Simmonds & Wall, I was surprised by the appearance of a I young woman whose features had 'been before, presented to me through the medium of a photograph. I chased this phantom likeness about in my mind, but it eluded me with the, skill with which some foreign substance in a cup of coffee will dodge a spoon. -, As she passed into a private room to interview one of the firm I seized the likeness. I stood on tiptoe and held aloft a phantom candle, playfully attempting' to ignite-a visionary flying night-shirt. ". Yes, that's she," exclaimed the surviving partner. ".It is Bessie Turner!"". She who hung pictnres-at.mid-night with Tilton, and who was carriedito his bed as the Afrite carried the Princess of China in the Arabian .Nights. Bessie is of the medium height,- with nice red hair" which indicates a chaste and contemplative mind like that of the lady in Comus. She is rather intelligent looking; and presents a chambermaid and a Hebe of a dancehall- She was negotiating for an appearance on the dramatic stage, which' is like a punchbowl bf,art mixed up''frith strangely' assorted ingredients. , The manager of the Halifax Theatre was found willing to'take Bessie, and signed a contract with her; bufr the next day his i courage, like" that of Bob-Acres, oozed' out at his* finger ends, and ha implored the agency--to-,destroy -the fatal.-bond. Bessie was easily persuaded, and the manager falling upon his bended knees with flattering tongue and trembling limbs expressed his -fervent gratitude to the gracious and invisible power which had before led him, —Correspondence Louisville Courier-Journal.