THE SEQUEL OF A SOCIAL SENSATION.

Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2640, 25 June 1877, Page 3

THE SEQUEL OF A SOCIAL SENSATION.

Months ago Western society rang with the accounts of a grand wedding. A fair daughter of ono of the oldest and wealthiest families in the Mississippi valley had been united to a foreign nobleman. The arts of Worth were exhausted in the preparation of the trousseau. Members of the aristocracy from all sections of the country were present, and never was there a more brilliant social event in the history of one present. The dark-whiskered nobleman was reported to be enormously wealthy. In his own country he lorded over his vast domains and bid his bondsmen tremble. His exits and and entrances were attended with a flourish of trumpets. When he walked he was attended by vassals armed to the teeth. He was supposed to own vast castles, the most impregnable of which he inhabited, and spent the season in making fierce forays upon tlft4)ear that abounded in the fastnesses of his native forests. The wedding was succeeded by a dizzy round of festivities, and society was ablaze. The impressive foreigner finally departed with his beautiful American bride, and it was said that they would proceed forthwith to the native land of the nobleman, and proceed immediately to inhabit one of his palatial castles. A sturdy Hibernian at work yesterday among the Southern Hotel ruins, turned over some rubbish and found a scattered pack of letters. Some of the people in the inclosure began curiously to examine the documents. One of them was from the Russian Capital. The date was several months back. It was from the bride of the nobleman, and represented that his pretensions of great wealth were false. It was even doubted whether he was nobly connected. It is feared that he was an arrant impostor. The writer represented herself as being in absolute need of money for the purchase of necessaries. The letter was addressed to a very near relative. This is one of the secrets that the ruins gave up.—St. Louis GrlobeDemocrat.