Democratic Sentinel, Volume 6, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 February 1882 — A Village Beauty’s Fortune. [ARTICLE]

A Village Beauty’s Fortune.

Many years ago a young man made his appearance in Stratford, Conn., and passed a few weeks at the tavern which then existed to afford shelter to stagecoach passengers. Whence he came and what was his business no one could guess. Directly opposite the tavern stood a small cottage and forge of a blacksmith named Folsom. He had a daughter who was the beauty of the village, and it was her fortune to capture the heart of the young stranger. He told his love, said he was traveling incog., but in confidence gave her his real natae, saying he was heir to a large fortune. She returned his love, and they were married a few weeks after. The stranger told his wife they must visit New Orleans. He did so, and the gossips of the town made the young wife unhappy by disagreeable hints and jeers. In a few weeks he returned; but before a week had elapsed he received a large budget of letters, and told his wife he must at once return to England, and must go alone. He took his departure, and the gossips had another glorious opportunity to make a confiding woman wretched. To all but herself it was a regular case of desertion. The wife became a mother, and for two years lived in silence and hope. At the end of that time a letter was received by the Stratford beauty from her husband, directing her to go at once to New York with her child, taking nothing with her but the clothes she wore, and embark in- a ship tor her home in England. On her arrival in New York she found a vessel splendidly furnished with every luxury and convenience for her comfort, and two servants ready to obey every wish she might express. The ship duly arrived in England, and the Stratford girl became mistress of a mansion, and as the wife of a baronet was saluted as Lady Samuel Stirling. On the death of her husband, many years ago, the Stratford boy succeeded to the title and wealth of his father, and in the last edition of “Peerage and Baronetage” he is spoken of as the issue of “Miss Fol* aom, of Stratford, N. A."