Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 October 1876 — A Widow’s Varying Fortune. [ARTICLE]

A Widow’s Varying Fortune.

The habitues of the Brnnawiek Hotel, New Yore, about a year •ge wUt remember a pretty Widow who came, and saw, and conquered a half dosea hearts in as brief timo as ever masculine flirts ware brought to the feet of female loveliness. Shu was a Californian, and when her husband died supposed herself rich, but her property consisted mainly of those uncertain Paoifio eoast mining stocks, which are np to-day end down to-morrow. When she oarae to New York her San Frauoiseo attorney advised her that the Blocks in which her fortune was Invested had deelined to * point whieh reduced her almost to beggary. She sold her diamonds, curtailed expenses, and began to think seriously of the future. The places that knew her so familiarly were loet to her gaae, and In a modest, retiring sort of way ahe endeavored to live quietly and eoonomioally. This life ooatinned nearly a year. She bad never parted with her stocks, however, for the reason the nopld not find a purchaser at a satisfactory price. About two weeks ego the priae of stocks began to rise, and a few' days ago a certain ooast mining firm on Broad street bought the oeiti&nrtet of stock from the widow for' #175,000. She is in high feather tgalo, and by judioious investment hopes to realise sufficient income to live comfortably the rest ot her life. The widow suited for Europe ob Ilk Bothnia, with some California friends, and onoe more Is a woman of fortune. —Chicago Tribmm.