A Scotch Lassie’s Adventures.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume III, Issue 314, 20 June 1889, Page 4

A Scotch Lassie’s Adventures.

Gossips are just now discussing the strange romance of a young woman who has for something over a year been a resident among them. The story was told to a reporter by a clergyman of the Episcopal church, Boston, who has been a sufferer from the lady’s stange fate. The lady in question is but a visitor to America whence she came to try and shake off the spell of which she firmly believes she is a victim. A few years previous to her leaving ‘ Historic Caledonia,* she returned from the patrimonial estates of the family, nine and one-half miles from the Holyrood Palace, in Edin. burgh, to Aberdeen. By the death of her father since her arrival in this country she has become the heiress to a large estate. She is refined, graceful, and handsome, but the fatality attaching to her makes her life an unhappy one. When but seventeen years old she became strongly attached to a nephew of the Bishop of Carlyle. One day while riding across the heath in his company she had a presentiment that he would propose that night, and that she accepted. She saw him, in a momentary vision, lying pale and cold by the roadside. Bewildered, she involuntarily stopped her horse, and in another moment fell in a swoon. He bore her to a cottager’s near by, and on her recovery the bashful young man’s love had been so intensified by anxiety, that in a moment of mutual tenderness they were bethrothed. After escorting her home he had to pass the same spot to return to his domicile. The next morning they found him dead near where she had fallen. His horse had evidently thrown him, and he had been killed by the consequent injury to his head. The lady recovered and eighteen months afterwards she was betrothod to an English naval officer, who was suddenly ordered tothe West Indies to join H.M. schoolship Eurydice. The next spring, on the return of J that ship home, she was wrecked and •11 on board but two were lost. Tb e young lover was not one of the saw d. Time healed the lady’s thrice wpun/ied heart, and her affections weva wq/.i by gn English army officer, whr, was drowned shortly after the betrothal. The night he was drowned sh'a was attending a ball, and according to her statement, was seized wit* a sudden attack of dizziness and fainted. On recovering she said she had seen in a vision, the ballroom suduenly transformed into a submariue cave, containing nothing but the corpse of her accepted lieutenant, She could not be induced to dancq again. It took a great deal of persuasion to induce her to become a fiancee again. But the persistence of an American sea captain conquered h<sr reluctance, and him. He returned to Philadelphia with his ship for the purpose of putting his affairs in shape for the wedding. While the ship was at au.chor off the Delaware breakwater he was also drowned. The bride elect rame to the Quaker city afterwards, and having relatives in Carondelet, resolved to make a long visit to them. The clergyman who furnished the facts above related met and loved the lady, •nd she apparently reciprocated, but when he proposed she replied by telling him her story, and all his eloquence failed to change her resolution never to marry. His attention to her had been a matter of society gossip, so that there was something of a sensation when there appeared in the society columns of the local paper an item stating that she had gone to visit friends in the interior of the state, and would soon return to her home in Scotland to reside permanently.