Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1858-10-22
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THE ORIGINAL OF TIE nflDR OF .LAMmRRMooR
1869, Aug: The marriage day of the I'm.
fortunate BFldesofi Baldoon. The story of this
lady has been related with all the eraces Of fief
ton5n the tolesofthe Bride of 6auimsrrhtirs F5St
ln-lts actual lscirc9mstahces tits sufficiently iu6
presslve. She was the Honorable Janet DaI-t
rymple, daughter of the first Lord Stair sol
distinguished as alawYer and the part he took
in the politics of the day While still in girlishl
years the young lady contracted passionatet
attachmen to Lord Rutherford, the distant rein.
tlve. and heir of that noble ,ctIumpion; Andrew
Rutherfordy1 Earl Of TeYi9t THE. .yoana noble.
man returned this Affection and the pnir nlIoht.
ed their troth in the usual 9manner. by ,nart;no
a coin between them, and lmpresatinef dismal
evils upon m whoever should withdraw from or
violate the compact. But this alliance did not
suit the views of thea aparents-whether from
deficient fortune ipthe9young lord, or from cor,-
trarious politics. does not appear. They fayoredi
a new sujtor, who abpeaf@d the YpersoaofI
shire.
On learning that ADan5ar was advancing ini
his suit, Lord Rutherford wrote to his mistress
tofre1nlr1d her other engagement, ibut:received
an answer from her mother to the effect that
she was now sensible of the error she had com.
mltted IN entering ihtoan engagement unsanc.s
tioned'by the paternal authority, and this en-.
gagement it was mother intention to fulfill
The yer5retused to take an answer t4hichJdid
not come directly from his mistress, and insisted
on an interview. 1t took place but in the pres.
ence oftEe mother, q woman whom public re.
port represented MS master of her husband and
whole family ,and indebted for this influence to
aWitchcraft, though for noireas0ns thatic can be
dlS3caeFqed di3a9E beyond hsr uncommon talents and
force Of character. tmay readily5be supposed
tfateVen the resources of love would be Of poor
ayail5against the skill and resolution of such a
person w hen Rnt erford, was introduced, he
found her ready to meet his arguments with
what was an unanswerabl defence, a text of
Scripture Numbers xxx, 2, 8, q, 81 clearly
a6sotyips woman from IA bond entered into in
her. youth, ifher fatherdisall allowsthe; fulfllment
ofit promising. them iIlthat casefstthe Lord
shall forgive her. The poor girl herselflsnt
nuteiand overwhelmed, while the lover yainly
pleaded against the application ofsthis text; and
the scene ended with her surrender of her nor
tionofthe broken coin, and his flying distracted
from the house, and after telling her she would
be 3lea7WoFld s.woEnedder from she had done
and was yet toido. Is 80 -, Il. 4t
The union%ith young aldoon wentpon,. but
entirely under the infringement OF the mother,
for it is th0t the young man could
havo pressed his suit if he had known the extent
which the brldeawas underaiconsIr nsIradnt. IRhe
wedding was celebrated, as was customary in
those days, in the presence of the relatives of
both parties, and with great festivity; but the
bride remained like one lost ina reverie, and
who only moves and acts mechanically.
younger brother lived long enough to state to a
lady who, communicated tito Sir Walter Scott
that he had the dutyzofs carrying heron horse
back behind him to church, and he eremenbered
that the hand with which she claSpcd his waist
was "cold and damp as marble. !" Fullsof his
new dress, and. the part he acted in the process
sion, the circumstance, which he long after
wards remembered with bitter SORROW and com.
Function, made no impression onehim at the
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In the evening the newly welded pair retired
to their5c hamber, while the merry making still
proceeded in the hall Tie room had been
locked, and the key taken possession Of by the
bridesnan, to preventiany of thesunseeEnly frols
les which, it would seem, were sometimes play
ed off such occasions. But suddenly there
was heard to proceed from the bridal chambera
loud-an piercing outcry, followed by dismal
Pany toundithe bridegroom weltering in his.
blood on the threshold, and the bride covering
in a corner of chimney, withsno covering
but her shift, and that dabbled in gore. She
told them 'to take up their bonny bridegroom
II was evident she was insane, and the general
balefwas that she had tfrantically stabbed her
husband. From that moment she made no
other rational Communications, but pined away
and died in less. than. three weeks. Young Ball
doom recovered, but would never enter into ex-
plantations Regarding the tragic occurrence
Perhaps it is this I'M ystery alone which has given
rise to the favorite beliefof the many descend-
ants of Lord Stair, that the wound was notin-
| flicted by their unhappy relative, but by Lord
Rutherford, who, they say, sccrcted himself in
his chamber beforehand, and escaped afterwards
by window This notion seems to us contrary
to all probability, not merely because thecons
lception. ofsuch an.act was far too gross for
man frank even in TINT day, but because, had
litibeensacted upon, something must have come
of it, either in the wny Of private revenge or of
procedure before a criminal court. The idea
was prevalent iat the time, but itmaysbe eclassedS
we think, with another recorde by the cfcdu-
l0us Law, that the poor bride was taken from
her bed and harlsd through the house by spirits.
David Dunbar described in an elegy by Mr.
andre Simpson!a as most respectable country
lgentlemnn, IAN agricultural mproTer, andsyet of
stndious habits he ediedby afall from his horse
while riding between, Leith and Edinburgh in
1861, and was inferred infHolyrood Chapel
Andrew Lord Rutherford is9stated in the peer-
age to have died childless 16S5. ,s.I sefsii q
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