Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1857-1865, 1860-07-13
pea. The Cincinnati local editors have lately fal

len upon very romantic item the parties to which
hail from our city Of GAINESVILLE. The story, as
given by the Gazette, the Commercial and other
Cincinnati papers is that beautiful and highly Gc-
eompEshed young woman of eighteen years had
arrived there, in company with q man named WAITE,
and taken by him to low boarding house,
where he remained with her several days, and af-
ter getting possession OF all her money-seperGI
thousand doiidrs-he deserted her and LETT for fur
rim parts" The girls history, they add, is a sad
and affecting one. Her name was MARY JANE JonS-
Bon, and she lived in Clarksville Tenn. She was
possessed of about 100000 in her own right
WAITE got after her-(moneyl) He used all the
arts usually resorted to, to win a woman's heart,
and, unfortunately for MARY JANE JoHYsING, he
succeeded They got married, and went to Cihcin-
natl where, after getting possession of all her
money, he abandoned her, as above stated MARY
JANE then did as heroic women, the world over, do,
when they get into dillicultes-she tuck pizen.-
Yes she got two ounces of laudanum, and swallow
ing it, babe the world and WAITE farewell. But
fortunately she tookthe poison while several were
looking Mt her, and they gave the alarm, that the
beautiful MARY JANE had committed suicide The
Doctors came, and by the use Of the usual MEANS
brung the pizen up, and saved the unhappy mai
woman's life. After recovering sufficiently to allow
of her being removed the lovely NARY JANE was
taken to the Commercial Hospital, in Cincdnati,
where she remained at last accounts.
Such is the account OF this affair, only that we
abbreviate it by leaving out great deal that the
Cincinnati papers have to say in praise Of MARY
JAMES beauty and intelligence, and in commissera-
ton Of her error and misfortune. We omit too
much of their edifying against poor WAITE
Altogether their account Of this affair is highly en-
tertaining and it lacks but one ingredient to entite
1t to high place in the annals of romantic adven-
ture. That clement thus wanting, is truth. The
idea that any pretty and intelligent girl, worth
0,000 wouldn't be run off with in GAINESVILLE
before she was eighteen years old 1t is a sur
upon our town-a downright reflection upon the
character of our young menl They must think,
to believe this story, that have no appreciation
of wOmans virtues. SIw thousand doidrsl In
her orn right. Pretty too Why she would have
been run away with by evcry-other man in town,
by the time she was sixteen, il not sooner But
the truth is, there any such girl in
GAINESVILLE, "a that We may truthfully claim great
deal for our girls but cannot claim for any of
them the attractions said to cluster about MARY
JANE JoHNsrYG. Twenty thousand dollars is the
outside limit Of the virtues of most estimable-
far money is concerned. As TO the less avail
able wealth Of head and heart some Of them are
rich beyond any computation. But in stuff that
will pay debts, we are sorry to say, they are too
generally wanting. 1t 10 this that keeps down so
many Of our enerprsIng young men. We hope
that fathers generally, will turn their attention TO
this matter and devote themselves more diligently
to making money. Raising poor daughters, howev-
pleasant in itself is runous 10 society at large,
and ought to be prohibited.
But we digress; As 10 the Cincinnati story, the
only base upon which it rest is, that some
time since young man in this city named OuGnToS
married young girl here-ncither rich nor pretty
however worthy otherwise she may have becn.-
They both lived and moved in a very humble
sphere. 1t seems, however, that he was led to be-
leve that she was rich, aud thcreupon married her
but soon discerning the true state Of affairs he left
her They are, We are told, the same parties who
figure in the Cincinnati rorei as Mr. WAITE and
MARY JANE JOHNSON. How they got to Cincinnati
we do not know. As to the girls attributes Of
intellgenc, and Wealth, they the common fruits
of an editors imagination in all such cases