The daily clarion. [volume] (Meridian, Miss.) 1863-1866, 1865-12-21

i: men. a d rushing into the house, slam
the door with bang which tells hin
ned as well stand up TO the engagement
with the other glrl.
Tredethlyn's heart is now reached
with "hagues untold" and he deter
mines to seek forgetfullLess in some for
eign country. A thing of that sort, you
know, can never be found anywhere near
home. He instantly whites check for
money enough to set up national ban k
hands it o gentleman who happens TO
De taking an arm in the eighborE ood
tells him to turn 1t over TO Maud or old
man Hillary, and rushes off in the direc
uon of the nearest Office where they sell
railroad tickets for Dover.
In the next act we discover that the
old gentleman was so forcbly struck by
the check, with admiration Tor the char
acter of Tredely thn-that he wanted him
for son-in-law, which he has accord.
lngly become, and that he and his wife
are getting on finely. Maud doesn't
seem TO love him much, but he loves her
! hard enough for both, which answers
| every purpose. There must be certain
| quantity of love in every family, and it
doesn't make any ditterer ce whether it is
done by the husband or the wife, Just SO
1t is DONE
But Lowther, who does more of the
LOVING than is naturally required of him,
takes 1t into his heaI 20 kill off Trede-
iythyn, by leading Elm into all sorts of
dissIpaton, IN ord 10 marry his rich
widow. He accor iIngly takes him |
around to all the s-ces where thew re |
tail Red Jacket tiers and other dis
gulsed samples Cl cheap whisky, and |
Soonss makes a regular topper of him. He
also attempts TO stafye him to death by !
eXactlng from him a solemn promise TO
BOARD week at the Battle House, and
TINS dIabollcal scheme would inevitably
succeed. did not the in.rudent victim
corner" IN an oyster saloon at the end of
the second day.
. In the mean time, TrCdethleyn has
found his dlslnherited cousin, whose hus-
band had deserted her not long alter their
marriage, leaving her nothing but a prom
slng infant Having found her, he buys
ner neat cottage, and sets her TO keep. !
ng mouse on her own hook. Which is '
<lnd OF him. Her name is the lovely
'ne OF Susan. Sue requests Tredethlvn.
Is particular favor, not to tell his wife
lnythlng about 1t just yet, and he saws he :
Won't. But Lowther finds but the secret
ma turns 1t over to Maud, with all the
necessary embellishments, and thereby
alses deuce of a row in the family. for
nat exemplary woman at once puts her
eli under the influences of that cele
rated monster with the emerald OPTICS
mo Is SAID to furnish himself with the ,
ickled pork on which he suhsists. and
lows her husband up dreadfully. True
ms promise, Tredothlyn still withholds v
le TACT that Susan is only his cousin
i
tile heavier than usual, he considers re
le does not love him, and takes leave of F'
ar forever, determined to Quit the coun. -
Lowther now thinks he has dead
Ire thing of it.
ihe next act-which you will be glad ]
near Is the last-opens with the mel. lar lar
choIy intelligence that the vessel in 0A
lIch fredethlyn sailed for some far
pehthean shore was burned at sea. and La,
al all on board perished Maud an
ars IN widows weeds and tears. and
eryoody thinks her quite as lovely in
"StoLnary SUITS OF solemn black" as she
S IN the gaudiest calico. Such is the j.
wer OF native beauty. Lowtber now suit F
nes In with another declaration of love
'ut Just before Fredethlyn goes aboard =
; III lated ship, he steps around to the
U one evening, having found ont Tou>
[ascailIy, and hOrsewhips that GEN w,
nan In the presence of quite a MIN !"
VI asIohlshed spectators. RevenueS n
m'o"I0nS-Lowther believing Fredeth.
lairly out OF the way, again makes D.
10 Maud, and while he is in the oct
'rglhg his suit, and the boxes are ba-
lIng 10 wonder was ever woman IN
humor Wooed was ever woman in
= ,unlor Won u when Fredethlyn
>S INTO the room, with very little the F
9arance of a man who has haon "
Iy burnt at sea. and
very oody Is very much surprised To
llnl, OF course and the first imnres- "ccor
on the part of the audience is fbot
ad himself insured to the full amonnt
re gong aboard the ship. aud ba. wants
refunded by the underwriters
u cries me husband" FIeIetbIvr Con
! 1il4S me wife - and they Instantly
led IKE a couple of express tra;nS rely u
at the rate of forty miles an bonr dsno,,
an aftectlonate hug, which noakec
'o ooyS leeI as II they would like tn The
actor Fredethlyn turns and winds NV s,o
.noi WIN few remarks, and
nun The door, which, if he had not 200
Utterly aStounded, he would proba
ave discovered by his own exertione 90
= - - YES before. Susan now comes
,ad - 'odnu' VINO has become
30 h,,,t ~ nlllseit and promises to be a 19o
husband, and in the midst of "a
al quantity of domestic bann;noSn 15c
'rtaln falls, and the house ep,nti"S
pretty much as houses do wben SC
ody has 'hollOred fire." ,oo
,eaalng the above | find it far less
aiming than | thought it would be $50
am sorry now | wasted so n,,,oh
1 writing it, An'on 125
VEoRGE WASHINGTON Bricks. ,oo