Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1868-11-26
THE SHOOTING OF POLLARD.
The Offensive Article.
Terrible RetribntiOn for In
Vading the PiVaCy OF
Domestic Life.

| Opeclak 10 Ine LOUISVILLE COurler-J 0urnai.
RICHMOND, Nov. 24-H. Rives Pollard
was shot and killed here to-day, on &C.
count of an article published by Pollard in
the Southern Opinion rejecting upon Miss
Mary Grant, daughter of w. H. Grant,
wealthy tobacconist of this city. About
ten o'clock this morning, as Mr.. Pollard
was approaching the Office of the Opinion,
shot was fred from an upper window Of a
house opposite, and Mr.. Pollard fell,
pierced by eleven buckshot, one of which
| entered his heart. he expired immediate
ly. Mr.. Grant, a brother of the young
lady named, was found in the building
from which the shot was fired, and was ar
rested and taken to prison, q double-bar-
relied gun, with one barrel empty, being
found in the room.
The Southern Opinion is a sensational
paper of very questionable type, and Pol.
lard's character is hardly 80 good as the
character of his paper. He is brother of
Z. A. Pollard, but has been even more
violent and impracticable. His death is
regretted by few, if any, of the citizens of
Richmond.
rise to the assault ia which Pollard lost
his life:
"The Indian summer has passed away,
and with it has passed fair radiant daugh.
ter of one of our first citizeus-a nabob of
Clay street, gentleman who suffice it to
say, holds the very frat position in the
wealthy and fashionable circles Of the city.
The daughter, the rebellant Helene Of the
family, is beautiful beyond description :;
but her beauty did not prevent her from
falling desperately and irretrievabIy in
love with a young gentleman Ct semi
raiiitdire connections, who, it appears,
some months ago plighted his troth add
accepted the tiny hand.
Nobody suspected mesqUiGnce, much
less the father, until last Sunday nigh,
when the daughter. who was the light of
the household, fled to parts unknown, or at
least only guessed, in company with one "a
masculine) who should ere then have been
proclaimed his son'in-laW.
"The runaway parties have been heard
from, and it is now said that the lady pro-
claims herself wife of some six months,
and that her alisnced ia the choice of her
after life.
"The gay young man who has whisked
away the angel is Lothario named Horace
Ford, of GoOchland county, which county
ought TO be proud of him, as it doubtless
is. Horace is an orphan, just pungiDg
into his teens, and has lost both Of his pa
rents by death. Much property accrued to
Horace in the shape of money, chattels,
goods, ETC., and having converted the whole
into ready rhino,' Horace ventured for a
swim in the sea of gay life and love. He
met Mics Mary Grant, talked delicious
nonsense, won her heart, then, half inclined
to earnes.ness, threw it away. All me
Horace went to New Orleans, and not
having been shipwrecked by the way,
telegraphed or wrote his beloved. Thus it
went on through the sultry month Of Au-
gust, the crimson period Of October, when
the forests change their garments down to
| dull, chill November.
"Alas, that love should never run
smooth, in an even current, but love never
did and never will, so they say, She re-
sponded, all unknown to the healthy dad,
and he replied. Thus affairs progressed
until Horace announced last week that he
was of to Texas right away, and couldn't
stop for triies like an sfianced.
"Then it was that the girl of the period
made up her nind and bundle. She would
follow him-yes, she would follow him to
| the uttermost parts of the earth. Being
of age, and no longer the slave of parental
| control, Miss Mary, on Saturday night
| last, having habilitated herself becoming
ly. deserted the palatial mansion on Clay
street, and casting behind her wealth, so
ciety and friends, sought the Office of
gentleman on Broad street, whom she i'm
portuned to buy her ticket to New York.
| This gentleman, who is the pink of pro-
priety, refused, and Miss Mary sought
elsewhere and found the ready means.
"At all events she procured passage on
| the cars and embarked on the s! o'clock
train, which carried her norlhward at the
rate of twenty or thirty miles an hour, if
not az speedily az her heart desired. On
the train, between Richmond and Acquia
creek, she was observed to weep bitterly
| by the conductor, to whom she related her
| tale of wos and distress.
"Her departure created, of course, &
hub.bub in the mansion on Clay street, and
amid the wringing of hands and loud ex-
pressions of distress, the telegraph was in
voked, and parties sent in pursuit. il
was supposed that young Ford, instead of
going to Texas Fright away" ss he an
nounced, had put for New York, there to
meet his Mary, and thither the detectives
directed their steps.
"The upshot of the matter Is, to make a
long story short, that Miss Mary has been
heard from that she is now in Philadel-
phia, and that, upon the whole, there Is a
very sorry family history connected with
the case, which it is not within our prov
ince to reveal