The Vermont transcript. [volume] (St. Albans, Vt.) 1864-1870, 1868-03-06
4 Sad ROndace.

| The Cleaveland Herald records case
| of welded woe in high life, OF wnlen
| that city was the theatre. One w n
Birney, while a student mt Yale Coiiege,
married a Miss Hawley, a relative Oh
] Gov. English of Connecticut. OWING
| to a rule of the College that no student
! should marry while an inmate thereof,
| and Birney not wishing to forfeit MS
scholarship, the marriage was clandes-
timely effected But the bride Thought
she could not be happy until she had re-
vealed the fact to her parents, which she
at last ventured to do. The father AT
once became very irate, and exposed MS
precOciOus son-in-law to the Faculty
Birney was therefore obliged TO leave
the College, when the couple struck out
forthe West They brought up at Cleave-
land, Ohio, in October last, stopping at
the Birch House.
Birney's funds soon became very low,
and no employment could be found
Finally he deserted his wife, only four
days after she had given birth to child,
and while she was lying very i'll at the
Birch House Before going he pawned
several articles of his wife's clothing, Us
ing part of the proceeds to pay the hotel
bill The truant husband has not since
been heard of by his friends or relatives
The desertiOn so excited and weakened
the Door wife as to endanger her life
and under the most careful and medical
treatment, and the constant nursing of
her mother, she partially regained her
health but a few days ago, when she
was striker with new bereavement, in
learning of the death of her father,
which occurred from an illness into which
ne had been thrown by his sOn-in-law's
perfidy.
Mrs Birney, the Herald says, Is a re-
fined and cultivated lady. Her sad his
tory touched the heart of all who heard
it, and substantial sympathy was mani
tested for her by citizens of Cleaveland.
Finding that she had become strong
enough TO travel, she and her mother
left Cleaveland for the. East on Thursday
last, via the Lake Shore Line, having
received passes from the President OF
the road to Erie, and Others from thence
10 Buffalo
Mrs. Birney is a charming vocalist,
and a wear ago last summer sung regu-
larIv at Trinity Church, New Haven.
On one occasion, Mr., HumistOn, of the
Institute on the Heights, Cleayeland,
who was East in search ola music teach
er, heard her sing in the church in ques-
ton. He was so charmed with her
voice that he sought out her residence
and offered her $1,000 a year TO go to
Cleaveland. This was before her mar
riage, when she was living at home with
her parents. Her father declined 10
give his consent TO the proposition
The young couple were imprudent
and their romance has been sad one,
20 far, especially for the wife. The son
in-law's perfidy," as the story calls 1t, Is
bad enough, but the father-in-law's self
will, folly, and mortified pride. were
fatal to him, and nearly so to his daugh-
ter, but may be instructive to Others.
Why the old man should have thought
ii needful or proper, to expose his sOn-in-
law to punishment for the technical
breach of foolish college law, we can
not see. But it is easy to perceive how
much trouble might have been avoided,
had he been wise enough to make the
best of what he could not undo, after it
was done.