Brownlow's Knoxville Whig. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1866-1869, 1868-12-02
The KIIlIng Of II. RLyes polIard.

| New YORK, Nov pa Richmond dis
patch says the first announcement of Pol
lard being shot was received with much
satisfaction but upon its being known that
! he was killed without warning the deed
was denounced as cowardly. Pollard was
heavily armed, rs usual, but was uncon-
scious of danger.
The following is the article that gave
rise to the assault in which Pollard lost his
life
The Indian summer has passed away,
and with it has passed fair and radiant
daughter of one of our first citizcns-a ma
bob of Clay street-a gentleman who, suf-
fee it TO say, holds the very first position
in the wealthy and fashionable circles of
the city. The daughter, tho rebellant He
lene of tho family, is beautiful beyond de-
scription but her beauty did not prevent
her from falling desperately and irretriev-
ably in love with a young gentleman of
semi -Hilitdire connections, who, it appears,
some months ago plighted his troth and ac-
ceptod the tiny hand.
Nobody suspected q meSSdItidnce, much
less the father, until last Sunday night,
when tho daughtor, who was the light of
his household, fed TO parts unknown, or ut
least only guessed in company with one
| Ca 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 afiancod is the choice Of her
after life
! The gay young man who has whisked
away the angel is Lothario named HOr-
j 90 WI irh
county ought TO be proud of him, as it
doubtless is. Horace is an orphan, Just
plunged into his teens, and has lost both of
his parents by death. Much property ac-
crued TO Horace in the shape of money,
chattols, goods, etc, and having converted
the whole into "ready rhino," Horace ven
| tured for q swim in the sea of gay life and
love. He met Miss Mary Grant, tallke dde-
licious nonsense, won her heart, then, half
! inclined to earnestness, threw it away.
| All mel
Horace went to New Orleans, and not
having been shipwrecked by the way, tele-
graphed or wrote his beloved Thus it
went on through the sultry month of Au-
gust, tho crimson period of October, whom
the forests change their garments, down to
dull, chill November. fr rsr
Alas, that love should never run smooth
in an even current, but love never did and
never will, so they say. She responded,
all unknown to the healthy dad, and he re-
lplied Thus affairs progressed until HOr-
ace announced last week that he was off to
Texas right away, and couldn't stop for
trifes like an affianced.
Then it was that the girl of the period
made up her mind and bundle. She would
follow-yos, 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
| hablitatcd herself becomingly, deserted the
palatial mansion on Clay street, and, cast
| ing behind her wealth, society and friends
! sought the office of a gentleman on Broad
street, whom she importuned to buy her q
tielzct to New York. This gentleman, who
/ is the pink of propricty, refused, and Miss
| Mary sought elsewhere and found the ready
means, az all events, and procured pessagc
/ on the cars and embarked on the 81 O'Clock
! train, which carried her northward at the
rate of twenty or thirty miles an hour, II
not as speedily as her heart desired. On
the train, between Richmond and Aqua
creek, she was observed to weep bitterly by
the conductor, TO whom she related her
tale of woe and distress.
Her departure created, of course, hub
bub in tho 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 hot pursuit. Ii
was supposed thrt young Ford, instead Of
going to Texas ',righ away as he an.
nounced, had put for New York, there to
meet his Mary, and thithar the detectives
directed their steps.
The upshot of the matter is, to mako
! long story short, that Miss Mary has been
heard from; that she is now in Philadel
phia, ann that, upon the whole, there IS
very sorry family history connected with
the case, which it is not within our pro
vince to reveal.