Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1869-07-13
SCANDAL.
A Nashville Married Man Courts a
Southern Girl I'm Memphis.
The Villain UnmaSk acknowledgement
Friends


The Villain UnmaSk ed-InIIgnRnt
Friends.
The above caption in black letters ap
pears in late number Of the Memphi
Ledger, as preface to bit of scandal
the particulars of which are given as fol-
lows: ..F -.
Some four months ago pious looking
man of thirty years or perhaps thirty-fye,
but calling himself twenty-Dine, came to
Memphis as a travelling agent for Fair.
banks scales. He hailed from Nashville,
and has an Office, if we are not mistaken
in the man, not far from n South Market
street. He was introduced to highly re-
spectacle family on Madison street, and by
his gospel like msc2ers soon won the con-
fidence of the entire family circle, parti-
cularly the female portion. During the
day he made his headquarters at the hard
ware establishment of McCombs & Co on
Main street. As an agent of Fairbanks
scales be appeared fair enough, but he
turned out to be scaly enough afterward,
Ia the family on Madison street he met an
accomplished and charming young lady
from a distant Southern city. To this
Young lady he made love from the start,
and, strange to say, she fell deeply in love
with the smooth-tongued stranger, just as
many women do sometimes, and always
will while the world lasts. She declined to
take any advice, or to doubt for moment
that he was what he claimed to be and had
the most honorable intentions. 10 a short
time they became engaged TO be married,
and the infatuated woman lived in rapture
upon his faintest smile, and placed IN.
reserved confidence in all of his protesta.
tons Of undying and unquenchable love.
All the little soft nothiUgs he said were
carefully treasured in her heart, and she
lavished her purest affections upon mar
Tied mani .
Some Of the lady's friends had doubts
about the character of this scales agent,
and warned her sgainst him; but this was
only heaping fuel upon the fire. The fell
| low wrote back to her that he would marry
her or die, and she resolved to take at least
a quart OF arsenic if she could not get the
| man of her choice. Her friencs then
wrote to Judge Turley, in Franklin, il =
| curing if Mr.. Scales Agent did not marry
In that town once. Judge Turley replied
| in the affirmative aud stated that he had
examined the records and found that Scales
Agent procured on The 9th Of November,
1865, in that town, a license to marry.
Another letter was addressed to prom,
nent railroad official in Nashville, in
curing whether the individual, Scales
Agent, has or has not a wife in that city.
A telegram was sent at once, saying, es;
he has q wife and child in Nashville"
The railroad man, like most of his class
who never do anything by halves, followed
the telegram by letter setting forth the
fact that the fellow had a respectable wife
and one child, and gave some details o.
minor importance. Whether the wife Of
the man is the lady he married in Frank
lin we know not, for it appears that he wa:
married in Chicago in 1861, and obtained
a divorce at his convenience. How many
times he was married during the interval
is not known yet, but it is unlikely that
man of his fine matrimonial talents would
let them be dormant long at time
whether married or single. The friends 0
the young lady wrote to him that they ha(
heard something unfsvorsble about hi
, character, and unless he could clear it up
they did not wish to ste him at their house
He returned 10 the city sOOn Sfterward anC
avoided seeing any Of the family, puttinj
ND at the Ogerton Hstel. But he contrivel
10 send word 10 the young lady that b
was in the city, and she met him at Cour
Square. From that point she accompanie
him on a long hack ride. While in tn
CITY he managed TO meet her several times
but eluded his acquaintance, and did nc
even call at the house Of McCombs d CC
; The Young lady has gone to her distau
home, where we hope, for her sake, sh
has some sensible male Ieatives-psrtiCU
I.rJy big brothers. The matrimonial mai
rying man from Wisconsin, Chicago, Nasl
, vile, Franklin and various other place
; too numerous to mention, is on the WIut
writing love-letters to the delude
: Southern girl We have omitte
D names, let the innocent shoul
{ suffer, but the foregoing Is plan
: unvarnished narrative of the truth, al
we are ready to furnish the name of Ii
:, scoundrel who is trying to ruin an inn,
} cent girl, to any one who lie generally Ii
: tere sted-ra rticularIy to any of his wlve
} he was in the federal army, and after Il
close Of the war was stationed sometime
: Franklin, where he had some fine shaC
5 trees Cul down to sell the wood. This IA
y was reported to the authorities at Nssl
g vile, and he was removed, and that h.
], not been healthy locality for him sine
n The scoundrel now denies that be was ev
Is in the federal army. He tells the your
J, lady that he has acted imprudentiy Perhal
n bnt that no woman has any legal clam {
II him. A pity that any should. As a clio,
a 10 his black designs, he pretends to gre
q morality, and claims to be an Odd Fellc
and a Mason.