Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1869-08-19
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! a London letter contains the following,
rather remarkable story:
| There has been considerable excitement
amongst the upper ten in consequence Of :,
runaway match accomplished Ivy one Of
those young ladies' who, bent Oh marriage
cannot possibly be restrained till the knot
is tied She does not seem to have hccn
over I,nrticunr, for, though tlis is her !;,.-
ond rlopcmcnt in the course Of few
months, tho gentleman whom "ho h,ta
finally honorcd with her hand and two
hundred thousand pounds, is not the ono
| from whom she was severed actually
! ut tho altar on tho last occasion. Then il
| was an auvcnturer; now is tho son of an
Irish baronct. Tho lady is one of the two
daughters of DR.. Brady, member OF pnrli;,-
mcnt for IN irish county. The Doctor is
P's Not that no is guilty Of any impropri-
ety. hut that his general tono il decidedly
below his position. This is natural enough,
considering that for many years of his life
ho was o'tu;i.d in tho least reputable
brancl Of do, toling in tho Blackfrinrs;
road. one of the scctllcst southern outlets
of central London. lIo did not make his
fortune there, but 10y marriage. Ills two
daughters are said to have COCO, 600 apiece
in their own right, and, consequently, they
must be accounted splendid prizes; but, in
the first place, the connection was not de-
sirDlc, and, in the second place, tho
father kept tho young ladies very close
''hcy rode out with him in nh open car
+. .gc, and they went where he was re-
&C we'd, but their circle was not large.
Some time ago they were seen by IN nj
venturer OF good presence and address,
and shortly afterwards the said ndventuycr
had q proposal made to him. lie w;,s in
conversation with a milalo.a aged
lady, supposed to be Of high standing
and repute, hut, like many other such
ladies, not avcrse to sndd to her income"
What did he think of the Miss Brat7ys?
Oh, very nice; was there any money there?
Tho middlc-agcd lady should think there
was indeed, two hundred thousand each.
-s'Good gracious" said the advcnturer, with
wonderfully quickcncd interest. Would lie
like to 80 for it? Would he not? He
might If she would make tcrms Any
terms she liked, responded the suddenly
armorous swain. "Then," said the lady,
thousand pounds, to be paid q month after
two hundred thousand. Ten per cent.
won't hurt YOU" After n little considcra-
ton the bargain was struck. The lady wa,
q friend of DR.. Brady, whom he would
never have suspected of bad faith.
Sho introduced her accomplicc. lie
found the young lady nothing 10th, and,
to make long story short, they went of to
be married. at the last moment the
poor father discovered the affair, made
chase, caught them at the altar, and was
just in time to stop tho marriage. Then
he placed the would be bride in some sort
of DURANGO, and went off at night to make
the round Of the newspaper Offices. He
succeeded in keeping the affair out of the
papers, and next day was seen riding out
with his daughters as usual. But his re-
| claimed lamb looked slightly sulkv. There
| were signs in her countenance of the mis-
chief which has since come. Last week
she ran away, and this time successfully.
The happy man is Mr.. Harcourt Lees, son
of M Irish baronet. 1t is said that Dr.
Brady's griof is much heightened by tho
reflection that his new son~in-law is th.sson
and successor Of man who was one of
Daniel O'Connell's fercest opponents. But
it strikes ono as just possible that at such
| a moment father thinks little of politics.