The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1869-08-20

Q monkey OF pcDdle.y -bnt t.couln ne nave
brought himself 70 tolerate the idea Of
her marrying anybody, yet aWhileT7for
the possibility of such q remote. fhtnre
contingency may have occasionally sug-
gested atself Horace yBeIdun was about
the Hast ipers0n on earth, Gin connection
with whom it would have been enter
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When that gentleman; therefore Te-
ported at Headquarters, and implored
the npaternal sanction OF his /. suit, he, re-
quite the reverse.o Indeed, he. only
escaped being kicked out of doors by q
speedy voluntary departure.
When Efie tried to talk her father
over, for the first time in his life, he flew
in passion with her, and she dared not
renew the subject.
But Love, the little pagan, pays no
respect to the fifth commandant. The
officious interference of friends and
guardians only renders him the more
impatient and unruly; and the present
instance was no exception. Clandestine
Interviews were arranged; accidental
meetings took place at the,houses of mu-
tual friends, fifth whole ended in the
gentleman proposing an elopement.
E0ie, after protesting that she couldn't
possibly think of such thing, and after
many vain attempts to conjecture what
people would say, at last with graceful
hesitancy consented.
Rage, frenzy, despair, are weak words
to describe the emotion of John An
drews, when he found that his house
had been robbed of its chiefest treasure.
His first impulse was pursuit. It was
night when he set out, accompanied by
trusty Scotchman, long in his employ
and confidence. AS the two galloped
along, Mr.. Andrews horse stumbled,
precipitating his rider to the ground,
and falling heavily upon him. He was
taken up insensible, and carried to the
nearest house. A physician was sum-
moned, who pronounced the injuries of
q most serious, but not necessarily fatal
character.
AS soon as consciousness returned, he
despatched a messenger for nephew of
his, lawyer of not very good repute,
residing in a neighboring town.
When Mr.. Jackson, the nephew, ar
rived, he was left alone with his uncle,
at the latter's request. At the end of
an hour the doctor was summoned, and
requested by Mr.. Andrews to note his
signature to paper, to which he then
affixed his name, declaring it to be his
viii, and asking the doctor to subscribe
it as witness, which was done.
On his nephew's suggestion that an
other witness was requisite, Mr. An
drews named Macpherson, the Scotch
man, and requested the doctor to send
him in.
Macpherson, il, seems, had been sent
on some errand; but as soon as he re-
turned, the doctor communicated Mr..
Andrews message, and went himself to
attend sick call in the neighborhood,
not deeming his presence there immedi-
ately necessary.
When ne came back, he was astonish-
ed to find his patient dead. Such q re-
suit, had not. indeed, been unanticipated,
but its suddenness took him by surprise.
By Mr.. Andrews will, which was pub
lished some days after his death, the
entire of his property was devised to his
last moments. Everything was in due
form. True, Macpherson, one of the
witnesses. pursuant to previous inten-
ton, had sailed to Scotland shortly after
the funeral, and was not present before
the Judge of Probate. But his hand
writing was proved, and the evidence of
factory. He had seen tine testator ap-
pend his signature, had heard him de-
clare the paper was his will, and was
positive that, at the time, he was of
sound mind and memory.
Under oil the circumstances, one would
have thought that the young husband
would have been unremitting in tender
ness and sympathy towards his sorrow
ing bride, who had sacrificed 30 much
for his sake. And 80 he would, had he
devotedly loved her, but he did not.
The fact is, his whole heart and soul
and mind were occupied with a previous
attachment-not from another; the far
thest possible from that-its object was
himself. This affection, which was of
the most ardent description, had met
with blighting disappointment in his
wife's loss of fortune; and with her un-
ceasing grief and continual self-accusa-
tion-she offered no reproaches to him
he had but little patience, and soon gave
her to understand as much. The man
who, a month before, would have been
ready to put on mourning had she lost
her favorite canary, turned his back
upon her in the hour of real affection.
When at length he was found dead in
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