Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1871-01-25
A Quiet Fifth Avenue Story.
From the New YORK World.

From the New York World.
Concerning a marriage to be solemn
lied with due fashionable pomp this
week, between one of the most elegant
bellies Of Fifth Avenue, and an English
gentleman lately very popular i'll New
York society, the following little TO
nance receives credence in current So
cial gossip
Several years ago, son Of the family
to whom the BRIDE belongs had brought
his own prospects and the anxiety OF
his parents and friends to such a crisis
by the elimination of fast career,
that expatriation seemed to offer the
only remaining chance for his rescue
from complete ruin Although too weak
to resist the evil influence by which his
stay in his own city and country was
made assurance of his ultimate
!. disgrace and destruction, the
young man had enough good
sense to approve and adopt the
| plan urged for his thorough withdrawal
from such influences, and agreed TO be-
come his fathers business agent to
Australia, there 10 establish branch
of the paternal house of trade Firmly
that far country ample atonement for
his misspent days here, he set sail for
his distant destination by way OF Cali
fornia, leaving behind him many true
and hopeful hearts, but none so thor
oughly confident of his entire reform
alton as that of his ouly sister. In her
he bad found an unchanging patience
with his faults, and faith in his better
qualities, serving to hold him back
from the worst even IN his weakest mo-
ments of self-indulgent folly, and to
her he looked in his heart while going
forth into exile for that folly as to the
one friend supremely trustful of the
genuincness Of his new resolu-
tions. Reaching the city of Mel
bourne in safety, and there asso-
clating himself i'll commercial partner
ship with young English gentleman
of high position and connections, he
entered vigorously upon the new path
he had marked out for himself, and
soon mastered prosperity and popu-
lar estimation, commensurate with his
most sanguine hopes All OF his letters
homeward were 'fraught with manly
spirit of reparation for the past. and
ture; but, in writing to his sister, graf
itude took the lead of all his emotion,
save the chilllike, reverential love in
which his whole chastened nature bowed
to kiss her feet Two years of worthy
endeavor brought him further practical
reward; but now his health, already
shattered by past unwise indulgences,
began failing, and, before he could
realize that the climate of his exile was
helping the destroyer, he was PROSTATE
upon his death bed. Unable then
to pen those messages to his
sister which had become necessary to
! his new existence, he confided 30 Ills
partner and friend all that his sister
had been to him, and entrusted to his
sympathetic hand the brotherly Office
Through the last days of the sickness
the young Englishman made the de-
puted labor OF love his most earnest
mission and when death finally closed
/ the eyes of the exile, wrote the last
message, and enclosed the memorial
lock of hair to her whose love for, and
trust in, the redeemed brother had
never faltered. When, about year
ago, the English gentleman visited
NCN IOIh, Oll u tlICuIlUtlo way lOlIG "
England, his visit to the family of his
late partner was as that of dear
friend to dear friends, and what he
had been to the son and brother
was his all-sufficient introduction to a
parental and sisterly esteem, needing
no aid from his own fine character to
make it certain and permanent L rly
in the new year, now 50 close at hand,
he will resume the journey to his own
English home, taking with him as a
bride one in whom lives the likeness OF
the purified and regenerated older part
ner OF his, whose last breath was a
blessing on her name. Ia all the cur
rent records Of fashionable weddings
on the avenue, it is seldom that such a
graceful prelude as this can be given
and if the New York correspondent OF
the Boston Times has erred against
private privilege in being the first to
make it free to public print, upon his
head also be the consequences of this
repetition. &c nest Q'tc tc premier
pos Qui coHte.