The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1873-01-09

will surely make me happy. Yes, my
dear, when | was addressing you from
time to time thought you were just like
myself, worthy OF all the confidence /
could place in you. A few more days,
and then what? shall be with nv love.
IT'S LONG LANE THAT Has NO TURNING. :"
The twelfth and last letter written by
Corbett was brief one, merely stating
that he had forwarded the passage ticket
for his dear Margaret wherewith to come
to New York, and thus the correspon-
dence ended, but not so with the court
ship. After the arrival of the passage
tickets Miss Gilmore left her dear home
in old Ireland, with the fond expecta-
tons which one might suppose would be
generated in the heart of guileless girl
when about to brave the dangers of an
ocean voyage to meet her own true love.
She invested better code of signals,
and duly sent them to her affianced also
told him when she would arrive here,
and Corbett, with burning cheeks and
heart aglow with the fire of love, await
ed the arrival of his all.
THE SPARK SUDDENLY DIES OUT.
On the day appointed the anxious
lover was at the Union depot, and in due
time the locomotive came putting up to
the stopping of the train, bearing its
precious burden. A pair of bright,
searching eyes ran along every window
of the long line of cars, looking out for
the signal agreed upon. He searches
around about the newly arrived passen-
gers, and at last finds her. One would
have thought so ardent lover as his cor
respondence proved him to be would
have folded the girl in his arms and fill
ed the air with smothering kisses; but
not so. He did not appear in the least
captivated. She was not by any means
what his fancy painted her; it had been
distance that lent enchantment to the
view. In short, he concluded a grave
mistake must have been made. The girl
he had fixed in his minds eye was no girl
at all. She was we'll up in years, proba-
bly, verging on her departure for that
period known as the fiat, fair and for
ty," and he did not take kindly to the
situation. His countenance wore at this
moment rueful expression, suggestive
of partially suppressed bitterness and |
disappointment; but he calamity escort |
ed the lady to the house of d relative,
and the next day he made his excuses
and announced his intention of departing
for village in Ohio, where he was oblig-
ed to go to transact some very important
business.
AMT YOU GOING TO MARRY ME FIRsT?'
insinuated the new arrival and then she
talked of his honor, but finally concluded
she could trust him to fulfil his engage
ment after his return. However, months
passed, and her attempts to bring the re-
calcitrant LIVER to a proper sense of his
shortcomings failed in every instance,
and, as a dernier resort, proceedings
were instituted against him for breach of
promise and damages fixed at SO, 900.
CoRBErT's DEFENCE
substantially was that there had been an
unfortunate mistake; that he thought
the woman he had all this time been
counting was an old flame of his of the
same name whom he had left in Ireland
some seventeen years before. The party
to whom he had written in the first place
undoubtedly got the names COMPOUNDED,
and this he averred led to this disap-
pointment, which he regretted much
us any one could. The arbitrator rem
dered decision this evening, allowing
Miss Margaret Gilmore the sum of $500
for the laceration of her heart. Neither
party is satisfied with the result. Miss
Gilmore considers the sum trihing for
the disappointment and misery entailed
upon her by the doings of false lover,
while Corbett thinks he is paying too
high for his folly.