The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1877-02-22

who are satisfied that they can recover
liberal alimony.
As may BE- suFrnssd, MFR. Cassius d.
Worrell's story differs in some very i'm
portant particulars from that told by
the plain tiff. About year and half
ago, he saJs: he was visited at his farm
in Lockpors by sf==. ard Mrs. Williams,
of Cory, Pa, with wSom he was &C
quainted. His father ha0 died a short
time previously, and he was then en-
gagged in settling the estate. He lived
with his mother, who was an invalid,
and not expected to survive long. His
visitors were accompanied by Miss
Annie Bourne, a young lady who was
introduced to him as Mrs. Williams's
sister. She was very solicitous in
her care OF Mrs. Worrell,
who was afflicted with a painful
and incurable cancer in the neck. Miss
Bourne nursed her tendeIly, and not
only became a great fayorite with the
old lady, but earned the gratitude of
her son. The latter, however, asserts
that he never entertained any warmer
sentiment toward her, nor did the
thought of making her his wife enter
his mind. He says, though, that Mr..
and Mrs. Williams used effort in their
power to bring about an engagement,
while Miss Bourne behaved modestly,
and seemed to have no active part in
their designs. At last, harassed and
perplexed by the opportunities of Will
liams and his wife, Mr.. Worreu reluct-
antly promised to marry Miss Bourne
in year. This was on Sept. %, 1875,
and the same day he accompanied Mr..
and Mrs. Williams and Miss Bourne to
Rochester. They had private apart
ments in the Bracket House, and here
Mr.. Worrell admits that he drank free
". For the first time in his life, he
says, he was drunk. Lying down on
the sofa he fell fast asleep in the fore
noon. When he awoke few hours
later, Miss Bourne was sitting beside
him, and Mr.. and Mrs. Williams were
just entering the room. That after
noon he left the party and went back
to his farm at Lockport, while Mr..
Williams and his wife and sister-in-law
returned to their home in Cory.
Mr.. Worrell wrote to his affianced;
but he soon began to regret the hasty
step he had taken. He was not in love
with the young lady, he says, and was
| conscious that he had been begailed
into promising to make her his wife by
her sister and brother ia.law. He had
no charge to make aga inst Miss Bourne
herself; only he had no desire to be
her husband. In short, before the year
was out, he had changed his mind, and
decided not to marry her.
He was not permitted, however, to
carry cut this tardily made resolution
peaceably. Miss Bourne visited him in
Lockport, claimed him, not as lover,
but as a husband, and asked for ade-
quate support. She confronted him
with the marriage certificate, which
he denounced as forgery.
He knew nothing whatever about
the performance of any such ceremony
as that which she declared had taken
place at DIR. STATIONS house in Roch-
ester. Indeed, at the very time when it
was claimed that he was getting mar
ried to Miss Bourne, he was in fact "
ing drunk III the Bracket House. For
these reasons he refused to acknowledge
her as his wife, and referred her to his
lawyers, one of whom is the District At
torney of Niagara County.
Miss Bourne, or Mrs. Worrell, as the
case may be, is now in New York, acting
as companion to the lady with whom
she came from CoOperstown, as she
supposed, to meet her husband in the
city. She will be recalled to Lockport
by her counsel in a few days.