The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1878-03-23
A Clandestine Marriage.

On Tuesday were borne from sump-
tuous house high up on Fifth avenue,
for interment in Connecticut town on
the New Haven Road, not far from this
city, the remains of revered wife and
mother. Half century ago, when she
was the only unmarried daughter of an
old and wealthy family of the town in
whose cemetery her body now rests, she
came to New York in the bloom and
vivacity of youth just conscious of its
own power, to visit the friendly house
hold of one of our first merchants. A
prolongation of her sojourn here did
not excite the remonstrance of her par
ents until they were surprised by in
formation that her delay was possibly
occasioned by the frequent calls of
gentleman, a Lieutenant of the British
navy, whose attentions seemed omi-
nously serious, when her mother took
the family carriage precipitately for the
city to convey back forthwith the giddy
damsel. Upon arraignment before the
maternal bar the young lady did not
deny the frequent visits of the alleged
sutton, whom her New York friends had
seen no reason to interfere with; in
deed, upon stepping into the carriage
to 90 home (there was no New Haven
Railroad them, she said, quite coolly:
'It's useless to find fault now, ma, for
l am married"
Such, indeed, was the startling fact.
After short and only finally suspected
summers courtship, she and the Lieu
tenant had been clandestinely married,
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romantic daughter had been in their
Connecticut home twenty-four hours
the bold young sailor was there too, to
claim his wife! But he found her q
prisoner, locked in her own room, and
both parents met his appeals with
steady refusal to acknowledge his au-
thority. The girl was but child, they
said, not conscious of her own mind,
and they should resist with every posi-
BILE form of law any attempt to remove
her from their custody. The husband
urging that they loved each other, was
told that she whom he had made his
wife, in name only, now bitterly re-
GREETED her sentimental folly, and
at this assertion, the young man pas
sionately impugned its truth. Would
he be generous enough to give her up,
he was asked, if she herself assured him
of her desire to that effect? Chival-
rously, though too rashly, perhaps, he
agreed so to do, confident, undoubt-
edly, that she would prove true to him.
And then came the most eXtraordi-
nary scene of the little drama. A mar
ried sister strikingly resembling the
imprisoned young wife had been hastily
summoned from this city for the pur-
pose, and, artfully dressed to intensity
the resemblance, hurriedly entered the
room where the Lieutenant was present,
with friend for witness, to learn his
fate, and, with simulated sobs, hastily
hid her face on her mothers bosom.
Surprising her to be the wife whom he
agitatedly called by name, the deceived
husband begged her to go with him.
81 wish to remain with my motherr'
was the apparently fearful answer,
without so much as glance for him;
and, without another word, the Lieu
tenant bowed to parents and child, and
at once withdrew with his friend from
the room and the house. On his way
back to New York by steamboat a
favorite dog that accompanied him
leaped overheard, and he, plunging in
stantly over to the rescue, was drowned.
N. Y. Cor. Baltimore Sun.