The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1878-06-20
Cincinnati's Sensation Mayor
Byrne Robbed Of His Beautiful
BetrOthed by a False Friend.

Nothing in the fashionable social
world here has created such a sensa-
ton recently, and nothing ver SO
strange. as the strangely romantic
marriage of Miss Blanche Worthing-
ton. of Covington, Kentucky, a lead
ing belle of great beauty and accom-
plishments, to Mr.. B. V. Jackson, of
Parkersburg, West Virginia, son of
Judge Jackson, of the United States
court of West Virginia. The affair
was a runaway match, and the cere-
mony was performed at the Burnett
house by the Rev. Dr.. Grey, an Epis-
copal divine.
The lady has long b2en engaged to
Major Byrne, a prominent young rail
road man of this city. a very worthy
gentleman, and. as his conduct on this
occasion shows, a chivalrous one. The
major is a devoted Catholic, which
faith the young lady voluntarily adopt
ed after careful investigation and a
long course of instruction from lead
ing divines of the Catholic church in
this city and COvington, and which
she was to formally embrace on their
marriage day Ia June.
During the festival week Mr.. Jack
son and his sister visited Cincinnati,
where Major Byrne, assisted by his
lady love, contributed to their enter
tainment. On Thursday they all
dined together at the Burnett very
happily. THAI evening the lover
placed his betrothed in the company
of Mr.. jackson for the festival. On
| Friday she was to entertain him by
introduction to her lady friends, and
did so.
On Saturday afternoon Mr.. Jackson
called upon his friend Mayor Byrne to
assist him in getting a marriage Ii
cense, to which he responded as a
friend at once. and together they re-
paired to the probate court, the lover
little dreaming what was in store for
him. The names of the contracting
parties were there first pronounced.
Imagine what must have been the
feelings of the strong man, the ardent
lover, when hearing the name of his
almost wife in sucn a connection, but
he believed it a cruel joke. and not
until he met the lady did he doubt
her. He was invited to give the bride
away, and having to release her from
her g ement with him Ca most
solemn one) he consented, being a
lifelong friend of both parties. There
seldom has been witnessed a nobler
exhibition of r manhood and chival-
~ than when this gentleman, suffer-
ing the agony of a crushed heart and
Inundated spirit with a calm nerve
aud bearing, having formally releas-
ed the lady from her plighted troth,
forgiven her the great wrong she had
done him in blasting his life by pre-
cipitately trampling under foot the
pledges of fidelity and love still warm
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to another the idol of his own heart.
He has not since permitted the affair
to be mentioned in his presence, but is
evidently suffering as much as a man
can suffer. His friends have been ap-
prehensive of the result upon him.
The prominence of the parties-Miss
Worthlngton being a member of a
leading Kentucky family, a great ia
v%orite, a famous beauty and belle.
some twenty V or twenty-eight
years old Mr.. Jackson. the laiv's
Junior, the scion of a prominent Vir-
ginia family, a cousin of ~''Stonewall."
and son of a distinguished iurist. and
the deserted lover. a prominent gen
tleman in railroad and business cir
cles, of high moral worth and culture.
and, | believe, a native of Your state.
Maryland-makes this a leading sensa.
ton IN the three states of Ohio. Ken
lucky and Observation-Disclosures Ga
kette.
The poor fellow! wonder if he thank
ed ms F" TREND ED. F. & u.
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The FEARFUL WASTE.-It is comm.
ted that the grain used for liquors in
a year in the United States reaches
10000, coo bushels. which would MAKE
LOU, GOO, 900 -four pound loaves OF
bread. Great Britain uses so. OO0. OOC
bushels of grain yearly for the same