The Tiffin tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1868-1887, 1878-06-20
CIECINNATi's SENSATION.
Major Byrne Robbed by q Friend or
His Beautiful BeTrOIhed.

Nothing in the fashionable social
world here has created such q sensa-
tion recently, and nothing ever so
strange, as the strangely romantic
marriage OF Miss Blanche WOrthing-
ton, Of Covington, Kentucky, lead
ing belle of great beauty and accom-
plishments, to Mr.. B. V. Jackson, of
Psrkersburg, West Virginia, son of
Judge Jackson, of the United States
Court Of West Virginia. The affair
was 8 runaway match, and the cere-
mOny was performed at the Burnet
House by the Rev. DIR. Gray, an Epis-
cOpal divine.
The lady has long been engaged to
Major Byrne, q prominent young
railroad man OF Cincinnati, very
worthy gentleman. and, as his con-
duct on this occasion shows, q chival-
rOus one. The Major is a devoted
Catholic, which faith the young lady
voluntarily adopted after careful in.
vestigatiOn and long course OF in
struction from leading dfvines OF the
Catholic Church in this city and Cow
ington and which she was to formal
ly embrace on their marriage day in
June.
During the festival week Mr.. Jack
son aud 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 Burnet very
happily. That 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. Jack
son called upon his friend Major
Byrne to assist him in getting a mar
riage license, to which he responded
a. friend at once, and together they
repaired to the Probate Court. The
lover little dreamed what was in store
for him. The names OF the contract
ing parties were there pronounced.
Imagine what must have been the
feelings of the strong man, the ar
dent lover, when hearing the name
of his almost wife in such 3 cOnnec-
tion, 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 engagement with him
a most solemn One) he consented,
being lifelong friend OF both parties.
There seldom has been witnessed q
nObler exhibition OF true manhood
and chIvalry than when this gentle
man, suffering the agony of crushed
heart and humiliated spirit, with 8
calm nerve and bearing, having for
mally released the lady from her
plighted trOth, forgiving her the great
wrong she had done him in blasting
his life by precipitately tramping un-
der foot the pledges of fidelity and
love still warm upon her lips, give
away in marriage to another the idol
of his own heart. He has not since
permitted the affair to be mentioned
in his presence, but Is evidently suf-
fering as such q man can suffer. His
friends have been apprehensive Of
the result upon him. The prOmi'
nence Of the parties-Miss WOrthing-
ton being q member of leading Ken
lucky family, 8 great favOrite, a IA
nous beauty and belle, some twenty
seven or twenty-eight years old Mr..
Jackson, the lady's junior, the scion
OF q prominent Virginia family, a
cousin Of ''StoneWalI," and son of q
distinguished jurist and the deserted
lover, a prominent gentleman in rail-
road and business circles, OF high
moral worth and culture, and, L be-
lieve, q native Of your State, Mary
lsnd-makes this leading sensation
in the three States Of Ohio, Kentucky
and Virginia.-BdltimOre Gazette.