The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1878-10-24
MISS BENEFITS SENSIBLE MATCH.
,.v IiI.rrissc OI JauicB GOrtIon I5enuetrs
Sister-A Wedding Present OF 100000.
NEW YORK. October s.

New YORK, October s.
James Gordon BENEFITS sister has en-
rolled herself among the sensible Ameri-
can girls whose fortunes were not carried
off by bankrupt foreign noblemen. The
Irish peer who was announced TO be in
hot pursuit of her share of the accumu.
lations of the shrewd old Scotchman who
founded the Herald must have been dis
appointed, for the gentleman vino mar
ricd Miss Bennett fortnight ago is a
New Yorker and the son of an old New
York merchant. Isaac Bell, Jr, the
happy man, is comfortably rich in his
own right, besides having expectations
from his father, Isaac Bell He is one
Of the ci.ded youth of New York, of
whom James Gordon Bennett is the
bright and shining example. AS a rule
they are young men of laborious leisure,
dress English, talk English, wear Eng.
lish whiskers, drive coaches as the Eng
lish do, and in other respects fOund
themselves upon the blarsted aristocracy
of the British Isles. MIR. Bell, however,
seems TO be n sensible man if he is fash
ionable; and his wife is quiet little
lady, speaking and writing several Ian
guagcs, EN- accomplished musician, and n
great social favorite. The match seems
to be regarded in the circle of the gildcd
youth rs II proof that the driving of
coaches and playing Of rclc tends to the
formation OF perfect existenccs, and no
doubt they would have liked to see the
bride and groom driven TO the altar in
Col. Delaney Kane's four.in-hand.
There is thread Of romance in the
brides life which the marriage has re-
called to those acquainted with the cir
cumstances. There was time, as almost
everybody knows, when Miss Bennett
was bent upon taking the veil. So
strong was her desire that il WAS with
great difficulty her father could persuade
her to put off for time her farewell to
the life of the world. Finally, by por-
traying the lonely condition in which he
would be left if she should enter con-
vent, / Il, succeeded in obtaining her
promise that she would wait to fulfill her
cherished wish until after his death.
When she conceded that much she did
not know how much of victory the
shrewd old man had won. For he pro-
yided in his will that in case she should
determine not to enter q convent, one
half of his property, excepting the
Herald, should be hers, and this would
be handsome fortune; if she should,
however, persevere in her original intcn-
ton, the whole property should pass to
her brother. What was the result? ?
Why, just what the sly ScotchmaI. had
forcseen. The people who had been
urging the veil upon Miss Bennett, being
! Catholics of the sort that amass wealth
for the church and hunt down fortunes
! as u hound might hare, rather than
| Catholics of the sort that have carried
the cross into every land beneath the
s"a aid have filed tho annals OF the
church with the record of their piety and
heroism, found that she was coming tc
them cmptyhnndcd and fell away from
her Ms if she had been sm;tten with The
plague. She saw the selfish and cunning
policy that lay back of much that had
been said to her, and like a sensible wo
man she changed her mind, as all scnsi
Bile women Invariably do. Therefore
she is now happy wife, instead of being
hopeless nun. a.
James Gordon Bennett made her ,
splendid wedding prescnt-no less thar
$500, 900 In cash. /. was hardly NOR,
than he ought to have done, considering
that almost all of her share of the prop
erty is unproductive but the number o
brothers VINO would have given ava,
more than their whole income for twt
years is limited.-Cbr. Cincinnati Com
Inercidi.