Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1878-03-20
A CLANDEsTINE MARRIAGE.
The Early Romance Of Lady who was
Buried Last Week.
Erau, tho R.lt O.,

The Eerly Romance OF Lady who wa
Buried Last Week.
From the Baltimore Sun.
On Tuesday were borne from SUNNI
tuous house high up on Fifth avenue
for interment in a Connecticut town OF
the New Haven road, not far from thi
city, the remains of a revered wife anc
mothor. Half q century ago, when sht
was the only unmarried daughter of an
oh and wealthy family of the town in
whose cemetery her body now rests, sht
came to New York in the bloom and vi
vacity of youth just conscious of il.
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 parents
until they were surprised by informa-
tion that her delay was possibly occa-
stoned by the frequent calls of a gentle
man, lieutenant of the British navy,
whose attentions seemed OminOusly &C.
rious, when the mother took the family
carriage precipitately for the city to con-
vey back forthwith the giddy damscl
Upon arraignment before the maternal
bar the young lady did not deny the
frequent visits of the alleged suitor,
whom her New York friends had seen
no reason to interfere with; indeed, upon
stepping into the carriage to so home
(there was no New Haven railroad them
she said quite coolly, "It's uselsss 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 lieuten-
ant had been clandestinely married, and
before the Mortified mother and roman
tic daughter had been in their Connecti-
cut home twenty-four hours, the bold
young sailor was there, too, to claim his
wife! But he found her prisoner,
locked in her own room, and both pa
rents met his appeals with steady refusal
to acknowledge his authority. The girl
was but child, they said, not conscious
of her own mind, and they should resist
with every possible form Of law any at
tempt to remove her from their custody.
The husband, urging that they loved
each other, was told that she whom he
made his wife, in name only, now bit
terly regretted her sentimental folly, and
wished to see him no more. Astounded
at this assertion, the young man passion
ately impugned its truth. Would he be
generous enough to give her up, he was
asked, if she herself assured him of her
decision to that effect? Chivalrously,
though too rashly, perhaps, he agreed 20
to do, confident, undoubtedly, that she
would prove true to him.
And then came the most extraordinary
scene of the little drama. A married
sister strikingly resembling the yet i'm
prisoned wife had been hastily summoned
from the city for the purpose, and, art
fully dressed to intensity the resem-
blance, hurriedly entered the room where
the lieutenant was present, with a friend
for a witness, to learn his fate, and, with
sobs hastily hid her face on
her mothers bosom. Supposing her to
be the wife whom he agitatedly called
by name, the deceived husband begged
her to 60 with him. al wish to remain
with my mother" was the apparently
fearful answer, without so much as
glance for him; and without another
word, the lieutenant 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 steam
boat a favorite dog that accompanied him
leaped overheard, and he, plunging in
,tantly over to rescue it was drowned.