The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1878-03-22
A aoxANcE OF FIFTH AVENUE.
The Extraordinary stry Told Of New
York Iany Lately Dead.
[New York Letter to the Baltimore Sun.

| New York Letter to the Baltimore sun.
On Tuesday there were borne from a
sumptuOus house high up on Fifth Av-
enue, for interment i'll Il Connecticut
town, OH the New Haven road, not
| far from this city, the remains Ofa re-
Vered wife and mother. whose distant
| YirIhOod had supplied the heroine Of
romance as dramatic a. ever found eX-
| position in novel or on stage 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
viyacity Ofa youth just conscious of its
own power, to visit the friendly house
hold of one of our best merchants. A
prOlOngatiOn of her stay here did not
excite the remOnstrance of her parents
until they were surprised by informa-
ton that her delay was possibly Occa-
stoned by the frequent calls of a gen.
tleman, a Lieutenant of the British
navy, whose attention seemed omni-
Ously serious, when her mother took
the family carriage preCipitately for
the city, to convey back forthwith the
giddy damsel. Upon arraigning her
before the maternal bar the young
lady did not deny the frequent visits
York friends had seen no reason to
interfere with; indeed, upon stepping
into the carriage to 20 home (there
was no New Haven railroad them she
said quite coolly: ats useless to find
fault now, ma, for | am married"
Such indeed was the startling fact; af-
ter short and only finally suspected
Summers cOurtShip, she and the Lieu
tenant had been clandestinely married,
and before the Mortified mother and
romantic daughter had been i'll their
Connecticut home tWenty-four hOnrs
the bold young sailor was there, too,
to claim his wife. But he found her a
prisoner, locked in her own room, and
both parents met his appeals with a
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 cv-
ery possible 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; now only bit |
terly regretted her sentimental folly, |
and wished to see him no more. AS |
tonished at this assertion, the young |
man passiOnately impugned its truth. |
Would he be generous enough TO give |
her up, he was asked, if she heIself |
assured him of her desire to that eff
feet ? Chivairously, though too rash |
ly, perhaps, he agreed to do so, conf |
dent, undoubtedly, that she would |
prove true to him. And then came |
the most extraordinary scene of the |
little drama. \ married sister strik- |
ingly resembling the yet imprisoned |
virgin wife had been hastily summon
ed from the city for the purpose, and |
artfully dressed to- intensity the re- |
semblance, 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. Supposing her to he his wife |
he agitatedly called her by name, and |
the deceived husband begged her to go |
with him. ~ wish to remain with |
my mother.' was the apparently |
fearful answer, without so much az a
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 steamboat favorite dog, that ac-
companied him, leaped overheard, |
and he, plunging instantly over to the
rescue, was drowned!