The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1879-12-04
AMIXED AFFAIR.
4 Providence Young Lady OrtwatttnS Her
Parents md . Devoted Suitor, for tho
Choice of Her Heart-a Reckless Heart.
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Parents md . DevOteo bultor, hor kno
Choice Of Her Heart-a Reckless Heart
Providence Dspatoh.l ......r,r
A marriage recently took place in this
CITY under circumstances remarkable for
their romantic and sad interest. The
facts of the case are as follows: A young
lady belonging to a respectable and we'll
to-do family, fell in love with shiftless
and good-for-nothing fellow. Being
passionate young woman, she loved des-
perately, madlyI But her father, being
also passionate, but in another way, was
equally desperate and equally mad. 1t is
the same old story Of young woman
loving some one whom she ought not to.
The persistency with which the average
young lady falls in love with all the
worthless vagabondswith whom she comes
in contact, is, to say the least, remarka bic.
Give her decent, steady man to love,
and she gives him the mitten at once,
and flies to the arms of her dissipated
ISario, who borrows all her spare
cha to play policy with, and finally
eloI with her, can't support her, and
sendlher home for the old man to take
CareMr. SuCn WAS tlle Cdoo III VIC PiSS
eE Instance. The father had picked out
a nile young man for his daughters
love oad the nice young man was per-
saeD willing to play that part. And in
SCOT he was a smart young man, and
love the girl fondly and devotedly.
Thin |Es remained in statu quo for some
time both suitors pressing their claims.
The bne, favored by the father and re-
pulls b by the daughter, the other, af-
v67 kNhy the daughter and repulsed by
tht father. Att ength, things came to q
cria| |s. There was a stormy interview be-
twekn the old man and the shiftless
loret. and the latter left the house just
threk Inches in advance of the fathers
boot I The girl cried, of course, and
thre Ened to do all manner of desper..
ate ngs but finally calmed down, and
a vi later she had promised her hand
to lhice young man, who was immedl-
ate transported to the seventh heaven,
me bhorically speaking. The father
pra I'd that the other lover might be
traH ported not metaphcrically, but lit
eraN. The time appointed for the nup.
tiaK was drawing near, and the sound OF
matt ,age-bells was almost heard, when
an Event occurred which turned all the
promised Joy to gloom and made two
lives miserable. The happy lover had
taken his promised bride to An enter
tainment given at the house of one oi
our well-Enown citizens, and when the
"mad, merry music of harp and horn
rang out, the couple joined in the dance
In this accomplishment the lady was
perfection, and many will remember the
belle danseuse, as she was called, who five
wears ago, was considered the most grace.
full waltzer in Providence. The heat Of
the ballroom becoming disagreeable, the
Young man led his partner out on to a
piazza. AS they sat there in the moon
light, a man suddenly appeared from
around the corner of the building, and
walked down path towards the gate
Turning to her lover, the girl remarked
that she had dropped her fan and desired
him to 20 in search of it in the ball
room. He did so, and when he returned
the bird had flown. The mysteriou!
stranger was the dissipatcd lover, whc
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long been signing for. Months came
and went, and months were lengthenine
into wears. All memories of the way
ward girl were shut away by the be
rsaved lover and the unhappy father, il
the chambers of the past; to break ou
of their confinement, however, wher
least welcome, and haunt the men whc
held them there like beings from an
other world. Nothing was heard from
the girl, but amid the troopers of tht
Seventh Cavalry, who, to the tune o.
"Garry Owen" followed Custer in hi
last charge at the battle OF the Yellow
stone, was the man who had run Of
with the intended bride of another. 4
few weeks ago the father was astoundet
by the sudden appearance of his daugh
ter. Broken in health, she had come
home to die. Before she died, the ole
lover, who had waited so long for her
was married to her, and thus was per
mitted, though but for brief time, tt
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