Mexico weekly ledger., 1880-03-04

Free York Herald.

Fro Eeg York Herald
"They ia.tto do as ! said. for L
made the faatcl,.' said Mrs. Char
lotte Rice to Il reporter yesterday
Il did it for the best-to give the
poor girl a good home .
The speech had reference to the
marriage of Jennie Herndon Tyler,
a daughter of Colonel W. w. Tyler
and grandnieee of the late President
Tyler, to William Collins, a laborer
in the Brooklyn gas works; and it
was in response to the reporters
question as to why, both being Ro-
man Catholics, they were married in
a Protestant Church. While Mrs.
Rice was speaking the reporter look
ed round the barren apartment,
whose uncarpeted floor and the barren
walls spoke Of poverty and almost
seualor.
Il was not always so poor" said
Mr.. Collins, interpreting the repor-
ter's icok. That he spoke truly
there could be no doubt. for still he
was rich in true manliness and all
the higher attributes of human ma
ture. Stretched on a table, which
served for a bier, lay the poor wo-
man, whose story is u singularly sad
one. The child of wealthy parents
and boastiug a lineage as proud as
any in the land, ~splendidly educated
and a pet in the highest social cir
Giles, she was, before her girlhood
was past, betrayed, dlsowned, cast
out. Deluded into a mock marriage
in Brooklyn by a man named Jen-
nings and despoiled of her property,
she was left to beggary and starva-
ton, Or worse. Jennie Tyler was
born In Richmond in 1913 her girl
hood was passed On her fathers plan
tation in Mississippi; she was edu-
Gated in a convent, and in 1872,
when her cousin, John w. Steven
son, was United States Senator from
Kentucky, she was introduced into
Washington society. 1t was soon
after the last event that she made the
acquaintance Of Jennings and mar
ried him. A few months wrought
the misery and downfall of the bright,
vivacious and intelligent young girl.
For the next two Or three years moth
ing of her history is known by the
public except that she was disowned
by her family, and, as Mrs. Rice de-
c~lares, harshly turned away from her
sisters door when she went to beg
for hrea AL and Drotection
"BEcAUsE SHE MARRIED BELOW HER
STATION"
81 went with her to her sisters
house," said Mrs. Rice, "but the
door was slammed in her face. |
told her to come away with me, and
that is how she became my brothers
wife,"
"Mrs. Collins has not been recog-
nized by her family" said that sis
ter's husband to the reporter, "be-
cause she married below her station.
There are family reasons why 1 should
not talk about her life it is purely a
family matter, and does not concern
the public"
But the mar who shared his scanty
earnings with her, who gave her Il
name and a home, who was proud to
call her wife, was not so reticent. As
he sat over his dead III his poor apart
ment at No. IS Hudson avenue.
Brooklyn, yesterday, he never ceased
talking of her gentleness, her virtues
and her accomplishments. There
was no installing the fact that this
poor laborIng man was proud OF his
talented and higl-born wife. "She
was toe fine & woman for a poor man
to marry" he said ''she was lit for
a Prince. But she never complain
ed of her hard lot-she was never
unhappy in her poverty. Nor did L
ever hear her say an unkind word of
her rich relations who had dlsowned
her. She was well acquainted with
General Pryor, the lawyer. Senator
Stevenson vas her cousin, and so was
Mrs. Arthur, the wife OF General
Arthur, In New York. Her middle
name was Herndon. You sec she
was of royal stock"
"Have you heard from any Of her
friends since her death?' the repor-
ter asked.
"Mr. Brophy, her brother-in-law,
sent me SO to bury her, but it came
too late to do 1t to-day, and this
morning / received a letter from her
father
Further inquiry elected the fact
that Mr.. and Mrs. Collins were mar
ried October Is, 1875, at st Peters
Church, in Twentieth street, by the
Rev. DR.. Beach. She died OF con
sumption on Monday last at 2 O'Clock
D. IN. Her remains will be inferred
at Flatbush, in the Cemetery of the
Holy Cross, this afternoon. As the
reporter rose 10 take his leave tho
woman who was in attendance upol
the dead lifted the covering from the
face of the deceased. A glance re
vealed an emaciated but striking face.
in it's outlines wonderfully like thu
portraits of the late President Tyler
whose blood was in her veins. There
were still some lingering traces OF he.
girlish beauty which even years @
sorrow and poverty could not destroy
ssHer face is the best part of her.
SAID Mr.. Collins mournfully and i
was plainly to be seen that she was
mere skeleton, as gaunt as deaf
itself. a+s
"Sirtue's Reward"
From the Kansas City Times.
Judge L. J. c. Fagg will be nomi
mated for United States Marshal 4
soon as John Mcneil gets the gran
bounce. This will be Hayes fifth
tribute to the Greenback party i
Missouri. The lion and the lam
(Britton A. Hill and III. Martin Wi
liams) will then lie down together