Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1881-04-01
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Older Than Themselves.


Speaking of oblivion, it is surprising
how rapidly even the great fall out of,
notice. Carlyle and George Eliot We're
literary wonders, and they are already
dropping from observation. The latter
was buried at Highgate, which is already
known as the resting place of Colerdge.
The fact that her husband John Walter
Cross who was so much younger TWEEN
ty years. than herself occasioned much
comment. This, however, is not with
out precedent in literary and social life.
One of the leading clergy of this city. IS
married to woman ten years his senior
and the union appears congenial. Mo
hammed's wife was twenty years older
than her husband, and it is much to the
credit of the latter that he honored her
to the last. He ascribed much of his
success to her assistance and influence.
John Howard, the philanthropist, mar
rled out of gratitude woman who was
/ equally his senior. She died in few
Years, however, and his second union
was as one OF love. 1t was, however, also
l dissolved by the death of his wife, and
.sn he devoted@himselft to philanthropy.
3p's first wife (Josephine) was
by five years, being thirty at
f marriage, while he was twen-
would have been well for
valued her conjugal love,
on was the beginning of his
Burr also married a widow,
ese, had two children
Fin years elder than her
e union was very harmo-
likes. the famous Lon
he last century, married
ten years his senior, but
70 49, -! willing to overlook his
and hence obtained {
the photographer, married
willow Porter, who had a small prop
He was acquainted with the fam
before the death of her husband, anC
11s helped in the matter of courtship
Mrs. Porter was forty-eight, while he
husband was only twenty-one at tim
OF the wedding. The parties started
horseback for the place where the ccre
mony was to be performed, and johnson
thus describes the Journey to Boswell
"Sir, she had got into her head from
J old romances that woman of spiri
: should use her lover like dog. At frs
7 she told me i rode too fast and sh
; could not keep up with me, but when
slackened my pace she passed me an
complained that I Jagged. was not
! be made the slave of caprice, and there
7 for pushed on till I was out of sight
+ When she got to the destination I oil
e served she was in tears" johnson a
S ways mourned the loss of his wife, an
t though he was only forty three at th
2 time of her death he never marie
AGAIN How often in his subsequen
{ writings he refers to his lost conl1anio O
! ia the most affectionate manner.
& When only eighteen Shakespeare wa
married to Anne Hathaway, whose ag
s was twenty-five. Six months from tn
wedding day the first son was born
q this ill-mated pair. The husband an
: father had no means of supporting
t family, and when the latter had increa
e ed to the number of a son and tw
e daughters he fed to London. The d
serted wife supported her children {
bests she could, and twenty years afte
ward her husband returned, and by h
= subsequent conduct strove to atone Il
I his early error. Such facts as the,
= prove that John Walter Cross, in MARI
), ing Marian Evans, had some strikir
preeedents.-Nep York Letter to Ci,aci
matt Gazette