The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1881-09-22

castle message, ITO take her and keep
her, for he IVES tired Of supporting other
peoples children" Her father did keep
her and che shortly died Is raging maniac.
She left two daughters, inheriting
their mothers personal charms, the
younger one also being gifted with her
to womanhood the elder incurred her
parents severe displeasure by showing
q partiality for her mothers family.
Southern planter, to whom she was
deeply attached. Her father objected to
tho match, aud offered her a husband Of
his own choosing tue captain of q vessel
known to have played the pirate on more
than one occasion. She scornfully refused
all overtures, and with @ revenge, 30 re.
markabe as it is true, this unnatural
father get himself to wean away the ef-
fections Of her betrothed by system of
the most plausible and cunningly fabrj-
Gated ISLANDERS, at the same time paving
the way for 9 marriage between the
younger daughter and her sisters lover,
assuring him that it was simply desire
not to see him imposed upon that led
him TO break off match with woman
unworthy Of good and honorable man.
The inhuman artiiice was successful.
The favorie daughter married and went
her way, and the wronged child took up
her load Of sorrow to her life's end. This
monster at last met the fate he 80 richly
deserved. He had made himself such q
terror by his cruelties that his name grew
TO be by-word of roproach where he
lived, and one day q ell.aimcd shot from
garret window in the village cut short
his career So relieved was the commu-
nifty that no search wag made for the
murderer.
Ferney has passed from hand to hand
and owner to owner, but yet always held
by those of the same blood and lineage.
There is extant in the family letter
from Lafayette to one of ite members,
written during his last American tour in
response to an invitation to visit Ferney,
which the illustrious traveller was com.
PEELED to decline. Amongst the family
treasures, long since retired from active
service and kept merely as heirlooms, are
set of silver teaspoons, with funny little
round bowls and carved handles, worn
very thin, bearing the crest of an old
English baronial family, and also pair
ofsilver candlostieks, said TO have lighted
many festive occasion, when Il Il proud.
eat names of Virginia and the fairest
faces in the Old Dominion were gathered
together, when Virginia was the bright
eat star in the crown Of the young repub-
lie.
There is the portrait of comparative
ly modern member of the family, bon
ME looking girl who was ali arrayed in
her bridal finery and her bridegroom
waiting, when behold young Lochinvar,
for whom she had cherished o deeply
seated Partially, rode up to side win
dow, beckoned the bonnie bride, and,
taking her up behind him, with her white
robes streaming iii the wind, bore her
away from the dumb stricken brides
maids, who were left gasping.
1t is refreshing to relate that the mar
riage turned cut we'll. Two of the lady 8
sons lost their lives in the late war, fight
ing on opposite sides. The elder, West
Pointer, went into the Federal army and
was killed at Gettysburg the other died
in Northern hospital, and both bodies
were brought home at the close of the war
and inferred side by side in tho burrying
ground not stones throw from the win
dows of Ferney.