Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1884-09-12
THE PAXIAN LETTERS.

Family pride has placed upon the witness
stand in a New York court man named
Rhinelander to prove that it was insanity
and not love that induced him to marry n
poor, industrious irish girl. But Rhineland-
er don't play the fool worth cent. Thus
far his testimony has fully demonstrated
that il was a clear case of loVe-real love-
stronger than family pride and stronger
than money-that induced him to marry
the poor girl The sympathies Of the coun-
try are with Rhinelander. His secret mar
rage to the young Irish seamstress, employ
ed in his mothers family, greatly humili-
ated and enraged the Rhinelander family.
There was no ground for divorce, so law
yer named Drake was employed to ALLEVIATE,
if possible, the wife's affections from the
husband and negotiate fora separation. The
newly married ones were to be bought OIL"
The wife was offered tWenty thousand dollars
dorm and an allowance of three thousand
dollars q year il she would leave her hus-
band and 90 to Europe The consideration
held out to Rhinelander was one million dol
lars, 1t was understood that this was the
amount of the legacy to him fixed in the
will of his grandfather, and that it would
stand if he discarded his wife, but if he re-
fused to do so he would be disinherited.
The proposition was duly made to Rhine
lander and his wife in Canada, but it
was By both "scornfully rejected" Mean
while lawyer Drake piled his skill and
tried his tricks to put asunder that
which God had joined together. The
supposed fool-husband had enough sense to
resent the unjustifiabe meddlesomeness Of
the fat feed attorney, and in n moment of
desperation he drew q pistol and sent
bullet into him. The lawyer didn't die.
Some lawyers are hard to KILL 1t is
claimed that Rhinelander is insane, and n
commission Of lunacy is now sitting in New
York to determine whether ho shall be add
mitted to an insane asylum. As before re-
marked, he does not play the fool, but proves
to be too smart for the lawyers and too smart
for the family From testimony thus far
brought out the young man seems to be the
"victim of a carefully planned and ingenious
scheme of persecution, having its origin III
exaggerated and unj ustitiable family pride"
His great crime seems to have been in mar
rying beneath the family. "My family,
he said on the witness stand, would have
rather that had committed crime than
to have married beneath me. 1t had been
drilled into me from boyhood." ! sympa-
thize with Rhineander and his little Irish
wifc-Mrs. Rhinelander-nee Miss Marga-
retta McGuiness 1t was love that united
them, and as man and wife they should be
permitted to live together and enjoy each
others society and the prattling innocence
and winning ways of their two little children
unmolested But family pride has been
doggiug their steps and disturbing their
home for several years. Such inference is
ALWAYS uuwise and wicked. Let all such
lovers marry; and let them alone after they
marry.
1t has long ago been demonstrated, q thousand
times hat love doesn't always in silver streams
finds an affinity in humber circumstances and is
happy N the union Society is graded and strata
fed by rank and family and wealth, and the
strata very seldom minglc. But sometimes the
higher goes down TO the lower-lower in circum-
stances and position, as it appears to the tony
portion of the world. but not lower in quality.
Made matches are not heaven; Joined. A union
Of dollars and cents and what tho world calls ac-
conplishmcnts and society" without 4 union OF
hearts has wrecked the happiness of many fair
and lovely daughter and made many home OF
splendid misery.
1t was a saying oil Philip Henry to his children
in reference to their choice i'll marriage please
God and please yourselves and you shall never
dispcasc me- Parents who arrange matches Tor
their children without their consent arc greatly
to be blamed and those parents who oppose
| matches that Heaven and their children have ar
| ranged arc both cruel and wicked.-IltrdndriG
| (prrcsp0u1,ut Suffolk Herald