Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1884-03-24
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A BROTHER OF BRAVE LIEUT.. RHODES BE
CONES NOTORIOUS.

Lieut.. Rhodes, of the United States rev.
enue cutter Dexter, whose heroic conduct
in the CITY of Columbus disaster at Gay
Head won him such distinction. has a
Younger brother whose first name is Will
liam. William has just brought notoriety
to himself by clipping with the prettiest
girl in North Madison. Ct. and not only
the prettiest girl. but the girl with the
weaithiest father. Lottie Redfeld has
been the acknowledged belle of the half
dozen charcoal towns within sight of her
fathers farm She has sung in all the
concerts of Middlesex county.
She has posed in all the tableaus of all
the Sunday school entertainments, danced
at all the country fefes. and made half the
youth of Eastern Connecticut mad with
admiration for her pretty face and comely
figure. 1t was never suspected that Will
liam Treadwell Rhodes was a favored
sutton until recently. His brothers brav-
cry made him famous, as it made all the
family famous, and to fraternal heroism in
Gay Heads waters was due, perhaps,
more than to aught else, the fact that the
fair Lottie discovered attractions in the
attentions of William. William had long
been the envy of the farmer boys of Mad
ison. and hero in yarns spun beside fiery
pits of local charcoal burners. William
has seen the world and all of Williams
acquaintance are fully informed of the
fact. William was educated more or less
thoroughly in New Hampshire military
school when his mother. a widow before
she married the Mary Stannard witness,
John Hopson. was keeping boarding
house here for Yale students. William
threw aside the brass buttoned uniform
of an embryo soldier to enlist on training
ship in the navy, where his career was
much more brief than brilliant.
1t was about one week ago when Miss
Lottie Redfield was missed one morning
from her fathers breakfast table. and on
the same day Lieut.. Rhodes brother Will
liam was missed from the North Madison
Groceries Competitive Romancing Match
es. On last Sunday Lottie reappeared and
William was with her. They rode to-
gether over to Killingworth's little church
through the snow storm. The pretty girl
displayed a silk dress of bridal cut and the
young man affected white gloves. 1t was
whispered in the church long before the
sermon had ended that Lottie had become
Mrs. Rhodes. When the service was over
both freely owned the fact and hosts of
friends crowded around them with con-
CALCULATIONS and little EXPLANATIONS of sur
prise. Samuel Redfeld, Lottie's father,
was in the church.
He and his comely wife made straight
way for the door as soon as the benedic-
tons were said. Lottie and William i'm
peded their progress. Bride and groom
both fell upon the parental neck. The
parental neck repealed them. A scene
was there such as Killingworth church
goers never witnessed before. Samuel
Red6eld cast his daughter off. She had
married without his consent, against his
will. Tears and pleadings were alike in
vain. The grieved parent gave no heed
to his child's petitions, and when the ex-
change of hot words was over. Deacon
Sam Redfield. impressive and severe,
marched out of the chill meeting house
with neither word tor the disloyal daugh-
ter or the gaping, gossiping neighbors.
The scene at Killingworth church on Sun
day. when Samuel Redfeld so coldly
repulsed his daughters overtures. is the
talk of half dozen townships.