The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1888-06-14
MISS AMELIE RIvEs.
Rumor Concerning Her Marriage-Excife
ment Caused nv the Report.

Ii was currently reported yesterday
that Miss Amelie Riyes, the beautiful
and gifted Virginia aulheress, had taken
the step which rumor for some weeks
past has been free in asserting that she
was about TO take, namely: Get married
To Mr.. John A. Chanler Of New York, a
great grandson Of the Iuany-time million
aire. John Jacob Astor. A special from
Charlottesville TO the Baltimore Sun OF
yesterday announced that the marriage
license had been issued, and though every
effort was made to keep the matter
a. silent as possible, report was rife that
the wedding would Immediately take
place A private dispatch received here
yesterday stated that the interesting event
would not occur before to-day, and all
efforts on the part of the TIMES last
night to get telegram from Charlottes-
vile as to whether or not this report
was true. signally failed, as The Western
Union office there closed at O'Clock, and
all communication was cut off.
II is believed, however, by many OF the
friends of Miss Rives In this city, that
the wedding did occur last night, and it
Is quite certain that if ii did not, 1t will
take place today.
The announcement OF the marriage
yesterday took every one, even her lnti-
mate acquaintances, by surprise. The
Young authoress has, since the appear
ance of her BOOK, The Quick and the
Dead" filled 80 large place in the news
papers that everything associated with
her has been deemed the legitimate sub.
iect of gossip. Rumors were fife and
opinions various as to her marriage.
"She breathes."
"She don't"
"She'l recover"
"She won't"
Was about the way. II was learned
that her two most intimate friends among
her own sex had been sent for, and this,
with other facts which appeared, was
deemed sufficient TO overcome the posi-
tive denial of truth in the report.
The interest in Miss Rives, however
in this city was very different from the
mere idle curiosity which has gloajed
over every incident, real or tancied,
which ingenuity or malice could suggest
Richmond. IN which Miss Rives
mother. who was noted beauty, was
raised" and where she herself resided
before she sprang into fame, is full OF
people who are related to, or connected
with her, or are truly interested in all
that concerns the gifted young writer
Every step she has made has been
watched with keen interest.
When she resided here, she had not
then made her reputation as an authoress,
but was known as a beautiful girl, who
contemned the frivolties of society, and
violated without hesitation the ordinary
social coyenances. she devoted herself
10 her art and her cOrresDondence, ana
took no heed of the exactions OF city lie.
That she incurred some adverse criticism
al that time was natural, Tor she scarcely
ever appeared on the street, declined To
receive visitors except in the eyenlng,and
even then it was said, vas not Dariicu-
larly careful to conceal her indifference.
She Is said TO have amused her vlsltorr
sometimes by making a collie she had
trained bark or sing to an accompani
ment on the piano.
Nevertheless the few people to whom
she cared TO be agreeable were ready 10
swear by her and averred that her
eccentrici,ies were the result Of devotion
TO her sculpture and painting, and not OF
indifference to the charms of the
stranger.
So much has been said about hei
beputy that 1t is only necessary To say
that it is of the kind which men admire
however women may criticise. Her ap'
pearance as an authOress was a certainty
except to this select number, a great d
wonder to Richmond a. to the rest OF
the world, and To- these ii was a surprise
Perhaps It was even to herself
Since then she has been regarded as g
public parsonage, and fulsome ilattery on
one hand and extraordinary severity on
the other, have been given her without
stint. Now that she has taken, or Is
about to take, the step which ali women
who can take it regard as the end OF life
il is to be hoped that she will be deemed
exempt from the curiosity and GOSSIP
which have pursued her