Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-07-05
VERY ROMANTIC.
Welded at Sixty to a Man OF
Twenty-Seven.
But the Union Proved an Un-
happy One.

The Bride Once Had a Snug Fortunes
But Now She Has Neither Husband or
RToney--How the Courtship Was Begun
and Ended.
SCRANTON, Pa, July 5.-Miss Caroline
Clyde, Of the village of Stoddardsville,
was the oldest Of three spinster sisters
and bachelor brother, The parents
died many years ago and left them in
fairly comfortable circumstances, and
the four lived together and held the
property in common All Of the chill
dren had been well educated. Each Of
the young women had chances to marry,
but the suitors did not come up to their
ideas of what husband should be in
tellectually, and so the intelligent girls
grew to be old maids. They We're inde-
pendent, yet soclable and neighborly,
and they had many friends among the
villagers.
Twenty-Five years ago the youngest
sister died and left her share of the
property to the two remaining girls.
Ten years later the brother passed away.
He had accumulated O few thousand
dollars, which he willed TO his two sis
ters. Inside of three years the younger
sister died and Miss Clyde was alone in
the world Besides the house and lot
she had between $e, 900 and $4,000 in
good securities. For twelve years Miss
Clyde and solitary female servant oc-
cupied the old homestead Last sum
mer a young Englishman, who said his
name was Arthur harrington, took up
his abode in the village. He pretended
to be very pious, attended the same
church that Miss Clyde did, formed her
acquaintance in short time and soon
began to make love to her.
Miss Clyde was then 81 years OLD Glid
her young lover only q. The elderly
maiden was greatly fiattered by Par
rington's declarations of love. She told
some of the neighboring women that
she had never supposed that man
could possibly think as much of u
woman as harrington thought of her,
and the neighboring women told her
not to believe all the fellow said. But
Miss Clyde did believe him, and during
the holiday season last winter she was
quietly married to her young English
lover. The honeymoon was passed in
the old Clyde homestead and then Ar
thur harrington made a trip to New
York alone. He stayed there for nearly
q week, when he returned to his bride
and remained fortnight. During the
next two months he made number of
Journeys to the metropolis and the vil-
layers wondered what he was up to.
To an inquiry of a neighbor, Mrs
harrington conhded the fact that her
husband had taken all her securities and
was going to double them in value be-
fore the first of the year, that when they
had got SEQ 900 they intended to sell the
old homestead and move to a larger
town. In May Mrs. Parrington sold the
house and lot and got the cash for it,
and with her consent harrington looked
around for n new house He was to be
back inside of week, but his aged
wife has not seen him from that day to
| this.
Five weeks after his departure Mrs.
| harrington received a letter from her
rascally young husband. 1t was post
marked Liverpool, and in it he thanked
her for giving him start in the world,
hoped that she would not cry about it.,
trusted that some one would take
care of her, and said that he would never
cross the ocean again. The deceived
woman had less than $50 when PAIRING
ton left her, and she has gone to live
with some relatives in Central New
| York