The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1891-05-31
THE PAST AND PRESENT.


We take the following from the Augusta
Evening News
Mr. Walter r. Penny is in Augusta. He Is
q young telegraph operator OF Midwife, ia.
who was one of the four young men who were
engaged to Miss Eva Spiers. of Wadley. all at
the same time and is one of the three who
were Tilted.
Mr.. Penny has left Midwife, never to re-
turn, and Is now on his way TO Wilmington,
n. c.. his old home. The young man was
seen at the Arlington last night by the Eve
ming News and he related his romantic ca
reer which would be an excellent plot for
romantic love novel.
Mr. Penny is young man, only twenty-five
years old, quite handsome. well dressed,
highly educated and of pleasing address. He
says that previous TO this affair he never was
n society man and not one who sought ladies'
company, but his first experience has been
serious one, and one that Will never tadestrOm
memory Miss Spiers, he says. is a young
lady OF nineteen summers. and is a pretty
cOQuette of most fascinating manners and he
became prepossessed with her. at tirst sight
Mr. Penny was engaged to be married To Miss
Spiers on the Goth of this month. and had
been engaged 10 her for five months, and IN all
that time she WAS pTacticing her deceit. which
completely batfled him, and of which he knew
nothing.
He did not even suspect her duplicity. and
was only last week made acquainted with Miss
Speirs' fondness for Mr. l.. f. Caraker. OF
Milledgeville who was a sutton all along and
who held the winning hand. The young
lady's mother first informed him of this state
of affairs Miss Speirs parents objected to
Caraker and wanted their daughter TO marry
Penny The young man says he admitted to
Miss Spiers his jealous and passionate dlsposi-
ton and told her if she did not love him TO
say so before il was too late, for he would re-
lease her as freely a he accepted her. Miss
Speirs he says always told him she would
not have a release. as she loved him dearly.
As Miss Spiers mother apprehended that
the Young lady's fOndness for Caraker was
growing so strong. she advised Penny TO adj
vance their wedding day TO the nth OF May,
which was mutually settled upon. Mr.. PEN
ny had the cards issued. and was 10 have been
married DAY before yesterday, but the young
lady was then already married oCamker with
whom she eoped on Thursday Penny
reached Wadley two hours after the marriage,
and he said if he had met her he thinks he
would have been tempted to kill her.
Having been so badly treated. Mr.. Penny
says he was so mad that he was almost tren-
zled. and admitted that he had acted rashly
in his attempts at self-destructiOn. lie has
now become reconciled and feels that he Is
more 10 be congratulated on having escaped
than if he had married his first love He says
Georgia got rid Of one of its grandest tlrts
when Miss Speirs married Caraker.
Mr. Penny says the next time be addresses
q lady and is accepted. he will turn round and
ask the lady If she really means it. He was
treated worse than any Of Miss Spiers' four
suits, who all thought they had won her and
had secured license TO marry her. and she gave
Penny encouragement up TO the last moment.
Penny thinks if he had appeared at the
scene of the marriage in time Miss Splers
would have accepted him in preference -
Corocker