The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-01-17
ARDEN LovE-MAKiNe.

pldceQ on HE yesterday IN tDo brooklyn
Law Library, unfoIds the tale of one Of the
most amusing breach of promise cases ever
tried, the receant lover being "a years old,
and the coy msiden ~. Sac is a school
principal and he farmer worth $l00, coo.
The case is now in the court OF appeals. IL
is the suit of Miss Sarah 3. ChellIs of
Watertown, N. Y, against j. b. Chapman
of near Adams Center, n. y. The defend
ant is appealing from decision OF the fifth
department OF the supreme court. sitting in
Watertown, jefferson county, affirming a
judgment in favor OF Miss Chellis for 5000
damages 20 her affections and Sl34 30 costs.
In 1881. when he was almost three score
and ten, Bachelor Chapman's thoughts
turned to love, and Miss Chellis was recon-
mended to him as a suitable person for a
wife, Miss Chellis told the jury at Adams
Center that about New Years, 1881, old
Mr.. Chapman, whom she had never seen
before, called at her house. He told her she
had been Recommended" TO him by mutual
friends and that he would like TO form her
acquaintance. THIS time he remained only
an hour; but when summer came his visits
heightened into from two to three hours
each. He came oftener, too, and one day he
made bold to tell the spinster school ma'em
that he wanted sone one to love him. He
wanted wife.
MISS CHELLIs WAS COY.
Miss Chellis. in the absence of a direct
proposal, was tri1e shy, but she was also
diplomatic. She liked the country, she
told Mr.. Chapman, but she did not know
much about farming. He protested that he
didn't want a wife for the work she could
do, and, further, that he wanted her to let
him know if she made up her mind to
marry him. She asked his age. He de-
clined TO tell it, but thought the disparity
in their years an inconsequential trifie,
Farmer Chapman continued his calls and
his counting for five years. In the summer
of 1886, Miss Chellis testified, she could no
longer listen to bis tale Of love unmoved,
and they agreed to be married on Sept. is
of the same year. he got a postponement
of the Wedding for week on the ground
that he was building a new barn and was
too busy to marry.
On Sept % the guests assembled at Miss
Chellis house to witness the Wedding, but
the bridegroom to be did not appear. Iu-
stead he sent letter saying he could not
come for q few days, as he had hurt his eye
by running against a corn stack and had
caught the rheumatism through wading a
brook
Miss Chellis thought with maldenly horror
of the number Of times that old Mr.. Chap
man had kissed her, she admitted on the
trial, and toen she tried to bring the wary
old farmer to the marriage altar. Several
dates were set, but he always disappointed
her, and SO, after months of waiting, she
sued him for breach of promise.
Two of the farmers letters to her which
were offered in evidence are without single
punctuation mark, although on the trial the
old gentleman testified that for fifteen
winters, when he was a young man, he had
taught district school, giving instruction
in reading. writing, orthography, arith-
metic, grammar, philosophy and algebra. p"
WEAKNESS FOR POETRY.
He acknowledged having weakness for
poetry and said that when he wrote to Miss
Chellls, If there was any space left, he
always filed it in with some verses of his
own. One letter, reproduced just as it was
written, reads;
MISS SARAH was at your house March IS in
the forenoon of that day found your door locked
did notinquire but turned and came home was
much disappointed thought you would not be
in school Monday or should have come some
other Gay my stock keep me busy all the time
but | shall be TO Watertown as soon as l can
leave my chores My sisters health is much
better than when wrote bsfore
Some have commenced making sugar but 1t Is
rather cold for sap Farmers complain OF hard
times all kinds of produce is very low wheat,
80 corn. 30 barley, &c potatoes, 40 wool, % Ray,
8 to 10 best and pork Is very low the murder
trial is over and what will folks talk about next
the papers are well stored with criminal accts
the roads very bad the snow is deep in places
and mud is deep roads no better TIL the snow
goes off. have but just received your letter of
the 9th of March 80 your letter was in the Office
when was ut your house.
The snow is gone the mud has come
The winter days will soon be done
& soon the frogs begin to peep
6 Toads wake up from their long sleep
I The earth will soon be clothed in green
& creeping things will then be seen
AS spring and summer pass away
& leave the earth in lone decay.
NIB IL am not in Watertown in very few
| days please write So good night
joan CHAPMAN.
RHYMES ON SUGAR AND CLOVER,
In another letter the old man has not
much to communicate, but, lover like, he
writes anyhow, 10 say that he is living.
This letter is as follows:
Being unable TO come to Watertown as ]
thought ] should be able ! will write and
let you know am living but not very well a
hard cold has impaired my health little the
weather has been very cold for some days some
frost last night aud night before last am con-
fined at home with my cows and calves sheep
and lambs, and other things, but | shall be to
Watertown think soon shall try to come on
Saturday when come You do not write to me
only when write to you so / Will write to you
whether have any new6 or NOT then il | can
find a man to take care Of my affairs I shall try
to get Saturday il not say week from Satur-
day if you want news | refer you to the Re
former and Boston Herald and you will see all
the news you want suppose you are in school
five days in a week am busy seven in a week.
the Sugar season is over
& the fields are covered with clover
the times are hard but gro wing better
80 now I'll try to close my letter
& say in friendshipa goodby
to visit soon | mean to try.
]. E. c.
This was bad enough. seemingly, but old
Mr.. Chapman was ambitious and didn't
stop there. To the jury he also pleaded
guilty to writing the following:
the wheat is good my grain looks we'll
my sheep and lambs are fit to sell.
Then ne changed his style trif1e and sent
this to Miss Chellis:
the snow is gone the roads are bad
trusty boy wish had
TO do the chores when I'm away
g. feed the COWS and calves with hay.
SPRINGTIME, BIRD5--AND LOVE.
Then as he grew more tender he wrote
about birds and the glad spripgtime when
ones thoughts, ii he's eligible, are popu>
larry supposed to search fer Cupid:
the birds that nested near tho house
have gone a little further south.
when spring returns they'll return again
& bring their birdlings back eRain.
Mr.. Chapman's last effusion dealt with
calves. 1t ran:
I have eight calves they're real bright red
on hay and turnips they are fed
they grow like weads aud chew their cud
they re first rate breed and fat as mud.
Other poetry, too, Mr.. Chapman wrote,
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