The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1894-04-25
TORY OF A FATAL LOVE.
AARON BURR AND HIS BEAUTIFUL
VICTIM RECALLED.
1lfss Catherine Bullock Trusted Man
Who BRILLIANTLY Deceived Her--The
Romance Hidden Away In
Two Graves at Prince

Romance Hidden Away In
Tvo Graves at Prince
ton.
Fran the New York Journal.
Princeton, N. j., April 1.-The prac-
flee of laying violes or other flowers on
the grave of Catherine Bullock has be.
come SO common among the students
here that now that spring has come, nota
day passes that the humble mound does
moi receive its decoration. inst how
this idea originated is puzzle. 1t is
curious example of the efferYescense of
the college boys sentimentality-and
pretty one. The grave of Aaron Burr,
which is also in Princeton is not, it is
needless 70 saw, similarly honored-
though it is an object of interest to the
students.
The story that links these graves to
gether is romance of the early days OF
the republic, and it is as sad and tragic
in its way as any of fiction.
1t was in 1869 that Aaron Burr made
his appearance in Princeton. 1t was in
the year when wing Hall was founded
and before the Boston tea party had
been thought of. He was only IA years
old. Hts father had been presi lent OF
the college, and Johnathan Edwards,
his grandfather, was president when he
entered. His intellect was wonderfully
developed for lis age.
He lead lonely lie, caring little fol-
the society of his fellow students, much
for thai of his books. In religion he
was a skeptic; morality, of loose princi
pea wide contrast to his Calvinist'c
ancestors.
In this solitary way he passed his first
two years of his college course. He W.
then ready to q aduate, but the faculty
refused to allow hilA to do s. on account
of his extreme youth. His senior yeaf
was therefore passed with little to do in
the way of college studies. He spent
his time in reading and in taking long
walks about the town.
HE MET CATHERINE BULLOCK.
TT was some tlmesin the spring of 1772
that he met Catherine Bullock, the
daughter f farmer whose land abut
It'd the town. How or when he net hel
is not related. She was young, igno-
rant and beautiful girl, slightly Older
ID l, in piOtnnC hp1 tU
full of life and passion. He was alsa
: very young, well formed, with face OF
manly beauty and intelligence. Already
his manner had much of that suaVc
grace which made the the titled women
of Europe love him in after years when
he fled his country a despised and re
iected outcast. He was full of ideals,
and embodied his ideal in the passionate
rustic beauty of Catherine Bullock.
Each loved the otLer-he with the
brief. fierce passion that kills the object
of its love; she with the steadier flame
of alteration that burns on and on
through sorrow and shame, until it, too ,
destroys the heart in which it burns
He told her of his love in the flower
strewn fields as they walked together in
the grand old forests, where then the
progress of civilization had made no i'm
preston. He swore the old false, sweet
vows that have cursed many woman
life before and since. And she listened
all TOO willingly, forgetting her stern
farmer father, her lowly position, the
rank and fortune Other lover.
Then came the commencement, and
Burr went away, promising to return aud
to keep the vows he had sworn.
He departed, but he never came again.
The mad current, of life in New York,
the exciting events preceding the revo-
luton caught and swept him away
away into a wider and broader life in
which she had no part. She waited on
patiently, silently enduring the thoughts
of the shame chat must soon come
upon her. never fatering in her love.
Perhaps once or twice a badly spelled
tear stained note came to disturb the
pleasure of the miscreant lover. But
doubtless, also, he never paid any atten-
ton to it, for women were kind to Aaron
Burr, and many victim fell beneath
the charm of his address. The country
girl, with the radiant cheeks and glow
ing form, was remembered with some
remorse, with more impotence.
The summer caee, and Princeton
took on it's fairest dress. The shout OF