Arizona weekly citizen., 1894-11-24
ANAGED BENEDICT.

General CaSSluS M. Clay, or MhulSOh county, Kentucky, who recently married a ffteen-year-cld girl, and has since kept her locked up in his magnificent home, White Hall, where she and be are protected by armed guards, is eighty four years old, but unusually vigorous of mind and body, for that age.
 It seems that General Clay, says the Las Vegas Optic, whose heart had seemed turned to stone since the loss Of his wife years ago, first met hegirl near Valley View few holrs after the death of her mother, who was killed in rail roed accident; and General Clay, who was at the station, was witness to the child-lIke abandon and intense grief Of the girl who was made an orphan by the accident. The tears of the forlorn child softened the iron heart of General Clay in a way that all the conquetries and charms ot the belles of Madison had failed to accomplish during a score or more of years, and soon the mere slip of girl awakened in the breast ct the old war horse the passion which age had only mellowed.
 Since then General Clay has provided for and educated Miss Richardson, and at his death she will be one of the rich est young widows in the Blue Grass. D..b os +ho T;ohorJeop howe nava +be,r consent to the marriage, and the only obstacle in the way is the opposition of General Clay's family, who object on account Of the difference in the ages of the bride and groom; or more properly, on account of the money the young woman will take out of the family, in the near future The bride is said to love the general, or to make over hlm, which answers the same purpose, pretty much as if he was a youth of twenty instead of a man old enough to be her father three times over. The close friends of the general in his younger days favor the union, and declare that if bis marriage 10 the girl, who is said to be a model in the way of beauty and womanly virtues, will bring happiness into his declining years, no one should object.
 Cassius M. Clay, ir., president of the lake Kentucky constitutional convention, and candidate for the democratic no- imitation for governor, is son of the old general. This family of Clays, however are not to be confounded with the fami ly of Henry Clay, "the great common er." The founder of this Clay family was a Scotch boy, Green Clay, who was brought to Virginia and sold for his passage money. The parties who bought him took him to Kentucky, where they went to survey and enter government land. Green Clay made copies of the surveys, and his time of servitude expiring while in Kentucky, he left the party, hurried back to Vir glnia, and entered the land m his own name, thus becoming possessed of princely estate.
 Years afterwards, young lawyer named Smith, courted Green Clay's daughter, but Clay forbade him the house. One day, happening in the court house in Richmond, Ky, Clay enquired of the clerk who paid the most taxes in the county, and was told that he did, as he we'll knew; but when he asked who came next, he vas sstonished' to hea- that Lawyer Smith dld. Clay at once sought out Smith, apologized, and in- Ylted him to his house. Smith lost no time but speedily married Miss Clay be- fore it WAS found out that he had no property, had borrowed the money to pay the taxes on property he did not own, and had done the whole thing, with the aid of the clerk, to catch old Green Clay. The son of thls marriage was Green Clay Smith, at one time terri torlsl governor of Montana, and nephew of the Gen. Cassius M Clay, whose love episode is now attracting so much at tention.