The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-11-17
HERMIT WILCOX TRANSFORMED.
1t Was Done by n Girl of 20 Years,
Who is Now Mrs. wilcox.

From the st. Louis Globe-D Democrat.
Norwich, Conn, Nov "A romantic
courtship was the espousal by Calvin Will
cox of pretty Matte Wilcox of Fayette
hamlet, Mississippi. The whole thing
came to pass through a leaning of the
genealogical tree. Neither had set eyes
on the other until Miss Matte met Calvin
who had dropped into Fayette on their
bridal morning.
Calvin had been thought by his Connec-
ticut neighbors to be somewhat curious.
In the first place, he had spent most of
his life in a sort of hermit way He is 50
years old, and the plump and comely
bride will soon be 90 Calvin had dWelt
in singular style far away in the country
at Stonehlll in the wilds of Griswold,
ten miles north of this city. He would
have no woman around him to sew on his
buttons wrong. He is rich, as things go
in the Nutmeg state, owns pretty nearly
all the earth he can see from his front
and back doorsteps, has farms in every
direction, and at least 5000 acres of choice
woodland. He lived entirely alone ana
did his own homework. The ancestral
home had been falling for fifty years, and
Calvin just let it fall. He made no re-
pairs. Shingles went and the driving rain
and drifting snow come in. Mr.. Wilcox
merely shifted his household effects to
place under the rooftree where the shin
giles were still tolerably whole. Next
doors and window sashes came tumbling
in on him, and he received them hospita>
bly, and let them stay right where they
had tOppled, until one daV he emf era ted
to one of his numerous dwelings-this one
at Pachang Pound-on one of his MANY
farms. Still he kept on living alone. To
the wonder Of Paehang he went to the
worlds fair in Chicago and came back
safely, having accomplished his first trim
beyond the borders of the Nutmeg state
Mr.. Wilcox never wasted anv time on
Observation-Disclosures ca 10 No. ,',rJJ I'll, - VI
long ago at receiving a letter from a Mir
wilcox OF Fayette, Mss, IN which the
Connecticut branch of the Wilcox family.
and was wondering whether he and Calvin
were not l1ith and kin. Calvin replied ia
the letter, and soon came a second from
TTavette written nv the Nississiy,,,i,T ~,
daughter Matte who explained graceful
~ that she was her fathers amanuensis
Thenceforward Calvin and Matte kent
exchanging correspondence, creeping
higher and higher up the geneaologicai
tree, the letters on both sides eroWfnfs
more confidential all the time until n0f
long ago the correspondents found tbeD
selves side by side on the Upton branch
of it. Mr. Wilcox proposed marriage,
photographs We're exchanged, and a week
later a letter came from the fair one Of
Fayette favorable to Calvin's suit.
Accordingly, Mr.. Wilcox. a day or two
later, attired in the most elegant apnareI
he had ever worn. packed his Garnet bs 20
and set out for Mississippi All the mas
cite folks came in to greet him. Calvin
and Matte were married at once i'm tbe
little red school house in the village ana
every one in the town attended the NM
tials. Then bride and groom prompt|v
set forth on their wedding Journey vrbioEE
terminated in Calvins second honesttiaissaI
at Pachang, and everybody in six towns
knows that he is the happiest, most ra5is
ant groom in the state He is a C,ai rauI1
man. too: No more grim and lonely berI
init life II, a tumble-down shell for him
but everything in the way of comfor t''i K,
on tap at Calvin Wilcox's Calvin b9e -
paired the old homestead So II 70 Fsin IL
shines in its spick-and-span glory. andd
great deal in Pachang sociefv ''' 80 a