The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-04-08
a WEST RALEIGH ROMANCE
PRETTY DAISY WOODLIEF WAS
THE BRIDE.
ACCEPTED TIE MARRYING MAN
Feared That Jordan Was Flirting and
So Has She Married Goodwin
after Only a Five Days
Acquaintance.
Acquaintance.

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Thus sang and thought the poet Long
fellow in his New England in years
agone.
But not so thinks one man in Raleigh
this morning He saw the woman of his
choice wooed by another man and last
wed to him for veal or woe. This i'll
fated lover is Mr.. ]. G. Jordan, the tel
egraph operator at Wadesboro, y. {.
Iris story of love, plighted troth, bro
ken vows, 1.-The other fellow" and a wo-
mans within. \ story truly pathetic from
one lp0int of view, but most abSurdly
ridiculous from another. Serious enough
to the actors in the play-unless it be the
hero who finally carried off the fair
bride-but full of side-splitting merri-
ment for the spectators. And the moral
of it all is that 1.-The course of true love
never runs smooth"
The plot Of this West Raleigh meldra-
major the heroine lives near the A. and
NJ. College-begins back some eight
months ago. That is when Miss Daisy
Woodlief, Of this city, met Mr.. l.. II.
Jordan. of Wadesboro, They saw one
another pretty often, and the acquaint-
ance soon ripened into mutual admiration
and the admiration into love. MIR. Jor-
dan proposed and was accepted This
was in September
The wedding day was set for Christ
mas. The natal day OF the Christ-child
came, but no nuptial ceremony was cele-
brated in the little West Raleigh home.
Jordan had asked a continuance of the
case" as the lawyers say, and the fair
defendant had granted it. The date for
the wedding was now set for March.
But March came and Jordan again
plead his poverty and asked for
longer time TO prepare home for the
woman of her cNice. This time the
marriage was set for June. But the
day for that wedding will never come,
for the girl married last night, and mar
ried another fellow. His name is r. c.
Goodwin, merchant, of Mmcure. Chat
ham county.
1t was but last Thursday night they
met-Miss WOodlief and Mr.. Good win-
at a musicale at Miss Woodlef's home
Somehow in the crowded parlor they
drifted together like
Ships that pass in the night
And passing speak each other"
They talked-Of the most common
place thinas-and as he listened to the
lisping girlish voice he loved, loved madly
He asked to be allowed to call again the
next evening. He told of his now-born
love. She answered him not that night
or the next, but Sunday evening she
promised to be his wife. In trembling
voice she related the circumstances OF
her former engagement and told him her
heart was as yet another's, but her hand
was his If he cared to take it thus
He took her at her word and Tuesday
the register OF deeds issued the marriage
license. Hardly had it been done when
a young man wearing Walter-Henry
coat came in on the Sea board Airline
and drove at once out to Miss Woodlief's
home. He went out as light-hearted and
happy-looking as any lover could He
came back sad and crestfallen, breathing
out threatenings and slaughter
1t seems that soon after his arrival he
detected that all was not we'll He in
quired the cause but got no satisfactory
answer, until finally a note came This
he insisted on seeing, but could not. for
the girl tore it up. He left in rage. The
girl followed him to the gate and there
told him all.
She had promised to become the bride
Va duOLHcI AIM VII w cuUesudN hight Ut
$50 she was TO be married In explana-
ton OF her conduct. she told him he had
been false to her He had not written
regularly and had seldom come to see
her. Days had been set for their mar
riage only to be postponed when the
time arrived While pretending to love
her he had been engaged to other girls,
and once, ON the very day set for his
mn IN. hc h.
and laugh over the plight of the girl at
Cumnock, which he had Tilted.
Such man, she told him, did not de-
serve her love, though he still had it,
But she would not marry him.
Jordan left swearing he would go
find his rival and have the thing out.
de got three guns and, with tears in
his eyes, told his tale of woe to every
man he met. Friends advised him to go
back and ask the girl to marry him
at once. He promised to do so and yes
:erday he went to house near Miss
Woodliefs and sent for her to come
there and talk over the matter with
him. The spirited little woman refused
to do this, replying that she would be
glad to see Mr.. Jordan at her home. but
that she could not go elsewhere to meet
him. He went back to his room at the
Park Hotel and she has not seen him
since.
Last night she was married to Mr..
Goodwin. The ceremony was performed
by Rev. A. l.. Belts, pastor of the West
Raleigh Baptist church. 1t was a quiet
marriage, in the presentce of few
friends, at the home of her parents.
| had long talk with her half an
hour before the ceremony and heard
the story from her own lips.
Miss Woodlief is not tail, rather heavy
set. Her blonde hair. was dressed in such
manner that it became her young face
well. Yes, it was a very young face
and pretty face, too. Yet, it was a
serious face. A pair OF large gray eyes
under heavy dropping lashes; these eyes
were Thoughtful. sometimes as you talked
they gazed at you as+if they wondered
what it were all about anyway. The
smooth complexion, cheeks just tinged
with red and lips ruddy hue-the oval
face was perfect. Add to this a soft
lisp as she talked and a smile that show