The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1898-09-22
WE'D AGAIN.
Mrs. Cassius .CIay Becomes Mrs. Riley
Brock-Day Set for Friday-A Resume
of the Strange Union That Precedes

CLAY, is to be married Friday a,
Pinkard, Woodford county, to Riley
Brock, an employe in sawmlIl at
Valley View The marriage is TO be
: solemnized in Doras home-the one
which was purchased for her by
Gen. Clay recently.
1t was generally believed that
Dora would marry the handsome
Willie Bryant, who was the cause Of
so much trouble between her and
the "OId Lion of Whitehall, but
she tossed Willie overheard about
two months ago, and has since been
receiving constant attention from
Brock, who is "a and handsome.
The announcement of the marri
age comes right on the heels OF the
divorce, secured by the old General
on September 9. 1t is not yet known
what the grounds for the divorce
were. The petition has been a closely
guarded secret, but it is believed
that abandonment was the only
charge made.
The old gentlemen is a Mexican
and Civil War veteran. Dora Clay
was an illiterate child of one of his
plantation employees. The groom
was aged SO and she Is at the time
they were married
The wealthy old widower declared
that he would educate and polish
his girl wife in the ways of the
society in which his family moved,
and Immediately after their marriage
began an attempt to do So The
attempt failed. The plebiau girl
could not be made a .patrician She
thought more of the things amidst
which she had been raised than she
did OF the scholarly books, the music
and the treatises on etiquette that
her husband tried to make her prof |
Gent in
Finally Dora's pleadings for at
least a vacation from the hated books |
and tutorism to which the General |
rlgidly kept her, prevailed, and she
went to her brothers house. There
were rumors then of an estrange
ment, but after time the girl-wife
returned to her husband
At this time he became practically
a hermit. His house was guarded
from all approach. The General said
he was the victim of conspiracy,
and he never went to do his shop
ping at the neighboring towns I'M
less accompanied by trusty body
guard of two family servants.
He allowed no one but old per-
sonal friends to even talk of his
marriage. He carried long bowie
knife, to be used he threatened, on
any newspaper man who might
venture to approach the place. His
amlly connections were estranged
rom him because of the marriage.
That breach has never been healed.
That he has kind feeling toward s
lis ex-wife is shown by the purchase s
or her of the homestead referred to 6
-boYe. He told an old friend at the
ime that he would always see that 6
he suffered no want" I
Dora Clay is considered a country
by her acquaintance. They l
predict further trouble for her be- '
ause of her sudden change of heart r
hown in the casting off of young
5ryant. The neighbors are taking t
ides over the matter. t
HER RECENT LIFE.
The Generals ex-wife has been
eading, for "a country girl, very
oyous life OF late. She has been
ooked upon as the reigning belle of
he neighborhood. Her devoted ad-
nIreFs were many. The fac. that
he was a married woman. with a
ame known the land DER, lent an .
dded charm. She was looked m =.
o as one far out OF the ordinary. t,
Then, when the divorce was Sc :,
ured from her, there was no indica. r
ion that she had fallen in the ewes 4
I any of her associates. It was =
ute the contrary: in fact, among :
be young men of the country side a a
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