The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-02-06
A soUTHERN ROMANCE.
Involves the Engagement of Miss
Harrison to Gen. Kearney.
From the New York Journal.

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From the New York Journal.
An announcement that has set agog the
Southern colony of New York is that of
the engagement of Gen. John Watts Kear-
ny, son of Fighting Phil" Kearny to Miss
Elizabeth Harrison. of Kentucky. The Gen.
eral is past seventy, while Miss Harrison is
but 26.
Friends assert that opposition to the mar
riage has developed among the relatives
of the General, not because of any objec-
ton to Miss Harrison, but because the
Kearny family is somewhat divided on ac-
count of the treatment Gen Kearny has
administered to his son, John Watts Kear-
ny, Jr. Behind it all there is another ro-
nance, involving j. Lindsay Gordon, of
this city-the silver tongued orator of Dis
trict Attorney Olcotts staff-a young
Southerner, who lives in New York be-
cause in Richmond, Va, it is understood,
a feeling of affection he manifested to-
ward Miss Harrison was not reciprocated
Gen kearny is a millionaire. He owns
| the town of Kearny, N. j., practically and
| lives in handsome house at No. 10 East
| Fifty-fourth street, Manhattan. Miss Har-
| rison is of the Southern aristocracy She
| Is descendant of the Byrds, the Carys
| and the Carriers, the bluest of the blue
| blood of the South. Her father Col Julian
! Harrison, of Elk Hill, on the James. was
| considered the handsomest officer in the
| Confederate army, while her mother
Phoebe Johnson. of Paducah, was the
| handsomest bride of her time in Kentucky
Miss Harrison inherits the beau v of her
family, and has been the reigning belle in
Kentucky and Wig MIA society. In this city
she has visited her uncle, DR. George Tuck
er Harrison, of No. 221 West Twenty-thtrd
street
Gen. Kearney has known Miss Harrison
since she was a child-in fact thew are
related. 1t is said that Gen Kearny's
first wife, Miss McNairy of Princeton. XIV.
the home of the Kearnys, was in ner
| youth beautiful young woman who re-
sembled to a marked degree Miss Harri-
son. After Miss Harrison was in Rich
mond when j. Lindsay Gordon was in The
zenith of his popularity She had known
him from boyhood. She was a general
favorite but none of the chivalrous young
men of the old Southern city was more
| assiduous in his attentions to her than
Mr. Gordon. Society predicted that a
wedding would be the result of this at
tachment more popular match could
not have been made. But, just at the
time when Mr. Gordons friends were
about to congratulate him-or thought thew
would soon have q chance to do so-the
young lawyer closed out his practice and
left Richmond for New York.
114S departure was a nine days wonder
in Richmond. His expressed reason for
seeking the metropolis was that greater
opportunities were open for a young man
in crowded field, where merit wins and
wealth follows fame. But it was gener-
ally understood in Richmond that Mr.
Gordon might have remained in Richmond
had he never met Miss Harrison.
After the departure Of Mr.. Gordon for
New York Miss Harrison fitted from place
to place in Kentucky and Virginia, al
ways with train of sincere admirers, but
never showing Partially TO any one. The
friends of Mr.. Gordon said among them
selves that she held in her heart a warm
spot for the young lawyer. and that it
was only question of time when "A mes
sage would come from New York an
nouncing their engagement. Miss Harri-
son said nothing to encourage these Tu-
mors, nor did Mr.. Gordon. She went on
through long list of social triumphs,
while he fought his way upward at the
New York bar
Following the death of his wife, General
kearny went to Europe, remaining on the
Continent a long time. Upon his return
ne visited relatives In Virginia and Ken