Year: 1879

Providence Dispatch.J


A marriage recently took place iE this
city under circumstances remarkable for
their romantic and sad interest. The facts
OF the case arc as follows: a young LADY
belonging TO respectable and weIl-to-do
family fell in love with 4 shiftless and good
for-nothng fellow. Being a passionate
young woman she loved desperately. mad.
ly. But her father, being also passionate,
but in another way, was equally desperate
and equally mad. 1t is tue same old story
Of a young woman loving some one
whom she ought not to-. The persistency
with which the average young lady
falls in love with all the worthless
vagabonds with whom she comes in
contact is, to say the least, remarkable.
Give her q decent, steady man to love, and
she gives him the miten at once and flies
to the arms OF her di$sipated Lothario, who
borrows all her spare change to play policy
with, and finally elopes with her, can't sup
port her, and sends her home for the old
man to take care Of. Such was the case in
the present instance. The father had picked
out nice, smart young man for his daugh-
ter's lover, and the nice young man was
perfectly willing to play that part; and, in
sooth, he was 4 smart young man, and
loved the girl fondly and devotedly. Things
remained IN statu quo for some time, both
suitors pressing their claims-the one IA
vored by the father and repulsed by the


daughter, the other favored by the daugh-
ter and repulsed by the father. At length
things came to 4 crisis. There was i


stormy interview between the old man and
the shiftess lover, and the latter left
the house just three inches in advance OF
the fathers boot. The girl cried, OF course,
and threatened to do all manner of desperate
things, but finally calmed down, and week


later she had promised her hand to the re-
spectacle young man, who was Immediately


transported 10 the seventh heaven, meta
phoricaly speaking. The father prayed
that the other lover might be transported,
not metaphorically, but literally. The time
appointed for the nuplials was drawing
near, and the sound of marriage-be!s was
almost heard, when an event occurred which
turned all the promised Joy to gloom and
made two lives miserable. The happy lover
had taken his promised bride to an enter
tainment given at the house OF one OF our


wel!-kuown citizens, and when the


"mad, merry music OF harp and Of
horn" rang out the couple Joined
in the dance. In this accomplish


ment the lady was perfection, and many


will remember the belle dansucsc, as she


was called, who five years ago was consider


ed the most graceful waltzcrin Providence.


The heat of the ballroom becoming dis


agreeable, the young man led his partner
out on to piazza. AS they sat there in the


moonlight man suddenly appeared from


around the corner of the building and walk
ed down path towards the gate. Turning
to her lover the girl remarked that she had
dropped her fan and desired him to 20 in
search OF ii in the Ballroom. Lie did so,
and when he returned the bird had 1oWn.
The mysterious stranger was the dIsslpated
lover, who had thus carried OIL the prize he
had so long been signing for. Months


came and went, and months were lenSthen-
| ing into years. All memories OF the way


ward girl were shut away by the bereayed


lover and the unhappy father in the cham
| bers Of the past: to break out Of their COLI
| tinement, however, when least welcome,
and haunt the men who held them there
like beings from another world. Nothing
was heard from the girl, but amid the
troopers of the Seventh cavalry, who, 10
| the tune of "Garry Owen," followed Gus
! ter in his last charge at the battle OF The
| Yellowstone, was the man who had run oil


with the intended bride Of another. a few
weeks ago the father WAS astounded by tue
sudden appearance Of his daughter. Broken
| in health, she had come home TO die. Be
| fore she died the old lover who had waited
! so long for her was married TO her, ana
thus was permitted, though but for bf!el
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