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Show Salt Lake is not the only plw.ee: where white girls marry nigcers. A' peculiarly aravattd caae of this unhappy blending of colara occurred ten days ayo ia pituburyb, Annie ( llaeon, one of the wealthiest, prettiest and most accompliahtd young ladies of tha place deliberately leaving her home and m&rryiug George Jones, an ugly, ignorant negro, who ia blacker than "attack of black cats." Annie's father ia U. H. storekeeper in Indiana C-junty, and is wealthy. Her uncle is ex-Chief ex-Chief Justice Agnew, ol the Pennsylvania Penn-sylvania supreme court, and the! family is eaid to be one of the beat in that part of the; atate. The girl is 20 years old, and bright and haudtiome. Being an only daughter she was "spoiled" by indulgence. "On the evening o( the Hlh she quarreled with her parents, and the next morning she left the houso, met the negro by appoint ment, went with him to a town a mile distant, where they were married by a colored clergyman in tho pres-enco pres-enco of two white witnesses. They then returned, hired a room in a small house with only three rooms in it, the other two being occupied by negroes. The girl sont home for her trim, piano and soma ornaments from her room, this being the first intimation her mother had of the marriage. Tho Kirl rofusea to return home and saya uhe is happy and contented with her black husband, in their squallid room. The mother is crazy with brain fever, brought on by the daughter's conduct. Alter this it would bo almost cruel to Bay anything any-thing barsh about tho half dozen girls of this oity who have chosen blacks for husbands. |