The Carrollton sun. (City of Carrollton, Parish of Jefferson, La.) 185?-1???, 1860-08-18
MISCELLANEOUS.
Roursanasic Incident.

Berry'd Aliue-Hsgh Times IN IN
4 selana1---A Loue-C Ctase.--In a certain
part of Clinton county, Indiana, there
is a fourishing little one-mule town,
noted for pretty girls, whisk estraight,
corn husbings, hardcider, big sqnashes,
and Titled politicians. In facksit is the
celebrated''s ''spirited connnzdt z wheSe
the 'juice of the corn 'fis So Howerful
that persons ,partaking largely of 1t
have been known to grow splendid crops
of corn-silk right through the crowns of
their hats. In this go ahead town lives
family named Martin, consisting Of q
father, two gushingly beautiful daugh-
ters, and three .strapping sons. We
may say that the males are Fitch Mar
tins, since they all voted to elect Sem
ator Fitch; but the pretty daughters
are so far from being Stone Martins.
that they are actually susceptible of the
softest emotions-at least one of them
is, as the sequel proves. This happy
family led life of Arcadian felicity,
knowing no influences more attractive
than those bounded by the home circle,
until a peripatetic speculator named o.
S. Berry entered the town, and formed
the acquaintance of the old gray Martins,
mirins the pretty Miss Martin; and it
the -.rt Of the father by selling him a
good ,., yin, he might possibly induce
one OF L. young ladies to forget that,
in roughness, he was raspberry, and
Berry Ter name in his. All this proved
that he was nc Soose-Berry. He won
the eternal friendship of the old Martin
by selling him a cider-mill :" awful
cheap" and was invited to the home
stead with all that cordially which fl
nancial success is apt to engender.-
Berry was all sugar and cream--sweet
as the former and rich as the latter
with rustic bellies, and Sc completely
captivatedthey younger, that she''sh ow-
ed it in her eyes," and led him to plan
a future, in which she figured conspicu-
ously as Mrs. Berry. Had he asked
her of her father, the old gentleman
would probably have given her, together
with his blessing but, being black
Berry at heart, and remembering how
hisffether, the elder Berry, was done out
Of bride by tyrannical ''parient,"
this speeulator resolved to forego the
risk Of an avowed courtship and carry
Miss Martin off by stealth. After vis-
Ting the homestead twice week for
about a month, (parts Of June and July)
he gained such an ascendency over his
sweet heart that she determined to de-
ceive the Fitch Martins, and fly by night
with her lover. On Tuesday last she
left home for the supposed purpose of
visiting a neighbor but instead of SO
doing She went Berrying to the Berry
ing-ground, which happened, in this
instance, to be at certain point of the
road where & driver and buggy were
waiting. The driver was Berry, who
promptly assisted her into the vehicle
and then drove of in the direction of
Lafayette Soon after this occurred
the father of the young lady was in
formed that his daughter had been seen
in buggy trying to eat very large
Berrv-at least, she had it "to her
mouth''-and. at once perceived how
matters stood. Calling for his sons to
accompany him, he at once started in
pursuit, going straight to Lafayette, as
the lovers had gone before them. 1t
was the intention of the lover to carry
his fair companion directly to Chicago
bv the 2:30 train, where she might be-
come legally dead and Berry'd before
her family could interfere but fate or
dained that he should miss the train and
lose the Miss. The indignant father
and brothers were hanging about the,
railroad station at Lafayette, hoping
that something might ''turn-up," when
the locomotive backed down to the
junction to take on the Chicago train,
and almost at the same moment the fu-
gitives were detected in the act of get
ting into the cars. In an instant the
pursuers sprang forward to the rescue,
with ''Hey, Betty Martini shout, the
old gentleman seizing his runaway
daughter, while the young Martins
pounced upon the Berry. The lady fell
sobbing upon her fathers shoulder,
while the lover protested that he had
committed no wrong. The former was
forgiven on promising to return home
again; but it was in vain that the latter
protested.
" We don't care a straw, Berry,
whether you prosecute US or not" said
the enraged brothers; I'VE are bound