The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1868-11-12
The EL0PEMERT. EPiDEMIC.
A Couple OutW;t the Old Folks
and Reach Indiana aud Mat
rlDIOuy.

the best conceived add most successfully
executed Opponents, taking into consld'
Grafton the irexperience of the parties,
which has come under our observation for
some time, eliminated yesterday morning
The contracting parties consisted Of Mr.
Quinn, aged about seventeen years. and
Miss Cook, aged about fourteen years
both of SaIvisa, Mercer county, in this
state. They had been keeping compa-
nv" for some time, and everything went
on swimmingly until a wedding was dark
" limited at, when the father of the young
LADY put his foot down and psremptorily
demanded cessation Of hostilities, de-
claring that the would-be bride was too
Young by about half. The young folks
signally failed to see it in this light, and
system of courtship by stealth was car
ried on, tie details CT which most people
can become acquainted with by re-
Prospective glance at their own experience
until at last an elopemcut was determined
Upon as the one thing needful to termi-
nate their troubles. The young MAJ con-
fided his plan to his friend Mr.. Nelson,
who proposed to see him safe through II it
took him all summer. and so Wednesday
night last, about IL o'clock, the young Ia
dy, accompanied by her bosom friend
Miss Kennedy, who had come over just tn
stay all night, might have been seen steal
ing out from the paternal mansion. They
were received by the lover and friend,
who had everything in readiness for their
trip to this city, where they arrived
Thursday evening, and stopped at MIR.
Patterson's private clearinghouse, on
Jefferson street, between Seventh and
Eighth. The young man went over to
New Albany Thursday night to get the
license and have everything in readiness
to go over eally yesterday morning and
finish Up the business, but not having
made practice of marrying he was SO
yerdant as to tell the clerk Of the court
that his darling was resident of Ken
lucky, upon which the clerk refused to Is
sue the license-an objectionable piece OF
squeamishness on his part, tor which he
made amends by giving the young man
eratuitous piece Of advice, to the effect
that in future, If he desired to be sue
cess as an elopist, he should locate the
party of the first part in the state at any
rate. and better still in the county in
which he applied for the license. lie
said it was true snch a statement might
not, viewing it from every possible stand
point, be strictly in accordance with the
facts in the case, but hat young man
who was so hardened in crime as to bur
glariously and feloniously abstract another
mans daughter from the parental ROOT
tree, in the middle of the night, ought not
to scruple at slight prevaricaton when
Sc much depended on the result.
The Young man left the clerks Office a
sadder and a wiser man, determined to
profit by the gentle hint Of the law. He
got across the river, the Lord knows how
it being very late at night; in fact after
the fcrry-boats had stopped running. lie
reached the house where the party were
stopping about o'clock yesterday moro
ing, and with face about mile
long proceeded to ;ell the party, who were
impatiently awaiting him, CT the signal
failure he had made in this his first matri-
monial venture But if his story was sad
and discourasing, his friends had one to
tell him that Was startling. Since his
departure fox New Albany they had learn
ed that the somewhat ruffled parent of the
young lady with matrimonial aspirations
had telegraphed to the police to arrest the
recrcants, dead or alive and that the ho-
tells had been searched for them in vain.
Here was crisis, and prompt action on
the defensive, or an iguominious surrend-
err were the only alter natives.
Immediately it was resolved to stand
not on the order of their going, but to 60
at once-to the Jacksonville ferry -land-
ing, which they did, and the first boat
that left the cold Kentucky shore" yes
terday morning for the sacred soil Of H.
diana had on board this party on matri-
mony bent Whether the father Of the
young lady reached the shore and gcsticu-
lated violently, just after the ferrybOa'
showed out into the raging food, like Lord
Ullin Of oid.w are unable to say; but ,lfhe
did, it did not have the desired effect, 70,
the ferryman did not "come back" (unti
the next trip, and tho party reached the
Indiana shore in safety Upon landing
they Immediately repaired to the Bruno,
-. ,,bon tbo MOI; rort;on of H. ,,xt,