The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1871-01-26
Row in High African Circles
WHAT CAME OF IT.

Miss Jennings was young and bud
ding damsel of the African persuasion.
Living on the hill, she may be reason.
ably said to move in the highest" cir
Giles devoted to the Fifteenth Amend
ment. Over her head the roses Of six
teen summers and the SHOWS Of as
many winters have shed their perfume
and their frosts. Her mother, Mrs.
Martha Jennings, had long kept her in
leading strings and in the washtub, till
the heart Of the devoted girl, ambitious
for a husband, was nigh to bursting.
Her eve has rested on the man picked
from all the world to be her lord, a
Willis A. McColloch, and although her
mother limited at a better match, the
fair and determined damsel would have
none of him. And
When a woman will she will
You may depend ont,
And when she wont she wont
And there's an end ont.
In addition to O mother and lover
she has a father, which his name is
Toney Jennings. Toney's ambition is
to earn an honest livelihood and KEEP
his gal at home. But this was not to
be, and though the young feminine
Jennings was securely kept, as it was
thought, from the loving gaze and EN-
brace of Willis, "love laughs al
locksmilhs," the twain met and inter
changed vows Of eternal constancy
They went further. On Tuesday
they went much further. They
went as far as West Alexander, that
Gretna Green of runaway lovers, anc
were made one 10y Squire Mayes, anc
got a certificate OF the fact. Just be
fore the streaks of dawn began to lingt
the eastern sky, and the bright stars
were fading from the armament, Willis
and lis bride returned TO Wheeling
feeling just as happy as big sunfowers
and dreaming Of days Of future bliss.
Depositing his dark Completed
spouse in house prepared for her re
ception, Willis went down street to re
turn the vehicle in which he had gone
out single and come back double, little
thinking that a cloud was gathering
over the roseate tinted sky OF his pros
pective happiness. On his return 1t
found his bride was gone! She whom
he but a little while before had sworn tt
love, cherish and protect had vanished
and his big heart busted.
| He went at once to the Turner Man
sion and knocked and pleaded, but h
couldn't get in. lie learned that hi
wife had been taken captive by he
mother and was warned that the irat
father, the terrible Toney, would bus
hole in him, the despairing Willis, i
he didn't stop dat knockin' at d.
doc - and keep away from the house
He learned, also, that his tennagen
mother-in-law had whipped his viii
and locked her away from Willis eyes
This was too much The law, the In,
should give him relief.
Willis went to Squire Gillespy yes
terday and stated the case, ending wit
the pathetic appeal, Squire, can't vol
get me my wife, somehow ?" TIL
Justice issued warrant for the arres
of Toney and Martha Jennings for CON
hitting an assault and battery on Mrs
McColloch, wife of Willis a. McCo
loch, as aforesaid, and suppoenaed Mrs
McColloch as witness in the case. B
this means the two loving hearts wei
reunited, and Mr.. and Mrs. Jenning
were requiredt to give bail in the sum c
500 each to answer the charge I
assault and battery on Saturday next
The cruel parents gave the bail, an
Willis and his bride wandered off HAP
PLY together, needless Of the world
sneers and the wrath Of those they ha
outwitted.