The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1876-07-08
THE PRICE OF A PRINCE
A wealthy OhiO"n's Purchase for
His Daughter.

correspondence ofthe New York Graphic.
In the city of Columbus, where Mrs.
HAYES now resides the wealthiest resi-
dent is George Parsons, He is lawyer,
whose fortunes are so vel! advanced BY
beouests and investments that he seldom
appears in active lite. He is doubtless n
constant and reliable republican citizen,
but he has the added connection OF an
nrstocratic if not a princely son-in-law.
Nine years ago Mr.. Parsons started to
Eur. We with two daughters 10 make the
GRAND tour ut abundant leisure. l was
passenger on the same steamship, the
Fulton. We young fellows used to see
two vivacious western girls, just out OF
school, sitting al the head otthe compan-
ionway. one of them not too sea sick to
conceal the flash of her black eyes and
the rich, girlish color that those Column
bus mondays impsrt to the complexion.
Romplng, racing, laughing AS she revived
from n,dl de mer. May Parsons WAS
generally considered the prettiest lass on
shipboard, and so young AS to be nearly
unconscious of it. She made no other
impression, as her fathers circumstances
were not known.
But three years IN Europe changes
many a rustic nature. The news came
back to Columbus that May Parsons was
"to marry prince"-a young chap at
tsched to the German legation at Paris.
She returned to Columbus, and went into
the strictest privacy, rs if presently 10
wed Vlshnu himself, and doomed TO
state of holiness for term of p!epara-
tion.Y He was prince one OF the royal
military kind-Whose lineage was some
where we'll written, and amounted to
having served in the wars and drawn
salary vaIllantly since the time OF the
electors of Germany. He was sort Of
unproductive John Hay or Maj. Bah
cock, one of the under diplomstists, but
true prince for all that. When he arriv-
ed in Columbus he had some dogs with
him to announce his inportance-setters,
hounds, or something supposed out OF
America TO be aristocratic. But not
peg would that high-mettled Dutchmsn
bulge until Parsons pere had settled on
or about, and some say raised and paid
100000 to him for the holy privilege Of
taking the prettiest girl away from
Columbus. Parsons WAS man OF sense,
and probably thought princes superiuous
on the earth iL any form, but this new
and knightly form Of assessing taxation
on females was indeed.cruel. Nine Par.
sons, however, did not want such beau
tiiul prince TO go out Of the family. What
is called the social pressure was brought
TO bear and DutchmAn, dogs. bride, titles,
and all disappeared out of the union de-
pot toward Europe, diminishing the
bank account Of Columbus, and in course
of time making George Psrsons the very
worthy grandfather oftwo princes, whose
ankles are better turned and whose eyes
are blaeker than any on the Weldecker,
Schomhauser, Dowershsusen family.
And yet may we prudently ask-for
We de not tight with deoble-handed
swords nor wear 8 helmet and pair OF
military would not Geo. Par
sons, OF Columbus, prefer . son on the re-
publican plan Of his tovnsman, Ruther-
ford B. Hayes, TO . son .in-lsw who re-
auires an income with wife and lives
BY chewing his side whiskers around =
legationl