The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1878-07-23
An OLD nAIp,s ROMANCE.
Miss vredenburGh, Aged Forty,
welded 10 Master Biaeel, Aged
BeIenteen-A Queer Prankioi

Miss vredenburgh, Aged Forty.
Wadded 10 Master Blagel, Aged
Beventeen-A Queer PranlEiOi
Cupid's.
From he New IuEk saa, JulyI1
Elmer Ellsworth slsgel, aged II, and
Sarah vrsdenburgh, aged 40, both Of
Mount Pleasant, have astoupded their
community BY clipping together. She Is
tall, dark, and Of considerable personal
Attrachveness. She Is teacher In the
Methodist Sunday school Of Pleasant.
vile, and has ever since her girlhood
moved in the respectable society Of the
place. Middle-aged men, Who used 70
take her TO singing school twenty years
ago, say that shs vas bright clever
girl, who ought TO have made . good
enough vile for anybody. However, abe
never got married-not that she was hard
10 please, but because the merits Of her
SuitorS did not come up to the require
msnts Of her mother. At length she
dropped out Of the matrimonial market.
OF Late, however, = marked change has
been observed In her dsmeanor. She and
dozen more girls and women were en-
ployed in the shoe manufIctory Of slsgel
q Israel, on the main street leading from
the railroad station to the posto6oe.
There worked in an adjoining room about
twenty young men and boys. Among
them all was none Landowner than young
Elmer Ellsworth slasel, son Of the So
nior member Of the firm. BE was fresh
from school He danced and de-
claimed we'll, and his sum Of accomplish
menu won Miss vredenburghs heart
There was s hole in the floor Of the
shop in which Sarah and Elmer worked,
through which the young women In the
upper rooms talked with the young men
below. Through this hole Sarah and her
youthful lover carried on correspon.
denee Of the most tender kind. Their
growing love for each other soon became
known to the firm, who saw nothing but
harm likely 70 come from such IN init.
macy. Accordingly they boarded up the
hole and banished Elmer to distant part
Of the shop. Thus separated, the couple
found means 10 resume their correspon-
dence, and Il was not until the sternly
practical Mr.. Israel had discharged Miss
vredenburgh that the loye.makiDg was
supposed 10 be over.
About = week ago Miss Vredenburgh
entered the shop 70 get some things she
had left behind. She encountered Miss
0pheIis slagel, her lovers sister, Who,,h
not spoken 10 her for two months. Mis-
vredenburgh tossed her head and re.
marked, am be even with you yet"
Miss slagel paid no attention 70 the re.
mark at the time, but she and the whole
family have since appreciated II.
At7P.x. on Wednesday Elmer went
10 church, accompanied BY his mother
and sisters. Before the first hymn had
been sung through be pretended to be
seized BY bleeding at the nose, and, leav-
ing his kid gloves and cane In the pew,
be went out holding his handkerchief 70
his face. Once oupide, he joined Miss
vredenburgh, who had been waiting for
him under The shadow OF lilac bush.
They started for the 7:l5 train. They
we're late, and, on reaching the high
ground near AckermAn's store, Elmer
saw the train starting. He left his pan.
ting bride in the middle Of the road, and
started at full speed for the crossing,
reckoning wildly 10 the engineer and
shouting, "Stop the trainl" It was no
use, and be was compelled 70 seek some
slower means Of elopement. While he
bargsined with Josh Fowler, the livery
stable keepers man, for \ horse and car.
riage, his lady love stole around in the
reGf OF the store and waited for him in 40
adjoining field OF tall rye. By dark
Elmer had concluded bargain with the
stable keeper TO take him and Miss Vre.
denburg 70 Union,ille, two miles to the
southwark, for 81.
As josh was hitching up the horse the |
impetuous Elmer became impatient and |
increased the amount to s.. At length
the pair were safely in top buggy, and |
with josh for driver, started of. They |
went TO the Rev. Mr.. Harris, Of the Dutch |
Reformed Church In Unionyille, and
asked him to perform the ceremony.
"This won't do, my young friends" he
said, shaking his bead; "you had better,
both OF you, 70 back and reconsider this |
momeutous step which you are about
ihoughtlessly taking"
Elmer offered S., and protested that
the lady was old enough 10 choose Tor |
herself, but without effect.
Josh wanted to 20 home at this juno
ture, bat further bride OF 50 so induced
him 10 push on 70 White Plains. There
they arrived at midnight. Sarah sought
refuge in the house Of Mis- Requa, q
friend in the millinery business. The
youthful lover paced the depot platform.
Atl0A. N. the pair entered the office
Of Justice Wykotf, in Kensieo, but the
magistrates heart was made Of steel, and
not even . repetition Of the glitteripg
offer made to the clergyman could move
him.
Wearied and heartsore, the clipping
pair reached the residence Of the Baptist
clergyman, the Rev. W. n. Glow. They
felt that Il vaS their last chance, and
that II the knot couldn't DO tied there Il
couldn't be tied anywhere. Mr.. Glow,
& good.looking, dark.eyed man Of 80,
took the bridegroom aide and asked him
II there Was any lawful impedimsnt 70
the mAtehl .s.
aNone, whatever, sir, !" Elmer aid.
The clergyman joined their hands and
said: ado you, Elmer, take Sarah 10 be
your lawful welded wiief'
II do,p exclaimed the young lover, en-.
phatieally.
@Do you, Sarah. take Elmer 10 be your
lawful welded huSbandf - -
II do" abe responded in low but Grm
voice.
In another second they had been pro-
nounced husband and wife. The bride.
groom pot his arms around the bride, and
Imprinted sounding kis on her lips.
On the signing Of the marriage oertif.
cate, Mrs. Slagel raised her vel, and the
Rev. Mr.. Glow saw bow old she WAG.
"HoH old are you, may AK, MADAME
hs asked.
A trifls Of % or q sir" answered the
young husband; "fll out the certificate
and never mind the age" $751;.
Mr.. Glow 6lled out the certificate, but
expressed forsboding.
As the z o'clock up train reached
PleasAntvIlle on ThurSday evening, 4
L.. a. $500, k.1 ...k.,s1 :. .ka .t.1far