The daily gazette., 1879-05-07
FIFTH EDITION.
CAPTAIN COx's ROMANCE.
Continued From Fourth Edition.

1t may be mentioned here, a showing.
perhaps, that Cox had no difficulty Ii
inducing Miss Lulu to 20 with him, that
she had had experience in elopemens. 8.
or at least In arranging them. Twice.
before her path crossed that of the young
man she presently married, had her AZ
fections centred upon another young man
in her native Town. Twice had it been
arranged that she and her lover would
ny to some place where distance would
render parental opposition inefFec.usl,
but before that point Of safety bad been
reached In both instances, The youne
woman had been drawn under the do.
there. -
The instructor and bis pupil walked M
the street that day, In May, 1890, talking
over the importan. matter that Coz had
engaged in, the hot-headed lover turning
q deaf ear to all remonstrances Of the
older and wiser man. It does appear.
however, that the ex-army officer was
not lacking spice of romance in this
case was q fellow-feeling and made him
wondrous kind to bis pupil. "Hov shall
get the license ?" querisd Cox. ~
guess you can get 1t there" said the CAP
IAN, directing the youth to the proper
Office, and presently, the legal papsr be-
ing procured, the couple strollee on up
King street. A little further on they
met the young lady who is now Phila-
delphia matron. She too, was party 70
the scheme. -
"You win be expelled for this, !" said
the captain. ~ t
81 can't helpit it if l am. I am going
to see this wedding through"
THE KNOT TIED.
Presently the two met Miss Watkins
and Miss Cox, and the quintette thus
formed proceeded to the house of an old
and well-known Methodist circuit rider
OF that day, the Rev. William Barnes, ir
reverently called ''Billy" Barnes by the
Academy boys, whom he used to exhort
wherever and whenever he could find
them. Mr.. Barnes examined the license.
pocketed his fee, tied the knot in due
form, and SO the pair were married.
Mr.. and Mrs. Cox went at once to the
depot, where the husband wrote q note
to the Misses Grimshaw, of the select
school for young ladies, which ran in
ABOUT these words: r7aa1
LADIES: was married th In aftAynoon
70 Miss louisa Watkins, one of your pu-
Pills. MY wife and I leave on the train for
me south on our wedding Trip.
Very respectfully, EDwARD Cox.
This note fell like bombshell in the
select school for young ladies, and dis
patch to the train conductor brought
back the answer that Mr.. and Mrs. Cox
had left the train at Havre de Grace,
The Chief Of Police of Wilmington who
went after them has been dead many
years, but before he was laid away in
1nal rest he often told the story Of his
meeting Cox at the hotel in Havre de
Trace. The young couple had arrived
'bout three hours ahead of the officer
md had occupied rooms at the hostlrie
learest the depot.
Cox responded to Policeman Moodv's
all, and with smile on his face, said
You are too late !; besides, what busin-
'ss nave you got to interfere with me in
Maryland? You had better 60 home"
Moody takes up the story: "I couldn't
'ay anything. looked at him and he
gave me a bad sort OF laugh, so says
% myself, says 1, sall right and says
% him, says l: Il amt agoing to inter
era And didn't, and I come home.n
In day or two Cox returned to Will
nineton with his wife, ana stopped at
Almonds Hotel until he got money
rom home. He then left for the South,
md has meyer since visited the North
Except once, and that was when, as
aptain in the Confederate army, he
ought at Gettysburg. His marriage is
eported to have been happy one, but
Il all those who were intimate with the
arly history of his welded lite, not one
inows anything definitely of him or his
'ffairs, except the tragic story of the
atal shooting affray for which be il now
N trial for his life. 80,