Daily Republican., 1880-05-25
SECOND EDITION.
THE OTHER SIDE.


The MT. c. a bn Attempted EIopement
"a se - How the Friends OF Mr.
Leaf Statss tt-Trne Love Never
WaVIers.
The REPUBLICAN was sitting at his ta-
bic yesterday afternoon relieved as the
Aast afternoon yell OF the " devil' fol
.copy died away in the winding stair.
cases that led to the third story.
The door of our sanctum opened and
we were made aware that we wsrs il
the presence Of good natured gentlemen
one Of them holding a soiled copy o.
the REPUBMcAN of last Friday in his
hand. We shook hands and recogni
zed in each other old acquaintauces
We said, " be seated gentlemen" ano
they were seated.
1--WE came to sses about that article
in the REPUBLICAN.
"Oh, yes, we understand the--th-'
t-n
"The Mt. Cuba elopement case."
"Ah, oh yes gentlemen, we ander'
stand now, well what is the matter ~
"Well that srdcle is wrong"
"Well, what part Of it is wrong, gen
tlemen, will you designate
"Just begin and read and We'll tell
you where it is wrong"
We commenced reading audibly:
"Mr. James Wilson is prominent
resident of the beautiful little Mill
Creek Hundred town of Mount Cuba, &c.
We read further on: ''In his family
is daughter, Jennie by name. She
is young and comely, and has received
q very liberal education. Combined
with this is fair amount of inte1li.
gence and prospect Of means in the
future"
"By Jingo," (sor we never could
swear, "that's true, we calculated.
"Your right sir, that is true" YVES
the response by the friends of Mr.. Leaf
the would be happy husband of Miss
Jennie.
We read on and coming to the follow
ing: "Mr. Wilson some time ago need
ing a hand to help in his Mill"
"There, there, stop right there, that
is not true" said our friends. "The
fact is Mr.. Leaf was employed to take
whole and sole charge Of the mill and
was not common hand"
"Ah Then we'll correct that"
Then we read on; ''Leaf was good
looking i = possessed a fair
amount of intelligence \ \ v X
had aspirations higher than Mr.. Will
sons meal bags"
"That's so.'
We read on. "He had not been in
his new position long before he began
making himself agreeable to the Wilson
family in general and Miss Jennie in
particular"
''Of course he would" we suggested,
and we added that if we had been a
single man and in the same position we
would have made love to Miss Jennie
too, provided
We read on all about Leaf making a
decided impression upon Miss Jennie's
tender and susceptible heart aud how
she began to have q tender feeling for
him how her father noticed it at last
with dismay; and how the more he
tried to dissuade her from it the more
she wouldn't, and how that finally he
"summarily discharged Lsat from his
employ and warned him not to come
near the house again"
"There, there! that is not tue. Mr.. |
Wilson discharged Lssf it is true but
still remained friends, and are friends
yet. 1t was the mother that told hin
not to darken the door again"
Gan right, then we'll make that
correction"
Then we read on, all about how the
family tried to turn the girl against
L,af, and how she wouldn't turn worth
a cent, and how Leaf was all the time
try ing::to win over the family; how that
on Wednesday night last the family
went to festival, but Jennie playing
possom by feigning dreadful head,
ache remained at homa; and how that
after the family were gone Leaf appear.
ed and hastY Preparations were made
for flight.
"There now stop right there. Leaf
was not near the house that night, but
was waiting in carriage mie dis
tant for Miss Jennie to come to him.
A third person was helping her away"
CAN right, Wen make tnat correc-
tion."
To make a long matter short the
friends of Mr.. Leaf said that Miss Jrn-
ME aud her escort did not reach Mr..
Leaf and his carriage, those in pursuit
captured her and fired at her escort
who they mistook for Mr.. Leaf. The
parties were not at any time within aix
miles Of Newport, and Mr.. Leaf know
ing Of what had taken place got tired
waiting for his love and went to his
)wn home near Wooddale, where he
has since remained. All the time they
we're hunting down the offender he was
quietly at home where he could easily
lave been found il wanted.
The struggle that occurred seems to
have been between Miss Jsnnie's big
brother and her escort who was the {
of Mr.. Leaf and who is sup
posed to be Mr.. George. The later
was quick enough, after being shot
to catch the pistol before it did other !
mischief and turn its fire amongst the
rees with which the parties were sur
'ounaed. The big brother and George
ire said to have clinched and had q
i've roll over on the railroad before it
became known that Leaf was not one
of the party. Mr.. Leafs friends say
that tie difference in social position
between Mr.. Leaf and the Wilson fami- :
y is not great, one being as good as |
The other. The friends of Mr.. Leaf
now say that all differences have baep
harmonized and that Mr. Leaf and :
Miss Jennie will in few DAYS start .