The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1880-03-11
The Course Of True Love in Georgia.

been in a stew for the past ten days
over a social event of rare and peculiar
interest. 1t has excited the county
more than anything that has occurred
since the act of secession, and has come
near causing little war in which two
large and popular families would have
clashed.
Thomas B. Wheeless is a young farm
er of some means who resides near
Greenville, in Meriwether County. He
has been for a year or two past quite
devoted to Miss Womble, daughter of a
well-to-do planter in the neighboring
county of Epson. Wheeless a36wed
his passion, and found that it was re-
ciprocated. There was but one natural
course for him then to pursue, and that
was to marry the fair creature. He
found an obstacle at once, however, in
the refusal of her stern father, who, it
seems, for some reason, cherished
hearty dislike to the successful sutton
for his daughters love. Young Wheel
ess plead in vain. Young Miss Wom-
BILE made many an Intellectual effort to
move parental determination with her
smiles and tears. Her lover was for
hidden the house, and the old home was
to her like the castles of poetry in
which fair ladies languished under lock
and key and sighed for their much
abused knights. Young Wheeless had
enough of the spirit of o!d-time chival-
ry left in him to resolve that he would
have the lady of his love in spite of all
dangers and difficulties. He got her,
too, in the genuine romantic way.
One dark, drizzling night, the gal
liant young farmer mounted his best
horse and rode twenty miles to the
house of the woman he loved. He ar
rived about midnight. She knew of his
coming, and light in her window told
him that all was we'll. The household
was wrapped in sleep. Two bright
eyes had not closed, however, but since
the fall of the early twilight had peered
into the misty distance until they, too,
had grown misty as a fiuttering little
heart quivered between hope and fear.
She never lost faith, but felt that he
must come.
At last she heard pebble fall on the
roof, and, almost mad with joy, leaped
up and prepared to meet her lover.
She tied two quilts together, and, fas-
tening one end of this bunglesome rope
to the bedstead, she seized the other,
gently raised the window, blew out the
lamp, and swung out into the arms of
her proud lover. Putting her on the
horse behind him, like "Geraint and
Eind," they dashed through the dark
ness, and rode safely to his house be-
fore day. Next morning they were duly
married.
There was great CONSERVATION in the
Womble household when the flight of
the Gagged bird was known. The father
raved and the angry brothers vowed
death to the audacious Wheeless when
they read their sisters farewell letter,
in which she explained all. After con-
sultation they determined to have the
girl back at any cost. The story of the
seizure Of the bride spread like wildfire
through the county, and a dozen young
fellows volunteered to join the Wom-
bles in their expedition against the
Wheelesses. They left later in the
afternoon armed with shot-guns and re-
volvers, and mounted on the best horses
in the county. They reached the happy
home of the groom just as a party of
friends had gathered to celebrate the
wedding. One of the brothers of the
bride took two men into the door with
him and asked for Miss Womble. He
was told that q lady who was once Miss
Womble was in and would see him.
The bride came out and shrieked when
she saw her angry brother. He seized
her and in an instant was surrounded
by his band. They were armed and so
infuriated that resistance would have
been folly. They went off with the bride,
to the horror of Wheeless and his
friends. As soon as they had gone
the young husband determined to fol-
low and recapture his wife. His friends
gladly joined him. They armed them
selves, as well as their enemies, and
set out to. the Womble mansion. It
was almost daybreak when they
reached there. At once they demanded
entrance and the restoration of the