Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1883-05-13
HER PA REFUSED
But She Net and Married Him
e AaS how.
The Crooked Course Of True Love in Wetrei
County is Straighteasd BY an
EIopement asd Visit to
Gretna Greea.

The casual visitor at the B. & o. depot
Yesterday afternoon when the Hempiield
Train went out. would have had his stten-
ton attracted to couple who boarded that
train. In the man, they would have seen
g stalwart young farmer with resolute
look in his brown eyes, and in the lady,
fair young Phyllis, in whose soft blue orbs
ShOne
LIE LIGHT or LOVE And CoNFIDENCE.
The train pulled out and an hour later they
stood in the presence OF Esquire Mayes
and were made man and wife. 1t was an
elopement, and more romantic l!lustrs-
ton was never given of mans loyalty
wCman's devotion, and the old maxim,
Love laughs at locksmiths.
At the mouth of Fluhardy's run,
about eight miles from New Martinsyille,
lives a substantial farmer named Samuel
Morgan. His daughter Addie, hand
some blond lasSie, whose beauty had been
ripened and rounded by seventeen sweet
summers, was the apple OF his eye. Ben.
iamin Martin, the son of John Martin, of
Pine Fork, near by, had looked upon Miss
Addie and
FoUSD HER FAIR.
He loved her with q Florentine four
teenth century frenzy, and under the
quiet stars and in the shady dells
of Wetzel, he found ample oppor.
tunity to tell her so. She returned
his love with all the ardor of her youthful
nature and when he proposed to make her
his bride her heart was in the fair hand
she extended. But when Benjamin stood
before her father, he was sternly rejected
and the parents crue! fiat separated the
lovers. Benjamin vowed he would get the
girl and was not whit discouraged. When
two Dung hearts beat in unison, no ditii,
Guilty is insurmOuntable. Miss Addie had
the william
BENJAMIN FOUND THE WAY.
They determined TO join their fortunes
and made arrangements with Jerry Long
TO accompany them TO the nearest station
on the B. & o. road whence they would
seek the SolRCe of some Gcetna Green over
the PENNSYLVANIA border. But Father
Morgan tumbied 10 this little racket and
prepared for the emergency. Thus diScoy'
cred, they diSSembled and bided theil
time.
Last Friday night, Henry Hart bore a
note from Ben jsmin 20 his tianCee, telling
her 70 meet him at Little Creek Bridge, on
Fishing Creek, about miles from New
Nartinsyille. She Loyalty obeyed the sum
NOus. There her 'OYer met her, with hi.
horse. She mounted behind him and
LINE BOLD LOCHtNyNE
he rcde with her to New MartinsVi!le
Fearing the pursuit ui her father, they
tarried not but went TO Martins uncle
lhilip Lively. live miles down the river
spending the night there they boarded the
Regular at Go o'clock yesterday morning
bound for Wheeling. When the boat passed
! Nav MartinSville. Martin ensconced his
hride-elect in srateroom Tor security. Ii
Lord I'llin arrived az the wart he was toC
late. The Highland Chief had
WON MS BONNY BRIDE
and he was left lGmenting. The Regular
reached this city in due time and the happy
end now care free couple cot of safely t
Esquire MayeS. BY this time the Rubisor
will have been passed and the father may
rage in vain.
All IF the parties TO this romantic inciden
are among Wetzers best people and thi:
announcement of the happy ending OF the
lovers woes will he read with interest