The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1883-01-03
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seem very remarkable, and nothing wa
thought off it at the time, although those
who noticed him closely might have oh
served that he appeared unusually exci'
| Ted. as if contemplating some desperate
measure.
On Sunday morning bright and early,
he hired a horse and buggy and dashed
| Jut of town at a lightning rate. ,
He posted at once for the Sneedsboro
neighborhood, entered the house of Mr..
J.. B. Cottonham, unobserved, and at
| ,,nce proceeded to put his designs into
execution.
While Mr.. and Mrs. Cottingham were
the front room. engaged in reading their
Ribie aud saying their prayers, Mr..
Rves wa in the back room engaged in
lurloining a bundle of dry goods, IL
which was wrapped up pretty Catharine
j'ortingham. one of the sweetest little
siri- in ali the town and country.
They escaped without detection, made
their way TO Wadesboro, and on Sunday
afternoon were pronounced man and wife
by DIR. Afford.
The happy young couple then turned
heir faces homeward, and are now snug
V ~ensconsed in loves true nest in Ches-
tcr6eld county
We find the following rather doubtful
story in Philadelphia Record: Mr.. An
drew Miller. of Hickory, n. c.. had been
for a long time affianced to Miss Estelle
Moore. one Of the prettiest and most
charming young ladies of this place. Six
O'Clock OF the evening of december Ii
VA. the hour fixed for the wedding, and
all the guests were assent led, the we'd
ding feast set out and the minister
standing in the middle of the parlors
ready 10 perform the ceremony. After
waiting Tor some time after the hour
liked the groom's best man was sent
10 his residence to ascertain the cause
of the delay. tie found the young mans
room unlocked, the wedding suit, in
Guiding the wedding gloves, lying Oh the
bed. a trunk open, from which it vas
evident that a supply of clothing had
been taken, and a card lying on the
mantle with the two words written in
pencil. Gone West The bride bore
the intelligence calmly. The cause of
the flight OF the bridegroom is a mys-
terry. The situation OF affairs was rem
dered more embarrassing by the fact
that an evening paper, in order to get
ahead OF It's contemporaries, anticipated
the wedding i'll its 6 O'Clock edition,
coming out with a description of the tot
lets. etc, and winding up with the de
parture of the couple on the wedding
tour
The Rev. j. w. Wharton stole So,
eloped with Mrs. Margaret Gill, the or
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he a pastor. After staying away a
year he repented. and made up his mind
to return, obtain forgiveness, and lead a
decent life. But he found it impossible
to carry out this programme of reform.
His wife refused to receive him. a COM
pany OF his young townsmen serenaded
him with tin pans, bells and guns, and
the grand jury indicted him.
Charlotte Journal: The marriage. or
rather the re-marriage in Chester coun-
ty, of VIM. Legg and Mrs. Crawford,
recalls the circumstances of one most
celebrated scandals of upper South Car
Dina.
VIM. Legg, a horse drover and adven-
turer from Tennessee, but withal a man
of ~insinuating address, met Mrs. Craw-
ford, a then comedy widow with a good
iointure, two children aged six and sew
en-. and the prestige of connection with
some of the oldest and best families of
that part of the Palmetto State, both
through her first husband, Crawford, and
her own family. the Leggetts. The
union of the blooming young widow and
the tennessee horse drover was a happy
one FL several years, until the daughter
of Mrs. Crawford, by her first marriage,
wa grown into acharming maidenhood,
and the son into a bold and promising
youth, full of chivalrous sentiment and
generous impulses. Mrs. Legg also be-
came the mother of two more children
by her second husband. At this time
it observed that the father, Mr.. Legg.
displayed an eX~travagant fondness for
his budding step-daughter, and again,
and but a little while, the young girl
exhibited unmistakable indications of
being a mother OF course a terrible
uproar and scandal was raised, and the re-
suit was that young Crawford a boy hard
ly old enough to hold his weapon to his
shoulder. shot the step-iather. making a
severe wound in the leg. Legg and the
young girl then fled, and were holly pur-
sued by young VIM. Leggett, a brother
of Mrs. Crawford. and others of her FAM
lily, the hot-headed young Crawford be-
ing himself placed under bond for the at
tack upon the flying step father. The
latter was apprehended with the young
girl in Greenville, S. c., before they were
overtaken by the pursuers.
Young Crawford was tried for his at
tack on the step father, and the famous.
Judge Mackey was led to once or twice
express admiration rather than condem-
nation for the act of the boy.
The father disappeared but has been
in Darlington county, South Carolina. A
divorce had of course been obtained be
tween MIR. Legg and her husband and
she has been since living with her chill
dren, including the daughter, Miss Craw-
ford, In Chester county.
The boy Crawford. who SO impulsively
attacked his step-father, was sent some
time ago as a student to Davidson Col
lege, where he died, as will be we'll re-
membered, of typhoid fever. Mis-
Crawford is said 10 have grown into a
handsome and modest womanhood.
Six months g it became known that
the children Of Mrs. Crawford's union
with Legg were in the habit of visiting
their father in Darlington, and the neigh
bors began to predict a reconciliation and
re-marriage.
This prediction wos contaminated
Thursday night at the residence Of the
bride in Chester county. The officiating
clergyman was Rev. Robert Perry.