Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1884-08-12
AN ANCIENT SCANDAL.
An Alleged Chapter In Blaine's
Life. p
BACKED UP BY AFFIDAVITs
Revival of an Old Time Scandal in Ken
lucky NIIage---A Former
Sensation.

of the article is given up to an Introductory
history of Blaine's connection with board
ing school at Georgetown and his mashing
proclivities Continuing, the Times says;
"rhe Old Time Scandal
had for its principals Mr.. Blaine and
young lady belonging to the female depart
ment of Col, Johnson's school. The lady,
who shall be nameless, was young, bright
and vivacious, dark hair and eyes, her fea-
lures plain, but such form! She was
plump without being gross and her shapely
figure was the envy of all the slim-waisted
blue grass bellies. She had remarkably
small feet and well turned ankles. The
lady is we'll remembered all through this
rart of the State. Blaine soon bscame
enamored with the lady charms, and spent
all his leisure hours while the schools were
located at Georgetown in her society"
The article then proceeds to give sue.
cinct account of the removal of the school
from Georgetown and the establishment at
Millersburg of Female College. A quar-
rel grew up later between the proprietor OF
The military school of Blue Lick and one
Holiday the owner Of the building, In which
the school was located.
Coming to n Focus.
One day the thing came to a focus. Hol-
Hday demanded settlement, and Colonel
Johnson filed demurrer Blaine and
Bushrod johnson, aiterward general in
the confederate army, backed up the Colo
mel, while Col Holiday had the assistance
of his son, John B. Holiday, now the Sher-
iff of Bourbon county, and his brother Lew
| is Holiday. The parley grew warm, and
finally Holiday, Sr., said he would mighty
soon settle the matter, and drew his pistol
and shot Col johnson in the hip. Blaine
drew his pistol, and assisting Col. johnson
! into a buggy near BY drove away toward
Millersburg. Bushrod johnson is said to
have taken to the brush, and is reported to
have made the twelve miles intervening
between Millersburg and the Iicks in
thirty minutes The Holidays, father and
son, mounted their horses gave chase to
| Col Johnson and Blaine, and soon caught
up with them. The landlord and his son,
as the historians say, made johnson and
Blaine give up their pistols, and Blaine,
with characteristic Smoothness, talked the
Holidays out of their intention to do furth-
| er injury to Col. Johnson who was bleeding
profusely and in great pain from his wound.
The military academy was shortly after the
shooting affray removed to Drennon Springs,
and in a few months died Of inanition.
But during these years Maj. Blaine was
devoted In his attentions totthe lady already
alluded to. Every Friday night her neck
was craned out of one of the windows of the
college, listening for the rumble Of the stage
coach and the coach on Friday night inva-
riably carried from Blue Licks to Millers-
burg the gallant major
The Love Making
was done at the residence Of DR.. Moore and
VIM. McKim, near the school 1t would not
do TO have the courting done in the boarding
school, for the matter was being talked
about by the pupils already, and the parlorS
of school building afford little opportunity
for a good Old-fashioned six hours session
OF courtng match. When Sunday night
came and the stage for the Licks was just
ready to leave the town, Maj Blaine reluc-
family tore himself from the presence of the
charmer and returned to his pedagogic
duties. Is it any wonder the people OF
Bourbon county talked? AS for the pupils
thev almost wore their tongues out. Finally
the matter came to an issue. A great burly
Kentucky cadet made some remark about
the affair. Maj Blaine called him to ac-
count for it, and, according TO report, lit
tie scrapping match ensued but the affair
was quietly hushed up and nothing more
heard about it.
The teachers wooing was soon turned Oy
certain loquacious people into secret scan
dal. and finally the matter was made more
and more public and the whole country
side fell to talking about it. 1t ran month
in and month out, and at length a report
was circulated which compromised in
The Most Serious Manner
the young lady. One can imagine the effect
of such story concerning people of the
prominence Of Mai. Blaine and his inamo'
rata. 1t set the country boys and girls be-
side themselves. AS for the old gossips and
'1-told-you-so" people, they gloated over
the affair, and rolled it in their mouths as
they would a roasting-ear or a lump Of maple
sugar. Then the old women began to de-
bate over the proposition as to whether or
not Mai. Blaine had been guilty Of betray-
ing the lady according to current rumOr.
At the quilting bees the mite societies, and
the donation parties the ladies discussed
the question in bated breath. But the men
folks enioyed it immensely The habitues
of the postoffice and the drug store reveled
in it, and the old bucks, who can always be
found in country towns on the horse-bloeks,
or engaged in whiting up other peoples
store-boxes, had a lasting theme for discus
sion.
The Old Ladies.
One day, however, while some ladies were
busying themselves at an accouchment, one
ancient dame said she had been noticing
Miss - very closely and she was sure
something was wrong with her physical
condition. According to her opinion, Miss
- showed the premonitory symptoms OF
| approaching maternity. Another chimed
| in with cheerful second, and the scandal
which was bad enough before, grew in in
tensity a thousand fold. Of course, the
| married ladies told their husbands and the
| hege lords in turn communicated the news
to the young fellows, and every movement
Miss - made was eagerly watched The
| community was awaiting OehtiOpLiiSutS,
and, according to the scrap of ancient his
tory, they did not remain long in suspense.
Each successive month increased the
shadow of the coming event, and as the lady
daily walked through the streets of Millers.
burg TO and from the boarding house and
the school, the wiseacres thought they no
ticed an excessive predispositioa to PIN
guidity. One old fellow thought he detect
ed shrinkage of the lady's dress in the
front breadth. Another was firm in the
belief that her dresses were made more
loosely than usual One Sunday the lady
was seized with an attack Of faintness at the
village church and was compelled to IN
loose her dress and stays. Then everybody
was certain of the thing, It was noticed
that the lady discarded stays and corsets-
Her shapely waist lost its identity. The
graceful carriage degenerated into an un-
calmly walk, and the lady withdrew from
public gaze.
| Left Town.
When the fact that Mai. Blaine had sew