Morning journal and courier., 1890-01-24
kLOPEMENT ENDS A FRUD.
Two Kentucky Families Reconcile,
 Through a Romantic Marriage.

Two Kentucky Families Reconciled
 Through a Romantic Marriage.
 From the Louisville Commercial
 Love laughs at locksmiths, gunsmiths, John Smiths and the rest of the Smith family. An illustration was afforded by runaway couple which reached this city last night and crossed over to Jacksonville. They were from Meade county, few miles south of Brandenburg, in the land of natural gas and salt. The names of the elopers were Henry E. Alley and Bertha Strange. Their ages are respec- lively twenty-one and nineteen. Their par ents have been neighbors and friends from heads of the houses fell out over division fence and quit speaking to each other. Henry and Bertha had been brought up almost as if they were in the same family. They rode stick horses and waded in the spring branch and caught colds together when children, and afterward attended the old field school when they grew older. Though there was a difference of two years in their ages, they were in the same classes and were always sweethearts. As they entered their teens they went to singing school together and were ap- parently as fond of each other as if they had been brother and sister.
 Henry was sent to college few years ago, | and remained away four years. It was dur l ing that time that the two families became enemies. Bertha wrote to him and gave him 1 permission to break off the engagement if he desired. He replied that he was coming home to marry her in spite of the emnity of ] the old folks. He reached home just before Christmas, only to find that the head of the l Strange family had threatened to shoot him | if he dared to set foot in the Strange yard. This did not dsnnt him. Bertha knew of his arrival, and met him before he reached home. They arranged to see each other every day, and most of the interviews took place in the home of the Strangee, and In . room adjoining that of the old man and his desperate shotgun.
 Everything was arranged for the flight to l inatrimony, and the time for departure was fixed at 4 o'clock this morning. Promptly at the hour the young Lochinvar, with two l horses, drew up in the road in front ct the oirl emerged from the shadows of the trees, and. climbing upon the fence, she seated herself in the side saddle and the two started | for this city. She was as spirited as the thoroughbred on which she sat, and the groom .to-be had to use whip and spur to keep by her side. They made the trip to this city in about four hours, and drew rein at the Arlington Hotel shortly after eight
 their horses were jaded and worn with the
 rapid journey through the country roads. The physical comfort of the young couple and their horses was looked after, and the trip to Jeffersonville was finished on dinky train. where the pastor of the Methodist church said the words which made the elop' CTS husband and wife.
 They returned to this side about 12 o'clock Just before that time the young lady's fathel
 reached town in pursuit of the fugitivee
 He learned that they had gone to Jefferson I vile and went to the Fourteenth street depo
 to take the train for that city himself, an'