The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-08-15
A RURAL ROMANCE.
An Elopement With Sequences Alto.
gether Extraordinary.
From the NetC York sun.

/ " Aulhony traley, prosperous
young builder. The bride is 20 years old,
pretty and vivaoious. The bridegroom is
-. 1hey were married by Dominic Black
lock on Friday morning At first people
| refused to believe it, but when il became
known that the event was an assured fact
business was almost entirely suspended in
Uhe village for half day, so pleased was
| everybody that at last be diin't have to lie
| awake nights wondering what pretty Miss
| Colbert and her lover would do next to fur
niSh unusual subjects for gossip.
II was moe than two years ago that
Miss Colbert and Anthony Fraley became
acquainted a6 a picnic. It was case of
| reciprocal love at first sight, and the you"g
man began making frequent calls on Miss
Anna at her fathers house. Papa Colbert
had different ideas about who his daughters
| lover should be, however, Fraley then being
only just out of his time as carpenter,
with 10 visible future, ard he soon notified
Anthony that he must cease calling on
Anna, and ordered Anna to receive no fur
ther attention from Anthony. Finding
that nothing could change the old gentle
mans determination, his daughter app4r-
emily obeyed his will, and her lover called
no more.
But that they managed to see or COM
munlcate with each other was made mani
fest few weeks later, when Miss Colbert
was found missing from her room one dav,
and in her place was found note stating
that the dictates f her heart we're SO much
stronger tha1 her desire to obey the COM
| mands Of her parent that she had eloped
with Anthony Freley, and that they had
gone away to get married.
Now 1t had SO happened that n week or
90 before the elopement Papa Colbert mad
heard that Anth my Fraley had a rich uncle
Ia Pittsburg from whom the young man
had great expectations aud upon invests
eating the ru,nor he found it to be based on
| very solid foundation. This caused
great change to come over the scheming
tailor's views on the subject Of his daugh-
| ter's marital prospects, and he was on Che
| eve OF announcing TO her that he had re.
pented Of separating her and her lover, and
that they might resume their tender rela-
tons, when the elopeme 1t was
| announced to him in his daughters
| note. The tailor was at first
very wroth over the news, and was about
to start in pursuit of the flying lovers, when
it suddenly occurred to him that. while 1t
precipltated matters somewhat, 1t was a
good thing all round, for it would enable
him to save his dignity in the matter of the
commands he hal laid upon his daughter
and at the same time fasten the young man
aud his prospects Ia the family at once, and
save all fear of future uncertainty SO he
gave up tue idea of pursuit, and went to his
work with complacency and quiet uncon-
Germ that surprised his neighbors, who had
quickly heard the news and were making
the most of it,
Fryburg is eight miles from Coalton, and
thither the clipping couple drove as fast as
the horse Fraley had hired would carry
them, for they expected that Annals father
would be after them in hot pursuit as soon
as he received his daughters note. AS they
neared the place for which they had set out
30 he married, the girl grew extremely un
easy, but they reached the village. stopped
at hotel, where Miss Colbert remained
while her lover went out to hunt up some
one who could marry them, leaving the
horse tied at the post In front of the hotel
Fraley was long time in finding any one
who could perform the anxiously desired
ceremony, for one Of the two ministers of
the place was officiating at funeral, and
the other had gone fishing. The young man
finally found justice of the peace, whe &C.
companied him to the hotel to marry him
and the girl.
When Fraley and the justice arrived at
the hotel, the former noticed that the horse
and carriage were gone. The young man
hurried into the house and asked what had
become of tho rig. The landlord told him
that the girl he had left there had taken the
horse and aud carriage and driven away,
ACuflhA NOi0 w oh1 w Nn6 JOuIR UlHu Wn6n
he came back that she guessed she must
have been only in fun, and had gone back
home.n
Fraley did not waste any time in foolish
ness, but hired horse and carriage of the
landlord, and with the hostler to drive him
started in pursuit of the girl. The fresh
horse overlook the other four miles out of
Fryburg, and Miss Colbert was compelled to
stop.
"What in the world does this mean.
Annap exclaimed Fraley.
80. Tony" replied Miss Colbert, ~ only
meant it in fun; let's watt
But Tony soon persuaded the fckle-
| minded girl to turn about and go back.
When they got to Fryburg the young man
did not take the chances of leaving Miss
Colbert at the hotel again, but drove direct
| to the Justices offices. He helped her out
of the carriage, and telling her to go In and
wait for him, he got into the carriage and
| drove away toward the hotel. He remained
| away so long that the girl started out to
see what had become of him. At the hotel
she learned that he had driven past in the
| direction from which they had come. Miss
| Colbert at loss to account for this in turn
hired the hotel rig and started in pursuit
She overlook her lover two or thres miles
out of town, and angrly demanded to know
why he was treating her so.
L
was only meant in fun, aud w5 had better
wait"
Without another word the piqued Miss
Colbert drove On home, and her lover fol
lowed leisurely. The arrival home of the
tailor's daughter did not surprise the old
gentleman, for he supposed she had come to
plead for forgiveness and reconciliation.
Before she had time TO say a word he kissed
her and said:
II am sorry you did it in this way, but
forgive you both. Send for your hus-
baud"
But when the father was told the truth he
was wild, and upbraided his daughter for
her fickleness. From that day, and for
weeks, greatly to the amazement of Anthony
Fraley, Annals father used every means TO
reconcile the stubborn and inexplicable
lovers but Anna would not yield, and de-
clared that she would never again see or
speak to Anthony. On the contrary she
openly accepted the attentions of James
johnson, a widower, twice her age. In the
meantime Fraley had repented of bis hastl-
ness in revenging himself on Anna
on the dav OF the elopement, and persistently
endeavored TO obtain his former
sweetheart's forgiveness, but she held out
stoutlY against his appeals, although they
we're aided by the efforts Of her father
Six months after her elopement and its
peculiar ending she told her ia her that shs
| Intended to marry Widower Johnson AS
Widower johnson was by no means a pre-
possessing man, and had three children, one
nearly as old as Miss Colbert, every one
knew that the girl was going to marry him
| simply cut Of pique.
No one knew this better than Anthony
Fraley, and he made up his mind to prevent