Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-08-08
A Rural Courtship Which Ran Any
thing but Smoothly.
THE MISHAPS OF AN ELOPEMENT.
Reports of Rich Uncle in Pittsburg Inn
prove the Situation.
CUPID SCORES A TRIUMPH AT LAST

pretty and vivacious The bridegroom is
23 They were married by Dominic Black
lock on Friday morning. At first people
refused to believe it, but when it became
known that the event was an assured fact
business was almost entirely suspended in
the village for half day, so pleased was
everybody that at last he didn't have to lie
awake nights wondering what pretty Miss
Colbert and her lover would do next to fur
nish unusual subjects for gossip.
1t was more than two years ago that Miss
Colbert and Anthony Fraley became ac-
quainted at picnic. 1t was a case of
reciprocal love at first sight, and the young
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 a carpenter with
no visible future, and he soon notified
Anthony that he must cease calling on
Anna, and ordered Anna to receive no
further attention from Anthony. Finding
that nothing could change the old gentle
mans determination, his daughter appar-
emily obeyed his will, and her lover called
no more.
RICH UNCLE IN PITTSBURG.
But that they managed to see or COM
municate with each other was made mani
fest few weeks later, when Miss Colbert
was found missing from her room one day,
and in her place was found note stating
that the dictates of her heart were so much
stronger than her desire to obey the COM
mand of her parent that she had eloped
,trt+ A,,%h hot LoI
gone away to get married.
Now it so happened that week or so
before the elopement Papa COrbet had heard
that Anthony Fraley had a rich uncle in
Pittsburg from whom the young man had
great expectations, and upon Investigating
the rumor he had found it to be based on a
very solid foundation, This caused great
change to come over the scheming tailor's
views on the subject of his daughters
marital prospects, and he was on the eve of
announcing to her that he had repented of
separating her and her lover, and that they
might resume their tender relations, when
the elopement 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 it precipitated matters
somewhat, it was good thing all around,
for it would enable him to save his dignity
in the matter of the commands he had laid
upon his daughter, and at the same time
fasten the young man and his prospects in
the family at once, and save all fear of fu-
ture uncertainty. So he gave up the
idea Of pursuit, and went to his work with
complacency and quiet unconcern that sur
prised his neighbors, who had quickly heard
the news and were making the most of it.
QUITE AN ELoPEMENT.
Fryburg is eight miles from Coalton, and
thither the eloping 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. 1As they
neared the place for which they had set out
to be 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 anyone
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 a Justice of the Peace, who
accompanied 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 the rig. The landlord told him
that the girl he had left there had taken the
horse and carriage and driven away, leaving
word to say to the young man when he came.
back that she "guessed she must have been
nj had haal
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.
'iWhat In the world does this mean,
Anna?" exclaimed Fraley.
A CHANGE OF MIND.
"Oh, Tony" replied Miss Colbert, 'I only
meant it in fun; let's wait"
But Tony soon persuaded the fckle-
minded girl to turn about and go back
When they got back to Eryburg the young
man did not take the chances of leaving
Miss Colbert at the hotel again, but drove
direct to the Justices Office. He helped
her out of the carriage, and telling her to go
in and wait for him, he got into the car
riage 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
three miles out of town, and angrily de-
manded to know why he was treating her So
,ab h.
was only meant in fun, and we 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 alone did not surprise the
old gentleman, for he supposed she had
come to plead for forgiveness and reconcile
alton. Before she had time to say word
he kissed her and said:
81 am sorry you did it in this way, but
forgive you both. Send for your husband"
THE OLD MAN WAS ANGRY.
But when the father was told the truth he
was wild, and unbraided his daughter for
her fickleness. From that day, and for
weeks, greatly to the amazement Of Anthony
Fraley, Annals father used every means to
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
J ohnson, a widower, twice her age. In the |
Fraley had repented Of his hasti-
ness in reyenging himself on Anna on the |
day of the elopement, and persistently en-
deavored to obtain his former sweatheart's |
forgiveness, but she held out stoutly against |
his appeals, although they were aided by the
efforts of her father. Six months after her |
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