New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-03-22
ANOTHER ELOPEMENT AFTER ALL.

IT, was the intention Of The Tribune TO dis
continue its elopcmcnt department. Accordingly
a week ago our fine collection Of clopcmcntana,
the largest in America. sold To n junkmdn
for mere song and the elopcmcnt editor WIS
instructed To turn his attention 10 the Delaware
pcach-crop, which is rcDutcd 10 be on It's LAST
lees but yesterday we received something Whl'h
made rs decide TO refer 10 the subject once more
heforc taking M the pcach-crop This nothing
less than a formal communication from the Iwl-
lieht Club of Pittsburg sending MS printed ac-
count of West Virginia copcmcnt OF the most
approved pattern. untouched by the sinister ill.,
nucncc Of a one horse buggy or other villain
ously wheeled vehicle
We learn from the interesting account sent by
orr Piii,hurg friends that the AFFAIR took place
\ few days ago near Dobbin. West Virginia.
William Jcplson Sills lives at Dobbin and has an
only daughter named Aggic Sills. Aggic is SIN
teen years old and pretty, rs are all west VIZ
ginia girls for that matter. Recently AgSlc has
been indus,riouSly courcd by two young men of
the neighborhood named respectively Edward
Thomson and George Montoney Last Tuesday,
AS an evidence of good faith Edward Thompson
went to Cumberland, Md and got marriage
license. Miss Stills had not promised to marry
him. but his idea was that if he got license and
took il with him the next time he went 20 see
her ana showed IL 10 Ncf IL might nave IL
GOOD effect and convince her that he was in earnest
and no trtcr, unwilling to put his money into
the enterprise But the effect was bad rather
than good for though Edward Thompson knet
at her feet and read the license. she only turned
AWAY and after he was gone she walked across
lots and told George Montoney all about it, Tic
next morning he also went over into Maryland
and cot "A marriage license. OF course the young
Lidy's parents, with the usual stupidity of parents
i'm these matters, favored Thompson, and when
they learned how matters stood they promptly
decided that she should marry him the next day.
Accordingly early Thursday morning Thompson
arrived OH horseback with his license in one hand
to escort his bride to the church. SillS got out
his horse and also for Mrs. Sills and another
for his daughter But the young lady had no in
tcnti0n Of going with Thompson. She told her
father that she felt chill creeping over her and
asked permission to go into the dining-room and
take n tcaspoOnful of quininc out of the qunine-
bowl The excuse looked reasonable and her
father gave his consent But in the dining
room she ran out the back door and through the
calf pasture and across the bridge into Maryland.
Here was Montoncy, with his marriage license
sticking in his hatband. on one horse and with
another for Aggie She instantly Jumped on, and
away they dashed acrGss the mountain to find the
Rev Chester Stanley Twigg, vino was lying in
wait for them at his house ten miles away. But
by this time the angry father and the laggard in
love had discovered the situation and were coming
across the bridge. 1t the hvcliest chase for
the whole ten miles ever known in Mary land.
But it ended as such things always end, In Il
triumph for the young lady. She and Montoney
arrived at the parsonage full half-mile ahead of
the Others and the Rev. Mr.. Twgg married them
instantly, using the short form of the ceremony,
utterly shorn of verbiage. The young people
then went in TO the wedding breakfast while the
Rev Mr. Twigg sat down on the stoop with his
Winchester to repel any attacks Of the pursuing
faction, that being part of the agreement. Sills
and Thompson came up to within about 200 yards
and tried to make a little demonstration, but tine
reverend gentleman winged them with his rifle a
couple of times and they made of. That after
noon Mr.. and Mrs. Montoney began keeping house
at Snakes Fork.
What reader SO iconoclastic that he can say
that this was not beautiful eopement? But
suppose the young folks had been in a one-horse
buggy and the Old gentleman and his candidate in