Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1894-11-15


dencs. Failing 20 dislOdge me BY phys
icaI force, they informed several OF my
children that was about 20 be married
10 litte Dora. This made the children
furious and they have placed every
obstruction that they could 10 our way.
They persuaded Judge John Chanuit
not 10 marry me, after l had procured
license, last Friday. l then asHed
SQUIRE Green b. Million to marry US,
aud be promised 70 do so, but they got
wind of tnat and persuaded Million not
20 have anything TO do with me, Yes
terday / suspected that they would
issue, or cause TO be issued, an inlunc-
tion, restraining me FROM marrying the
girl. ,,-
"They thought thew had me here like
a rat in a cage, and that l was unable
90 help myself from their machinations'
AccordiugIY. 7 deter mined TO thWart
their designs, and after II had become
dark last night, I armed McCIeIlanu
Richardson, brother OF Dora, aud Bar
low Clark, one Of my farm hands, ana
sent them eight miles across the country
after Squire Isaac Newton Douglass.
The Squire, who is good, Christian,
kind hearted gentlemen, aud VINO sym
Dathizes with me in my trouble, got up
in the night aud rode on horseback
over the roughest kind Of dirt road,
that he might be here in time.
The ceremony was accordingly
performed yesterday morning be-
fore 10 o'clock. Just before the
inal words were said that made
Us mao and vile, my grandson,
Green Herrick, son OF my daughter
Mary b. Clay, who was divorced from
her husband and who took the name OF
Clay, and also calls herself Green Gay
arrived at my door. l suspected that
be had come for the purpose OF
INTERPRETING WITH Ny MARRIAGE
bv some order OF the court, and l
promptly told him to leave the place
and never come in II again until In
vited him. I told him that | would
shoot MIN IL be came before l invited
him. He left.
"Now, you see the way 1 have been
treated by those who ought 20 love and
desire my happiness. They have treat
ed me 10 such manner that they have
actually made a wild beast OF me, and
/ would lust as soon shoot down one or
the cOnspirat0rs as TO fire on my most
deadly enemy, for they are my enemies.
But as long as l have my health and
strength, I'll defy them 70 the bitter
end
The only witnesses TO the marriage
were McClellaud Richardson and DR..
Cassius Clay Smith, the latter a physl-
clan Of Richmond. Dr. Smith refused
70 say anything about the wedding,
explaining that he had promised Gen.
Clay not 20 do so. II was learned that
the ceremony took place In the sitting
room. The bride was not dressed as
brides usually are. She wore a plain
dark dress, was 0areheaded, her long
black tresses hanging ia an almost
disheyelled mass down her back. She
wore no glovos, no orange blossoms, and
carried no brides roses in her hands.
10 was q simple ceremony. The girl,
who had remained sitting until Gen.
Clay and the magistrate arose, got up
from the divan and took her place be-
side
HER WHITE-HEALED BRIDEGROOM.
Ii was a touching scene The man who
had led admiring thousands in a cru
sade for human liberty; who in his
youth was a perfect Apollo BeIyidere in
appearance, il not Napoleon 10 the
cause OF abolition, stood as msekly as a
little child with an expression Of IN
sDeakable haDD ness upon his tiue-worn
but still fresh and almost youthful tea-
lures, and by his side that simple,
trusting country girl as shy as a gazelle,
Of q ~ n
which her venerable husband has
played a conspicuous part as the most
unJutored daughter or nature. The
ceremony was very brief, and when II
was over the bashful child went back to
tho Kitchen. and Gen. Clay and his fam
ily physician sat talking by the large
open fireplace, 10 which glowed two
bushels OF burning Goals.
Aud thus was celebrated one OF the
most remarkable weddings that ever
took place in the United States. II is
the talk of the entire State, the general
opinion being that Gen. Clay Is but a
child again, and like his bride, be
scarcely knows what he Is doing. An at
tempt was made tonight 20 interview
his daughter, Miss Laura Clay, who is
President of the Kentucky Equal Rights
Association. When informed that her
father had succeeded In getting mar
ried she became very much excited, and
declined 10 talk.
Gen. Clay eau be described as a
''magniicent ruin" His mind seems
Co be a perfect storehOuse OF knowledge,
his mode OF expression is sharp and
quick, being very much TO the point,
out be seems 90 have lost that portion
of tho mental faOric described as
"iudgment." He is childish in the ex-
treme, but otherwise his once brilliant
mind seems 20 have lost none of It's
brightest Iuster