The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1895-01-14


r lover TO leave her alone and save
ninself. This he rightly refused TO do and
faced his pursuers standing beside the girl
he had chosen for his wife. 1t was short
work for the brother to part the lovers. In
a few minutes she was on the road back
TO the home she was striving to leave, while
the groom TO be was waiting for the UNI
reasonable rowdies to decide what they were
TO do with him.
At last the verdict came-he
was 10 be thrown from the top
of Ston mountain. After this ue-
cision was reached the crowd took drinks
from their bottles and the march was
taken up for the mountain. Arriving upon
the top of the mountain, counsel was
held by the rOwdies and more drinks We're
passed around. After drinking several times
they We're nerved for their cruel work
and they had the young prisoner upon The
very brink of the precipce, with his hands
tied fast behind him. A slight push would
have sent him hurting downward for $500
feet but the push was never given. For
some reason q different plan was settled
upon. Instead OF showing him off the prec-
ipice it was decided to tie him TO rope
and let him hang head downward between
heaven and earth. BY some means they
secured ropes--only pillow lnes-and upon
this blessed Christmas night he was swung
over the precipiCc, let down some fifty
feet and left to his fate.
While all this was going on the young
woman in the case had not been idle. She
made her escape. ana knowing the char
aCter Of the crowd that had her lover, she
was frantic in her efforts. She soon had
friends to go with her to the rescue. Her
own father joined, being brought to his
sense by what ne feared for his son. They
traced the rOwdies to the mountain, a thing
easy enough as they had made so much
fuss on the way. The resculng party went
went down the other side or else, perhaps,
there would have been blOOdshed. Anyhow
no time was lost. The groans of the suffer
ing man were soon heard and directed the
rescuing party to his relief. Carefully they
drew him up, every man in a treiuble Tor
fear the slender ropes would break. Safely
hauled from over the terrible prccipice
the young man tainted away, while the
young woman fell across the protrate form.
Happily the young fellow was soon
brought around all risht. The father OF
the girl looked on till he saw everything re-
stored. Then, turning away. ne said:
Let the ceremony be performed"
And performed II was, there being a min
lister present At the foot Of the mountain
the old father turned and offered his hand
10 the newly married pair. saying as no
did so:
you are a great rascal, but you are my
son-in-law come home and be happy"
Such a procedure as the above would be
almost impossible in the same section at
the present time. The crueltes of these
days may be jdst as painful, but they arc
more refined and must be made more Sc
cretly. This country ali around Atlanta
now is just suited for those able TO revel
in the luxury of a beautiful suburban home.
In the summer the breeze is cooling, the
woods and flowers and green swards inspir-
ing, while the quiet from the city's rum
bic is soothing TO the business and profess
sional man and a delight to the women and
children. AS we hunted in the fields 10 the
right and the left of the Georgia railroad
on Christmas l could not help from conuem-
plating the opportunities for Industrial de-
velopment that is waiting here. In going
out from Atlanta eastward the water that
falls to your right goes direct TO the At
Iantic ocean. That which falls to the left
goes TO the gulf of Mexico. Creeks with