The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1902-09-09
Richmond Dispatch.)

.uARRIED-In this city today. Mr..
Ra1Dh Redmond and Miss Lou Paris
The happy couple left immediately tor
the city Of Baltimore, where the groom
holds q responsible position with the
electric car company, and where he and
his bride will make their home.
This announcement brings to mind a
tragedy which occurred in 1894 III the
little town of Tryon City, just over the
line in North Carolina, on the Spartan
burg and Asheville railroad, which IS
ro,lere with romance and the devotion
of man and woman to each other, al
though growing out Of a tragedy.
rpon the south side of the Blue Ridge
and ranging to the top IS the town OF
Tryon City, in Polk county, and State OF
North Carolina. This town is named
for Governor Tryon, who camped for
some time during the Revolutionary war
on the site where the town IS now 10
Gated. Here, when the atmosphere IS
clear, the most gorgeous sunrises are 10
be seen. Standing on top OF the Blue
Ridge. 900 feet above the level OF the
sea. the sun, as it appears IN the valley
and through the blue halo of the far east,
looks like a great electric headllght
turned on the earth from the planet
Mars. 10 Stdud anu ODSSIh W u ~ tAieo
of the far-reaching plains. which open
out IN broad exDaDse before you, and
stretching to the seashore, as the light
gradually becomes more and more dis
tinct. and the colors form and change
and then finally disappear over the earth,
is a scene never to be forgotten, and of
which the vision never grows tired.
And as this great daily exhibition of
rarlra iC rpnn1tad the observer cannot
fail to note the great range of noun
tains. whose sides and tops are one solid
block of granite, with crags and caves
and bursted stone, all pointing to some
powerful and terrible throe Of nature,
when these formations We're made. The
splendor Of all this seems coupled with
the power that brought forth these re-
suits, fills the mind with marvellous
wonder, and in the aftertime whether
the observer stands by the pyramids or
by any other of the wonders of this world
which are the handiWork of mankind,
after full contemplation of these, his
mind will revert to the everlasting noun
tains of this and other countries as their
tops rise to the sky amid the clouds as
the work of nature never to be equalled
by the results Of brain and hand.
And here in all parts of the noun
famous country is love of country more
intense than on the plains. In these
hooks and coves and valleys amid the
mountains and on their sides the people.
without regard to their former political
utilization, were lovers of the union-the
united country-and they never gave up
this love, and many thousands of them
left their homes and families and fought
and died to prevent the union from being
dismembered
In the town Of Tryon City in the year
1894 there lived a family by the name
of Paris. The head Of this family was
q widow. She had several children, the
eldest being a daughter of about II years
old, named Lou. This girl was as beauti-
FIJI as q deWdrop and was the belle of the
town. Her only deficiency was the lack
Of education. Her physical a~ttainmonts
were without a blemiSh. Her hair was
the counterpart of the raven, and her
eyes were SO black that they scintillated
like sparks in a night of impenetrable
| darkness. Her complexion was as white
as the first CLEAN from sunrise. She was
as modest and as pure as the blossom
and bud and flowers on the shrubs anG
| trees, whose company she kept every day
, Of the spring-time.
is it any wonder she was the BELIEF
Her youth had been spent in making the
farm and helping her mother with her
houSe-Wifery. Her parents had con
| sidered education a luxury, which was
not permitted to share their thoughts,
and Miss Lou at Il years Of age, could
scarcely read and write her name.
About four miles from Tryon City Is
the Paris farm. Here the family re-
sided until Miss Lou was Is years of age.
| In 1S4o tho onoilr pnoyo6 ~ Tryyap Cit>v
and opened a boarding house for summer
tourists, for which this little town is
'notcd. Adjoining the Paris farm was
the homestead Of the Redmond family.
The Redmonds We're related to the famed
outlaw and moonshiner of that name,
whose residence and operations were in
this State. Tho son, Ralph Redmond,
was a few years older than Lou Paris,
and they saw much of each other as they
grew UP. The little schooling received
by Miss Lou was at the log cabin with
Ralph. As they became older their init
macy opened into a warmer affection,
and when the Paris family changed
their residence to Tryon City, Ralph and
Lou We're engaged to be married.
Ralph was a moonshiner and had been
engaged in the Illicit distillation and
sale Of whiskey all his life. The scene
OF his operations was in the mountains
around Tryon City, and so securely had
he hid the place of his distillery that he
had escanod detection and arrest UP te
the year 1894. He had many hairbrcadtl
escapes, and was among the number who
aided in breaking into the Jail in Ashe-
Vile and releasing the noted Andersen
IWhO had killed a man il Mitchell coun-
t., and who was then under sentence OF
death. He had kept this part of his life
a profound secret from his sweetheart.
As soon as the family took IN Their
residence in Tryon city, Miss Lou bios.
somed out into the acknowledged belle
Of the town, and young William John
stOn became desperately smitten with thu
charms Of this rustic beauty. The at.
tCntion of the town beaux was something
new and novel to Miss Louise, and hel
Woman's wit soon developed those co
q~uctt1sh airs and graces and manner
which few women possess to a cnarmins