MARRIAGE DIFFICULTIES.

Patea Mail, Volume II, Issue 177, 20 December 1876, Page 2 (Supplement)

MARRIAGE DIFFICULTIES.

[FROM THE TROY (MO. HKRAI.D.J : Our usually quiet town lias had a sensation in which love and matrimony, cowhides and pistols, were the exiting elements. It has been our. practice never to give publicity to private scandals, but as the matter referred to below has already been spread so far, involving, perhaps, many exaggerated reports, doing both parties injustice, and as it will be made the subject of legal investigation, we cannot evade our responsibility. The facts are briefly these\ .

’ Porter E, Norton has been paying his attentions to Miss Mollie Cake, and for several months past against the consent of her parents. During this latter time his interviews with her were obtained by strategy. One of these occurred on a Sabbath evening, when Sydnor Parker called for Miss Mollie to go walking. Shortly afterwards they were joined by Porter and Miss Mina Wright, the route leading up Boone street and by Seventh to College. At this point they were to meet Miss Cake, who, with a lady and gentleman, was walking up College street. Turning before they were recognised they rapidly retraced their steps. Fearful of unpleasant consequences, Porter suggested that the party repair at once to the parlor of the Laclede, and sent Sydnor for the Rev. J. B. Allen. In less than ten minutes from;the meeting on College street Porter and Miss Mollie were man and wife. The affair created the customary talk and congratulations, which latter were many and warm, as the newly married pair enjoy in a high degree the esteem and respect of all. But the sensation was not ended. Early Monday morning Mrs Cake, accompanied by her oldest son, Frank, entered Parker’s store. Accosting Sydnor Parker, who stood behind the counter with, “ You stole my daughter last night, did you?" she drew a revolver and a cowhide and began at once to ply the latter in vigorous style over Sydnor’s head and shoulders. Prank stood by with a knife in his hand. Sydnor finding himself hemmed in, began to defend himself. He caught hold of the whip, and Colonel Parker coming up, the affair ended. Legal proceedings have been Instituted on three complaints—disturbing the peace, assault and battery, and assault with intent to kill. A civil suit for damages has also been commenced. Runaway marriages are getting to be fashionable in this country. A young lady near Milwood left home recently to go to a picnic in company with a smalt party, but before she got half way she met a buggy, a nice young man and a vacant seat. She transferred herself, and, instead of going to the picnic at Riggs’ Ford, she and the nice young man went over in the neighborhood of Auburn, where they had a nice little picnic of their own, at which ’Squire Smiley was master of ceremonies.