Democratic Sentinel, Volume 3, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 December 1879 — A Baflled Parent. [ARTICLE]

A Baflled Parent.

There is a baffled old man in Williams- , port. Pa., and he is disgusted, too. It seems that he learned that his daughter Intended to elope upon a certain evening with a lover upon whose suit he frowned. So he locked his child up in her room, and sat down stairs listening for the sound of the lover’s carriagel- - • But that disgraceful young man tied rags aronnd tho tires of his sulky, so as to muffle the noise, and he' drove softly up to the back gate. He then sent a boisterous, rickety hack around to the front, and engaged the man to make as much racket as he could for the money. When the infuriated father heard it he rushed out with a shot gun, just in time to see a female figure jump into the hack and efrive off. He fired two rounds of buckshot at the concern, rushed out and got his horse, and started in pursuit. Meanwhile the insidious outcast who loved his daughter persuaded her to slide down the lightning-rod, and then fled away with her in an opposite direction from that in which the enraged parent had gone. The bereaved old man had caught up with the hack about eighteen miles out of town, and he not only shot the driver, but he burst the door open and dragged forth—a man, dressed in a waterproof cloak. The father was immediately arrested for highway robbery and assault and battery with intent to kill, and the prosecutors say they will press the suit unless he comes down with a handsome dower for his daughter, and then gives the couple his paternal blessing. There is no use of trying to explain the mental condition of this old man. The English is copious and vigorous, and all that; but it fails utterly in these extreme cases.

Joaquin Miller will again walk into the lecture field.