" one irate father and one more irate son"

May 1880: William E Bond and Miss Dora A Taylor of Flat Rock were given a license to marry by the clerk of the Lawrence County.  Thereby hangs a tale. Miss Dora was a young lady so youthful that her Papa didn't think she ought to marry; at any rate she shouldn't marry Mr. Bond. The latter was an excellent young man, a painter by trade.

The stern parent, to be on the safe side, warned the clerk of Crawford County of the most direful consequences should he issue the couple a license. The distressed couple enlisted the sympathy of the Lawrence County clerk and the plan of going to Lawrence County to be bound in matrimony was adopted.

The license was procured, and the couple stepped across the border, to make it legal, and were pronounced man and wife. They went to the groom’s boarding house in Flat Rock, prepared to enjoy their newfound happiness, but alas! They were doomed to disappointment.

The irate father, backed by his more irate son, made an onslaught on the building and captured the bride, whom they took to their own castle and locked up. The bridegroom was frantic but being in the minority he was compelled to abandon any attempt at a rescue; and started for a writ of habeas corpus.

 After keeping the bride in bondage different from that which she anticipated, and depriving her from the first two nights with her husband, the stern parent relented and released his prisoner. Probably the fact that the writ had been applied for had something to do with his change of mind. The couple are now living together, probably happier than ever after their severe trial.