Wisconsin herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1846-1849, 1846-06-06

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make to accomplish its object. Bolts
and bars are Of no avail against Gu
pid's picklock contrivances; his cum
ming will devises ways and means to
open them all. A young gentleman
had eourted a fair lady of this city,
and it was supposed that the two, in
due time. would become 'one flesh. ;
Some little quarrel of a trivial nature,
as lovers quarrels generally are, oc-
cprred. Neither would confess the
wrong to be on their side; presents
and correspondence were mutually
sent back, and the match was broken
off. The young gentleman immediate
ly started for New Orleans to enter in
to commercial business. thinking that
distance would lessen the attachment
he really felt for the young lady.
When a woman is injured by one
she loves, she is more apt than man
ssto bite off her own nose," as the say
ing is, to inflict pain and be revenged
on the offending object. A gentleman
the young lady once rejected,renewed
his proposals, and was accepted with
in week after her old lover had en-
barked for the south. On reaching
New Orleans he found that distance in
stead of weak ening his attachment
only made the lady dearer, and he be-
came melancholy and low spirited.
The first letter he received from New
York from friend Of his, announced
that his old flame was to be married
to another. His course was quickly
taken; the next morning saw him on
board packetship bound for Gotham.
The passage unfortunately was long
and the poor fellow chafed and fretted
so much that the passengers began to
think him deranged or else fugitive
escaping from justice. The instant he
touched the wharf he darted for the
Office of his friend the lawyer. 1t is to
be supposed the latter was much sur
Iprised to see his friend, imagining him
couple of thousand miles away. AT
the usual salutation. he exclaimed,
any dear fellow, you are just in
time to see the wedding. Miss 49,,
your old sweetheart, is to be married
this morning at ii o'clock. To tell
you the truth, ! don't believe there is
much love about it, and that the girl
really thinks more of one hair of your
head than the fortunate bridegroom s
whole body
"Good God! Where is she to be
marsied-in church,"
"No. At her fathers house,"
"My dear fellow-I-yes--no--
yes, | have it. Have you any cause
coming on in either of the courts at
IL o'clockP
"Yes." ea
"Then fill me up subpoena with
the bridegroom's name.'
His friend saw his object at once,
and promised to carry on the matter.
The subpoena was made out, and placed
in the hands of clerk to serve upon
the unsuspecting bridegroom the in
slant he was seen to leave his residence
and was despatched in a cab to watch
the house. About ten minutes before
eleven, as the soon happy man was
about to enter coach before the door
of his residence, he was served with a
subpoena.
"Can't help it, said the clerk, in re-
ply to his gesticulating about not
s'knowing the parties going TO be
married. &c. .We shan't reach the
hall before IL. The case is the first
on the docket-won't keep you but 10
minutes. If you don't go, heavy fine;
Imprisonment for contempt" &c.
The bridegroom. who was rather OF
timid nature, finally consented, par
ticularly as the clerk promised to send
friend of his who sat in the cab,
wrapped up in a large cloak, to the
house of his bride in expectation, ex-
planning the reasons Of bis absence
The reader can imagine who this per-
son was.
Eleven o'clock came, but no BRIDE
groom, the priest began to grow impa-
tient, and the bride that was TO be, look
ed pale and agitated, when the car
rage drove up, the bell rang, and
"There he tsp muttered many voices.
A gentleman did indeed enter. whose
appearance created almost as much as
tonishment as that of Edgar Ravens
wood in the hall of Ashton Castle at
the marriage of Lucy Ashton, in
SCOTS Bride of Lammermoor.' The
lady fainted-puyate explanation en-
sued between her parents and her low