Squatter sovereign., 1855-10-09
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Serving Subpoena, or Love VS. Law.


devise ways and means to open them all.
A young gentleman had courted fair Ia
dy of this city, and it was supposed the two
would become one. Some little quarrel OF
a trivial nature, as lovers quarrels gener-
ally are, occurred. 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 started for New Orleans
Immediately, to enter into commercial busi-
ness, thinking that distance would lessen
the attachment he really felt for the young
lady. When woman is injured, or thinks
she is injured by the one she loves, she is
more apt than the male sex to "bite of her
own nose" "as the saying is, to infict pain,
and be revenged on the offending object.
A gentleman the young lady once rejected.
renewed his proposals, and was accepted,
within week from the time her old lover
had embarked for the South. On reaching
New Orleans he found that distance, in
stead of weakening his attachment only
made the lady dearer, and he became mel
ancholy and low spirited. The first letter
he received from New York from friend
Of his, announced that his old flame was to
be shortly married to another. His course
was quickly taken; the next morning found
him on board packet ship 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 from JUS
tice. The instant the vessel touched the
wharf, he darted for the office of his friend,
a lawyer; it is to be supposed the latter
was surprised to see his friend, imagining
him a couple of thousand miles away
After the usual salutations. he exclaimed:
"My dear fellow, you are just in time to
see the wedding. Miss -, your old
sweetheart, is to be married this morning,
at IL o'clock. To tell the truth. don't
believe there's much love about it, and that
the girl really thinks more of your head
than she does of the fortunate bridegroom's
whole body"
Good heavens! where is she to be
married-in church?"
mo, at her fathers house."
"My dear fellow-I-I-yes-no-
yes, l will have it. Have you any case
coming on in either Of the. courts at IL
o'clock 2"
"Yes."
"Then fill up subpoena with the BRIDE
groom's name. Don't stop to ask any
questions. 1t matters not whether he
knows anything about the parties in the
suit. BY heaven, Julia shall be mine!
His friend saw the object at once and
promised to carry out the matter. A SUBJ
pena was made out and placed in the
hands of clerk to serve on the unsuspect-
ing bridegroom the instant he was seen to
leave his residence, and was dispatched in
a cab to watch the house About 10 min
utes before IL, as the soon-to-be-happy
was about entering coach before his res
idence, he was served with subpoena.
Cant help it" said the clerk in reply
to his gesticulations about not knowing the
parties, going to be married. &C., "we
shan't reach the Hall now before eleven !;
the case is the first on the calendar, heavy
fine, imprisonment for contempt, &C."
The bridegroom, who was rather of a
timid nature, finally consented, particular
ly 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. explaining the reason of his
absence. The reader can easily imagine
who this person was.
/, Eleven o'clock came, but still no BRIDE
groom. The guests were staring at each
other-the priest began to grow impatient
and the bride that was to be, looked pale
and agitated, when a carriage drove up,
the bell rang, and There he is.-A
gentleman entered whose appearance cre-
ated almost as much astonishment as that
OF Edgar Ravenswood in the haIl of Ash
ton Castle, at the marriage of Lucy Ash
ton, In SCOTS bride of Lammermoor."
The lady fainted-private explanations
ensued between her parents and the lover
the two real lovers were joined in the
sacred bonds of matrimony, much to the
satisfaction Of all. -
The bridegroom that was to have been,
afterwards made his appearance putting