Minnesota weekly times. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1854-1859, 1856-11-29
kentucky EIopement-Tears versus Pistols.

About week ago very respectable citizen OF
eIr ueighboring burgh of Newport named Micke.
,-ata was applied to by a gentleman for board
au1 an apartment for himself and lady. MIR. NJ
FIRST objected, but the stranger was importunats
al'e1ing that his wife was of SO retiring dis
POSITION that she could not endure the gaze oil
jas inmates of public hotel, for which reason
pa. So 5 more anxious to be accommodated. A,
.,rzth Mr.. Mcklewaite consented to the arrange
ln.a, and having prepared very coy little room
to- tAcir reception, the lady, very magnificent
- men of feminine loneliness, was duly indicted
-. an her bower.
r. vas a matter of admiration to the host and
ho .Gs, the love and devotion which seemed to
Invade the newly arrived couple; it was evident
at the honeymoon was at the full, and that
yo hearts that beat as ones inhabited the little
sua-5ery up stairs, which, however, to the loving
par was a whole world, an universe strewn with
.o.den dreams and rosy flowers. But an old bard
--a.t Shakspeare-eitherw wrote or said:
..Life's swindle and dream,
Things Amt always what they seem;'
ana so it turned out with our turtle doves, who
SLOWED not wisely too wel.''
On Wednesday last, shortly after the arrival
eff lac Lexington train, a gentleman called upon
'i-. T., and requested to know if such couple,
ae crbng the pair of question, were in the house.
. u, answered in the affirmative, he desired to
J. conducted to their apartment, which being
.lran him he flung open the door and there seated
;.a1 Il chair, sat the gentleman, while the lady
.yoting over him was daintily arranging his
's-ry hair.
*. sight of the apparition which thus burst
..al their view, the pair started, and looked
hast, but as the intruder drew from his breast
O. rcy Diver, the landlord placed himself between
(. 40 oarties and demanded an explanation. The
,-ory vas soon told the lady was the wife of the
recent arrival, and eloped about week previous
ION her home in Lexington, Kentucky, whence
ar husband had tracet to her present quarters.
wash ;he intention of avenging his wounded
honor.
Ia The meantime, the gay Lothario had sneaked
cIt Of the room, and left the house, leaving his
.atv partner to bear the brunt of the storm
aiyne. For while she tried those unfailing re-
sources of woman, tears and Mysteries, and then,
rr.ie acknowledging her error, she pallated it by
gi,atiing GOODNESS upon his part, which chilled
he- love, and impressed her with the belief that
I'D had ceased to care for her, and how in despair
iJ the loss of his affection, she had imprudently
and in Il moment of reckless insanity listened to
the seductive pleadings of his false friend: and
r5 II she fell upon her knees, and gazing upward
t4goi5h her tears, her large and lustrOus eyes
.zei mournfully upon his, she implored him either
20 forgve or kill her.
Our Benedict was moved-he cast one look at
TIC murderous implement he still held in his hand
and then glanced at the beautiful figure at his
feet. 1t was moment of anxious doubt to the
no=r, who remained motionless spectator but
''bsauty in tears" and suppliant beauty at that
psAaw-the odds were all on one side-he threw
Tho pistol from him raised his worse-half to his
bosom, and the next mornings train bore them
back to the fair city of Observation-Disclosures
Commercial.