Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1856-01-25
A WEDDING rroS CoMPrIsloN-ruE PRk-

A WEpDTSG uPoS C0MPCLsGOS-=THB PRE-
negatives OF LEAP YEAR YISD1cATEE.-We
we're one of the witnesses of wedding yester-
day which if it did not illustrate the epigram-
m.tic dogma of the immortal dramstist-
.'rle course Of true love did run smooth
was emphatic in its vindication of the fact in
this case at least, that the course of5ulss love
is not successful in-running away. The par
,ies-the youthful parties-were, German,
Leopold Beaver Che looked as though he had
built the biggest kind of adtq' to arrest thecur-
rent of his spouse,s affections but in VAIN aged
90 years; and matronly German woman, the
bride, aged 60 years, The scene of the nup-
tials was the Sheriff 5 office
ltappears, according 10 the declaration of the
ayenging matron, that Herr Leopold had beenan
inmate Of the house of Idle trGu Wihelmia Hille-
brandt, and his personal charms, combined with
the charms of sundry gold coins which he had
vauntingly exhibited on several occasions, had
produced very favorable impression on die frau;
and that, gay deceiyer as he was, he had elibe-
rately bartered these inestimable attributes to
the said Wilhelmia HilIebrundt, having on seye-
raj occasions, according to the oath of die frau,
made, in very emphatic German, declarations of
premeditated matrimony- said Wilhelmia
IIillebrandt being the sole choice of his atfec-
tons, and the duly elected partner Of his fortune,
his fame, his tolls and-his money. Herr Leo
pold alleged, in his defence, that he spoke high
Dutch, while die frau spoke low Dutch, andif
availing herself Of the prerogatiyes of Leap Year.
she had again and again asked him if he would
marry her, and if in her ignorance of the high
Dutch, she had construed his repeated aieht4
into yaso, he submitted that she had no claims,
by virtue of promises, on his person or property.
But this would not stay the Inevitable course OF
the law. Her declaration was sworn to-she had
sued Herr Leopold for a breach of promise, be-
lieying that he was about to depart, aud bestow
his affections eIsewhere-and marry her he
must, GA give bail, or to Jail Choosingwhar
he seemed to regard as the least of three evils.
he concluded to marry. So Sheriff Wickhain,
wishing, with his characteristic poltteness, to
appease the exacting demands Of the law on the
most accommodating terms, kindly converted his
office into bridal chamber--so far as the pre-
iminary ceremonies were concerned-and call
ing to the aid of the happy parties the Rev. AR
Heller, they were, in, very chaste and impressive
German, resolved into man aud wife.
As We lookedupon the two distinct indiridu-
alities whom the law solcmnly assumes were
thus being mingled into one, we could not, with
proper respect for our knowledge Of physiogno-
my as indieitive of the inner emotions of man
and woman, conscientiously declare THAT the
said individualities exhibited any decided symp-
toms of an ardent attachment for each other, or
of any natural prOcIiyity to blend tremendously
together; nor could've with propriety say that
die frau IIillcbrandt l0okedat all like our ideal
of the trembling and impassioned Hero, impa-
tent to rush into thearIns of her Lcantler-Leo-
POld Beayer:-if thus she did feel VIC are almost
ceartain that Leopold didn't reciprocate, for we
make no wrong construction ofthe Language of
the human face divine when we say we distinct
ly read in Lcopold's face, ifwehsd not heard it
. in his words ''to d-l MT yoer. Tfaush,