Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1857-04-28
SERVING A SUBPOENA.

1t ia singular what shifts love will make to
accomplish its objects. Both gates and bars
are Of little avail against Cupid's pick-lock
CONFERENCE.-The counting will devise ways
and means to open them all. young gentle.
man had courted fair damsel of this CITY and
ii was supposed that two in time would g be-
come one" Some little quarrel of trivial ma
ture, as lover squirrels generally are occurred
Neither would confess the wrong 70 be on their
side-presents and correspondence were mu-
tually sent back and the match was broken off,
The young gentleman Immediately started off
to New Orleans, to enter into commercial bust
ness, thinking that distance would lessen the
attachment he really felt for the young lady
When the woman is injured, or thinks she is
injured by the one she loves she is more apt than
the male sex - to bite off her own nose y as the
saying is to infict pain, and be revenged on
the offending object A gentleman that the
young lady had once rejected renewed his pro-
posals and was accepted within a week after
her old lover had embarked for the South.
On reaching New Orleans he found that dis
lance, instead ofweakening his attachment, only
made the lady dearer, and he became melan-
received from New York from friend of his
announced that his old fame was to be shortly
married to another. His course was quickly
taken-the next morning saw him on board a
packet-ship bound for Gotham.
The passage unfortunately was long, and the
passengers began to thing him deranged or else
fugitive escaping from justice. The instant
the vessel touched the wharf he darted for the
office of his friend. the lawyer. 1t is to be sup
posed the latter was much surprised to see his
friend, imagining him a couple of thousand
miles away. After the usual salutations he
exclaimed:
Ny dear fellow, you are in time TO see the
wedding Mis-, your old sweetheart, is
to be married this morning at eleven o'clock.
To tell You the truth, I don't believe there is
much love about it, and the girl really thinks
more Of one hair of your head than the fortu-
nate bridegroOn's whole body"
Good Heaven. Where is she to be married
in church,"
mo, at her fathers house,
Ny dear fellow-I-I-yes-no-ye
will have it Have You any case coming on in
either of the courts at ii oclock'''
yes"
Then fill up q subpoena with the BRIDE
groom's name. Don't stop to ask any uues-
tons. 1t matters not whether he knows any
thing about the parties in the suit By Heav-
ems. Julia shall be minel''
dis friend saw the object ut once and prom
tsed TO carry on the matter. The subpoena was
made out and placed in the hands of a clerk to
serve on the unsuspecting bridegroom the in
slant ne should leave his residence, and was
despatched in q cab to watch the house About
ten minutes before eleven. as the soon-to-be
the door of his residence, he was served with a
subpoena.
Cant help it, said the CLERK. in reply to
bis gesueulating about not knowing the par
ties, going to be married." &c " We shan't
reach the Hall now before eleven-imprison-
ment for contempt" &c.
The bridegroom, who was rather Of q timid
nature, finally consented, particularly as the
clerk promised to send a friend of his who sat
In the cab wrapped up in large clook, ex-
planning the reasons ofhis absence. The reader
can imagine who this person was.
Eleven o'clock came, but still no bridegroom
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
carriage drove up and the bell rung. There
he Is. There be Is. murmured many voices
A gentleman did enter, whose appearance
created almost as much astonishment as that
Of Edgar Rayenswood in the Hall of Ashton
Castle at the marriage of Lucy Ashton, in
Scotts Bridge Of Lammernoor." The lady
tainted; private explanations ensued between
the parents and the lover, and the result was
that, In ten minutes after, the two real lovers
were Joined in the sacred bond of matrimony,
much to the satisfaction of all
The bridegroom that-was- to- have been af-
forwards made his appearance putting and blow
ing What he said and what he did on be-
holding his rival, and being made acquainted
with the condition of affairs, was really tragi-
comical.
The story Of the subpoena shortly afterwards
leaked out. and has created so much amuse-
ments, that the poor fellow declares he will sue
the lawyer for ten thousand dollars damages in
suopenaIng him as q witness in a case of which
be know nothing, and by which he lost a wife
IL viii be novel suit indeed, if he should do So
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