Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1857-02-27
SERVING A ENA
LOVE VS.. LAW.

ming will devise ways and means to open
them all. A young gentlemen had cour
ted iair lady of this city. and it was
supposed the two in time would .become
one. Some little quarrel of trivial ma
ture, as lovcrs quartcls generally are, oc-
Cured. Neither would confess the wrong
to be on their side-presents and cores
pondence were mutually sent back, and
the match was broken off. The young
gentleman Immediately started Off for
New Orleans, to enter into commercial
business, thinking that distance would
lesson the attachment he really felt for
tie young lady.
When the woman is injured by the one
she loves, she is more apt than the
male sex "to bite off her own nose, -
as TIE the saying is, to inAict pain, or be
revenged on the offending object A gen.
tlcman that the young lady had once re-
jected renewed his proposals and was
accepted within week after her old
lover had embarked for the South.
On reaching New Orleans he found
that distance, instead Of weakening his
attachment, only made the lady dearer,
and he became melancholy and low-spir-
ited. Tho fist letter he received from
New York from a friend of his announ-
ced that his old flame was to bc shortly
married to another HIS coGrse was
quickly taken-the next morning saw
him on board a pae&et-ship bound for
Gotham.
The passage unfortunately was long
and the poor fellow chafod and frctted
SO much that The passengers began 10
think him dcrangcd, OF else a fugitive es-
Gaping from justice. The instant the
vessel touched the wharf he dartcd for the
office Of friend, the lawyer. 1t is to be
supposed the latter was much surprised
to see his friend, imagining lin . coup
.e Cf thousnd miles away. After tie
usual salutatioas, he exclaimed:
My dear fellow, YOU are lust in time
20 sle the wcdding Your old sweet
heart, IS % 5c married this morning at
Il o'clock. To tel you the truth,
don + think there Is much love about it,
and that gil really thinks more Of one
hair OF your head than the lortuna.e
bridegroom whole body"
Good Heaven, Where is she to be
marr.ed-!n church -
No, at her father house.
My dear tollow-l-i-yes-no-
yes, | will have it. Have yoa any case
aoming on in either Of the courts at eley-
en- clock =
"Ncs.
Then fiil up a submna with the bride
groom'5 name. Doa.t ask any ques-
tions. 1t matters not whether he knows
anything about the parties in the suit
BY lIcaFsns Jul.I shall be mine -
His tricr,I saw the object at once, and
promised to carry on The matter. Tho
subpoena was made out and placed in the
hands Of clerk TO serve on the unsus-
pectins bridegroom the instant he was
seen to leave his residence, and was das-
patched in a cab 20 watch the house
About ten minutes before eleven. a,
the soontobe happy man was abou. en-
tering a coach before the door OF his res.
idence, he was served with a subpoena.
Cant help it, said :he clerk, il re
ply to his gesticulating about no.
knowing the parties, going to be marri-
ed, *. I've shan't reach the Hail now
before clcven-the case is first on the cal
ender, heavy fine, imprisonment fer con-
tempt &c.
The bridegroom, who was rather
.imid, finally consented particularly as the
clerk promised to send friend of his who
sat in the cab wrapped up in large cloak
to the house of his bride in expectation
explaining the reason of his absence.
The reader can imagine who this person
was.
Eleven clock came, but still no bride
groom The guests were staring at each
other-the priest began to grow impa-
tient-and the bride that was to be lc ok
ed pale and asitated, when carriage
lrove mp, the bell rang, and There he
'eS,
n gentleman aid enter whose appear
lhco created Almost as much aston'sh-
neht as that OF Edgar Ravcnsworth IN