The Nevada Democrat., 1857-01-28

ALMOST AN ELOPEMENT.-The upper portion
of Broad street, on Sunday morning last, was
thrown into an intense excitement by the de-
noument to what was designed as one Of Dan
Cupids most entertaining domestic dramas,
commonly denominated an "elopement." As
the play of Hamlet with the part Of Hamlet
omitted. A fair damsel whose heart seems to
have been impregnable for long time to the
"curled darlings" of the town, was at last sof-
tened by the fascinating arts of an ex-policeman.
The gay Lothario who well knows what belongs
to a constable, had insidiously won upon the
confidence of trusting father and mother and
insinuated himself into their esteem until be
was ever welcome in the family circle. Taking
advantage ofhis friendly footing by some means
he had succeeded in overcoming the natural re-
serve and indifference of the fair one, whether
by the "story of his life," "the dangers he had
passed." "the hair breadth escapes i the immi-
nent deadly breach" or whether the lady saw
Othello's visage in his mind, or yet by arts in
hibited and out Of warrant, by charms and con-
jurations, had practiced on her, has not yet
come to light. However the time was fixed
when the lady was to leave the house of her
doating parents and fly to the arms of the afore-
said policeman, that was. But on that fatal
morning there came Frost killing frost, in
the shape of lynx-eyed mother who had been
apprizcd of the contemplated attachment levied
by the officer in question upon her property,
and she succeeded by process wholly unknown
to judicial practice in quashing the whole pro-
ceeding; as the sequel will show.
The morning came, Sunday morning early
upon the horizons verge the first rays of light
we're blazing, when the couchant policeman
stealthily took his way towards his Juliet. The
exit it had been arranged was to have been
made by way of the kitchen, for there he had
wooed and won her. Besides her PARENT being
engaged in that art for which his countrymen
are so justly renowned, the cooking and baking
business, it was natural that she should desire
to take last fond lingering look at the famil-
liar objects of the culinary department AS be
approached the back door of the kitchen he
paused and after accommodating FOR moment
he made a low whistle but the young lady did
not appear. After repeating this several times
he stealthily approached the door, where the
old lady was wide awake and full of wrath
awaiting him. He entered when the door sud
denly closed and behind it instead of the fair
Dulcinia, by the dim light of the morning he be-
held the enraged dame, standing with an up
lifted ladle that descended in blows thick and
fast upon his devoted head. An awful cater
waulling ensued which aroused and greatly
scandalized the pious neighborhood, and those
who got to their back windows describe match
race in which the credit of the American turf
was well sustained, the French file being dis
tanced in the chase. The last that was seen of
the discounted swain, he was going il over the
adjacent hills, his coat tail rent and flying was
streaming to the wind, and his pedal propelers
moving with the celebrity, if not of an antelope
at least of a cantelope.