Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1857-04-01
SERVING A SUBPOENA.
OR LOVE VS.. LAW.


1t is singular what shifts love will make TO
accomplish its objects. Bolts. gates and bars
are of little avail against Cupid picklock con
| trivances-hs cunning will devise ways and
means TO open them all. A young gentleman
has courted a fair lady of this city, and it was
supposed the two in time would sbecome one
Some little quarrel Of trivial nature, as lovers
| quarrels generally are, occurred. Neither
would confess the wrong to be on their side
presents and correspondence were mutually
sent back, and the match was broken off. The
young gentleman Immediately started off for
New Orleans, to enter into commercial busin
ess, thinking that distance would lessen the at
tachment he really felt for the young lady.
When woman is injured, or thinks she is
| injured, Ivy the one she loves, she is more apt
than the male sex Ssto bite off her own nose, !"
as the saying is, to infict pain and be reven-
gcd on the offending object. a gentleman
that the young lady once rejected renewed his
proposals and was accepted within week af-
| ter her old lover had embarked for the south.
| On reaching New Orleans he found that dis
lance, instead of weakening his attachment,
only made the lady dearer, and he became
melancholy and low spirited. The first letter
he received from New York, from a friend of
his, announced that this old flame was shortly
! to be married TO another. His course was
quickly determined; the next morning saw
him on board packet ship bound to Gotham
The passage unfortunately was long, and
| the poor fellow chafed and fretted so much
that the passengers began to think him deran-
| ged or else fugitive escaped from Justice
! The instant the vessel touched the wharf he
darted for the office Of his friend the lawyer
1t is to be supposed the latter was much sur
prised to see his friend, imagining him coup
lie of thousand miles away. After the usual
salutations he exclaimed
eMy dear fellow You are just in time to sec
the wedding. Miss, your old sweat heart
is to be married this morning at IL o'clock.
To tell you the truth don't believe there is
much love about it, and that the girl really
thinks more OF one hair of your head than the
fortunate bridcgroom's whole body"
Good Heaven where is she to be married.
in Church?
s.No; at her fathers house"
''My dear acknowledgements. have it.
Have you any coming on in either OF the
courts at eleven O'Clock 20
eyes"
"Then ill up subs1na with the bride
groom's name. Don't stop to ask any qucs-
tions. 1t matters not whether he knows any
thing about the parties in the suit. By heay-
ems, Julia shall be mine 7"
His friend saw the object at once and prom
sed to carry on the matter. The subpoena
was made out and placed in the hands of a
clerk to serve on the unsuspccting bridegroom
the instant he was seen 10 leave his residence.
About ten minutes before eleven, as the soon
TO he happy man was about entering coach
before the door of his residence, he was served
with the subpoena.
'sCan't help it, said the clerk, on his ges-
tculating about mot knowing the parteS,' 'go-
| ing to be married. &c. "We shan't reach
tho hall now before eleven o'clock--the case
is the first on the calender, heavy fine, impris-
onment for contempt" &c.
The bridegroom, who was of a rather timid
nature, finally consented, particularly as the
| clerk promised to send friend of his who sat
in the cab, wrapped mp in cloak, to the house
of his bride in expectation, explaining the Tea-
son of his 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 agtated, when
a carriage drove up, the bell rang, and ''there
he is there he is ~ murmured many voices.
A gentleman did enter, whose appearance Gre
! aI 1n,n hot ,T
Edgar Ravenswood in the Hall of Ashton Cas-
tie, at the marriage of Lucy Ashton, in Scott's
| 'sBrlde of Lammermoor." The lady tainted
private explanations cnsued between her pa
rent 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-
terwards made his appearance, putting and
| blowing. What he said, and what he did, on
beholding his rival and being made acquainted
with the condition of affairs, was really tragi-
! comical
| The story Of the subpoena shortly after leak
ed out, and has created so much amusement
that the poor fellow declares he will sue the
lawyer for $4,000 damages in subpenang
him witness in case of which he knew
nothing, and by which he lost wife. 1t viii
be novel suit indeed if he should do So
Ne'c YOrh paper.
~rhe japanese are said TO be the only
people who will not tolerate the hooped skirts.
These isolated people have tolerated no change
in dress for two thousand five hundred years.