Grand River times. [volume] (Grand Haven, Mich.) 1851-18??, 1857-07-01
SERVING A SUBPOENA.


CONFERENCE.-The cunning will devise ways
and means to open them all. A young gen.
tleman had courted fair damsel of this city
and it was supposed the two in time would
"become one." Some quarrel of trivial
nature, as lovers quarrels generally are, oc-
Cured. Neither would confess the wrong to
be on their side-presentsan correspondence
were mutually sent back, and the match
broken off. The young man Immediately
started off to New Orleans, to enter into
commercial business, 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," as the saying is, to inAict pain and be
revenged on the offending object. A gentle
man that the young lady had once rejected
renewed his proposals and was accepted with
in 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 spirited
The first letter he received from New York,
from friend of his, announced that his old
| flame was shortly to be married to another.
His course was quickly taken-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 de-
ranged or else fugitive escaping from JUS
tice. 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 surprised to see his friend, i'm
agining him couple of thousand miles
away. After the usual salutations, he ex-
claimed:
"My dear fellow, you are in time to see
the wedding. Miss -, your old sweet
heart, is to be married this morning, at elev-
en- o'clock. To tell you the truth, l don't
believe there is much love about it, and the
girl really thinks more of one hair of your
head than the fortunate bridegroom's whole
body"
"Good Heaven! Where is she to be mar
ried-n church,"
"No, at her fathers house!"
any dear fellow-I-y yes-no-yes, l
will have it. Have you any case coming on
in either of the courts ut IL oclock"
eyes"
"Then fill up subpoena with the BRIDE
groom's name. Don't stop to ask any ques-
tions. 1t matters not whether he knows any
thing about the parties in the suit. By
Heavens! Julia shall be mine?"
His friend saw the object at once, and
promised to carry on the matter The sub
pena was made out and placed in the hands
of clerk to serve on the unsuspecting bride
groom the instant he should leave his resi-
dence, and was despatched in a cab to watch
the house. About ten minutes before eleven,
as the soon-to.be happy man was about to
enter coach before the door of his residence
he was served with subpoena.
"Can't help it," said the clerk, in reply to
his gesticulating about, mot knowing the
parties, going to get married. DC. awe
shan't reach the hall now before eleven--im-
prisonment for contempt" DC.
The bridegroom who was rather Of tim
id nature, finally consented, particularly as
the clerk promised to send a friend of his
who sat in the cab wrapped in large cloak,
explaining the reasons of his absence. The
reader can imagine who this person was.
Eleven o'clock came, but still no BRIDE
groom. The guests were staring at each 9th
er-the priest began to grow impatient-and
the bride that was to be, looked pale and ag-
itated, when carriage drove up and the bell
rung. "There he is! There he is!" muir
INJURED many voices.
A gentleman did enter, whose appearance
created almost as much astonishment as that
of Edgar Ravenswood in the hall of Ashton
castle at the marriage of Lucy Ashton, in
Scott's "Brde of Lammermoor." The la
dy fainted private explanations ensued be-
tween the parents and the lover, and the re-
suit was that, in ten minutes after, the two
real lovers were joined in the sacred bond OF
matrimonv 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 on being made
acquainted with the condition of affairs
was really tragi-comical.
The story Of the subpoena shortly after
wards leaked out, and has created so much
amusement, that the poor fellow declares he
will sue the lawyer for ten thousand dollars
damages in subpenaing him as witness IN
a case of which he knew nothing, and by
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