Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1857-05-14
Serving a Subpoena.

to accomplish its objects. Both gates anG
bars are of little avail against Cupidis pick
lock contrivances- cunning will devise
ways and means TO open them all. A
young gentlemen had courted fair dam
sci of this city, and it was supposed that the
two in time would become one. Some lit.
tie quarrel of trivial nature, as lovers quar-
r.ls generally are, occurred. Neither would
confess the wrong to be on their side
presents and correspondence were naturally
sent back, and the match was broken off
The young gntleman Immediately started
off to New Orleans to enter into CONNER
cial business, thinking the 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 offh
own nose" as the saying is, to iufict pain
and be revenged on the offending object. A
gentleman that the young lady had once re-
jected renewed his proposal and was accept
ed within week after her old lover had
embarked for the South. On reaching
New Orleans he found that distance, in
stead of weakening bis attachment, only
made the lady dearer, and he became mel
ancholy and Iow-spirited. The first letter
is received from New York from a friend
of his, announced that his old flame was
to be shortly married to another. His
course was quickly taken-the next morn
ing saw him on board 3 packet-ship bound
for Gotham. ln
The passage unfortunately was long, ard
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, ina
ginning 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 ele-
ven 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 fortunate bridegroom's
whole body"
'Good Heaven! Where is she to be
married-in church %
'No, at her fathers house"
any dear fellow-I-I-yes-no-yes,
l have it. Have you any case coming on
in either of the ecourts at eleven o'clock? %
"Yes." HaF
'Then fill up subpoena with the bride.
groom's name. Don'task any questions.
1t matters not whether he knows anything
about the parties in the suit. By Heavenl
Julia shall be miner'
His friend saw the object at once, and
promised TO carry on the matter. The sub
poena was made out and placed in the
hands of a clerk to serve on the unsuspect-
ing bridegroom the instant he should leave
his residence, and was despatched in cab
to watch the house. About ten minutes
before eleven, as the soon-to-be happy man
was about entering coach before his resi-
dence, he was served with a subpoena.
'.Can't help il, said the clerk, in reply
to his gesticulating about "not knowing
the parties" "going to be married." etc,
"we shan't reach the Hall now before elev-
en-imprisonment for contempt" etc.
The bridegroom who was rather of tim
id nature, finally consented, particularly as
the clerk promised to send friend of his
who sat in the cab wrapped up in large
cloak, explaining the reasen 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
priest began to grow impatient
and the bride that was to be looked pale
and agitated, when a carriage drove up and
the bell rung.
"There he is! There he isl" murmured
many voices.
A gentleman did enter, whose appear
ance created almost as much astonishment
as that of Edgar Rayenswoo1 in the Hall
of Ashton Castle at the marriage of Lucy
Ashton, in SCOTS Bride of Lammermoor.
The lady tainted; private explanations en-
SUED between the parents ana the lover,
and the result was that in ten minutes af-
ter the two real lovers were joined in the
sacred bond of matrimony, much to the sat
isfaction of all. .-..-
The bridegroom that was to have been,
afterwards made his appearance, putting
and blowing. What he said and did on
beholding his rival, and being made ac-
quainted with the condition of affairs, was
really tragi-comical.
The story of the subpoena shortly after
wards leaked out, and has created so much |
that the poorfellow declares he
will sue the lawyer for ten thousand dollars
damages for subpoenaing him as witness
in case Of which he knew nothing, and by |
which he lost a wife. II will be novel
suit, indeed, if he should do so.