Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1858-10-05

nnnhIe EIopement.

Two BROTHERS Rus AWAY WITH Two SIS
rERs:-Tne Cleveland PlsiDdealer, OF the
gin ult., contains the following account OF q
double elopement:
Mr.. Lloyd, highly respectable farmer OF
Wicklitfe, arrived 10 this city LAST evening 10
An excited state Of mind. lie sought out
Marshal Gallagher, and told hlm that DIS
two daughters had clipped on Monday night
with two hired men, brothers, and named re-
spectively Chauncey Lewis and Watson Lew
is Mr.. Lloyd said be thought they were IN
this CITY. The marshal put on bis seven
league boots and commenced walking rapidly
around the city. lie found the enterprlsiug
parties a. last at the FrauklIn House on Pearl
street Watson Lewis had already married
one of the sisters and retired for the night
Channcey Lewis was making arrangements
to marry the other sister, when the marshal
appeared and took him and his intended to
the police station. Locking Chauncey Lewis
up in the watch house, Mr.. Lloyd took his
dau shter to the Commercial House and lock-
ed her up in q room.
/ Mr. LLOYD, in addition to being an extern.
sire and furnishing farmer, keeps tavern
in Wlcktfe, which is very tasorabIy known
/ through this section. 1t is located pear the
lake shore, aud near where the Inflated
steamer Griffith was burned some years since.
Mr. l.. owns some four hundred aud htty
acres Of land III Wickllffe, and Is quite veal
thy. His daughters are named Mary and
/ LIura. Mary is about twenty years old and
/ LAURA about sixteen. Tney are splendid
/ looking girls, and are fsshionsbiy and richly
dressed. rney are both well educated, hsy-
| aIu 70, in
spect.
/ The Lewis brothers are uncouth, uneduca-
ted aud overgrown specimens OF humanity,
I and can neither read nor write. They hired
out to Mr.. Lloyd some SIX IN 'nths ago. He
! paid Watson, the eldest one, Sl3, and Chsun-
cey so a mooth. Cnauncey Lewis, the
! young man who ddn't get married aud who
! passed the night 10 the watch-house. IL
very sleepy and stupld appearing young
man. He was released this morning, at the
suggestion of Mr.. Lloyd, and requested to
"scoot," which be hastily did. He promised.
/ With teare in his eyes, never to come within
! ten miles of WickItfe again. The married
, brother OF course Cannot be interlered with.
: Tae parties clipped At about | ] o'clock on
| Monday night, and were not missed until
| Yesterday morning The brothers hired
horse and buggy at WIlloughby's, and went
to Mr.. LtOyd's house, where the girls we're
awaiting them, with their trunks all packed.
! The girls lett the house noi-elessly and got
into the buggy, and the parties moved slowly
towards Cleveland. Ole OF the brothers
walked all the way here about sixteen miles,
and the other rode and drove. Arriving here
they stopped q. the Commercial House. 10
the evening Justice was called in and Wat
son aud Mary were married. Chauncey and
Laura concluded to postpone being united
unti! this morning. which conclusion forum
ateiy enabled Mr.. Lloyd to prevent the cere'
Dcny.
This is The most remarkable case Of elope'
ment We ever heard Of. IL utterly ecipses
the B ker end Dean case. Mr.. Lloyd and
HE wife are overwhe med with grief by the
iuexp!icable conduct of their daughters.