The penny press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1859-1860, 1859-11-09
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riage.

From the Kendall (English) Mercury.]
1t will be in the recollection of most of
our readers that on fine morning in the
summer of 1854, the quiet town of Ap-
pleby was startled with unsual activity by
i'm announcement that ayoung girl, resi-
dent at a boarding school in the town,
had disappeared during the night in COM
pany as was suspected, and has turned
out to be the fact, with her music teacher.
The young lAdy's age at the time was, we
believe, thirteen or fourteen, while that
of the gentleman (who then held the stu
alton of organist of the parish church)
might be about twenty-four Pursuit was
forthwith given, and the electric telegraph
put in motion, but the parties arrived at
Gretna where marriages could then be
celebrated, ad libitum, without regard to
age or any other of the legal requisites
athched to the English ceremony, and
she Gordian knot was tied ere q veto
could be put upon the rash proceed
ings.
No doubt the happy pair now thought
the worst pasta too common dclusi0n-
and that explanations and reconciliations
would follow as matter of course, and
their future felicity be secured But
aasl their hopes were soon dissipated.
At the Carslile station, on their return, the
iron hand of the Superintendent Of
Police was laid upon the arm of the
happy bridegroom, and he was consigned
to durance vile on a Charge of abduction,
while the young lady, his. wife, was
straightway hurried to her paternal home
On the banks of Lake Windernerc. t
On subsequent day, the wrath of the
lldy's parents and of the school mistress
who initiated the legal proceedings being
unappeasable, the captive lover was fully
committed for trial by the Carlisle mag
istrates and at the Westmorland assizes,
held at Appleby, in the month Of August
following-the mother Of the young lady
appearing US witness against him-he
was found guilty and sentenced to nine
months Imprisonment as first class mis-
demeanment A question was discussed
by the public at the time whether the
marriage which had been celebrated be-
tween the parties was binding upon them,
but by the legal world, including the
Judge who tried the case, we believe no
doubt of its validity according to the laws
of Scotland, binding in England, was
entertained; and that, Notwithstanding
the conviction for abduction, The gentle
man, on the termination of his imprison-
ment, would have legal right to claim
the possession of his youthful wife. Be
this, however, as it may, we commit the
question to the hands of the curious in
such matters, while we proceed with our
remarkable narrative.
The young lady, as we have stated
above, on being ruthlessly torn from him
she had taken for better or for worse,
was consigned to the care of her parents,
and here for while we leave her. The
term of her husbands imprisonment hav-
ing expired, he resumed his profession as
teacher of music, and, although at the
same time numerous where his inquiries
AFTER and great, the search for the
whereabouts of his wife, for years no trace
of her could be obtained. At one time
she had been removed to America,
another to Australia, a third account,
conveyed to him in an anonymous letter
about twelve months ago, was that the
hand of death had fallen upon her.
At last, however, the tide began to ebb,
the dark clouds which SO long o'ershad-
owed the case are suddenly dispelled, and
light dawns. A letter unexpectedly arrives,
announcing to the gentlemen the agreea-
bic tidings that his presence in the Isle of
Jersey, where his wife was residing, would
be agreeable to all parties; and, as we are
not writing an imaginary romance, but a
novel adventure in real life, and have no
desire to fill up the interim with supposi-
tions Of our own invention, we bring our
tail to an end by simply stating what will
be gratifying to all true lovers to learn,
that the happy pair were reunited in the
bonds of "holy wedlock" ON the 18th inst,
as appears more at large in DUR list Of
marriages this day, and are now spending
the honeymoon among the beautiful
lakes and mountain scenery of West
moreland, where, and evormore, we wish
them everlasting felicity.
WAsN'T CONSCIENTIOUS, "A good woman
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