The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1867-04-26
BEDFORD, PA, FRIDAY MORNING. APRIL 26, 1867

Ills POOALJ AN
clared that the army surgeon was no fit
match for his daughter. Thefather who
had been content to delegate to her
grandmother the entire care of his
daughter from her earliest infancy came
forward resolutely to exercise the stern
parental authority which the law gives
him in order to prevent the marriage
of girl almost of age with the man of
her choice, and who had courted her
with the appreciation of the relation
who stood in loco PARENTS, and had
been throughout life her best friend.
M. Baisscn went to his mother-in-
laws house, saw his daughter, told her
that he would never give his consent
to the marriage, and moreover, that he
would no longer allow her to live with
her grandmother, and that she must
come away with him directly. The
young lady, in obedience to this paren-
tai command, packed up her trunks
and got into her fathers carriage,
which was in waiting. But the car
riage had only gone few yards when
she suddenly opened the door, at the
risk of breaking her neck, jumped out
into the street, and ran back to her
grandmother's. M. BaissOn thought
it undesirable to make a scene by at
tempting then and there to bring his
daughter away by force. He content
ed himself by saying that he was in
flexible, and she would hear from him
in a few days. When next he went to
the house he was informed that the
whole family had gone away, and had
left no address.
an. Baisson went over almost all
Europe in search of his daughters. He
inquired at all the German watering
places, and at every town in Belgium,
but without any result. At length he
hit upon the expedient of sending
money letter to the grandmother at her
old address at Paris, and learned,
through the post Office, that this letter
was delivered to the vel arrly surgeon
whose pretensions to his eldest daugh-
ter's hand formed the casus 6elti. He
afterwards found that the two girls were
concealed under false names in Catho-
lie convent at Glasgow. Thereupon he
brought action against the mother-in-
law, requiring her to bring the girls
back to France and hand them over to
his custody. The Tribunal of First
Instance made a decree in his favor,
and ordered the young ladies' grand
mother to pay one thousand francs a
day for two months unless the girls
were restored to their father. She,
thinking that the penalty of this decree
would be the worst of the matter, let
the two months expire, and actually
paid the large sum of sixty thousand
francs into the court-a sum that she
was prepared to sacrifice rather than
surrender the girls to their obdurate
father. But then he brought a further
action, laying the damages at a million
of francs.
an. Desmarest, the lady's counsel,
told her that the law was altogether on
the fathers side, and that if she did
not give the children up he might GO
on bringing actions until he utterly ru-
ined her. Acting upon NJ. Desmarest's
advice, the grandmother has now
brought the young ladies back from
Glasgow. The father has gained his
point; they are now in his custody
The only question ultimately before
the court was, what damages she should
pay to the father for interfering with
his authority. The sum, after his
counsel, M. Jules Favre, had been
heard, was fixed at five thousand francs
and the balance of the sixty thousand
francs interest is to be refunded to the
lady. AS matters now stand Mile
! Baisson cannot marry in France till
twenty-five, without her fathers con
sent, but in few months she will bt
twenty-one, and then he will have ne
legal right to prevent her from living
where she pleases."
A TEXAS paper tells ofa young coup
lie who eloped on horseback, accompan
led by clergyman who was to marry
them. The lady's father gave chase
and was overtaking the party wher