Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1867-01-09
.AsomANYrc AFFAIR.

| The Superintendent of Police of New
York, received, last week, di.patch from
Halifax. requesting him to arres. lady
who would arrive on board an English
steamer, and who bad assumed the name
of johnson. The arrest was made, and
along with the lady A man named Jere.
tniah O'Conner. with whom she had elop.
ed from Ireland, and both taken to the
police Headquarters. The New Yclk Com.
lnercial thus gives the finale of the story:
ION arriving at the police office the la.
~ told her story to the police superin-
eudani, and expressed her. determine.
ION to have no other but O'Conner to he
her husband She told him that in or.
der to get here with her lover she sold
her horse to pay her expenses. and before
leaving Ireland, where she and her lover
we're born and reared-the one iu the lap
Eot luxury, and the other in the obseulity
of poor mans farm---she had borrowed
twenty pounds from her brother. She had
known jeremiah O'Conuer. the young far.
mer referred to, all her life time, and he
had known her for the same length Of
time. They had been on terms of inti4
macy for nine years. aud they were not
only willing but desirous to get married,
a consummation which, however dcvoutIy
desired, never could have been accomp.
llshed in Ireland, owing to the impassa-
ble gulf of rank.
The young lady is the daughter of Il
landed gentleman. born to estate and
great wealth. while the young man is the
son Of plain. poor but respectable far.
mcr. Mr.. Kennedy (the Police Supcrin-
tendenD could see no way out Of his diff.
6culty, having detained them, but the
right way. SO he at once arranged for the
celebration Of the nuptials. An Episco.
pal minister Was sent for, and as he ar
tived and the slide door which shuts out
intruders from Mr.. Kenpedy's front Office
was thrown open for an instant to admit
him, the lady rose to her feet and ex-
claimed, "there is my brother and my
cousin in the other room She had
caught a glimpse of them as the door Was
opened. Mr.. Kennedy thereupon went
into the other room aud asked the gentle.
men their names. and found them to te
as the lady had said, He announced
what was about to take place inside, and
told the brother that he was Just in time
to witness the ceremony Of, his sisters
marriage He threW his hands up in hor-.
ror, and exclaimed, Impossible impos.
able !"',, o,l.i .,. .,,,, ..,.,,...,,.;r, .,..'.
} Mr., Kennedy told him that he could'
not see things, in that light : that be was
sure he would not want to take his sister
back to Ireland with. a stain, upon he
character; that. in fact he lKennedy)
had taken no step he would not desire to
have taken had the lady been his owp sis
ter under like circumstances. .,,.....-
The young man asked an opportunity,
to converse with his sister in private. 1t
was granted. 1t resulted in his reconcil-
lation to the event, and he and his cous
is we're witnesses of the, marriage they,
had come from ireland, by steamer, via f.
Halifax. to prevent. ,nr, ,,,..,.,dT
The lady is we'll EDUCATED, beautiful
and energetic, and although engaged to 4
a gentleman now in China, with ap, in,
come of thirty thousand pounds year,
chose the man of humber rank. who sho
learned to love when her passions werl
pure and her love that Of Innocence"