The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1867-10-05

A, RoXASTIc WEpDISG-wHES. AND
How IT TOOK PIACE.-We witnessed =
portion of the preliminary arrange
ments for a v edding yesterday, which
took place at the county jail. and would
perhaps have been compelled to wit
ness the ceremony had It not been Tor
the poIiienesE OF the attorney for the
parties, who very considerably lnVit-
ed them into another room, thus reliev-
ing US from passing through the tEying
ordeal OF seeing TWO persons in full HE
and being, and supposed 10 De OF sane
mind, commit mstrimony. Inc MS
tory Of the circumstance is as follows:
II 5nnears that for several months, per-
haps years, for aught We know, Samuel
Newman has been upon Intimate
terms with Miss Elizabeth L. Gallagher,
a blooming Miss not long out OF her
''teens," and las we are Informed
through the politeness OF the geutle-
manly attorney who was engineering
the mntter,l OF a very respectable fam
lily. How long this intimacy existed
we are not precisely informed, but
from the circumstances surrounding
the case, we are led to believe that II
has existed for some months at least.
The beginning Of this intimacy Is the
old and oft repeated tale. They met,
were introduced and became friends
and the friendship Tipened into love
not an unnatural occurrence with per-.
sons Of their age,-through whose
youthful veins the warm current OF
life courses with lightning rapidity,
causing them to act from i'm
pulse rather than reason. They
loved, mot too wisely, but too well, >"
and it appears that the young
man, under theiDhuence of tile charms
81 haH faf HPaa iutn hose
affe ctiOns he had wound himself, had
promised to make her ihis bride-a
promise he was 10th to comply with
and could only be induced SO to do by
legal process, as the sequel will show.
'In the course OF human events" some
things become necessary as well as 9th
ers, and in this case 1t became necessH-
ry for wedding 10 take place. and this
fact was urged upon the young gentle
man by the lady and her friends, but to
no purpose. He continued to postpone
the matter from time to time, until the
young lady, seeing the nece- sity OF the
step, wisely concluded that "iorbear-
ance had ceased to be a virtue" in the
case, and she forthwith took legal steps
to compel her gay deceiver" to comply
with his Oft repeated promise. A
Wnt was Issued from the court, upon
which the tardy lover was ar
rested and conveyed TO the "tombs,"
where 1t required but d short time to
convince him Of Ihe<''error OF his
way" and gain his consent to a fulfill
ment OF the promise before referred to.
The young lady was sent for, and in
few moments the prelimiuaries were
arranged. Alderman Nicholson was
summoned, and was about to proceed
with the ceremony in the warden's
private office, when the gentlemanly at
torney, to whom we have before al
Iuded, interfered and had the party
quietly transferred from our presence
TO the paTlor on the opposite side of the
corridor, and was kind enough not TO
request our presence at the ceremony,
therefore spaTing US from the embar-
rasSment consequent upon such occa-
sioDs. The loving pair, after detraying
the expenses, quietly took their dePar-
ture. May they never be less happy
through life.
P. S.-We strangely omitted to men
ton that We clipped the above from the
Pittsburgh gazette, of yesterday.