The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1868-02-14
"A Bachelor Of SKY Sues q Maiden OF
Eighteen for Breach Of Promise.

A bachelor Of stxty Sues q Maiden Of
Eighteen for Breach Of Promise.
The Following amusing story is told by
the st. Paul Pioneer of the oath ultimO:
In Saint Paul we have not had much to
do with divorce or breach of promise suits,
but occasionally case does come up that
is quite rich in its way.
The last is that of Dorothea YuDger-
blute Us Hans Weidmen, which promises
to be as rich placer Of fun as the immor-
tai case of "Bardell Us. Pickwick." We
will first photograph the parties.
Dorothea is a buxom, blue-eyed, red
checked lass of eighteen, who came to this
city about year ago. Of course such a
nice package of goods would not long re-
rnain in market where there are so many
lovely young men looking for good invest
ments in that line, and Dorothea was soon
spoken for by no less a person than Hans
Weidman.
Hans is rare individual II his way.
He is @ bachelor about sixty years old,
and not oyeriavcred by nature as to graces
of person. He is wood sawyer by pro-
fessiou, bat managed to accumulate con-
siderable property, and might live pretty
comfortably if he were so disposed; but
on the contrary, lives in very penurlous
manner.
Haas met the lovely Dorothea-not by
chsnce, however. He had known her in
the old country when a child, but the few
intervening years bad developed the blush
ing bud INTO such q lovely flower that
ray Of passion from her blue eyes struck
the iceberg Of his heart, with its sixty
years of adamantine accretionS, and
melted it at q glance.
Some novelist, perhaps Euclid or Henry
Ward Beecher, has said that old bachelors
are like green woodward to fire; but
when once they get started they burn furi-
ous!y, and can scarcely be quenched.
At least it was so in this case. Hans at
once laid siege to the maiden heart of
Dorothea, and so vigorously that che soon
capitula!ed, and strange Is it may appear,
promised to be his wife.
Hans Immediately sealed his engage
ment with $3.50 ring, and agreed that if
Dor0thea would go to board at a certain
place designated until their marriage
some four weeks distant-he would pay
her board. Dorothea accordingly moved
her quarters, and the billing and cooling
went on at the rate of 81 week.
But January and May are but ill-scrted
matches. Money may purchase the hand
Of q maiden in such cases, though it sell
dom wins the heart. Poor Hans found it
SO. Dorothea, in the brief space of time
which elapsed between the betrothal and
the TO be- nuptials, saw another man of
much more prepossessiug exterior than
Hans aud full Us many greenbacks-one
Peter GlsubenStacker. The game fell into
Peters hands with scarce struggle, and
she that was to be Mrs. Weidman, now
promised as faithfully to be Mrs. iGlauben-
stacker. 90, frailty, thy name is wo-
man." (Orignal.)
The two-dollar and half ring and the
sixteen dollars paid for board caused an
guiSh to poor Hans's brain, and he re-
solved recover them, if possible.
His friends, however, advised him that
he could recover more--the law in such
cases would award him large damages for
a broken heart, blighted affections, etc.
Hans has, therefore, laid the case before
Judge Lambert. What the up-shot will
be-whether the, Judge will act as his
counsel, and sue for 81 900 or not, we can't
say. Hans says be will compromise for
$500. While the matter is unsettled, Mr.
Glaubenstacker is afraid to marry the
eager Dorothea, lest he may have to pay
the damages awarded Hans, and so the
matter stands.