Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1876-08-14
A Wedding stopped.

''Samive beware OF the wlddeys, SAID the
father of the famous Sam Weller. But the
elder Weller was man lone 10 thousand,
and capnot be said to have represented large
class Widows are always popular, and indeed
there is every reason why they should be. The
world boasts Of no hamlet so obscure, 20 city
so large, that has not its pretty widow,
little widow "youDg widow" and niart
widow" There is 90 printing Office that does
not keep these expressions stercOtypeu With
copper-iaced type ready Tor use-aau very
properly cor per faced, tor copper Is metai
which outiasts all others. ergo "ldo" Is
female who outiasts all other females.
Richmond can now claim SENSATION, the
heroine of which is pretty widow, aud nero
a widower-a gentleman We'll known and nigh
~ rcspec,cd-lo fact, an official, but whether
city official, State official, or a custom mouse
official it is not the purpose OF inns reporter 10
say. The gossips have gotten hold OF some o!
the facts in this affair, aud have been retailing
them on the stree, corners and in parlors, al
WAYS adding to them and dstorting the truth,
with marvellous success. Therefore, 1t is or!y
right that Justice should be done and a true
history of the sensation be given.
Some months since the official before alluded
to, and who is al elderly gentleman, met With
widow who lives 10 the upper part OF tie
city. The Acquaintance soon ripeued into trend
ship and the friends of the gentleman soon Sur.
prised to see him riding the young widow 10
his buggy. The next intelligence that reached
them was an invitation to be present at 81:
wedding, which would be quite private, and
would take place at the lady house. The day
fixed for the ceremony was last Wednesday.
1t seems that the gentleman thus contcm
plating matrimony is the father OF young iady
who, until few days before the time fixed toI
the wedding. had been kept 10 ignorance OF the
whole affair. Her father told her that he IN
tended TO marry again, and went Oh to praise
the lady who would be her step mother. Tue
intelligence shocked the young lady. She had
not dreamed of such thing She at once protest
ed against the proposed match; would not heal
OF it. She did more than this; she sent ioI
several of the Intimate friends of her father
and then, 10 their presence, earnestly appealed
to him to break off the mach. The gentleman
is very much attached to his daughter, but Tor
:, time he resisted all her peadings The young
lady declared she would leave the house the in.
slant the widow entered it. tie grief at the
resistance of her father was great, and she
iaiuted several times. Her screams soon
brought in the whole neighborhood.-
Fiuaily, she succeeded in making him promise
that he would not marry the widow, and Grade
him give Der the assurance in tho presence ut
sevcra! of bis friends. Although the minister
had been spoken to, the time fixed ard the 81
engagements made for the wedding Wcdnes
day night. it did not come off. Some OF thu
invited guests assembled at the house, bu
there was nothing about it to indicate that .
wedding would take place, and after marvc!Ds
much they left. |; is to be- presumed now thai
the ceremony will not come of.-Rtch Wig