Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1876-11-30
A Girl Jumps out Of Window and is Mar
ried Just in Time.

From the Virginia City Chronicle.
MARRIED-In this city, Nov. 8, by the Rev.
c. McKelvey, Cyrus Lean to Miss Button. No
cards.
Some months ago a young Cornish
man named Lean, who is barkeeper at
the international saloon, called at Mrs.
Hubbard's lodging house, Lipman's
building, Oh c street, and advancing
up the hall, pulled timidly at the bell
rope which hung dangling upon the
right. A lady responded at once to the
call, and the usual dialogue took place.
| "Any rooms to rent!'
eyes, right this way. A nice room,
just newly furnished, with sunny
front. Recently occupied by Lord Mel.
vile, a tourist from London. Only
$40 a month, with the privilege Of cold
baths and soap
The young man pulled out the re-
quired lucre, made no attempt to beat
down the price to SIS, and departed.
His prompt business habits captivated
the landlady at the start.
In few weeks, however, it became
apparent that the main attraction for
the young man, and the cause of his
sojourn at the place, was the landlady' s
daughter, comely Miss of seventeen,
who, to the horror of her mother re.
deprecated the new lodger's devoted
attachment.
One morning the young manwalked
into the landlady's room, and boldly
defined his position. He informed her
that he was betrothed to the girl, and
intended to marry her at an early date.
The answer was quick and decisive:
''Pack up immediately and leave the
house,
An hour OF SO later all express wagon
called, and the young man departed
with a heavy heart, taking also his
trunk and other traps. The next day
the following appeared in the Chron.
icle:
| To LET-A newly furnished room, with
sunny front and all modern conveniences.
rented cheap to steady ledger.
! About week ago Mr.. Lean called
again and announced it as his mature
and deliberate conviction that inside of
ten days he would be the lawful we'd
ded husband Of the landlady's daughter
in accordance with the Revised Stat
utes of Nevada. The mother made
some explanatory remarks, and the
young man left with considerable dill
gence. A watch was Immediately put
upon the girls movements. She made
no demonstration Of leaving the pa
rental roof until yesterday. About 4
O'Clock in the afternoon Of yesterday
the mother went up stairs to show a
gentleman a room, when Chinaman
employed at the place rushed after her
considerably excited, and calling out,
i'You Gomez quickee Leene ;alle same;
get out winder; lunee way velly quick"
The mother descended the stairs at
an astonishing pace and darted to the
window. 1t was open. 1t was just
about four feet to an awning beneath,
and that stretched continuously down
the street, as far as the Delta. She
had sped along an awning, and then
jumped Oh the next, from which she
entered Steel's building, threaded
her way through the saloon and has
tened to join her own true love at the
house OF a party named Kearns, on
Taylor street.
Here they met the pastor of the
the sacred bonds Of matrimony. just
as the parson had pronounced the ben
ediction and pocketed the fee the irate
mother burst into the room to forbid
! the ceremony, but it was too late for
anytbing less than Legislature to in
erfere. A stormy scene followed,
which would take several columns of
small type to properly describe. The
mother rushed up to the County Clerks
office and charged that Mr.. Lean had
made a false statement of her daugh-
ter's age. She next invaded the dis
trict Attorneys Office and made the
same charge. Soon after the couple
joined in the happiest frame of mind
and the lady stated that she was fully
eighteen, and agreed to produce docu-
mentary evidence on that point.
L Bafied in all directions, the mother
then sent word to the couple to come
up and receive her blessing. They
fastened at once, and then Mr.. Lean
received the blessing of his mother-in-
law and the hearty congratulations of
his SUPPLEMENTARY, and all is we'll.
Mr.. Lean is spoken of as man of ex.
emplary character, and amply qualified
to make one of the best of husbands.
The. young man will now live at the
scene of his struggles and triumphs,
and the legend, "a suit of furnished
rooms to rent" now no longer stares
the passers by in the face.
A Jealous French Count and his Betrothed-
: Marriage Stipulaions.
The notice of the arrival at New
York Of Earl Roseberry reminds me of
tho number of American girls who
have been Tilted by foreigners on &C.
count of their lack of fortune. There
are more than one of the fair bellies of
Washington who have been similarly