Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-04-06
THE SAN FRANCISCO ELOPEhENT.
The Russian Lieutenant Finally Sue
ceeds in Marrying HIS American
Sweetheart.

The Russian Lieutenant Finally Sue.
eeeds in Marrying hts American
Sweetheart.
The San Francisco Chronicle of March
70 supplies this
The tempestuous courtship of Lieut..
Georges de Kalands, Of his Muscovite
Majesty's corvette Vsadnick, and Miss
Jornie c. Burdick, daughter Of the en-
gineer of Hunters Point Dry Dock,
heretofore ~recounted in its romantic de-
tails, has reached the inevitable culmin-
alton of marriage. AS intimated last
week, subsequent to the recent attempted
elopement, the parents of Miss Jennie
became partially ~reconciled to her choice
of a husband, and made their full con-
sent contingent upon favorable replies
to letters transmitted to st. Petersburg,
addressed to references furnished by the
young Russian officer. On this PROPOSE
ton the parents released the restraint
put upon their daughter in a measure.
concluding that the conditions proposed
would be adheAed to in good faith BY all
the contracting parties; but in this ex-
pectation they were disappointed, for
neither the Lieutenant nor Jennie had
the slightest intention of awaiting the
slow process of the mail system between
this city and the Russian capital for the
fulfllment of their marital engagement.
A second elopement was planned I'm.
der more favorable circumstances, and
success rewarded their last effort. The
Lieutenant had a friend in a neighbor of
the Burdick family, whose daughter was
on terms of intimacy with Miss Jennie.
The neighboring damsel paid a visit to
Jennie, and remained over night, i'm
parting to the expectant bride the plans
of the Lieutenant. The unsuspecting
Mr.. and Mrs Burdick consented to the
proposed return visit of Jennie to her
young lady acquaintance. About u
o'clock, on Saturday night, a yacht,
showing a green light, was lacking on
and off the Butchertown coast, and when
q small boat appeared in the ofing with
a red light in the bow, the yacht luffed
and came up fer boarding. When the
small boat came alongside, Jennie Bur
dick, her young lady friend, and the
father of the latter, sprang on board.
The small boat, with a single oarsman,
pulled off again for the shore. The next
morning the Burdick family were sur
missing with reference to the whereabouts
of their daughter. The latter and the
remainder of the party on board the
yacht were equally in a speculative
mood in the midst of a heavy fog up the
bay. They finally took to a small boat.
and sighted land in the vicinity Of Pc
taluma Creek. After a picnic repast on
shore, the course was again laid for Val
lejo, where the party arrived at 3 o'clock
Sunday afternoon. They took refuge at
6 house which had been rented by De
Kalands, and when the signal agreed
upon was exhibited from the second-sto-
ry window, and which the gallant Rus
sian had been anxiously awaiting for
twelve hours from the poop of the Vsad-
nick, he called his boats crew and was
soon with her. 1t was necessary to pro
cure the marriage license from the coun .
ty clerk Of Solano, who resides at Fair
field. Thither they repaired, and after
reaching the county seat they waited pa
tiently for six hours until after the hour
of midnight that the clerk might issue
the scsssary papers in due legal form.
They returned to Vallejo between 4 and
5 o'clock Monday morning, at which
early hour the genial Justice Riley at
tended and welded the nuptial knot.
Yesterday morning Mrs. De Kalands
sent a telegram to her parents, announc-
ing that she was married and happy,
sending lots of love, and intimating that
the bridal tour would be to Virginia City.