Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1877-12-05
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WEDNESDAY EVENING, -DECR.5.
A Romantic Wedding.

An exceedingly romantic wedding vas sol
em1ized yesterday afternoon at st. Barnsbas'
| Episcopal Church. The bride was Mrs. Emma
| A. Moore, of Jackson, Mississippi, pretty snd
| accomplished widow of % or "a, and the groom
! Mr.. John T. Mayo, young merchant Of Nor.
| folk, Va, who, sineulsrly enough. is wldoaer.
On Saturday morning last Mrs. Moore arrived
in this CITY and registered as guest at FJrd's
Eutaw hotel. She appeared to be expecting
some one, and bore look Of disappointment
during the morninp. After dinner she request.
ed few moments conversation 10 the ps,lor
with Captain w. j. Wash, manager Of the he.
tel. The captain granted her request, where
upon she oon6ded to him the romantic story Of
her flight from friends 10 the extreme South iu
order to marry the mau she loved. She lett
Jackson, she related, under promise to meet 10
this city MIR. Mayo, who was to have joined her
at the depot. She expected to reach the city
on Thursday, but had been delayed BY the re.
cent treshet, and was terribly exercised 10 mind
at the thought that her intended husband had
returned to Norfolk. She had been obliged,
she stated, to come 90 to Baltimore to be mar
ried TO escape the opportunities of a too ardent
lover in Jackson. She bad been engaged to
the gentleman referred to 10 jackson and To-
tended marrying bin, but while at Sarstoes
last summer she met MIR. Mayo, and both fell
desperately 10 love. She left the gay watering
place pleoged to her new love and With the
unpleasant task before her of breaking the
Dews to the old one. When Informed of her
determination, lover No. | raved, vowed that
she was false, and declared she should marry
no one but him. She at once determined upon
her fight and by preconcerted arrangement
with lover No. agreed to meet him in Baltl'
more. Captain Wash expressed bis sympathy
for her wheu she had foished her romantic
story, and promised to render her all the assis
tance 10 his power to fod the missing BRIDE
groom elect. Saturday afternoon and Sunday
passed sway, however, without any trace of
him being discovered, and Mrs Moore, iu utter
despair and thoroughly disappointed, resolved
to returu to her home. Accordingly she lett
the holel yesterday morning and at Camden
station, as she was about stepping on the 9:Zo
train, the missing and long looked for lover
made his appearance. Explanations followed
greetiogs. aud the happy pair returned to the
hotel. Mr.. Mayo, it appears, had arrived 10
the city before bis eXpeotant bride, and hao
been constantly on the lookout for her. gong
to see tho southern trains on the Baltimore and
Ohio. Mrs. Moore bad, however, come from
W Washngton over the Baltimore and Potomac
road, and thus missed him.
At $50 O clock tie bridal couple stood IN
front of the chsDcel at ST. Baroabas's church,
with only few friends of the bridegroom and
Cap ain Wash present, and we're made one By
the Rev. A. p. Stry ker, rector of the church.
The happy pair were driven from the church
to the wharf, aud left on rhe o'clock steamer
for Norfolk, their future residence. .-Bdtta'
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