The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1883-07-17

HOW A YOUNG LAWYER WON HIS BRIDE
ELupiNo THE VIGILANCE OF AN AUNT--A
FRIEND IN NEED AND BOGUS TELEGRAM.

HOW YOUNG LAWYER WON HIS BRIDE
ELupiNo THE VIGILANCE OF AN AUNT--A
FRIEND IN NEED AND BOGUS TELEGRAM.
New York Tfibunel
The particulars OF the romantic marriage
OF b. G. Tunison, young Jersey. CITY law.
yer, and the son OF the Rev. DIR. Tunisop,
presiding elder In the Newark Conference,
have Just come to light. About two weeks
ago Miss Belle Barton, handsome young
woman, whose parents live In York, Pa,
came TO Jersey City in company with her
aunt to visit some friends living In Slpr
avenue, on the Heights. There Tunison met
her, and fell in love with her at first sight.
The fact that Miss Barton was engaged
TO be married TO wealthy old bachelor In
YORK was no bar on the progress OF their
love-making. But the girls aunt, seeing
how attentive Mr.. Tunison was to her
niece, and that the latter was by no means
indifferent to him, became alarmed, and
directed her niece TO prepare herself to re-
turn home. Miss Barton protested. but the
old lady was determined, and when Mr..
Tunison called that evening the girl told
him OF her aunt's orders. She also con-
fided to him that she did not love the old
bachelor, that she did not want TO marry
upon her.
Mr.. TunisoI al once resolved to prevent
the distasteiul marriage by marrying the
girl himself. TIE aunt, however, kept
such close watch on her niece that no op-
portunty was afforded the pair TO carry
out their plans. Affairs were becoming
desperate. as the girl and her aunt were to
start for home on the following morning,
when Mr.. Tunison thought OF scheme.
He directed Miss Barton to 90 TO the
railroad depot with her aunt, to take
a seat IN the car, and then to
make some excuse TO 20 out again,
when he would meet her with cab and
carry her away. The morning arrived, the
girl and her aunt went to the train, and
MIR. TunisOn waited outside, but Miss Bar
ton did not appear. She was either afraid
or she lacked sufficient ingenuity to invent
q plausible excuse for leaving the train,
and Mr.. Tunison was in despair. At this
juncture George Barron. lawyer and per-
sonal FRIEND OF Mr.. Tunison, came along,
and to him Mr.. Tunison confided his trou-
BILE, with an appeal for assistance.
When he understood the situation Mr..
Barron fastened to a telegraph office near
by, wrote u message on telegraph blank,
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boy entered the car in which the disconso-
late girl and her aunt were seated and
shouted: "Is Mrs. Sayres hereI" Miss
Barton's aunt said that was he- name, and
the boy gave her the message which sum-
moned her to Mr.. Barron's office at once.
She started TO 90 there, and had no sooner
lett the depot than Tunison walked into the
car and took the now delighted Miss Bar
ton with him TO New York, where they
were married.
Shortly aiterward Mrs. Sayres returned,
matchmaking stupid lawyers who made
mistakes. She was surprised and annoyed
when she found that the train had started
and carried her niece away. She tele-
graphed to Philadelphia to have Miss Bar
ton wait for her there, but the operator
could find no such person on the train.
Mrs. Sayres went on to her home, where
she found dispatch announcing the mar
riage Of Mr.. TurisOn and her niece