Rensselaer Standard, Volume 1, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 October 1879 — A Romantic Wedding. [ARTICLE]

A Romantic Wedding.

Pittsburg Dispatch. A few days ago the notice of the marriage of a prominent young Pittsburg artist to the daughter ofa well-known iion merchant appeared in ail the city papers, and the statement was made that the couple had gone to New York on a bridal tour. .Nothing further was said about the marriage at the time, bat there is a little romance connected with it worthy of notice. About the Ist of July the artist met the young lady who afterwards became his wife, in the neighborhood of Emsworth. She was highly accomplished, belonging to a good family, and was very pretty, being a tall, brightlooking blonde. The friendship or the pai broadened into love, and the artist went down the Ohio river to the iron mill where the youug lady’s father is in business, and he laid the case before him. For some reasoathe father would not listen to the lover, and finally turned him out of the office and ordered him to never call at his house or speak to his daughter again. He would give no reason for this action, but it is said the youug lady was engaged*to a clergyman, whom she did not love, but who was a great favorite with her parents. The young lady told her father and mother that she intended to marry the artist, and they said that if she did so she must leave their roof forever, aud not to take any of her belongings with her. Accordingly she went to the home of her lover’s mother, the latter being a very wealthy widow. The young lady left all her jewelry, clothing, ect., behind her and took nothing but the costume she wore, and eveu this was sent back when her mother-iu-law had provided her with an outfit. The wedding was a quiet one, at the home of the groom’s mother, and the bride was given a number of presents, among them being au elegant set of diamonds and several other articles of jewelry, which wer# given by the young husband’s mother. The bride also was given a superb wardrobe by her husband. It is said the couple will reside permanently in New York.