Rensselaer Union, Volume 2, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 October 1869 — A Young Couple Walk Twenty-Eight Miles to get Married. [ARTICLE]

A Young Couple Walk Twenty-Eight Miles to get Married.

At a late hour on Saturday evening, a young couple arrived here from Lebanon, 111., having traveled the whole distance on foot They went immediately to Justice Jecko’s office, but found it closed. They then engaged separate rooms at Barnum’s, and waited rather impatiently for the dawning of Sunday morning. Tho name of the young man was John Charles Tiedeman, and that of the lady, Miss Pauline Betxler. The story of their adventures is somewhat romantic. Tiedemen is a German, and lias been raised from boyhood by the father of Pauline, who esteemed him very highly. Although reared togother, the young couple only recently discovered that they were desperately in love with each other. The old man wished to unite his young and beautiful daughter to a man of wealth living near Lebanon, and then it was that the seal of the blind sod was broken, and the young people iscovcrcd that they could not live apart. Tiedeman, after worrying his brain for many nights and days in endeavoring to extricate himself from the meshes of tove, concluded at last to go boldly before the old man and demand his daughter for a wife. Mr. Be taler would not listen to anything of the kind, but indignantly refused to give the girl to her lover. John Charles was not dismayed by this refusal, he had heard of cruel parents and loving daughters, and knew that he could rely upon Pauline in any emergency. Finding that the consent of the old man could not be obtained, the lovers determined to work out their own destiny without it. On Saturday morning when Mr. Betxler awoke, he was astonished at the disappearance of Pauline, and John Charles. He waited and waited, but they did not show themselves, and he concluded they had eloped. He started for St. Louis, but in so large a city it was difficult to find two people who were disposed to hide from nim. He waited until the next morning, when he started out with the firm determination to annihilate John Charles at first sight, H« took a walk in the Lafayette park on Sunday morning, and the beauty o|l the place somewhat inolllied his feelings and sofv cned his heart. In promenading around the park, who should lie meet but Pauline and John Charles sauntering arm in arm and engaged iu low and earnest conversation. The old man could not help admiring the handsome couple, and thinking

• ' '>t .mTTFJjM T ! -• f they wero well suited to each other, instead Of blowing out Jbhn Charles’ brains, he spoke to him kindly, am) in k lew minutes the qu4rrcl was modes up, and the old man agreed to the marriage. They went before justice Jocko, and la a few miantu the ceremony was pver. The,justice was so much pleased wlth she handsome young brkle, that for the flrsfUAe in the course of hiS official existence he bestowed a kiss upon her blushing cheek, which Iblushed stdl deeper at the conclusion. The old trtare was highly pleased *t tljo happy U rn affairs had taken, and the three returned to Lebanon tn high glee.—A. Louie Demottat. ktii,!,.! I; j-,7 r '