Rensselaer Union, Volume 7, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 May 1875 — The Genuine Article. [ARTICLE]

The Genuine Article.

The cdufse of true love still runs over rocks and through flumes and sluiceways, so to speak. It isn’t any Smoother than it ever was. William Russel and Amelia Wood, of Fitchburg, Mass., are convinced of this. They have each been employed in the Fitchburg woolen mill and they have been inclined, to each other for some time as the sunflower inclines to the orb of day, or the needle toward the north or politicians toward the treasury. Parental opposition has prevented them from marrying, however, though a few days ago they made a very good attempt at matrimony. They fled to the depot, but, pursued by angry parents, didn’t get on the cars. They dodged the pursuers and traveled on foot to the town of Leominster. Reaching that village the lovers were no better oft than ever. They couldn’t get anyone to marry them, and for some reason they could not get accommodations for the night. Then they concluded to start on foot for home again. A weary walk over muddy roads all through a night is a dreadful damper upon romance, as the young people ascertained. They resolved to postpone the marriage a little while. When again near home they were arrested, but Told in court so simple a tale of love that none would believe them guilty of any fault, and so they were discharged. They wanted to get married, that was all. The two young people are again under parental restraint, but announce their intention of being married yet, as they undoubtedly will be. When two persons can engage in a walk of a day and a night and then face a court of justice without a diminution of affection some minister is bound eventually to get a marriage-fee from them.— St. Louis Republican.